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{
"Bunyanesque":{
"as in huge , massive":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"hellacious",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"leviathan",
"major",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"super",
"super-duper",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"vasty",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping",
"big",
"biggish",
"boxcar",
"bulky",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"husky",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"voluminous",
"excessive",
"exorbitant",
"extravagant",
"extreme",
"immoderate",
"inordinate",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"copious",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"capacious",
"commodious",
"roomy",
"spacious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bantam",
"dinky",
"dwarf",
"dwarfish",
"little",
"puny",
"shrimpy",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"diminutive",
"half-pint",
"infinitesimal",
"Lilliputian",
"little bitty",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"petite",
"slender",
"slight",
"slim",
"thin"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"buckets":{
"a considerable amount":{
"antonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"mouthfuls",
"nips",
"ounces",
"peanuts",
"pinches",
"pittances",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"tastes",
"touches",
"traces"
],
"examples":[
"made buckets of money in the stock market"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atoms",
"crumbs",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"fragments",
"grains",
"granules",
"iotas",
"jots",
"modicums",
"molecules",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"particles",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scraps",
"shreds",
"tittles",
"whits",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"dashes",
"drops",
"morsels",
"shots",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"absences",
"dearths",
"famines",
"lacks",
"paucities",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies"
],
"related":[
"epidemics",
"plagues",
"rashes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"plethoras",
"redundancies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"deluges",
"floods",
"overflows",
"armies",
"bevies",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"droves",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"legions",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"presses",
"scores",
"seas",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"gazillions",
"jillions",
"kazillions",
"millions",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillions",
"zillions"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"basketfuls",
"basketsful",
"boatloads",
"bunches",
"bundles",
"bushels",
"carloads",
"chunks",
"deals",
"dozens",
"dozen",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"good deals",
"heaps",
"hundreds",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"multiplicities",
"myriads",
"oodles",
"packs",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"platefuls",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"plentitudes",
"potfuls",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaves",
"shiploads",
"sights",
"slews",
"spates",
"stacks",
"stores",
"tons",
"truckloads",
"volumes",
"wads",
"wealths",
"yards"
]
},
"a round container that is open at the top and outfitted with a handle":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"carried water from the well in a bucket"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cauldrons",
"kettles",
"pots",
"canteens",
"flagons",
"jars",
"jugs",
"pitchers",
"bails",
"hods",
"tanks",
"tubs",
"vats",
"holders",
"receptacles",
"vessels"
],
"synonyms":[
"pails"
]
},
"to lift out with something that holds liquid":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"bucketing water from the well, we raced to put out the fire"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pours",
"fills"
],
"related":[
"bails",
"depletes",
"drains",
"eliminates",
"empties",
"exhausts",
"bleeds",
"draws (off)",
"dishes",
"slops",
"decants",
"draws",
"pumps",
"siphons",
"syphons",
"suctions"
],
"synonyms":[
"dips",
"lades",
"ladles",
"scoops",
"spoons"
]
},
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"getting the troops into the bucketing landing craft proved to be challenging"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"rocks",
"sways",
"swings",
"chatters",
"quavers",
"shivers",
"thrills",
"trembles",
"twitches",
"dodders",
"wavers",
"flickers",
"fluctuates",
"flutters",
"oscillates",
"undulates",
"waves",
"beats",
"palpitates",
"pit-a-pats",
"pitter-patters",
"pulsates",
"pulses",
"throbs"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitates",
"convulses",
"jerks",
"jiggles",
"joggles",
"jolts",
"jounces",
"judders",
"quakes",
"quivers",
"shakes",
"shudders",
"vibrates",
"wobbles",
"wabbles"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bucking":{
"to move or cause to move with a sharp quick motion":{
"examples":[
"the car bucked and stalled"
],
"synonyms":[
"hitching",
"hoicking",
"jerking",
"jolting",
"twitching",
"yanking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bumping",
"jouncing",
"lurching",
"pitching",
"staggering",
"jigging",
"jiggling",
"jogging",
"joggling",
"shaking",
"dragging",
"lugging",
"pulling",
"tugging",
"plucking",
"tweaking",
"grabbing",
"ripping",
"snapping (up)",
"snatching",
"tearing",
"wrenching",
"wresting",
"wringing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to refuse to give in to":{
"examples":[
"bucked the trend to outdo everyone else and just wore the same clothes they had in previous years"
],
"synonyms":[
"defying",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"repelling",
"resisting",
"withstanding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battling",
"combating",
"combatting",
"contending (with)",
"challenging",
"contesting",
"contradicting",
"disputing",
"baffling",
"balking",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"thwarting",
"checking",
"countering",
"hindering",
"obstructing",
"stemming"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"bowing (to)",
"capitulating (to)",
"giving in (to)",
"knuckling under (to)",
"stooping (to)",
"submitting (to)",
"succumbing (to)",
"surrendering (to)",
"yielding (to)"
]
},
"to shift possession of (something) from one person to another":{
"examples":[
"buck each box to the next person in line, and the last person will stack them in the storeroom"
],
"synonyms":[
"handing",
"handing over",
"passing",
"reaching",
"transferring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"relaying",
"bearing",
"carrying",
"fingering",
"handling",
"pawing",
"ceding",
"delivering",
"giving",
"giving up",
"releasing",
"relinquishing",
"rendering",
"surrendering",
"turning over",
"yielding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bucking up":{
"to become glad or hopeful":{
"examples":[
"buck up , kids, it's not so bad as you're making it out to be"
],
"synonyms":[
"brightening",
"cheering (up)",
"lightening",
"looking up",
"perking (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rejoicing",
"livening (up)",
"reviving",
"beaming",
"glowing",
"radiating",
"sparkling",
"encouraging",
"gladdening",
"heartening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despairing",
"desponding",
"brooding",
"fretting",
"moping"
],
"antonyms":[
"darkening",
"saddening"
]
},
"to fill with courage or strength of purpose":{
"examples":[
"a surprise presidential visit to buck up the troops"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing up",
"buoying (up)",
"cheering (up)",
"chirking (up)",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"inspiring",
"inspiriting",
"steeling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animating",
"enlivening",
"invigorating",
"enforcing",
"fortifying",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"strengthening",
"assuring",
"reassuring",
"boosting",
"energizing",
"exciting",
"galvanizing",
"provoking",
"quickening",
"rallying",
"stimulating",
"stirring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demoralizing",
"depressing",
"saddening",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"hamstringing",
"undermining",
"weakening",
"intimidating",
"psyching (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"daunting",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buckle":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the flimsy bridge buckled under the weight of the caravan of trucks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inflate",
"rise",
"swell"
],
"related":[
"deflate",
"flatten",
"melt",
"melt down",
"break",
"break down",
"conk (out)",
"crash",
"die",
"fail",
"give out",
"stall",
"burst",
"shatter",
"smash",
"splinter",
"split",
"crack",
"crumble",
"pop",
"snap"
],
"synonyms":[
"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"crumple",
"founder",
"give",
"go",
"go out",
"implode",
"tumble",
"yield"
]
},
"to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attention":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"buckled himself down and finished the assignment in record time"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"fiddle (around)",
"fool around",
"idle",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"related":[
"readdress",
"reapply",
"knuckle down",
"set (to)",
"settle (down)",
"busy",
"commit",
"concern",
"engage",
"involve",
"exert",
"exhaust",
"put out",
"spend",
"strain",
"stress",
"tax",
"trouble",
"wear out",
"carry on",
"pitch in",
"plunge (in)",
"grind",
"hump",
"hustle",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug (away)",
"work"
],
"synonyms":[
"address",
"apply",
"bend",
"devote",
"give"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"buckled (down to)":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buckles (down)":{
"as in pitches in , digs in":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"applies (oneself)",
"digs in",
"hammers (away)",
"knuckles down",
"pitches in",
"bangs away",
"beavers (away)",
"digs (away)",
"drudges",
"endeavors",
"fags",
"grubs",
"humps",
"hustles",
"labors",
"moils",
"pegs (away)",
"plods",
"plows",
"plugs",
"slaves",
"slogs",
"strains",
"strives",
"struggles",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails",
"tugs",
"works",
"attacks",
"drives",
"essays",
"tries",
"exercises",
"exerts",
"overexerts",
"overworks",
"ekes out",
"grinds (out)",
"puts out",
"scrabbles",
"scratches",
"trudges",
"wades"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks",
"eases (up)",
"lets up",
"slackens",
"bums",
"chills",
"dallies",
"dillydallies",
"footles",
"goldbricks",
"goofs (off)",
"hacks (around)",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"lazes",
"loafs",
"lounges",
"shirks",
"slacks (off)",
"vegges out",
"veges out",
"basks",
"lolls",
"relaxes",
"reposes",
"rests",
"unwinds",
"dabbles",
"doodles",
"fools around",
"fribbles",
"goofs (around)",
"hangs",
"hangs about",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bucks up":{
"to become glad or hopeful":{
"examples":[
"buck up , kids, it's not so bad as you're making it out to be"
],
"synonyms":[
"brightens",
"cheers (up)",
"lightens",
"looks up",
"perks (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rejoices",
"livens (up)",
"revives",
"beams",
"glows",
"radiates",
"sparkles",
"encourages",
"gladdens",
"heartens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despairs",
"desponds",
"broods",
"frets",
"mopes"
],
"antonyms":[
"darkens",
"saddens"
]
},
"to fill with courage or strength of purpose":{
"examples":[
"a surprise presidential visit to buck up the troops"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears up",
"buoys (up)",
"cheers (up)",
"chirks (up)",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"inspires",
"inspirits",
"steels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animates",
"enlivens",
"invigorates",
"enforces",
"fortifies",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"strengthens",
"assures",
"reassures",
"boosts",
"energizes",
"excites",
"galvanizes",
"provokes",
"quickens",
"rallies",
"stimulates",
"stirs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demoralizes",
"depresses",
"saddens",
"debilitates",
"enfeebles",
"hamstrings",
"undermines",
"weakens",
"intimidates",
"psychs (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"daunts",
"discourages",
"disheartens",
"dispirits"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buckskin":{
"as in deerskin , cowhide":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alligator",
"antelope",
"cabretta",
"calfskin",
"capeskin",
"chamois",
"cordovan",
"cowhide",
"crocodile",
"deerskin",
"doeskin",
"goatskin",
"horsehide",
"kid",
"kidskin",
"lambskin",
"morocco",
"ostrich",
"pigskin",
"seal",
"sharkskin",
"sheepskin",
"snakeskin",
"coat",
"fleece",
"fur",
"pelt",
"nubuck",
"patent leather",
"suede",
"hide",
"leather",
"skin"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in chestnut , palomino":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bay",
"black",
"chestnut",
"dun",
"palomino",
"pinto",
"roan",
"skewbald",
"sorrel",
"charger",
"courser",
"cow pony",
"cutting horse",
"galloper",
"hack",
"hackney",
"mount",
"packhorse",
"prancer",
"quarter horse",
"racehorse",
"saddle horse",
"trotter",
"warhorse",
"workhorse",
"cob",
"dobbin",
"jade",
"plug",
"skate",
"bronco",
"mustang",
"pony",
"colt",
"filly",
"foal",
"gelding",
"mare",
"stallion",
"equid",
"equine",
"horse",
"nag",
"steed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buckskins":{
"as in deerskins , cowhides":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alligators",
"antelope",
"antelopes",
"cabrettas",
"calfskins",
"capeskins",
"chamois",
"chamoix",
"cordovans",
"cowhides",
"crocodiles",
"deerskins",
"doeskins",
"goatskins",
"horsehides",
"kids",
"kidskins",
"lambskins",
"moroccos",
"ostriches",
"pigskins",
"seals",
"sharkskins",
"sheepskins",
"snakeskins",
"coats",
"fleeces",
"furs",
"pelts",
"nubucks",
"patent leathers",
"suedes",
"hides",
"leathers",
"skins"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in chestnuts , blacks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bays",
"blacks",
"chestnuts",
"duns",
"palominos",
"pintos",
"pintoes",
"roans",
"skewbalds",
"sorrels",
"chargers",
"coursers",
"cow ponies",
"cutting horses",
"gallopers",
"hackneys",
"hacks",
"mounts",
"packhorses",
"prancers",
"quarter horses",
"racehorses",
"saddle horses",
"trotters",
"warhorses",
"workhorses",
"cobs",
"dobbins",
"jades",
"plugs",
"skates",
"broncos",
"bronchos",
"mustangs",
"ponies",
"colts",
"fillies",
"foals",
"geldings",
"mares",
"stallions",
"equids",
"equines",
"horses",
"horse",
"nags",
"steeds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"budgets":{
"a sum of money set aside for a particular purpose":{
"examples":[
"we've spent a little more than our budget this year"
],
"synonyms":[
"accounts",
"deposits",
"funds",
"kitties",
"nest eggs",
"pools"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chests",
"coffers",
"assets",
"savings",
"savings accounts",
"bankrolls",
"caches",
"collections",
"cushions",
"hoards",
"pocketbooks",
"reserves",
"treasures",
"petty cashes",
"pin money",
"pocket moneys",
"spending moneys"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the number of individuals or amount of something available at any given time":{
"examples":[
"the tour group had a whole budget of complaints"
],
"synonyms":[
"forces",
"funds",
"inventories",
"pools",
"repertoires",
"reservoirs",
"stocks",
"supplies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reserves",
"resources",
"caches",
"hoards",
"stockpiles",
"refills",
"renewals",
"replacements",
"kitties",
"nest eggs",
"pots",
"purses",
"fountains",
"mines",
"sources",
"springs",
"wells",
"wellsprings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to work out the details of (something) in advance":{
"examples":[
"the vacationers carefully budgeted how they would spend their limited time in Italy"
],
"synonyms":[
"arranges",
"blueprints",
"calculates",
"charts",
"choreographs",
"designs",
"frames",
"lays out",
"maps (out)",
"organizes",
"plans",
"prepares",
"projects",
"schemes (out)",
"shapes",
"strategizes (about)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conspires",
"contrives",
"devises",
"intrigues",
"machinates",
"plots",
"puts up",
"concerts",
"gets up",
"drafts",
"outlines",
"sketches",
"aims",
"figures",
"has on",
"intends",
"means",
"contemplates",
"meditates",
"premeditates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"buffer":{
"one who works with opposing sides in order to bring about an agreement":{
"examples":[
"it took a friend serving as a buffer between the feuding siblings to get them to speak to one another again"
],
"synonyms":[
"broker",
"conciliator",
"go-between",
"honest broker",
"interceder",
"intercessor",
"intermediary",
"intermediate",
"interposer",
"mediator",
"middleman",
"peacemaker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"troubleshooter",
"moderator",
"bargainer",
"negotiant",
"negotiator",
"appeaser",
"pacificator",
"pacifier",
"reconciler",
"agent",
"attorney",
"deputy",
"factor",
"procurator",
"proxy",
"liaison",
"medium",
"ambassador",
"emissary",
"envoy",
"legate",
"messenger",
"delegate",
"representative",
"busybody",
"interferer",
"meddler",
"arbiter",
"arbitrator",
"judge",
"referee",
"umpire",
"adviser",
"advisor",
"counselor",
"counsellor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that serves as a protective barrier":{
"examples":[
"the excelsior acts as an additional buffer for the marble bust during shipping"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumper",
"cocoon",
"cushion",
"cushioning",
"fender",
"pad"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baffle",
"muffler",
"padding",
"safeguard",
"shield",
"barricade",
"cordon"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lessen the shock of":{
"examples":[
"during my walk an umbrella and thick coat buffered the freezing rain"
],
"synonyms":[
"cushion",
"gentle",
"soften"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baffle",
"dampen",
"deaden",
"dull",
"obtund",
"moderate",
"modulate",
"temper",
"allay",
"alleviate",
"assuage",
"ease",
"lighten",
"mitigate",
"relieve"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heighten",
"intensify",
"sharpen"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"buffet":{
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"delivered a powerful buffet to the side of the prisoner's head"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"beat",
"belt",
"biff",
"blow",
"bop",
"box",
"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":[]
},
"a storage case typically having doors and shelves":{
"examples":[
"a buffet completed the kitchen set"
],
"synonyms":[
"cabinet",
"closet",
"console",
"cupboard",
"hutch",
"locker",
"press",
"sideboard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bookcase",
"breakfront",
"chest",
"china closet",
"credence",
"credenza",
"\u00e9tag\u00e8re",
"etagere",
"secretary",
"showcase",
"taboret",
"tabouret",
"vitrine",
"cuddy",
"dresser",
"pie safe",
"armoire",
"clothespress",
"garderobe",
"wardrobe",
"cabinetry",
"shelving"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"fierce winds buffeted the small sailboat"
],
"synonyms":[
"bash",
"baste",
"bat",
"batter",
"beat",
"belabor",
"belt",
"birch",
"bludgeon",
"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":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"buffing":{
"to make smooth by friction":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she learned to buff semiprecious stones in order to make her own jewelry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarsening",
"roughening",
"roughing (up)",
"scuffing"
],
"related":[
"planing",
"scraping",
"sandblasting",
"scouring",
"burnishing",
"dressing",
"glossing",
"polishing",
"shining",
"smoothing",
"edging",
"sharpening",
"stropping",
"whetting",
"regrinding"
],
"synonyms":[
"filing",
"grinding",
"honing",
"rasping",
"rubbing",
"sanding"
]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the janitor buffed the lobby floor until it shone"
],
"near antonyms":[
"roughening",
"roughing (up)",
"ruffling",
"scuffing (up)"
],
"related":[
"sleeking",
"slicking",
"coating",
"glazing",
"japanning",
"lacquering",
"varnishing",
"facing",
"finishing",
"veneering",
"brightening",
"filing",
"rasping",
"sandblasting",
"sanding",
"sandpapering",
"scouring",
"scraping",
"scrubbing",
"bobbing",
"boning",
"lapping"
],
"synonyms":[
"burnishing",
"dressing",
"furbishing",
"glossing",
"grinding",
"polishing",
"rubbing",
"shining",
"smoothening",
"smoothing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bug out":{
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"the ground soldiers bugged out just before the start of the aerial bombing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolt",
"break",
"flee",
"fly",
"hightail (it)",
"retreat",
"run",
"run away",
"run off",
"skedaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abscond",
"clear out",
"decamp",
"elope",
"escape",
"get (away)",
"get out",
"lam",
"light out",
"make off",
"mizzle",
"scarper",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip (out)",
"skirr"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"abide",
"dwell",
"hang around",
"linger",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"the strange visitor bugged out without so much as saying a word"
],
"synonyms":[
"bail",
"bail out",
"begone",
"book",
"bug off",
"bugger off",
"buzz (off)",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"dig out",
"exit",
"get",
"get off",
"go",
"go off",
"move",
"pack (up or off)",
"part",
"peel off",
"pike (out or off)",
"pull out",
"push off",
"push on",
"quit",
"run along",
"sally (forth)",
"scarper",
"shove (off)",
"step (along)",
"take off",
"vamoose",
"walk out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"start",
"strike out",
"abscond",
"decamp",
"escape",
"evacuate",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"mizzle",
"run away",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip",
"go out",
"light out",
"step out",
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"vacate",
"emigrate",
"adjourn",
"remove",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"lodge",
"remain",
"settle",
"stay",
"tarry",
"approach",
"close",
"near",
"hit",
"land",
"reach"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrive",
"come",
"show up",
"turn up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bugged off":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"I wish you would just bug off and leave me alone"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailed",
"bailed out",
"booked",
"bugged out",
"buggered off",
"buzzed (off)",
"cleared off",
"cleared out",
"cut out",
"departed",
"dug out",
"exited",
"got",
"got off",
"moved",
"packed (up or off)",
"parted",
"peeled off",
"piked (out or off)",
"pulled out",
"pushed off",
"pushed on",
"quit",
"quitted",
"ran along",
"sallied (forth)",
"scarpered",
"shoved (off)",
"stepped (along)",
"took off",
"vamoosed",
"walked out",
"went",
"went off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"started",
"struck out",
"absconded",
"decamped",
"escaped",
"evacuated",
"fled",
"flew",
"got out",
"mizzled",
"ran away",
"scatted",
"scrammed",
"skipped",
"lit",
"lighted out",
"stepped out",
"went out",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"forsook",
"vacated",
"emigrated",
"adjourned",
"removed",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"lodged",
"remained",
"settled",
"stayed",
"tarried",
"approached",
"closed",
"neared",
"hit",
"landed",
"reached"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrived",
"came",
"showed up",
"turned up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bugger":{
"a person whose behavior is offensive to others":{
"examples":[
"a cranky bugger who's always at odds with his neighbors"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastard",
"beast",
"bleeder",
"blighter",
"boor",
"bounder",
"buzzard",
"cad",
"chuff",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cretin",
"crud",
"crumb",
"cur",
"dirtbag",
"dog",
"fink",
"heel",
"hound",
"jerk",
"joker",
"louse",
"lout",
"pill",
"rat",
"rat fink",
"reptile",
"rotter",
"schmuck",
"scum",
"scumbag",
"scuzzball",
"skunk",
"sleaze",
"sleazebag",
"sleazeball",
"slime",
"slimeball",
"slob",
"snake",
"so-and-so",
"sod",
"stinkard",
"stinker",
"swine",
"toad",
"varmint",
"vermin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barbarian",
"brute",
"caveman",
"Neanderthal",
"savage",
"loudmouth",
"vulgarian",
"lowlife",
"miscreant",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"roughneck",
"scab",
"scamp",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"wretch",
"booby",
"doofus",
"fool",
"jackass",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"nut",
"schmo",
"schmoe",
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"dink",
"dolt",
"dope",
"dork",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"idiot",
"imbecile",
"moron",
"turkey",
"brat",
"insolent",
"nuisance",
"pest",
"snip",
"snob",
"snoot",
"snot",
"dweeb",
"nerd"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hero",
"heroine",
"idol",
"role model",
"gentleman",
"lady",
"angel",
"saint"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buggy":{
"a small four-wheeled vehicle designed for pushing a baby around in":{
"examples":[
"we'll need a new buggy if we have another baby"
],
"synonyms":[
"baby buggy",
"baby carriage",
"perambulator",
"pram",
"pushchair",
"stroller"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bassinet",
"cradle",
"crib",
"carry-cot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"building block":{
"one of the parts that make up a whole":{
"examples":[
"historically the infantry division has been a basic building block of armies"
],
"synonyms":[
"component",
"constituent",
"element",
"factor",
"ingredient",
"member"
],
"near synonyms":[
"basis",
"part and parcel",
"detail",
"item",
"particular",
"point",
"aspect",
"characteristic",
"facet",
"feature",
"trait",
"division",
"fragment",
"particle",
"partition",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"sector",
"segment",
"subcomponent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggregate",
"composite",
"compound",
"mass",
"entirety",
"sum",
"summation",
"total",
"totality",
"admixture",
"amalgam",
"amalgamation",
"blend",
"combination",
"intermixture",
"mix",
"mixture"
],
"antonyms":[
"whole"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"building up":{
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"static electricity built up on the cat's fur"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"accumulating",
"appreciating",
"ballooning",
"booming",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"climbing",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"gaining",
"increasing",
"mounting",
"multiplying",
"mushrooming",
"proliferating",
"rising",
"rolling up",
"snowballing",
"spreading",
"swelling",
"waxing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumping",
"rocketing",
"skyrocketing",
"surging",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling",
"blowing up",
"bulking",
"distending",
"inflating",
"puffing (up)",
"crescendoing",
"cresting",
"peaking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracting",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"receding",
"waning"
]
},
"to gradually increase in":{
"examples":[
"the roller coaster built up momentum"
],
"synonyms":[
"gaining",
"gathering",
"growing (in)",
"picking up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doubling (in)",
"tripling (in)",
"accruing",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"exciting",
"stimulating",
"enhancing",
"enlarging",
"enriching",
"expanding",
"extending",
"maximizing",
"boosting",
"elevating",
"jacking (up)",
"mounting",
"ramping (up)",
"stepping up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abating",
"declining (in)",
"diminishing (in)",
"dipping",
"dwindling",
"falling (in)",
"lessening",
"tapering",
"tapering off"
],
"antonyms":[
"decreasing (in)",
"losing"
]
},
"to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass":{
"examples":[
"evidence that the toxic chemical builds up in the bloodstream to unhealthy levels"
],
"synonyms":[
"accreting",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"collecting",
"concentrating",
"conglomerating",
"gathering",
"massing",
"piling (up)",
"stacking (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agglutinating",
"clumping",
"lumping",
"banking",
"drifting",
"ridging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"he patiently built up his coin collection over several decades",
"the young stockbroker worked hard to build up a clientele"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"adding (to)",
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"boosting",
"compounding",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"extending",
"hyping",
"increasing",
"multiplying",
"pumping up",
"raising",
"stoking",
"supersizing",
"swelling",
"upping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"booming",
"jumping",
"skyrocketing",
"spiking",
"bumping (up)",
"ratcheting (up)",
"racheting (up)",
"blowing up",
"dilating",
"distending",
"inflating",
"drawing out",
"elongating",
"fleshing (out)",
"lengthening",
"prolonging",
"protracting",
"stretching",
"developing",
"enhancing",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"magnifying",
"complementing",
"supplementing",
"beefing (up)",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"strengthening",
"maximizing",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"collecting",
"following up",
"parlaying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"curtailing",
"shortening",
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"cutting back",
"retrenching"
],
"antonyms":[
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"minifying",
"reducing",
"subtracting (from)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"built":{
"as in ample , curvy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ample",
"bosomy",
"busty",
"buxom",
"chesty",
"corn-fed",
"curvaceous",
"curvy",
"full-figured",
"ripe",
"Rubenesque",
"shapely",
"stacked",
"voluptuous",
"well-endowed",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"blubbery",
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"fleshy",
"full",
"gross",
"lardy",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"podgy",
"portly",
"pudgy",
"replete",
"roly-poly",
"rotund",
"round",
"tubby",
"Junoesque",
"statuesque",
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"heavy",
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"stocky",
"stout",
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"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"hefty",
"husky",
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"squat",
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"hippy",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
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"soft",
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"boney",
"gaunt",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rawboned",
"sinewy",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"puny",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"slight",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"svelte",
"sylphlike",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"willowy",
"ectomorphic",
"anorexic",
"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin"
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"confected",
"constructed",
"erected",
"fabricated",
"made",
"made up",
"pieced",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up"
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"forged",
"framed",
"hammered",
"handcrafted",
"manufactured",
"molded",
"produced",
"shaped",
"prefabricated",
"began",
"coined",
"created",
"generated",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
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"invented",
"originated",
"constituted",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
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"organized",
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"contrived",
"cooked (up)",
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"devised",
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"thought (up)",
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"redeveloped",
"reedified",
"retrofitted",
"retrofit",
"jerry-built",
"rigged (up)",
"threw up",
"combined",
"united"
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"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"flattened",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"pulled down",
"pulverized",
"razed",
"ruinated",
"ruined",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"wrecked",
"blew up",
"exploded",
"detached",
"disengaged",
"disconnected",
"disjoined",
"disunited",
"divided",
"separated"
],
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"demounted",
"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"dismembered",
"knocked down",
"struck",
"took down",
"tore down"
]
},
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"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"built-in":{
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"constitutive",
"essential",
"hardwired",
"immanent",
"inborn",
"inbred",
"indigenous",
"ingrain",
"ingrained",
"engrained",
"inherent",
"innate",
"integral",
"intrinsic",
"native",
"natural"
],
"near synonyms":[
"basic",
"deep-rooted",
"elemental",
"fundamental",
"congenital",
"hereditary",
"inherited",
"inmost",
"inner",
"interior",
"internal",
"characteristic",
"distinctive",
"peculiar",
"habitual",
"inveterate",
"normal",
"regular",
"typical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alien",
"foreign",
"accidental",
"coincidental",
"incidental",
"acquired",
"adscititious",
"superficial",
"surface",
"exterior",
"external"
],
"antonyms":[
"adventitious",
"extraneous",
"extrinsic"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
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"bulk":{
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"minority"
],
"examples":[
"agriculture makes up the bulk of the country's economy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"couple",
"few",
"handful",
"smattering",
"sprinkling",
"least",
"minimum"
],
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"plurality",
"maximum",
"most",
"abundance",
"heap",
"loads",
"lot",
"much",
"oodles",
"plenty",
"profusion",
"reams",
"scads",
"wealth"
],
"synonyms":[
"generality",
"lion's share",
"majority",
"mass",
"preponderance"
]
},
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"examples":[
"the cookie lost a few crumbs, but the bulk of it remained"
],
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"accessory",
"accessary",
"adjunct",
"appendage",
"extension",
"offshoot",
"component",
"constituent",
"element",
"ingredient",
"division",
"part",
"piece",
"section",
"segment",
"angle",
"aspect",
"facet",
"feature",
"quality",
"side"
],
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"majority",
"aggregate",
"amount",
"entirety",
"quantum",
"sum",
"sum total",
"total",
"totality",
"whole",
"bottom",
"essence",
"essentiality",
"marrow",
"meat",
"nature",
"pith",
"quintessence",
"root",
"soul",
"stuff",
"substance",
"center",
"heart",
"hub",
"kernel",
"middle",
"nucleus",
"nut",
"seat",
"affair",
"argument",
"burden",
"crux",
"focus",
"gist",
"nub",
"pitch",
"point",
"purport",
"matter",
"motif",
"subject",
"text",
"theme",
"topic"
],
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"body",
"brunt",
"chief",
"core",
"generality",
"heft",
"main",
"mass",
"staple",
"weight"
]
},
"the total amount of measurable space or surface occupied by something":{
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"examples":[
"due to its bulk , we were unable to get the enormous bookcase into the back seat of the car"
],
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"area",
"capaciousness",
"commodiousness",
"roominess",
"spaciousness",
"ampleness",
"amplitude",
"bigness",
"bulkiness",
"enormousness",
"grandness",
"greatness",
"grossness",
"heftiness",
"hugeness",
"immenseness",
"immensity",
"largeness",
"mass",
"massiveness",
"monstrousness",
"stupendousness",
"tremendousness",
"vastness",
"volume",
"voluminousness"
],
"synonyms":[
"dimension",
"extent",
"magnitude",
"measure",
"measurement",
"proportion",
"size"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"the quality or state of being large in size":{
"examples":[
"the box wasn't heavy, but its bulkiness made it awkward to carry"
],
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"bigness",
"grandness",
"greatness",
"heftiness",
"largeness",
"substantiality",
"voluminousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"enormity",
"enormousness",
"extensiveness",
"grossness",
"healthiness",
"hugeness",
"immenseness",
"immensity",
"magnitude",
"massiveness",
"mightiness",
"mountainousness",
"prodigiousness",
"stupendousness",
"vastness",
"excessiveness",
"extravagance",
"extremeness",
"immoderacy",
"abundance",
"ampleness",
"bountifulness",
"copiousness",
"generosity",
"handsomeness",
"liberality",
"muchness",
"adequacy",
"sufficiency",
"weightiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diminutiveness",
"minuteness",
"tininess",
"slightness",
"meagerness",
"poorness",
"scantiness",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"skimpiness",
"slenderness",
"slimness",
"spareness",
"sparseness",
"sparsity",
"stinginess",
"deficiency",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness"
],
"antonyms":[
"fineness",
"littleness",
"puniness",
"smallness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bull":{
"an order publicly issued by an authority":{
"examples":[
"the head office issued a bull banning the use of alcohol at all on-site social functions"
],
"synonyms":[
"decree",
"diktat",
"directive",
"edict",
"fiat",
"rescript",
"ruling",
"ukase"
],
"near synonyms":[
"call",
"conclusion",
"decision",
"deliverance",
"determination",
"diagnosis",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"opinion",
"resolution",
"verdict",
"announcement",
"declaration",
"dictum",
"manifesto",
"proclamation",
"pronouncement",
"canon",
"encyclical"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level":{
"examples":[
"the town's drug dealers and bulls were well acquainted with one another"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobby",
"constable",
"cop",
"copper",
"flatfoot",
"fuzz",
"gendarme",
"lawman",
"officer",
"police officer",
"policeman",
"shamus"
],
"near synonyms":[
"patrolman",
"policewoman",
"detective",
"dick",
"gumshoe",
"hawkshaw",
"inspector",
"investigator",
"plainclothesman",
"sherlock",
"sleuth",
"sleuthhound",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"sheriff",
"trooper",
"peace officer",
"captain",
"lieutenant",
"sergeant",
"constabulary",
"heat",
"man",
"police",
"police force",
"operative",
"private detective",
"private eye",
"private investigator"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilian"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"boastful speech or writing":{
"examples":[
"an interview filled with the usual bull about how seriously she takes the art of acting"
],
"synonyms":[
"bluster",
"bombast",
"brag",
"braggadocio",
"cockalorum",
"fanfaronade",
"gas",
"gasconade",
"grandiloquence",
"hot air",
"magniloquence",
"rant",
"rodomontade",
"rhodomontade"
],
"near synonyms":[
"oratory",
"rhapsody",
"rhetoric",
"pomposity",
"turgidity",
"wind",
"bloviation",
"verbosity",
"windiness",
"babble",
"blab",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"gibberish",
"jabber",
"prattle",
"jawing",
"patter",
"prating",
"yammering",
"egotism",
"self-conceit",
"self-importance",
"swagger",
"vaunt"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"a guy who's always trying to sell some sucker a line of bull"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"fatuity",
"foolery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"kookiness",
"lunacy",
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"madness",
"witlessness",
"hoity-toity",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"gas",
"hot air",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"double-talk",
"greek",
"hocus-pocus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to force one's way":{
"examples":[
"the beleaguered governor bulled through the crowd of reporters without answering a single question"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"bulldoze",
"crash",
"elbow",
"jam",
"jostle",
"muscle",
"press",
"push",
"shoulder",
"squeeze"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ram",
"shove",
"thrust"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess":{
"examples":[
"no one bought all his bulling about how he had beaten the stock market"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"boast",
"brag",
"crow",
"gasconade",
"swagger",
"vapor",
"vaunt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bluster",
"harangue",
"puff",
"pride",
"gush",
"exult",
"glory",
"rejoice",
"brandish",
"display",
"exhibit",
"expose",
"flaunt",
"glorify",
"parade",
"show off",
"magnify",
"maximize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittle",
"deprecate",
"diminish",
"discount",
"laugh off",
"minimize",
"play down",
"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"shrug off",
"underrate",
"undervalue",
"bemoan",
"lament",
"mourn",
"regret"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bull pens":{
"as in cells , holes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cages",
"cells",
"holes",
"tanks",
"bastilles",
"big houses",
"bridewells",
"brigs",
"calabooses",
"cans",
"clinks",
"coolers",
"coops",
"guardrooms",
"hocks",
"holds",
"hoosegows",
"jailhouses",
"jails",
"joints",
"jugs",
"lockups",
"nicks",
"penitentiaries",
"pens",
"pokeys",
"prisons",
"quods",
"slammers",
"slams",
"stirs",
"stockades",
"tolbooths",
"blocks",
"wards",
"glasshouses",
"guardhouses",
"hulks",
"concentration camps",
"gulags",
"labor camps",
"prison camps",
"stalags",
"work camps",
"dungeons",
"keeps",
"oubliettes",
"reformatories",
"reform schools",
"training schools"
],
"near antonyms":[
"outsides"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bull's-eyes":{
"the central part or aspect of something under consideration":{
"examples":[
"you hit the bull's-eye when you noted that the real issue here is money"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom lines",
"centerpieces",
"cores",
"cruxes",
"cruces",
"essences",
"gists",
"hearts",
"kernels",
"keynotes",
"meat and potatoes",
"meats",
"nets",
"nubbins",
"nubs",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"piths",
"pivots",
"points",
"roots",
"sums"
],
"near synonyms":[
"courses",
"directions",
"drifts",
"tenors",
"bodies",
"contents",
"substances",
"hypotheses",
"propositions",
"purports",
"subjects",
"themes",
"theses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bulletined":{
"as in billed , gazetted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"billboarded",
"billed",
"gazetted",
"barked",
"called (off or out)",
"cried",
"knelled",
"rang",
"tolled",
"advertised",
"announced",
"annunciated",
"blared",
"blazed",
"blazoned",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"declared",
"enunciated",
"flashed",
"gave out",
"heralded",
"placarded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published",
"released",
"sounded",
"trumpeted",
"blurbed",
"featured",
"pitched",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"puffed",
"disseminated",
"spread",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"introduced",
"kithed",
"kythed",
"manifested",
"reported",
"revealed",
"showed",
"advised",
"apprised",
"handed down",
"informed",
"notified",
"communicated",
"imparted",
"intimated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealed",
"hushed (up)",
"silenced",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"recalled",
"recanted",
"retracted",
"revoked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bulletins":{
"a publication that appears at regular intervals":{
"examples":[
"picks up a church bulletin every Sunday after Mass"
],
"synonyms":[
"books",
"diurnals",
"gazettes",
"journals",
"magazines",
"mags",
"newspapers",
"organs",
"papers",
"periodicals",
"rags",
"reviews",
"serials",
"zines"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annuals",
"bimonthlies",
"biweeklies",
"dailies",
"monthlies",
"quarterlies",
"semimonthlies",
"semiweeklies",
"triweeklies",
"weeklies",
"yearbooks",
"digests",
"little magazines",
"fanzines",
"pictorials",
"slicks",
"broadsides",
"editions",
"extras",
"sheets",
"supplements",
"tabloids",
"tabs",
"newsletters",
"newsmagazines",
"newsweeklies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a published statement informing the public of a matter of general interest":{
"examples":[
"I signed up to receive the free financial bulletin daily in my in-box"
],
"synonyms":[
"ads",
"advertisements",
"adverts",
"announcements",
"communiqu\u00e9s",
"notices",
"notifications",
"postings",
"releases"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broadsides",
"brochures",
"circulars",
"flyers",
"fliers",
"fly sheets",
"gazettes",
"handbills",
"handouts",
"billboards",
"bills",
"placards",
"playbills",
"posters",
"show bills",
"signs",
"broadcasts",
"cablecasts",
"newscasts",
"telecasts",
"advertisings",
"billings",
"blurbs",
"come-ons",
"commercials",
"messages",
"pitches",
"plugolas",
"spots",
"words",
"communications",
"dispatches",
"reports",
"annunciations",
"declarations",
"edicts",
"proclamations",
"promulgations",
"pronouncements",
"pronunciamentos",
"pronunciamentoes",
"rescripts",
"significations",
"ballyhoos",
"boosts",
"buildups",
"campaigns",
"plugs",
"promos",
"promotions",
"propagandas",
"publicities"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bills , gazettes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"billboards",
"bills",
"gazettes",
"barks",
"calls (off or out)",
"cries",
"knells",
"rings",
"tolls",
"advertises",
"announces",
"annunciates",
"blares",
"blazes",
"blazons",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"enunciates",
"flashes",
"gives out",
"heralds",
"placards",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"releases",
"sounds",
"trumpets",
"blurbs",
"features",
"pitches",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"puffs",
"disseminates",
"spreads",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"introduces",
"kithes",
"manifests",
"reports",
"reveals",
"shows",
"advises",
"apprises",
"hands down",
"informs",
"notifies",
"communicates",
"imparts",
"intimates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceals",
"hushes (up)",
"silences",
"suppresses",
"withholds",
"recalls",
"recants",
"retracts",
"revokes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bullish":{
"as in beamish , eupeptic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beamish",
"eupeptic",
"assured",
"confident",
"decisive",
"doubtless",
"positive",
"sure",
"unhesitating",
"favorable",
"good",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"reassuring",
"soothing",
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"golden",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"likely",
"optimistic",
"promising",
"propitious",
"roseate",
"rose-colored",
"rosy",
"upbeat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bleak",
"dark",
"depressing",
"desperate",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismal",
"downbeat",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"hopeless",
"inauspicious",
"pessimistic",
"unencouraging",
"unlikely",
"unpromising",
"unpropitious",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"uncertain",
"bearish",
"grim",
"negative",
"unfavorable",
"funereal",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"miserable",
"wretched"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bulls":{
"an order publicly issued by an authority":{
"examples":[
"the head office issued a bull banning the use of alcohol at all on-site social functions"
],
"synonyms":[
"decrees",
"diktats",
"directives",
"edicts",
"fiats",
"rescripts",
"rulings",
"ukases"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calls",
"conclusions",
"decisions",
"deliverances",
"determinations",
"diagnoses",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"opinions",
"resolutions",
"verdicts",
"announcements",
"declarations",
"dicta",
"dictums",
"manifestos",
"manifestoes",
"proclamations",
"pronouncements",
"canons",
"encyclicals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a member of a force charged with law enforcement at the local level":{
"examples":[
"the town's drug dealers and bulls were well acquainted with one another"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbies",
"constables",
"coppers",
"cops",
"flatfeet",
"fuzzes",
"gendarmes",
"lawmen",
"officers",
"policemen",
"police officers",
"shamuses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"patrolmen",
"policewomen",
"detectives",
"dicks",
"gumshoes",
"hawkshaws",
"inspectors",
"investigators",
"plainclothesmen",
"sherlocks",
"sleuthhounds",
"sleuths",
"marshals",
"marshalls",
"sheriffs",
"troopers",
"peace officers",
"captains",
"lieutenants",
"sergeants",
"constabularies",
"heat",
"men",
"police",
"police forces",
"operatives",
"private detectives",
"private eyes",
"private investigators"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilians"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to force one's way":{
"examples":[
"the beleaguered governor bulled through the crowd of reporters without answering a single question"
],
"synonyms":[
"bores",
"bulldozes",
"crashes",
"elbows",
"jams",
"jostles",
"muscles",
"presses",
"pushes",
"shoulders",
"squeezes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rams",
"shoves",
"thrusts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess":{
"examples":[
"no one bought all his bulling about how he had beaten the stock market"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows",
"boasts",
"brags",
"crows",
"gasconades",
"swaggers",
"vapors",
"vaunts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blusters",
"harangues",
"puffs",
"prides",
"gushes",
"exults",
"glories",
"rejoices",
"brandishes",
"displays",
"exhibits",
"exposes",
"flaunts",
"glorifies",
"parades",
"shows off",
"magnifies",
"maximizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittles",
"deprecates",
"diminishes",
"discounts",
"laughs off",
"minimizes",
"plays down",
"pooh-poohs",
"poohs",
"shrugs off",
"underrates",
"undervalues",
"bemoans",
"laments",
"mourns",
"regrets"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bully":{
"of the very best kind":{
"examples":[
"that's a bully idea for reviving the town's retail center"
],
"synonyms":[
"A-OK",
"A1",
"awesome",
"bang-up",
"banner",
"beautiful",
"blue-chip",
"blue-ribbon",
"boffo",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"boss",
"brag",
"brave",
"bumper",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"cool",
"corking",
"crackerjack",
"cracking",
"dandy",
"divine",
"dope",
"down",
"dynamite",
"excellent",
"fab",
"fabulous",
"famous",
"fantabulous",
"fantastic",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"first-string",
"five-star",
"four-star",
"frontline",
"gangbusters",
"gangbuster",
"gilt-edged",
"gilt-edge",
"gone",
"grand",
"great",
"groovy",
"heavenly",
"high-class",
"hot",
"hype",
"immense",
"jim-dandy",
"keen",
"lovely",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"mean",
"neat",
"nifty",
"noble",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"numero uno",
"out-of-sight",
"par excellence",
"peachy",
"peachy keen",
"phat",
"prime",
"primo",
"prize",
"prizewinning",
"quality",
"radical",
"righteous",
"sensational",
"slick",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supernal",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"top-of-the-line",
"top-shelf",
"topflight",
"topping",
"unsurpassed",
"wizard",
"wonderful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"decent",
"good",
"OK",
"okay",
"passable",
"satisfactory",
"tolerable",
"better",
"exceptional",
"fancy",
"high-grade",
"high-test",
"premium",
"select",
"special",
"superfine",
"classical",
"standard",
"traditional"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"inferior",
"low-grade",
"substandard",
"unsatisfactory",
"mediocre",
"middling",
"second-class",
"second-rate"
],
"antonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"pathetic",
"poor",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"vile",
"wretched"
]
},
"a person who teases, threatens, or hurts smaller, weaker, or more vulnerable persons":{
"examples":[
"the school has a procedure for students who want to report problems with bullies"
],
"synonyms":[
"bullyboy",
"hector",
"intimidator"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antagonist",
"enemy",
"abuser",
"baiter",
"giber",
"jiber",
"harasser",
"harrier",
"heckler",
"mocker",
"needler",
"oppressor",
"persecutor",
"ridiculer",
"taunter",
"tease",
"teaser",
"torturer",
"goon",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mug",
"punk",
"rough",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"tough",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"cutthroat",
"felon",
"gangster",
"gunman",
"mobster",
"racketeer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"examples":[
"the local loan shark and his bullies have ways of making people pay up"
],
"synonyms":[
"gangbanger",
"gangsta",
"gangster",
"goon",
"gorilla",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mobster",
"mug",
"plug-ugly",
"punk",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"tough",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"yob",
"yobbo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cutthroat",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"assassin",
"bandit",
"bravo",
"brigand",
"criminal",
"crook",
"desperado",
"felon",
"gunman",
"highwayman",
"lawbreaker",
"mafioso",
"malefactor",
"offender",
"outlaw",
"perp",
"perpetrator",
"pirate",
"pickpocket",
"racketeer",
"robber",
"swindler",
"thief",
"vandal",
"juvenile delinquent",
"tearaway"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to inflict physical or emotional harm upon":{
"examples":[
"the kindergarten teacher explained why it was wrong to bully classmates"
],
"synonyms":[
"abuse",
"brutalize",
"ill-treat",
"ill-use",
"kick around",
"maltreat",
"manhandle",
"mess over",
"mishandle",
"mistreat",
"misuse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"molest",
"outrage",
"violate",
"harass",
"harm",
"hurt",
"injure",
"oppress",
"persecute",
"torment",
"torture",
"burn",
"sandbag",
"victimize",
"wrong",
"beat (up)",
"mess (up)",
"rough (up)",
"work (over)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"care (for)",
"cherish",
"foster",
"nurture",
"baby",
"cater (to)",
"coddle",
"favor",
"gratify",
"humor",
"indulge",
"mollycoddle",
"pamper",
"spoil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"the manager was fired for bullying employees"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"bogart",
"browbeat",
"bulldoze",
"bullyrag",
"cow",
"hector",
"intimidate",
"strong-arm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bluster",
"trash-talk",
"affright",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"frighten",
"horrify",
"scare",
"shock",
"spook",
"startle",
"terrify",
"menace",
"terrorize",
"threaten",
"badger",
"harass",
"hound",
"bludgeon",
"coerce",
"compel",
"constrain",
"dragoon",
"force",
"make",
"oblige",
"press",
"pressure",
"push around",
"demoralize",
"psych (out)",
"unman",
"unnerve",
"discompose",
"disconcert",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"upset"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"steel",
"convince",
"persuade"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bullying":{
"as in browbeating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"browbeating",
"ascetic",
"ascetical",
"monastic",
"monkish",
"determined",
"firm",
"resolved",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"unflinching",
"dour",
"gruff",
"dogged",
"intractable",
"obstinate",
"relentless",
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"callous",
"hardened",
"hard-hearted",
"hard-line",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"merciless",
"ossified",
"pitiless",
"relentless",
"rock-ribbed",
"stiff",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unsparing",
"unyielding",
"uncharitable",
"unforgiving",
"demanding",
"exacting",
"austere",
"authoritarian",
"flinty",
"hard",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"ramrod",
"rigid",
"rigorous",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"tough"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clement",
"forbearing",
"gentle",
"indulgent",
"lax",
"lenient",
"tolerant",
"easy",
"easygoing",
"laid-back",
"undemanding",
"charitable",
"kind",
"merciful",
"mild",
"patient",
"soft",
"softhearted",
"accepting",
"compromising",
"yielding",
"responsive",
"willing",
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"complaisant",
"compliant",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bulldozing , browbeating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"browbeating",
"bulldozing",
"arm-twisting",
"coercion",
"compulsion",
"constraint",
"duress",
"force",
"pressure",
"fear",
"intimidation",
"menace",
"sword",
"terror",
"terrorism",
"threat",
"violence",
"squeeze",
"squeeze play",
"might",
"muscle",
"potency",
"puissance",
"strength",
"hardheadedness",
"self-will",
"willfulness",
"strain",
"stress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreement",
"approval",
"consent",
"permission",
"convincing",
"persuasion",
"reason",
"suasion"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to inflict physical or emotional harm upon":{
"examples":[
"the kindergarten teacher explained why it was wrong to bully classmates"
],
"synonyms":[
"abusing",
"brutalizing",
"ill-treating",
"ill-using",
"kicking around",
"maltreating",
"manhandling",
"messing over",
"mishandling",
"mistreating",
"misusing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"molesting",
"outraging",
"violating",
"harassing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"injuring",
"oppressing",
"persecuting",
"tormenting",
"torturing",
"burning",
"sandbagging",
"victimizing",
"wronging",
"beating (up)",
"messing (up)",
"roughing (up)",
"working (over)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"caring (for)",
"cherishing",
"fostering",
"nurturing",
"babying",
"catering (to)",
"coddling",
"favoring",
"gratifying",
"humoring",
"indulging",
"mollycoddling",
"pampering",
"spoiling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"the manager was fired for bullying employees"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacking",
"bogarting",
"browbeating",
"bulldozing",
"bullyragging",
"ballyragging",
"cowing",
"hectoring",
"intimidating",
"strong-arming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustering",
"trash-talking",
"affrighting",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"frightening",
"horrifying",
"scaring",
"shocking",
"spooking",
"startling",
"terrifying",
"menacing",
"terrorizing",
"threatening",
"badgering",
"harassing",
"hounding",
"bludgeoning",
"coercing",
"compelling",
"constraining",
"dragooning",
"forcing",
"making",
"obliging",
"pressing",
"pressuring",
"pushing around",
"demoralizing",
"psyching (out)",
"unmanning",
"unnerving",
"discomposing",
"disconcerting",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"steeling",
"convincing",
"persuading"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bullyrags":{
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"anonymous trolls on the website tried to bullyrag him into backing down"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"bogarts",
"browbeats",
"bulldozes",
"bullies",
"cows",
"hectors",
"intimidates",
"strong-arms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blusters",
"trash-talks",
"affrights",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"frightens",
"horrifies",
"scares",
"shocks",
"spooks",
"startles",
"terrifies",
"menaces",
"terrorizes",
"threatens",
"badgers",
"harasses",
"hounds",
"bludgeons",
"coerces",
"compels",
"constrains",
"dragoons",
"forces",
"makes",
"obliges",
"presses",
"pressures",
"pushes around",
"demoralizes",
"psychs (out)",
"unmans",
"unnerves",
"discomposes",
"disconcerts",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"upsets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"steels",
"convinces",
"persuades"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bulwark":{
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"vowed to use any means necessary to bulwark the country against attack"
],
"synonyms":[
"cover",
"defend",
"fence",
"fend",
"forfend",
"guard",
"keep",
"protect",
"safeguard",
"screen",
"secure",
"shield",
"ward"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avert",
"prevent",
"oppose",
"resist",
"withstand",
"battle",
"contend",
"fight",
"war",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"save",
"buffer",
"palisade",
"picket",
"wall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombard",
"storm",
"beset",
"besiege",
"overrun",
"capitulate",
"cave",
"submit",
"yield"
],
"antonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack"
]
},
"as in rampart , parapet":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"battlement",
"breastwork",
"earthwork",
"embattlement",
"parapet",
"rampart",
"bastion",
"castle",
"citadel",
"fastness",
"fort",
"fortification",
"fortress",
"hold",
"redoubt",
"stronghold",
"bunker",
"dugout",
"blockhouse",
"garrison house",
"alcazar",
"casbah",
"kasbah"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in support , buttress":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anchorage",
"bed",
"brace",
"buttress",
"framework",
"infrastructure",
"mount",
"prop",
"shore",
"stay",
"substratum",
"substructure",
"support",
"base",
"basis",
"bedrock",
"bottom",
"cornerstone",
"footing",
"foundation",
"ground",
"groundwork",
"keystone",
"root",
"underpinning",
"warp",
"warp and woof",
"assumption",
"justification",
"premise",
"premiss",
"presumption",
"presupposition",
"rationale",
"supposition",
"theory",
"thesis",
"warrant",
"backbone",
"center",
"core",
"eye",
"focus",
"heart",
"hub",
"kernel",
"nucleus",
"seat",
"essence",
"quintessence",
"soul",
"touchstone"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in embankment":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"embankment",
"butte",
"cuesta",
"hogback",
"tor",
"declivity",
"drop-off",
"pitch",
"barranca",
"barranco",
"bluff",
"cliff",
"crag",
"escarpment",
"palisade",
"precipice",
"scar",
"scarp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bumped (up)":{
"as in maximized , ratcheted (up)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"maximized",
"ratcheted (up)",
"racheted (up)",
"accelerated",
"added (to)",
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"boosted",
"built up",
"compounded",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"extended",
"hyped",
"increased",
"multiplied",
"pumped up",
"raised",
"stoked",
"supersized",
"swelled",
"upped",
"blew up",
"dilated",
"distended",
"inflated",
"drew out",
"elongated",
"fleshed (out)",
"lengthened",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"stretched",
"developed",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"magnified",
"complemented",
"supplemented",
"beefed (up)",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"strengthened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"minimized",
"abated",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"minified",
"reduced",
"subtracted (from)",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"shortened",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"cut back",
"retrenched"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bumps":{
"a small rounded mass of swollen tissue":{
"examples":[
"that's a nasty bump on your arm where you hit the table"
],
"synonyms":[
"knots",
"lumps",
"nodes",
"nodules",
"swellings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"growths",
"tumors",
"warts",
"humps",
"hunches",
"bruises",
"contusions",
"welts",
"blisters",
"boils",
"blobs",
"chunks",
"clods",
"clumps",
"gobbets",
"gobs",
"hunks",
"knobs",
"nubbles",
"nubs",
"nuggets",
"wads"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or an instance of bringing to a lower grade or rank":{
"examples":[
"the bump was punishment for insubordination"
],
"synonyms":[
"demotions",
"reductions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downgrades",
"dismissals",
"firings",
"layoffs",
"sackings",
"abasements",
"debasements",
"humiliations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a forceful coming together of two things":{
"examples":[
"I felt the bump of the other car, but there was no damage to either vehicle"
],
"synonyms":[
"collisions",
"concussions",
"crashes",
"impacts",
"impingements",
"jars",
"jolts",
"jounces",
"kicks",
"shocks",
"slams",
"smashes",
"strikes",
"wallops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blows",
"buffets",
"hits",
"knocks",
"punches",
"raps",
"slaps",
"thumps",
"bashings",
"batterings",
"lickings",
"thrashings",
"contacts",
"encounters",
"meetings",
"touches"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come into usually forceful contact with something":{
"examples":[
"that police officer bumped into me and should have apologized"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"collides",
"crashes",
"hits",
"impacts",
"impinges",
"knocks",
"rams",
"slams",
"smashes",
"strikes",
"swipes",
"thuds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounces",
"caroms",
"clunks",
"glances",
"rebounds",
"ricochets",
"skims",
"skips",
"contacts",
"lands",
"touches",
"brushes",
"grazes",
"kisses",
"nudges",
"scrapes",
"shaves",
"sweeps",
"bulldozes",
"jostles",
"muscles",
"presses",
"pushes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misses",
"skirts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bundle":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"a bundle of plans for the winter carnival"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bunch",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"shipload",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemic",
"plague",
"rash",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"deluge",
"flood",
"overflow",
"army",
"bevy",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"score",
"sea",
"swarm",
"throng",
"gazillion",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillion",
"zillion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atom",
"crumb",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"fragment",
"grain",
"granule",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dash",
"drop",
"morsel",
"shot",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"absence",
"dearth",
"famine",
"lack",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"meagerness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"skimpiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
]
},
"a wrapped or sealed case containing an item or set of items":{
"examples":[
"a bundle of newspapers"
],
"synonyms":[
"pack",
"package",
"packet",
"parcel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bag",
"poke",
"pouch",
"sack",
"bale",
"box",
"container",
"crate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a very large amount of money":{
"examples":[
"he dropped a bundle on that new sports car"
],
"synonyms":[
"big bucks",
"bomb",
"boodle",
"earth",
"fortune",
"king's ransom",
"megabucks",
"mint",
"packet",
"pile",
"wad"
],
"near synonyms":[
"heap",
"pot",
"bonanza",
"mine",
"treasure trove",
"assets",
"capital",
"means",
"property",
"riches",
"wealth",
"wherewithal",
"bread",
"cash",
"chips",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"jack",
"legal tender",
"lucre",
"pelf",
"tender",
"wampum"
],
"near antonyms":[
"petty cash",
"pin money",
"pocket money",
"spending money"
],
"antonyms":[
"mite",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"song"
]
},
"to cause to move or proceed fast or faster":{
"examples":[
"the tour guide bundled us off before we had a chance to ask any questions"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"fast-track",
"hasten",
"hurry",
"quicken",
"rush",
"speed (up)",
"whisk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drive",
"goad",
"prod",
"propel",
"push",
"race",
"spur",
"stir",
"urge",
"aid",
"dispatch",
"ease",
"encourage",
"expedite",
"facilitate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delay",
"encumber",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hold back",
"hold up",
"impede",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"shackle",
"tie up",
"trammel",
"arrest",
"check",
"stall",
"stay",
"still",
"stop"
],
"antonyms":[
"brake",
"decelerate",
"retard",
"slow (down)"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"a group of servants came bundling out of the palace to attend to the returning royals"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"belt",
"blast",
"blaze",
"blow",
"bolt",
"bomb",
"bowl",
"breeze",
"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"
]
},
"bunged":{
"to close up so that no empty spaces remain":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we had bunged up the moving van so much that we couldn't have possibly squeezed in one more thing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excavated",
"hollowed (out)",
"scooped (out)",
"shoveled",
"shovelled"
],
"related":[
"choked",
"clogged",
"closed (off)",
"clotted",
"congested",
"jammed",
"obstructed",
"occluded",
"caulked",
"calked",
"chinked",
"sealed",
"repacked",
"restuffed"
],
"synonyms":[
"blocked",
"dammed",
"filled",
"packed",
"plugged",
"stopped",
"stuffed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bunked":{
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"examples":[
"bunked the guest in the spare room"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodated",
"bestowed",
"billeted",
"bivouacked",
"boarded",
"camped",
"chambered",
"domiciled",
"encamped",
"harbored",
"housed",
"lodged",
"put up",
"quartered",
"roofed",
"roomed",
"sheltered",
"took in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconced",
"homed",
"roosted",
"secured",
"shedded",
"stabled",
"tented",
"barracked",
"bedded (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejected",
"evicted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bunkers":{
"as in foundations , vaults":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"crawlways",
"foundations",
"holds",
"vaults",
"cellarages",
"cyclone cellars",
"storm cellars",
"basements",
"cellars"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bunt":{
"as in tap , flick":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flick",
"stroke",
"tap",
"scuff",
"bump",
"butt",
"jab",
"jostle",
"kick",
"knee",
"poke",
"prod",
"push",
"shove",
"stamp",
"batter",
"beat",
"buffet",
"bung",
"chop",
"cuff",
"drub",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lick",
"mangle",
"maul",
"pelt",
"pepper",
"pommel",
"pummel",
"rough",
"bowl (down or over)",
"cream",
"deck",
"dump",
"fell",
"floor",
"knock down",
"level",
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"belt",
"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",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burble":{
"unintelligible or meaningless talk":{
"examples":[
"the burble of babies can be so endearing"
],
"synonyms":[
"abracadabra",
"babble",
"blabber",
"double Dutch",
"double-talk",
"drivel",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"gibberish",
"jabber",
"jabberwocky",
"mumbo jumbo",
"nonsense",
"prattle",
"slobber"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"hocus-pocus",
"hokeypokey",
"twaddle",
"chatter",
"gab",
"patter",
"prate",
"tattle",
"twitter",
"cackle",
"clack",
"clatter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in prattle , blabber":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blab",
"blabber",
"blither",
"bumble",
"chat",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"drool",
"gab",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"jabber",
"patter",
"prate",
"prattle",
"waffle",
"sidetrack",
"deviate",
"digress",
"stray",
"wander",
"blather (on)",
"go on",
"maunder",
"ramble",
"rattle",
"run on"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"burglar":{
"a person who illegally enters a building in order to steal things; a person who commits burglary":{
"examples":[
"The burglar had broken into several homes in the neighborhood."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cat burglar",
"cracksman",
"housebreaker",
"picklock",
"safecracker",
"larcenist",
"pincher",
"purloiner",
"robber",
"stealer",
"thief",
"embezzler",
"grafter",
"klepto",
"kleptomaniac",
"sneak thief",
"cutpurse",
"dip",
"pickpocket",
"pilferer",
"shoplifter",
"abductor",
"carjacker",
"hijacker",
"kidnapper",
"kidnaper",
"skyjacker",
"despoiler",
"looter",
"pillager",
"plunderer",
"ransacker",
"ravisher",
"poacher",
"rustler",
"smuggler",
"bandit",
"footpad",
"highwayman",
"pirate",
"mugger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burglary":{
"the act of illegally entering a building in order to steal things":{
"examples":[
"There have been a number of burglaries in the neighborhood in recent months."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"housebreaking",
"larceny",
"robbery",
"stealing",
"theft",
"thievery",
"embezzlement",
"embezzling",
"graft",
"misapplication",
"misappropriation",
"peculation",
"petit larceny",
"petty larceny",
"filching",
"pilferage",
"pilfering",
"purloining",
"shoplifting",
"abduction",
"carjacking",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"shanghaiing",
"despoilment",
"despoliation",
"looting",
"pillage",
"plundering",
"rapine",
"spoliation",
"poaching",
"rustling",
"black marketeering",
"smuggling",
"banditry",
"piracy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burgled":{
"to enter a house or building by force usually with illegal intent":{
"examples":[
"someone burgled the lab when no one was there and let the animals out of their cages"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke in",
"burglarized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"invaded",
"trespassed",
"held up",
"looted",
"plundered",
"ripped off",
"robbed",
"stuck up",
"ransacked",
"rifled",
"despoiled",
"devastated",
"marauded",
"pillaged",
"ravaged",
"sacked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"the neighbors returned from vacation to find that their house had been burgled"
],
"synonyms":[
"burglarized",
"knocked off",
"knocked over",
"ripped off",
"robbed",
"stole (from)",
"took off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ransacked",
"rifled",
"despoiled",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravished",
"sacked",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"stripped",
"stript",
"bled",
"broke in",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"cozened",
"defrauded",
"exploited",
"fleeced",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"plucked",
"rooked",
"shortchanged",
"skinned",
"squeezed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"swindled",
"held up",
"mugged",
"rolled",
"stuck up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burke":{
"to keep from being publicly known":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the executives knew that the drug had dangerous side effects, but they burked the findings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunk",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show up",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"blab",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"spill",
"tell",
"unveil",
"broadcast",
"circulate",
"publish",
"spread",
"describe",
"narrate",
"recite",
"recount",
"rehearse",
"relate",
"report"
],
"related":[
"black out",
"censor",
"gag",
"muzzle",
"silence",
"quash",
"repress",
"smother",
"spike",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"throttle"
],
"synonyms":[
"cover (up)",
"hush (up)",
"suppress"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burned":{
"as in charred , scorched":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"charred",
"incinerated",
"scorched",
"seared",
"singed",
"broiling",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sizzling",
"aglow",
"flaring",
"flickering",
"glowing",
"live",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"ablaze",
"afire",
"aflame",
"alight",
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"conflagrant",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled",
"lit",
"lighted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choked",
"damped",
"dead",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"extinguished",
"quenched",
"smothered",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"suffocated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be on fire especially brightly":{
"examples":[
"all evening long we just sat there, contentedly watching the Yule log burn"
],
"synonyms":[
"blazed",
"combusted",
"flamed",
"glowed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caught",
"enkindled",
"deflagrated",
"fired",
"ignited",
"kindled",
"flared (up)",
"lit (up)",
"lighted (up)",
"flickered",
"guttered",
"wavered",
"baked",
"broiled",
"charred",
"cooked",
"melted",
"roasted",
"scorched",
"sweltered",
"smoldered",
"smouldered",
"sparked",
"sputtered",
"beamed",
"brightened",
"radiated",
"beat (down)",
"flashed",
"glared",
"gleamed",
"glimmered",
"glinted",
"glistened",
"glittered",
"scintillated",
"shimmered",
"shone",
"shined",
"sparkled",
"twinkled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set (something) on fire":{
"examples":[
"it is not a good idea to try to burn old papers in the sink"
],
"synonyms":[
"enkindled",
"fired",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled",
"lit",
"lighted",
"torched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immolated",
"deflagrated",
"charred",
"frizzled",
"scorched",
"baked",
"broiled",
"cooked",
"ashed",
"cremated",
"incinerated",
"kilned",
"set off",
"brightened",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"irradiated",
"lightened",
"radiated",
"scalded",
"scathed",
"seared",
"reignited",
"rekindled",
"relit",
"relighted",
"banked",
"stoked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choked",
"smothered",
"suffocated",
"stamped (out)",
"blackened",
"darkened",
"dimmed",
"dulled",
"obscured"
],
"antonyms":[
"doused",
"dowsed",
"extinguished",
"put out",
"quenched",
"snuffed (out)"
]
},
"to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger":{
"examples":[
"he came home burning with anger because of a reprimand at work"
],
"synonyms":[
"boiled",
"foamed",
"fumed",
"raged",
"rankled",
"seethed",
"sizzled",
"steamed",
"stormed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fulminated",
"ranted",
"raved",
"smoldered",
"smouldered",
"bristled",
"flared (up)",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"chafed",
"fretted",
"stewed",
"agitated",
"convulsed",
"roiled",
"shook"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shine with a bright harsh light":{
"examples":[
"the bright streetlight outside our motel room burned all night long"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"blazed",
"flamed",
"flared",
"glared"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beamed",
"glowed",
"radiated",
"flashed",
"glanced",
"gleamed",
"glimmered",
"glinted",
"glistened",
"glistered",
"glittered",
"scintillated",
"shimmered",
"sparkled",
"twinkled",
"bedazzled",
"blinded",
"dazed",
"dazzled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"he's been burned before, so he's careful to double-check such claims now"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozled",
"beguiled",
"bluffed",
"buffaloed",
"caught",
"conned",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"faked out",
"fooled",
"gaffed",
"gammoned",
"gulled",
"had",
"had on",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"hornswoggled",
"humbugged",
"juggled",
"misguided",
"misinformed",
"misled",
"snookered",
"snowed",
"spoofed",
"strung along",
"sucked in",
"suckered",
"took in",
"tricked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kidded",
"put on",
"teased",
"bled",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"defrauded",
"diddled",
"euchred",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"rooked",
"shortchanged",
"skinned",
"squeezed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"swindled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunked",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed up",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"told",
"unveiled",
"disabused",
"disenchanted",
"disillusioned"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceived"
]
},
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"heedlessly burning the country's resources without any concern for future generations"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbed",
"consumed",
"depleted",
"devoured",
"drained",
"drew down",
"exhausted",
"expended",
"played out",
"spent",
"used up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abated",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"reduced",
"ate",
"used",
"bankrupted",
"cleaned (out)",
"impoverished",
"crippled",
"debilitated",
"disabled",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"undermined",
"weakened",
"dried up",
"emptied",
"blew",
"dissipated",
"frittered (away)",
"guzzled",
"lavished",
"misspent",
"ran through",
"squandered",
"threw away",
"wasted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augmented",
"enlarged",
"increased",
"bolstered",
"enforced",
"fortified",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"strengthened",
"rebuilt",
"repaired",
"restored",
"revived",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"saved"
],
"antonyms":[
"renewed",
"replaced"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"burned-out":{
"depleted in strength, energy, or freshness":{
"examples":[
"I'm feeling so burned-out that I can't wait for vacation"
],
"synonyms":[
"all in",
"aweary",
"beat",
"beaten",
"bleary",
"bushed",
"dead",
"done",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"fatigued",
"jaded",
"knackered",
"limp",
"logy",
"loggy",
"played out",
"pooped",
"prostrate",
"spent",
"tapped out",
"tired",
"tuckered (out)",
"washed-out",
"wearied",
"weary",
"wiped out",
"worn",
"worn-out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overfatigued",
"overtaxed",
"overworked",
"broken-down",
"run-down",
"debilitated",
"enervate",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"weakened",
"drowsy",
"heavy",
"sleepy",
"lethargic",
"sluggish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fresh",
"refreshed",
"rejuvenated",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"revitalized",
"active",
"energetic",
"invigorated",
"peppy",
"strengthened",
"strong",
"tireless",
"vitalized",
"weariless"
],
"antonyms":[
"unwearied"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"working 12-hour days at that job just burned me out"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"busted",
"bust",
"did in",
"did up",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"fagged",
"fatigued",
"frazzled",
"harassed",
"killed",
"knocked out",
"outwore",
"tired",
"tuckered (out)",
"washed out",
"wearied",
"wore",
"wore out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitated",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"wasted",
"weakened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activated",
"energized",
"invigorated",
"rejuvenated",
"strengthened",
"vitalized",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"unwound"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"burnishes":{
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"burnished the floor of the ballroom to a soft luster"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffs",
"dresses",
"furbishes",
"glosses",
"grinds",
"polishes",
"rubs",
"shines",
"smoothens",
"smooths",
"smoothes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleeks",
"slicks",
"coats",
"glazes",
"japans",
"lacquers",
"varnishes",
"faces",
"finishes",
"veneers",
"brightens",
"files",
"rasps",
"sandblasts",
"sandpapers",
"sands",
"scours",
"scrapes",
"scrubs",
"bobs",
"bones",
"laps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"roughens",
"roughs (up)",
"ruffles",
"scuffs (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burns out":{
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"working 12-hour days at that job just burned me out"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"busts",
"does in",
"does up",
"drains",
"exhausts",
"fags",
"fatigues",
"frazzles",
"harasses",
"kills",
"knocks out",
"outwears",
"tires",
"tuckers (out)",
"washes out",
"wearies",
"wears",
"wears out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitates",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"wastes",
"weakens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activates",
"energizes",
"invigorates",
"rejuvenates",
"strengthens",
"vitalizes",
"relaxes",
"rests",
"unwinds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burr":{
"a monotonous sound like that of an insect in motion":{
"examples":[
"heard the burr of a distant engine"
],
"synonyms":[
"buzz",
"chirr",
"churr",
"drone",
"hum",
"purr",
"thrum",
"whir",
"whirr",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"babble",
"coo",
"gasp",
"gurgle",
"hiss",
"moan",
"murmur",
"rustle",
"sigh",
"suspiration",
"susurration",
"susurrus",
"whisper",
"whish",
"zing",
"zip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bawl",
"howl",
"roar",
"scream",
"screech",
"shriek",
"squall",
"squeal",
"yelp",
"yell"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound":{
"examples":[
"the pitch burred past the batter's ear"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumble",
"buzz",
"drone",
"hum",
"whir",
"whirr",
"whish",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chirr",
"churr",
"thrum",
"fizz",
"hiss",
"murmur",
"purr",
"rustle",
"sigh",
"sizzle",
"swish",
"whisper",
"coo",
"curr",
"wheeze",
"whistle",
"whoosh"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"burros":{
"a sturdy and patient domestic mammal that is used especially to carry things":{
"examples":[
"used a burro to carry the supplies"
],
"synonyms":[
"asses",
"donkeys",
"jackasses",
"mokes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jacks",
"jennets",
"jennies",
"hinnies",
"mules",
"pack animals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burst (forth)":{
"to develop suddenly and violently":{
"examples":[
"hives burst forth on the child's arms and face whenever she goes near that plant"
],
"synonyms":[
"blaze (up)",
"break out",
"erupt",
"explode",
"flame",
"flare (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocket",
"skyrocket",
"balloon",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"mount",
"multiply",
"mushroom",
"proliferate",
"snowball",
"swell",
"wax",
"blow up",
"detonate",
"touch off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bursted":{
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
"examples":[
"the turnover's crust burst when the filling expanded"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"blow up",
"crump",
"detonate",
"explode",
"go off",
"pop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fragment",
"shatter",
"smash",
"splinter",
"discharge",
"fire",
"shoot",
"balloon",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"mushroom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"fizzle"
],
"antonyms":[
"implode"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"examples":[
"finally burst the pi\u00f1ata open with one mighty swing of the bat"
],
"synonyms":[
"blast",
"blow",
"blow up",
"demolish",
"explode",
"pop",
"shatter",
"smash"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dynamite",
"annihilate",
"decimate",
"destroy",
"ruin",
"wreck",
"detonate",
"discharge",
"fragment",
"splinter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"implode"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"a young singer/dancer who seems to be bursting with energy and talent"
],
"synonyms":[
"abound",
"brim",
"bristle",
"bulge",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"crawl",
"hum",
"overflow",
"pullulate",
"swarm",
"teem"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lack",
"need",
"want"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sudden and usually temporary growth of activity":{
"examples":[
"a sudden burst of industriousness whenever the boss appeared"
],
"synonyms":[
"flare",
"flare-up",
"flash",
"flicker",
"flurry",
"flutter",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"spurt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recrudescence",
"recurrence",
"renewal",
"binge",
"jag",
"spree",
"boost",
"increase",
"pickup",
"upswing",
"upturn",
"epidemic",
"eruption",
"explosion",
"paroxysm",
"deluge",
"flood",
"rush",
"spate",
"surge",
"volley",
"commotion",
"furor",
"uproar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"doldrums",
"slump"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sudden intense expression of strong feeling":{
"examples":[
"a burst of anger that startled the other members on the panel"
],
"synonyms":[
"agony",
"blaze",
"ebullition",
"eruption",
"explosion",
"fit",
"flare",
"flare-up",
"flash",
"flush",
"gale",
"gush",
"gust",
"outburst",
"paroxysm",
"spasm",
"storm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowup",
"grouch",
"rage",
"tantrum",
"ecstasy",
"rapture",
"transport",
"delirium",
"firestorm",
"frenzy",
"furor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or an instance of exploding":{
"examples":[
"one burst after another could be heard in the distance"
],
"synonyms":[
"blast",
"blowup",
"bursting",
"detonation",
"eruption",
"explosion",
"outburst"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discharge",
"firing",
"shooting",
"blowout",
"flare-up",
"bang",
"boom",
"pop",
"airburst",
"groundburst"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to develop suddenly and violently":{
"examples":[
"hives burst forth on the child's arms and face whenever she goes near that plant"
],
"synonyms":[
"blaze (up)",
"break out",
"erupt",
"explode",
"flame",
"flare (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocket",
"skyrocket",
"balloon",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"mount",
"multiply",
"mushroom",
"proliferate",
"snowball",
"swell",
"wax",
"blow up",
"detonate",
"touch off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bursts (in or into)":{
"as in barges (in) , breezes (in)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bury":{
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"if we don't work harder, the other softball team will bury us"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"sweep",
"upset",
"beat",
"best",
"conquer",
"dispatch",
"hurdle",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"take",
"throw",
"triumph (over)",
"win (against)",
"worst",
"crush",
"knock off",
"knock over",
"overpower",
"overthrow",
"overwhelm",
"subjugate",
"upend",
"vanquish",
"ace (out)",
"better",
"eclipse",
"exceed",
"outdistance",
"outdo",
"outfight",
"outshine",
"outstrip",
"overtop",
"surpass",
"top",
"transcend",
"edge (out)",
"nose out",
"pip",
"cap",
"excel",
"flourish",
"score",
"succeed",
"break",
"destroy",
"do in",
"finish",
"sink",
"slaughter"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilate",
"blow away",
"bomb",
"clobber",
"cream",
"drub",
"dust",
"flatten",
"paste",
"rout",
"shellac",
"skin",
"skunk",
"smoke",
"smother",
"snow under",
"thrash",
"trim",
"tromp",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"wax",
"whip",
"whomp",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup"
]
},
"to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea":{
"antonyms":[
"disinter",
"exhume",
"unearth"
],
"examples":[
"he died on Tuesday and was buried on Friday"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burn",
"cremate",
"bare",
"disclose",
"discover",
"display",
"exhibit",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show",
"uncoffin"
],
"related":[
"immure",
"inurn",
"enshrine",
"conceal",
"cover",
"ensconce",
"hide",
"obscure",
"shade",
"shield",
"cloak",
"curtain",
"enshroud",
"shroud",
"rebury",
"reinter",
"coffin"
],
"synonyms":[
"entomb",
"hearse",
"inhume",
"inter",
"lay",
"put away",
"tomb"
]
},
"to put into a hiding place":{
"antonyms":[
"display",
"exhibit"
],
"examples":[
"buried his face in his hands as his wife recounted the embarrassing incident"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bare",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"unveil",
"unwrap",
"flaunt",
"parade",
"show off",
"disinter",
"unearth"
],
"related":[
"hoard",
"squirrel (away)",
"stash",
"entomb",
"inter"
],
"synonyms":[
"cache",
"conceal",
"ensconce",
"hide",
"secrete"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burying":{
"the act or ceremony of putting a dead body in its final resting place":{
"examples":[
"all the grandchildren attended the burying of their grandfather in his homeland"
],
"synonyms":[
"burial",
"entombing",
"entombment",
"inhumation",
"interment",
"interring",
"obsequy",
"obsequies",
"sepulture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embalmment",
"funeral",
"immurement",
"inurnment",
"reburial",
"reinterment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cremation"
],
"antonyms":[
"disinterment",
"exhumation",
"unearthing"
]
},
"to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea":{
"examples":[
"he died on Tuesday and was buried on Friday"
],
"synonyms":[
"entombing",
"hearsing",
"inhuming",
"interring",
"laying",
"putting away",
"tombing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immuring",
"inurning",
"enshrining",
"concealing",
"covering",
"ensconcing",
"hiding",
"obscuring",
"shading",
"shielding",
"cloaking",
"curtaining",
"enshrouding",
"shrouding",
"reburying",
"reinterring",
"coffining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burning",
"cremating",
"baring",
"disclosing",
"discovering",
"displaying",
"exhibiting",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing",
"uncoffining"
],
"antonyms":[
"disinterring",
"exhuming",
"unearthing"
]
},
"to put into a hiding place":{
"examples":[
"buried his face in his hands as his wife recounted the embarrassing incident"
],
"synonyms":[
"caching",
"concealing",
"ensconcing",
"hiding",
"secreting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoarding",
"squirreling (away)",
"squirrelling (away)",
"stashing",
"entombing",
"interring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"baring",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"unveiling",
"unwrapping",
"flaunting",
"parading",
"showing off",
"disinterring",
"unearthing"
],
"antonyms":[
"displaying",
"exhibiting"
]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"if we don't work harder, the other softball team will bury us"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilating",
"blowing away",
"bombing",
"clobbering",
"creaming",
"drubbing",
"dusting",
"flattening",
"pasting",
"routing",
"shellacking",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"smoking",
"smothering",
"snowing under",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"tromping",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"waxing",
"whipping",
"whomping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweeping",
"upsetting",
"beating",
"besting",
"conquering",
"dispatching",
"hurdling",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"taking",
"throwing",
"triumphing (over)",
"winning (against)",
"worsting",
"crushing",
"knocking off",
"knocking over",
"overpowering",
"overthrowing",
"overwhelming",
"subjugating",
"upending",
"vanquishing",
"acing (out)",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outfighting",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"transcending",
"edging (out)",
"nosing out",
"pipping",
"capping",
"excelling",
"flourishing",
"scoring",
"succeeding",
"breaking",
"destroying",
"doing in",
"finishing",
"sinking",
"slaughtering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bus":{
"a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels":{
"examples":[
"this old bus is still running\u2014but barely"
],
"synonyms":[
"auto",
"automobile",
"car",
"horseless carriage",
"machine",
"motor",
"motor vehicle",
"motorcar",
"wheels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coach",
"jitney",
"microbus",
"minibus",
"minivan",
"omnibus",
"van",
"convertible",
"fastback",
"hardtop",
"hatchback",
"notchback",
"ragtop",
"sports car",
"sport-utility vehicle",
"station wagon",
"SUV",
"town car",
"wagon",
"woody",
"woodie",
"compact",
"coupe",
"coup\u00e9",
"intermediate",
"limousine",
"mini",
"minicar",
"sedan",
"subcompact",
"V-8",
"gas-guzzler",
"land yacht",
"muscle car",
"stock car",
"turbocar",
"beater",
"clunker",
"crate",
"flivver",
"jalopy",
"junker",
"cream puff",
"phaeton",
"roadster",
"tin lizzie",
"touring car",
"hybrid"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in drive , ride":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cab",
"coach",
"cruise",
"drive",
"fly",
"gig",
"jet",
"motor",
"navigate",
"ride",
"roll",
"sail",
"trundle",
"migrate",
"road-trip",
"barnstorm",
"gallivant",
"galavant",
"hop",
"jaunt",
"knock (about)",
"perambulate",
"ramble",
"roam",
"rove",
"traipse",
"wander",
"journey",
"peregrinate",
"pilgrimage",
"tour",
"travel",
"trek",
"trip",
"voyage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bushel":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"picked up a bushel of decorations at the after-Christmas sale"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bunch",
"bundle",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"shipload",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemic",
"plague",
"rash",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"deluge",
"flood",
"overflow",
"army",
"bevy",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"score",
"sea",
"swarm",
"throng",
"gazillion",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillion",
"zillion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atom",
"crumb",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"fragment",
"grain",
"granule",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dash",
"drop",
"morsel",
"shot",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"absence",
"dearth",
"famine",
"lack",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"meagerness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"skimpiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"busily":{
"in a manner involving great or constant activity":{
"antonyms":[
"idly",
"inactively"
],
"examples":[
"the deadline is in two days, so everyone in the department has been working busily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lifelessly",
"sleepily"
],
"related":[
"energetically",
"vigorously",
"indefatigably",
"tirelessly"
],
"synonyms":[
"actively",
"assiduously",
"diligently",
"industriously",
"laboriously"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"businesses":{
"a commercial or industrial activity or organization":{
"examples":[
"most of the local businesses belong to the association"
],
"synonyms":[
"companies",
"concerns",
"enterprises",
"establishments",
"firms",
"houses",
"interests",
"outfits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conglomerates",
"corporations",
"multinationals",
"associations",
"cartels",
"chains",
"combines",
"syndicates",
"trusts",
"agencies",
"dealers",
"outlets",
"microenterprises"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something to be dealt with":{
"examples":[
"we have one piece of business remaining for today's meeting"
],
"synonyms":[
"affairs",
"matters",
"things"
],
"near synonyms":[
"considerations",
"issues",
"problems",
"crises",
"crossroads",
"crunches",
"emergencies",
"exigencies",
"flash points",
"heads",
"junctures",
"straits",
"zero hours",
"concerns",
"troubles",
"worries",
"care",
"lookouts",
"responsibilities",
"deadlocks",
"halts",
"impasses",
"stalemates",
"standstills",
"corners",
"fixes",
"holes",
"hot waters",
"jams",
"pickles",
"pinches",
"predicaments",
"scrapes",
"spots"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists":{
"examples":[
"plants going about the business of photosynthesis provide the Earth with a renewable source of oxygen"
],
"synonyms":[
"capacities",
"functions",
"jobs",
"parts",
"places",
"positions",
"purposes",
"roles",
"r\u00f4les",
"tasks",
"works"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affairs",
"concerns",
"hands",
"involvements",
"participations",
"niches",
"offices",
"posts",
"situations",
"callings",
"occupations",
"pursuits",
"vocations",
"activities",
"assignments",
"charges",
"commissions",
"duties",
"employs",
"missions",
"responsibilities",
"services",
"uses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a region of activity, knowledge, or influence":{
"examples":[
"if you want a medical malpractice lawyer, he's the best in the business"
],
"synonyms":[
"areas",
"arenas",
"bailiwicks",
"baronies",
"circles",
"demesnes",
"departments",
"disciplines",
"domains",
"elements",
"fiefdoms",
"fiefs",
"fields",
"firmaments",
"fronts",
"games",
"kingdoms",
"lines",
"precincts",
"provinces",
"realms",
"specialties",
"spheres",
"terrains",
"walks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frontiers",
"studies",
"subjects",
"territories",
"turfs",
"turves",
"occupations",
"professions",
"pursuits",
"rackets",
"vocations",
"ambits",
"amplitudes",
"breadths",
"compasses",
"confines",
"dimensions",
"extents",
"kens",
"reaches",
"scopes",
"sweeps",
"widths",
"subfields",
"subspecialties",
"sub-specialties"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a specific task with which a person or group is charged":{
"examples":[
"the interrogators demanded to know what business the suspect had in the restricted area at that time of night"
],
"synonyms":[
"assignments",
"briefs",
"charges",
"details",
"jobs",
"missions",
"operations",
"posts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burdens",
"chores",
"duties",
"needs",
"obligations",
"offices",
"requirements",
"responsibilities",
"errands",
"labors",
"works",
"commitments",
"pledges",
"promises",
"appointments",
"commissions",
"designations",
"nominations",
"compulsions",
"constraints",
"restraints"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another":{
"examples":[
"the price for giving the drug lord the business was certain death"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabbings",
"betrayals",
"disloyalties",
"double crosses",
"falsities",
"infidelities",
"perfidies",
"sellouts",
"treacheries",
"treasons"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandonments",
"desertions",
"deceits",
"deceptions",
"double-dealings",
"duplicities",
"guiles",
"frauds",
"talebearings",
"trickeries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependabilities",
"reliabilities",
"defenses",
"protections",
"safeguards",
"shields"
],
"antonyms":[
"allegiances",
"devotions",
"fealties",
"fidelities",
"loyalties"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"busses":{
"as in smacks , osculates":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"butcher":{
"someone who bungles an effort":{
"examples":[
"the newest intern on the campaign is a butcher when it comes to writing press releases"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunderbuss",
"blunderer",
"botcher",
"bumbler",
"bungler",
"fumbler",
"screwup"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incompetent",
"muddler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ace",
"adept",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"expert",
"maestro",
"master",
"virtuoso",
"wizard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to kill on a large scale":{
"examples":[
"the barbarians butchered the monks in the monasteries without mercy"
],
"synonyms":[
"massacre",
"mow (down)",
"slaughter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assassinate",
"croak",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"execute",
"fell",
"murder",
"slay",
"smite",
"snuff",
"annihilate",
"blot out",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"eradicate",
"exterminate",
"waste",
"wipe out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"the new piano student butchered the sonatina"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"bobble",
"boggle",
"bollix (up)",
"boot",
"botch",
"bugger (up)",
"bumble",
"bungle",
"dub",
"flub",
"fluff",
"foozle",
"foul up",
"fumble",
"goof (up)",
"louse up",
"mangle",
"mess (up)",
"muck up",
"muff",
"murder",
"screw up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blunder",
"gum (up)",
"muddle",
"piffle",
"blemish",
"blight",
"damage",
"flaw",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"mar",
"mutilate",
"ruin",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"destroy",
"wreck",
"mishandle",
"mismanage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorate",
"better",
"enhance",
"help",
"improve",
"meliorate",
"rectify",
"refine",
"reform",
"remedy",
"doctor",
"fix",
"patch",
"recondition",
"renovate",
"repair",
"revamp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"butt":{
"the part of the body upon which someone sits":{
"examples":[
"park your butts in the seats and keep quiet, or I'm turning this car around"
],
"synonyms":[
"backside",
"behind",
"booty",
"bootie",
"bottom",
"breech",
"bum",
"buns",
"buttocks",
"caboose",
"can",
"cheeks",
"derriere",
"derri\u00e8re",
"duff",
"fanny",
"fundament",
"hams",
"haunches",
"heinie",
"hunkers",
"keister",
"keester",
"nates",
"posterior",
"rear",
"rear end",
"rump",
"seat",
"tail",
"tail end",
"tush"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beam",
"stern",
"moon"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person or thing that is made fun of":{
"examples":[
"the social outcast got tired of being the butt of everyone's jokes"
],
"synonyms":[
"derision",
"jest",
"joke",
"laughingstock",
"mark",
"mock",
"mockery",
"sport",
"target"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chump",
"dupe",
"fall guy",
"fool",
"gull",
"monkey",
"pigeon",
"sap",
"sucker",
"victim"
],
"near antonyms":[
"darling",
"favorite",
"pet"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person or thing that is the object of abuse, criticism, or ridicule":{
"examples":[
"usually the U.S. Congress is the butt of the radio commentator's scathing wit"
],
"synonyms":[
"mark",
"prey",
"sitting duck",
"target",
"victim"
],
"near synonyms":[
"laughingstock",
"mockery",
"pilgarlic",
"lightning rod",
"fall guy",
"goat",
"scapegoat",
"whipping boy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"talebearer",
"tattler",
"tattletale",
"troublemaker",
"defamer",
"libeler",
"libelist",
"traducer",
"baiter",
"heckler",
"needler",
"ribber",
"taunter",
"tease",
"teaser",
"tormentor",
"tormenter",
"torturer",
"derider",
"insulter",
"mocker",
"ridiculer",
"scoffer",
"scorner",
"caricaturist",
"lampooner",
"parodist",
"satirist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages":{
"examples":[
"a butt of hard cider that we had pressed ourselves"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"cask",
"firkin",
"hogshead",
"keg",
"kilderkin",
"pipe",
"puncheon",
"rundlet",
"runlet",
"tun"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scuttlebutt",
"cistern",
"tub",
"vat",
"can",
"drum"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in push , kick":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bump",
"jab",
"jostle",
"kick",
"knee",
"poke",
"prod",
"push",
"shove",
"stamp",
"bunt",
"flick",
"stroke",
"tap",
"bowl (down or over)",
"cream",
"deck",
"dump",
"fell",
"floor",
"knock down",
"level",
"scuff",
"rabbit-punch",
"sucker punch",
"batter",
"beat",
"buffet",
"bung",
"chop",
"cuff",
"drub",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lick",
"mangle",
"maul",
"pelt",
"pepper",
"pommel",
"pummel",
"rough",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"flail",
"flog",
"lash",
"sap",
"slash",
"sledge",
"sledgehammer",
"spear",
"stab",
"switch",
"thrash",
"whip",
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"belt",
"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",
"bean",
"brain",
"conk",
"skull"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"butte":{
"a type of hill with a flat top and steep sides that is found in the southwestern U.S.":{
"examples":[
"The otherworldly sandstone buttes of Monument Valley, Arizona are well worth a visit."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mesa",
"plateau",
"table",
"tableland",
"altitude(s)",
"elevation",
"eminence",
"height",
"highland",
"hump",
"mound",
"prominence",
"rise",
"upland",
"alp",
"mount",
"mountain",
"peak",
"bluff",
"cliff",
"crag",
"precipice",
"steep",
"tor",
"ridge",
"sierra",
"dome",
"sugarloaf",
"foothill",
"hillock",
"hummock",
"knob",
"knoll",
"downs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dale",
"dell",
"depression",
"dingle",
"glen",
"hollow",
"vale",
"valley",
"canyon",
"gorge",
"ravine",
"basin",
"bottom",
"bottomland",
"fen",
"flat",
"floodplain",
"plain",
"tidewater",
"lowland"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"butted":{
"as in pushed , kicked":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bumped",
"jabbed",
"jostled",
"kicked",
"kneed",
"poked",
"prodded",
"pushed",
"shoved",
"stamped",
"bunted",
"flicked",
"stroked",
"tapped",
"bowled (down or over)",
"creamed",
"decked",
"dumped",
"felled",
"floored",
"knocked down",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"scuffed",
"rabbit-punched",
"sucker punched",
"battered",
"beat",
"buffeted",
"bunged",
"chopped",
"cuffed",
"drubbed",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"licked",
"mangled",
"mauled",
"pelted",
"peppered",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"roughed",
"caned",
"clubbed",
"cudgeled",
"cudgelled",
"flailed",
"flogged",
"lashed",
"sapped",
"slashed",
"sledged",
"sledgehammered",
"speared",
"stabbed",
"switched",
"thrashed",
"whipped",
"banged",
"bashed",
"batted",
"belted",
"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",
"beaned",
"brained",
"conked",
"skulled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"butterfingered":{
"lacking or showing a lack of nimbleness in using one's hands":{
"antonyms":[
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"handy",
"sure-handed"
],
"examples":[
"I'm so butterfingered this morning\u2014I keep dropping things"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expert",
"masterly",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"coordinated"
],
"related":[
"uncoordinated",
"bunglesome",
"bungling",
"gauche",
"inept",
"inexpert",
"unskilled",
"unskillful"
],
"synonyms":[
"awkward",
"cack-handed",
"clumsy",
"graceless",
"ham-fisted",
"ham-handed",
"handless",
"heavy-handed",
"left-handed",
"maladroit",
"unhandy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"butting heads":{
"to express different opinions about something often angrily":{
"examples":[
"Our boss tries not to schedule Rosie and Mark for the same shifts, since the two often butt heads ."
],
"synonyms":[
"altercating",
"argufying",
"arguing",
"bickering",
"brabbling",
"brawling",
"controverting",
"disputing",
"falling out",
"fighting",
"hassling",
"jarring",
"quarreling",
"quarrelling",
"quibbling",
"rowing",
"scrapping",
"spatting",
"squabbling",
"tiffing",
"wrangling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenging",
"daring",
"defying",
"clashing",
"contending",
"contesting",
"tangling",
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"fussing",
"nitpicking",
"considering",
"debating",
"discussing",
"kicking",
"objecting",
"protesting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coexisting",
"getting along",
"accepting",
"agreeing",
"assenting",
"concurring",
"consenting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"buttoned-down":{
"tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions":{
"antonyms":[
"broad-minded",
"large-minded",
"liberal",
"nonconservative",
"nonconventional",
"nonorthodox",
"nontraditional",
"open-minded",
"progressive",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox"
],
"examples":[
"a button-down architectural firm would never have the imagination to produce such a cutting-edge design"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anticonventional",
"antiestablishment",
"antitraditional",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"nonconformist",
"advanced",
"contemporary",
"modern",
"lefty",
"radical",
"ultraleft",
"ultraleftist",
"ultraprogressive",
"ultraradical"
],
"related":[
"conventional",
"square",
"devoted",
"faithful",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"true-blue",
"blimpish",
"neoconservative",
"Tory",
"ultraright",
"ultrarightist",
"dowdy",
"fogyish",
"fogeyish",
"fuddy-duddy",
"ossified",
"set",
"stodgy",
"right",
"right-wing",
"antiliberal",
"antimodern",
"antiprogressive",
"antireform",
"antirevolutionary"
],
"synonyms":[
"archconservative",
"brassbound",
"conservative",
"die-hard",
"hidebound",
"mossbacked",
"old-fashioned",
"old-line",
"old-school",
"orthodox",
"paleoconservative",
"reactionary",
"standpat",
"traditional",
"traditionalistic",
"ultraconservative",
"unprogressive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"buy":{
"something bought or offered for sale at a desirable price":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"four cartons of ice cream for four dollars is a real buy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gouging",
"overcharge",
"rip-off",
"soaking",
"markup",
"surcharge",
"extravagance",
"luxury"
],
"related":[
"clearance",
"closeout",
"markdown",
"cheapie",
"bonus",
"freebie",
"freebee",
"gift",
"giveaway",
"premium",
"present",
"boon",
"windfall"
],
"synonyms":[
"bargain",
"deal",
"pennyworth",
"snip",
"steal"
]
},
"to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I really want to buy that new book, but I don't have enough money right now"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deal (in)",
"market",
"merchandise",
"merchandize",
"retail",
"sell",
"vend"
],
"related":[
"acquire",
"gain",
"garner",
"get",
"obtain",
"procure",
"secure",
"win",
"finance",
"pay (for)",
"spring (for)",
"barter (for)",
"deal (for)",
"dicker (over)",
"exchange (for)",
"haggle (for)",
"negotiate (about)",
"trade (for)",
"bargain (with)",
"chaffer (with)",
"horse-trade (with)",
"palter (with)",
"bid",
"offer",
"rebuy",
"repurchase"
],
"synonyms":[
"cop",
"pick up",
"purchase",
"take"
]
},
"to influence someone with a bribe":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"there were rumors that the mobster had bought the judge"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"fix",
"tamper (with)",
"abase",
"debase",
"debauch",
"defile",
"degrade",
"demean",
"deprave",
"dishonor",
"pervert",
"poison",
"profane",
"prostitute",
"subvert",
"taint",
"warp",
"allure",
"bait",
"beguile",
"entice",
"lead on",
"lure",
"seduce",
"tempt",
"motivate",
"provoke",
"spur",
"stimulate",
"goad",
"induce",
"flatter",
"persuade",
"snare",
"trap"
],
"synonyms":[
"bribe",
"corrupt",
"have",
"pay off",
"square"
]
},
"to regard as right or true":{
"antonyms":[
"disbelieve",
"discredit",
"reject"
],
"examples":[
"if you buy that story, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrust",
"doubt",
"misdoubt",
"mistrust",
"question",
"suspect",
"challenge",
"dispute"
],
"related":[
"account",
"accredit",
"understand",
"assume",
"presume",
"suppose",
"conclude",
"deduce",
"infer"
],
"synonyms":[
"accept",
"believe",
"credit",
"swallow",
"take",
"trust"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"buying":{
"to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for":{
"examples":[
"I really want to buy that new book, but I don't have enough money right now"
],
"synonyms":[
"copping",
"picking up",
"purchasing",
"taking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiring",
"gaining",
"garnering",
"getting",
"obtaining",
"procuring",
"securing",
"winning",
"financing",
"paying (for)",
"springing (for)",
"bartering (for)",
"dealing (for)",
"dickering (over)",
"exchanging (for)",
"haggling (for)",
"negotiating (about)",
"trading (for)",
"bargaining (with)",
"chaffering (with)",
"horse-trading (with)",
"paltering (with)",
"bidding",
"offering",
"rebuying",
"repurchasing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dealing (in)",
"marketing",
"merchandising",
"merchandizing",
"retailing",
"selling",
"vending"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to influence someone with a bribe":{
"examples":[
"there were rumors that the mobster had bought the judge"
],
"synonyms":[
"bribing",
"corrupting",
"having",
"paying off",
"squaring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fixing",
"tampering (with)",
"abasing",
"debasing",
"debauching",
"defiling",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"depraving",
"dishonoring",
"perverting",
"poisoning",
"profaning",
"prostituting",
"subverting",
"tainting",
"warping",
"alluring",
"baiting",
"beguiling",
"enticing",
"leading on",
"luring",
"seducing",
"tempting",
"motivating",
"provoking",
"spurring",
"stimulating",
"goading",
"inducing",
"flattering",
"persuading",
"snaring",
"trapping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to regard as right or true":{
"examples":[
"if you buy that story, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in"
],
"synonyms":[
"accepting",
"believing",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buying it":{
"to stop living":{
"antonyms":[
"breathing",
"living"
],
"examples":[
"After years of ignoring his health problems, the old man finally bought it ."
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming to",
"reviving",
"lingering",
"being",
"existing",
"subsisting",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"related":[
"predeceasing",
"consuming",
"disappearing",
"drying up",
"fading",
"failing"
],
"synonyms":[
"checking out",
"conking (out)",
"croaking",
"deceasing",
"demising",
"departing",
"dropping",
"dying",
"ending",
"exiting",
"expiring",
"falling",
"flatlining",
"going",
"kicking in",
"kicking off",
"parting",
"passing away",
"passing (on)",
"pegging out",
"perishing",
"popping off",
"stepping out",
"succumbing"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"buzzards":{
"a person who habitually preys upon others":{
"antonyms":[
"prey",
"preys"
],
"examples":[
"the real estate buzzards were really putting pressure on the one homeowner who was still refusing to sell"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"exploiters",
"users",
"leeches",
"spongers",
"sponges",
"destroyers",
"devourers"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloodsuckers",
"harpies",
"kites",
"predators",
"sharks",
"vampires",
"vultures",
"wolves"
]
},
"a person whose behavior is offensive to others":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that crotchety old man can be a real buzzard when he's in a bad mood\u2014which is usually the case"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heroes",
"heroines",
"idols",
"role models",
"gentlemen",
"ladies",
"angels",
"saints"
],
"related":[
"barbarians",
"brutes",
"cavemen",
"Neanderthals",
"savages",
"loudmouths",
"vulgarians",
"lowlifes",
"lowlives",
"miscreants",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"roughnecks",
"scabs",
"scamps",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"wretches",
"boobies",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"fools",
"jackasses",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"nuts",
"schmoes",
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"dinks",
"dolts",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"idiots",
"imbeciles",
"morons",
"turkeys",
"brats",
"insolents",
"nuisances",
"pests",
"snips",
"snobs",
"snoots",
"snots",
"dweebs",
"nerds"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastards",
"beasts",
"bleeders",
"blighters",
"boors",
"bounders",
"buggers",
"cads",
"chuffs",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"cretins",
"cruds",
"crumbs",
"curs",
"dirtbags",
"dogs",
"finks",
"heels",
"hounds",
"jerks",
"jokers",
"louses",
"louts",
"pills",
"rat finks",
"rats",
"reptiles",
"rotters",
"schmucks",
"scumbags",
"scums",
"scuzzballs",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"sleazebags",
"sleazeballs",
"sleazes",
"slimeballs",
"slimes",
"slobs",
"snakes",
"so-and-sos",
"so-and-so's",
"sods",
"stinkards",
"stinkers",
"swine",
"toads",
"varmints",
"vermin"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burlesques":{
"a work that imitates and exaggerates another work for comic effect":{
"examples":[
"it is interesting to note that the first novel ever written in English was followed by a burlesque of it"
],
"synonyms":[
"caricatures",
"parodies",
"put-ons",
"ribs",
"send-ups",
"spoofs",
"takeoffs",
"travesties"
],
"related":[
"lampoons",
"mockeries",
"satires",
"comedies",
"farces",
"humors",
"sketches",
"slapsticks",
"squibs",
"distortions",
"exaggerations",
"imitations",
"impersonations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of":{
"examples":[
"burlesquing the teacher's nervous tic isn't very nice"
],
"synonyms":[
"caricatures",
"does",
"imitates",
"mimics",
"mocks",
"parodies",
"sends up",
"spoofs",
"travesties"
],
"related":[
"lampoons",
"pasquinades",
"satirizes",
"derides",
"gibes",
"jibes",
"ridicules",
"apes",
"copycats",
"monkeys",
"parrots",
"duplicates",
"emulates",
"replicates",
"reproduces",
"acts",
"counterfeits",
"dissembles",
"fakes",
"feigns",
"pretends",
"shams",
"simulates",
"elaborates",
"embellishes",
"embroiders",
"exaggerates",
"magnifies",
"pads",
"plays up",
"stretches",
"amplifies",
"enhances",
"enlarges (on or upon)",
"expands",
"fleshes (out)",
"overdraws",
"overstates",
"puts on",
"mimes",
"pantomimes",
"impersonates",
"performs",
"personates",
"plays"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"buckle (down)":{
"as in pitch in , dig in":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"apply (oneself)",
"dig in",
"hammer (away)",
"knuckle down",
"pitch in",
"bang away",
"beaver (away)",
"dig (away)",
"drudge",
"endeavor",
"fag",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"tug",
"work",
"attack",
"drive",
"essay",
"try",
"exercise",
"exert",
"overexert",
"overwork",
"eke out",
"grind (out)",
"put out",
"scrabble",
"scratch",
"trudge",
"wade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break",
"ease (up)",
"let up",
"slacken",
"bum",
"chill",
"dally",
"dillydally",
"footle",
"goldbrick",
"goof (off)",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"laze",
"loaf",
"lounge",
"shirk",
"slack (off)",
"veg out",
"bask",
"loll",
"relax",
"repose",
"rest",
"unwind",
"dabble",
"doodle",
"fool around",
"fribble",
"goof (around)",
"hang",
"hang about",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"busied":{
"to hold the attention of":{
"examples":[
"the video game busied the child for hours"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbed",
"bemused",
"caught up",
"engaged",
"engrossed",
"enthralled",
"enwrapped",
"fascinated",
"gripped",
"immersed",
"interested",
"intrigued",
"involved",
"occupied"
],
"related":[
"allured",
"attracted",
"beguiled",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"enchanted",
"obsessed",
"hypnotized",
"mesmerized",
"distracted",
"preoccupied",
"hogged",
"monopolized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bored",
"jaded",
"palled",
"tired",
"wearied"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bumps into":{
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"I bumped into Kenny the other day."
],
"synonyms":[
"catches",
"chances (upon)",
"encounters",
"happens (upon)",
"meets",
"stumbles (upon)"
],
"related":[
"accosts",
"confronts",
"faces",
"greets",
"salutes",
"collides (with)",
"crashes (into)",
"crisscrosses",
"crosses",
"passes",
"hits (upon)",
"lights (upon)",
"tumbles (to)",
"reencounters",
"remeets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoids",
"dodges",
"ducks",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"evades",
"shakes",
"shuns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"Turn any corner in the old city and you're likely to bump into a piece of history."
],
"synonyms":[
"chances (upon)",
"encounters",
"finds",
"happens (on or upon)",
"hits (upon)",
"lights (on or upon)",
"meets",
"pitches (upon)",
"stumbles (on or onto)",
"tumbles (upon)"
],
"related":[
"lucks (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronts",
"faces",
"discovers",
"strikes",
"turns up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"bushes":{
"falling short of a standard":{
"examples":[
"a hopelessly bush effort at creating a romantic comedy"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bastard",
"bush-league",
"crummy",
"crumby",
"deficient",
"dissatisfactory",
"ill",
"inferior",
"lame",
"lousy",
"off",
"paltry",
"poor",
"punk",
"sour",
"suboptimal",
"subpar",
"substandard",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"wack",
"wanting",
"wretched",
"wrong"
],
"related":[
"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",
"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"
]
},
"a rural region that forms the edge of the settled or developed part of a country":{
"examples":[
"a guide who specializes in taking adventurous tourists through the bush"
],
"synonyms":[
"backcountry",
"backland(s)",
"backwater",
"backwoods",
"frontier",
"hinterland",
"outback",
"outlands",
"up-country"
],
"related":[
"boonies",
"boondocks",
"country",
"countryside",
"sticks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"bursts (forth)":{
"to develop suddenly and violently":{
"examples":[
"hives burst forth on the child's arms and face whenever she goes near that plant"
],
"synonyms":[
"blazes (up)",
"breaks out",
"erupts",
"explodes",
"flames",
"flares (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rockets",
"skyrockets",
"balloons",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"mounts",
"multiplies",
"mushrooms",
"proliferates",
"snowballs",
"swells",
"waxes",
"blows up",
"detonates",
"touches off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bungled":{
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"bungled the job the first time she tried to do it"
],
"synonyms":[
"blew",
"bobbled",
"boggled",
"bollixed (up)",
"booted",
"botched",
"buggered (up)",
"bumbled",
"butchered",
"dubbed",
"flubbed",
"fluffed",
"foozled",
"fouled up",
"fumbled",
"goofed (up)",
"loused up",
"mangled",
"messed (up)",
"mucked up",
"muffed",
"murdered",
"screwed up"
],
"related":[
"blundered",
"gummed (up)",
"muddled",
"piffled",
"blemished",
"blighted",
"damaged",
"flawed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"marred",
"mutilated",
"ruined",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"vitiated",
"destroyed",
"wrecked",
"mishandled",
"mismanaged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"helped",
"improved",
"meliorated",
"rectified",
"refined",
"reformed",
"remedied",
"doctored",
"fixed",
"patched",
"reconditioned",
"renovated",
"repaired",
"revamped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burn (up)":{
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"seeing people violate smoking bans really burns me up"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"bug",
"chafe",
"eat",
"exasperate",
"frost",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"gripe",
"hack (off)",
"irk",
"irritate",
"itch",
"nark",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"persecute",
"pique",
"put out",
"rasp",
"rile",
"ruffle",
"spite",
"vex"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassle",
"heckle",
"nag",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"provoke",
"rouse",
"badger",
"bait",
"bullyrag",
"ballyrag",
"devil",
"hagride",
"harass",
"harry",
"pester",
"plague",
"tease",
"anger",
"antagonize",
"enrage",
"incense",
"infuriate",
"madden",
"rankle",
"roil",
"agitate",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"exercise",
"freak (out)",
"fret",
"perturb",
"undo",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry",
"affront",
"insult",
"miff",
"offend",
"outrage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"oblige",
"pacify",
"placate",
"propitiate",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"satisfy",
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"content",
"quiet",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bubbled":{
"to flow in a broken irregular stream":{
"examples":[
"the soapy water bubbled down the drain"
],
"synonyms":[
"dribbled",
"guggled",
"gurgled",
"lapped",
"plashed",
"rippled",
"splashed",
"trickled",
"washed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eddied",
"purled",
"swirled",
"swashed",
"swished",
"swooshed",
"whished",
"dripped",
"dropped",
"gushed",
"jetted",
"rushed",
"spewed",
"spouted",
"spurted",
"squirted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ran",
"run"
],
"antonyms":[
"poured",
"rolled",
"streamed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burglarize":{
"to enter a house or building by force usually with illegal intent":{
"examples":[
"the Watergate scandal began when Republican operatives burglarized the Democratic Party's headquarters in Washington, D.C."
],
"synonyms":[
"break in",
"burgle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"invade",
"trespass",
"hold up",
"loot",
"plunder",
"rip off",
"rob",
"stick up",
"ransack",
"rifle",
"despoil",
"devastate",
"maraud",
"pillage",
"ravage",
"sack"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"before they were caught, the thieves had burglarized dozens of houses around the city"
],
"synonyms":[
"burgle",
"knock off",
"knock over",
"rip off",
"rob",
"steal (from)",
"take off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ransack",
"rifle",
"despoil",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravish",
"sack",
"spoil",
"strip",
"bleed",
"break in",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"exploit",
"fleece",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"pluck",
"rook",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"sting",
"swindle",
"hold up",
"mug",
"roll",
"stick up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bugaboo":{
"something or someone that causes fear or dread especially without reason":{
"examples":[
"doing one's tax returns is a real bugaboo for a lot of people"
],
"synonyms":[
"b\u00eate noire",
"black beast",
"bogey",
"bogie",
"bogy",
"bugbear",
"dread",
"hobgoblin",
"ogre"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparition",
"ghost",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"phantom",
"poltergeist",
"shade",
"specter",
"spectre",
"spirit",
"spook",
"wraith",
"banshee",
"bogeyman",
"bogyman",
"demon",
"daemon",
"devil",
"fiend",
"ghoul",
"imp",
"incubus",
"fright",
"horrible",
"horror",
"monster",
"monstrosity",
"terror",
"bane",
"curse",
"enemy",
"plague",
"scourge",
"torment",
"abomination",
"anathema"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buckboard":{
"as in caroche , barouche":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barouche",
"brougham",
"buggy",
"cab",
"cabriolet",
"calash",
"cal\u00e8che",
"caleche",
"caroche",
"carryall",
"chaise",
"chariot",
"coach",
"coup\u00e9",
"coupe",
"curricle",
"diligence",
"dogcart",
"droshky",
"drosky",
"four-in-hand",
"gig",
"go-cart",
"hackney",
"hansom",
"hansom cab",
"jaunting car",
"landau",
"phaeton",
"post chaise",
"roadster",
"rockaway",
"stage",
"stagecoach",
"stanhope",
"surrey",
"tandem",
"tilbury",
"tonga",
"trap",
"troika",
"victoria",
"carriage",
"equipage",
"rig",
"turnout"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bugging":{
"the act of making unwelcome intrusions upon another":{
"examples":[
"this perpetual bugging while I'm working is driving me nuts!"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravation",
"annoyance",
"bedevilment",
"botheration",
"bothering",
"disturbance",
"harassment",
"harrying",
"importunity",
"pestering",
"teasing",
"vexation"
],
"related":[
"aggro",
"molestation",
"offense",
"offence",
"persecution",
"provocation",
"torment",
"torture",
"devilment",
"devilry",
"mischief"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"these incessant phone calls are really starting to bug me"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"burning (up)",
"chafing",
"eating",
"exasperating",
"frosting",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"griping",
"hacking (off)",
"irking",
"irritating",
"itching",
"narking",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"persecuting",
"piquing",
"putting out",
"rasping",
"riling",
"ruffling",
"spiting",
"vexing"
],
"related":[
"hassling",
"heckling",
"nagging",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"provoking",
"rousing",
"badgering",
"baiting",
"bullyragging",
"ballyragging",
"deviling",
"devilling",
"hagriding",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"pestering",
"plaguing",
"teasing",
"angering",
"antagonizing",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"rankling",
"roiling",
"agitating",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"exercising",
"freaking (out)",
"fretting",
"perturbing",
"undoing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"miffing",
"offending",
"outraging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"obliging",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"propitiating",
"delighting",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"satisfying",
"assuring",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"contenting",
"quieting",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to thrust oneself upon (another) without invitation":{
"examples":[
"I hate to bug you, but could you help me move this table?"
],
"synonyms":[
"bothering",
"chivying",
"chivvying",
"disturbing",
"intruding (upon)",
"pestering"
],
"related":[
"inconveniencing",
"troubling",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bedeviling",
"chafing",
"deviling",
"devilling",
"dogging",
"dunning",
"exasperating",
"fretting",
"galling",
"getting",
"gnawing",
"grating",
"hassling",
"irking",
"irritating",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"persecuting",
"piquing",
"putting out",
"rankling",
"rasping",
"riling",
"roiling",
"tormenting",
"vexing",
"worrying",
"beleaguering",
"besetting",
"besieging",
"distressing",
"plaguing",
"afflicting",
"harassing",
"provoking",
"angering",
"antagonizing",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"outraging",
"agitating",
"perturbing",
"butting in",
"cutting in (on)",
"obtruding",
"encroaching",
"infringing",
"invading",
"trespassing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarding",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"leaving",
"slighting",
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"disarming",
"mollifying",
"obliging",
"placating",
"delighting",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"satisfying",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"contenting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"buying (back)":{
"as in winning (back) , redeeming":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"redeeming",
"winning (back)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hocking",
"pawning",
"pledging",
"depositing",
"mortgaging",
"bonding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burrowing (into)":{
"as in excavating , gouging":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"excavating",
"gouging",
"grooving",
"hollowing",
"penetrating",
"breaking",
"cutting",
"gashing",
"notching",
"rending",
"rupturing",
"slashing",
"slitting",
"splitting",
"poking",
"pricking",
"prickling",
"broaching",
"tapping",
"boring",
"drilling",
"holing",
"perforating",
"piercing",
"punching",
"puncturing",
"riddling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"filling",
"patching",
"plugging",
"sealing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burns":{
"to be on fire especially brightly":{
"examples":[
"all evening long we just sat there, contentedly watching the Yule log burn"
],
"synonyms":[
"blazes",
"combusts",
"flames",
"glows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catches",
"enkindles",
"deflagrates",
"fires",
"ignites",
"kindles",
"flares (up)",
"lights (up)",
"flickers",
"gutters",
"wavers",
"bakes",
"broils",
"chars",
"cooks",
"melts",
"roasts",
"scorches",
"swelters",
"smolders",
"smoulders",
"sparks",
"sputters",
"beams",
"brightens",
"radiates",
"beats (down)",
"flashes",
"glares",
"gleams",
"glimmers",
"glints",
"glistens",
"glitters",
"scintillates",
"shimmers",
"shines",
"sparkles",
"twinkles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set (something) on fire":{
"examples":[
"it is not a good idea to try to burn old papers in the sink"
],
"synonyms":[
"enkindles",
"fires",
"ignites",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"kindles",
"lights",
"torches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immolates",
"deflagrates",
"chars",
"frizzles",
"scorches",
"bakes",
"broils",
"cooks",
"ashes",
"cremates",
"incinerates",
"kilns",
"sets off",
"brightens",
"illuminates",
"illumines",
"irradiates",
"lightens",
"radiates",
"scalds",
"scathes",
"sears",
"reignites",
"rekindles",
"relights",
"banks",
"stokes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chokes",
"smothers",
"suffocates",
"stamps (out)",
"blackens",
"darkens",
"dims",
"dulls",
"obscures"
],
"antonyms":[
"douses",
"dowses",
"extinguishes",
"puts out",
"quenches",
"snuffs (out)"
]
},
"to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger":{
"examples":[
"he came home burning with anger because of a reprimand at work"
],
"synonyms":[
"boils",
"foams",
"fumes",
"rages",
"rankles",
"seethes",
"sizzles",
"steams",
"storms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fulminates",
"rants",
"raves",
"smolders",
"smoulders",
"bristles",
"flares (up)",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"chafes",
"frets",
"stews",
"agitates",
"convulses",
"roils",
"shakes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shine with a bright harsh light":{
"examples":[
"the bright streetlight outside our motel room burned all night long"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"blazes",
"flames",
"flares",
"glares"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beams",
"glows",
"radiates",
"flashes",
"glances",
"gleams",
"glimmers",
"glints",
"glistens",
"glisters",
"glitters",
"scintillates",
"shimmers",
"sparkles",
"twinkles",
"bedazzles",
"blinds",
"dazes",
"dazzles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"he's been burned before, so he's careful to double-check such claims now"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozles",
"beguiles",
"bluffs",
"buffaloes",
"catches",
"cons",
"cozens",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"dupes",
"fakes out",
"fools",
"gaffs",
"gammons",
"gulls",
"has",
"has on",
"hoaxes",
"hoodwinks",
"hornswoggles",
"humbugs",
"juggles",
"misguides",
"misinforms",
"misleads",
"snookers",
"snows",
"spoofs",
"strings along",
"suckers",
"sucks in",
"takes in",
"tricks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kids",
"puts on",
"teases",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"euchres",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"rooks",
"shortchanges",
"skins",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stings",
"swindles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunks",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"shows up",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"tells",
"unveils",
"disabuses",
"disenchants",
"disillusions"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceives"
]
},
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"heedlessly burning the country's resources without any concern for future generations"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbs",
"consumes",
"depletes",
"devours",
"drains",
"draws down",
"exhausts",
"expends",
"plays out",
"spends",
"uses up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"diminishes",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"reduces",
"eats",
"uses",
"bankrupts",
"cleans (out)",
"impoverishes",
"cripples",
"debilitates",
"disables",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"undermines",
"weakens",
"dries up",
"empties",
"blows",
"dissipates",
"fritters (away)",
"guzzles",
"lavishes",
"misspends",
"runs through",
"squanders",
"throws away",
"wastes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augments",
"enlarges",
"increases",
"bolsters",
"enforces",
"fortifies",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"strengthens",
"rebuilds",
"repairs",
"restores",
"revives",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"saves"
],
"antonyms":[
"renews",
"replaces"
]
},
"a natural body of running water smaller than a river":{
"examples":[
"the walkers forded the shallow burn and then came upon a field of gorse"
],
"synonyms":[
"becks",
"bourns",
"bournes",
"brooklets",
"brooks",
"creeks",
"gills",
"rills",
"rivulets",
"runlets",
"runnels",
"runs",
"streamlets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arroyos",
"billabongs",
"freshes",
"freshets",
"runoffs",
"bayous",
"coulees",
"sloughs",
"slews",
"slues",
"streams",
"washes",
"canals",
"channels",
"cutoffs",
"cuts",
"guts",
"kills",
"millraces",
"millstreams",
"races",
"watercourses",
"waterways",
"affluents",
"branches",
"confluents",
"distributaries",
"influents",
"tributaries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"buster":{
"as in buddy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bureaucrat":{
"a worker in a government agency":{
"examples":[
"the bureaucrats at the town hall seem to think that we need a building permit to build a tree house"
],
"synonyms":[
"civil servant",
"functionary",
"mandarin",
"public servant"
],
"related":[
"clerk",
"officeholder",
"official",
"officiary",
"employee",
"employe",
"hand",
"hireling",
"jobholder",
"underling",
"worker"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burrow (into)":{
"as in excavate , gouge":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buttressed":{
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"a brace buttressed the wall"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolstered",
"bore",
"braced",
"carried",
"propped (up)",
"shored (up)",
"stayed",
"supported",
"sustained",
"undergirded",
"underpinned",
"upheld"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steadied",
"trussed",
"underlay"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)":{
"examples":[
"a mass of circumstantial evidence buttresses the prosecutor's case"
],
"synonyms":[
"backed",
"bolstered",
"corroborated",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"shored (up)",
"substantiated",
"supported"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confirmed",
"established",
"proved",
"verified",
"affirmed",
"avouched",
"validated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undercut",
"undermined",
"weakened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buff":{
"a person with a strong and habitual liking for something":{
"examples":[
"he's such a film buff that he owns over 3,000 movies"
],
"synonyms":[
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"bug",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"fanatic",
"fancier",
"fiend",
"fool",
"freak",
"habitu\u00e9",
"habitue",
"head",
"hound",
"junkie",
"junky",
"lover",
"maniac",
"maven",
"mavin",
"nut",
"sucker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"groupie",
"admirer",
"amateur",
"collector",
"connoisseur",
"dilettante",
"authority",
"expert",
"adherent",
"convert",
"cultist",
"disciple",
"follower",
"hanger-on",
"votary",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"champion",
"evangelist",
"exponent",
"friend",
"patron",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"supporter",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"zealot",
"booster",
"rooter",
"well-wisher",
"faddist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonadmirer",
"belittler",
"carper",
"critic",
"detractor"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonfan"
]
},
"the state of having no clothes on one's body":{
"examples":[
"protected by a fully enclosed backyard, the couple would frequently sunbathe in the buff"
],
"synonyms":[
"altogether",
"bareness",
"birthday suit",
"bottomlessness",
"nakedness",
"nude",
"nudity",
"raw"
],
"near synonyms":[
"toplessness",
"naturism",
"nudism"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth by friction":{
"examples":[
"she learned to buff semiprecious stones in order to make her own jewelry"
],
"synonyms":[
"file",
"grind",
"hone",
"rasp",
"rub",
"sand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"plane",
"scrape",
"sandblast",
"scour",
"burnish",
"dress",
"gloss",
"polish",
"shine",
"smooth",
"edge",
"sharpen",
"strop",
"whet",
"regrind"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarsen",
"rough (up)",
"roughen",
"scuff"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"the janitor buffed the lobby floor until it shone"
],
"synonyms":[
"burnish",
"dress",
"furbish",
"gloss",
"grind",
"polish",
"rub",
"shine",
"smooth",
"smoothen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleek",
"slick",
"coat",
"glaze",
"japan",
"lacquer",
"varnish",
"face",
"finish",
"veneer",
"brighten",
"file",
"rasp",
"sand",
"sandblast",
"sandpaper",
"scour",
"scrape",
"scrub",
"bob",
"bone",
"lap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rough (up)",
"roughen",
"ruffle",
"scuff (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"button":{
"as in switch , key":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dial",
"key",
"knob",
"lever",
"push button",
"selector",
"switch",
"actuator",
"control",
"controller",
"regulator"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in color , badge":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"badge",
"chevron",
"clasp",
"cockade",
"color",
"ensign",
"rosette",
"star",
"bronze",
"gold",
"silver",
"distinction",
"crown",
"insignia",
"laurel",
"ribbon",
"title",
"award",
"prize",
"trophy",
"decoration",
"honor",
"citation",
"commendation",
"medal",
"medallion",
"order"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in do up , belay":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"batten",
"belay",
"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":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"buckle (down to)":{
"as in focus (on) , concentrate (on)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"concentrate (on)",
"focus (on)",
"knuckle down (to)",
"zero (in on)",
"address",
"approach",
"face",
"fall (to)",
"pitch in",
"plunge (in)",
"settle (down)",
"attack",
"dive (into)",
"tackle",
"wade (in or into)",
"pursue",
"take up",
"undertake"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"evade",
"shun",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"fiddle (around)",
"fool",
"idle",
"lag",
"mess",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"poke",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bungling":{
"showing or marked by a lack of skill and tact (as in dealing with a situation)":{
"examples":[
"I refuse to let that bungling incompetent insult me again"
],
"synonyms":[
"awkward",
"botched",
"clumsy",
"fumbled",
"inept",
"inexpert",
"maladroit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amateur",
"amateurish",
"crude",
"green",
"incompetent",
"ineffectual",
"inefficient",
"inexperienced",
"unpolished",
"unprofessional",
"unskilled",
"unskillful",
"careless",
"sloppy",
"tacky",
"tactless",
"undiplomatic",
"ill-advised",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"misdirected",
"misguided"
],
"near antonyms":[
"able",
"accomplished",
"adept",
"capable",
"clever",
"competent",
"consummate",
"crackerjack",
"expert",
"masterful",
"masterly",
"polished",
"professional",
"proficient",
"skilled",
"skillful",
"talented",
"diplomatic",
"easy",
"effortless",
"gracious",
"smooth",
"tactful"
],
"antonyms":[
"adroit",
"deft",
"dexterous",
"dextrous",
"facile"
]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"bungled the job the first time she tried to do it"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"bobbling",
"boggling",
"bollixing (up)",
"booting",
"botching",
"buggering (up)",
"bumbling",
"butchering",
"dubbing",
"flubbing",
"fluffing",
"foozling",
"fouling up",
"fumbling",
"goofing (up)",
"lousing up",
"mangling",
"messing (up)",
"mucking up",
"muffing",
"murdering",
"screwing up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blundering",
"gumming (up)",
"muddling",
"piffling",
"blemishing",
"blighting",
"damaging",
"flawing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"marring",
"mutilating",
"ruining",
"spoiling",
"vitiating",
"destroying",
"wrecking",
"mishandling",
"mismanaging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"helping",
"improving",
"meliorating",
"rectifying",
"refining",
"reforming",
"remedying",
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"patching",
"reconditioning",
"renovating",
"repairing",
"revamping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bursting (in or into)":{
"as in barging (in) , breezing (in)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barging (in)",
"breezing (in)",
"waltzing (in)",
"accessing",
"entering",
"penetrating",
"piercing",
"dropping in",
"popping (in)",
"straying (into)",
"wandering (into)",
"crashing",
"encroaching",
"gate-crashing",
"infiltrating",
"infringing",
"intruding",
"invading",
"trespassing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"departing",
"exiting",
"leaving"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"bunged up":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"he's a bit of a mess, but he says he bunged up the other guy in the fight even worse"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashed",
"basted",
"batted",
"battered",
"beat",
"belabored",
"belted",
"birched",
"bludgeoned",
"buffeted",
"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"
]
},
"burking":{
"to keep from being publicly known":{
"examples":[
"the executives knew that the drug had dangerous side effects, but they burked the findings"
],
"synonyms":[
"covering (up)",
"hushing (up)",
"suppressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blacking out",
"censoring",
"gagging",
"muzzling",
"silencing",
"quashing",
"repressing",
"smothering",
"spiking",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stifling",
"strangling",
"throttling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunking",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing up",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"blabbing",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"spilling",
"telling",
"unveiling",
"broadcasting",
"circulating",
"publishing",
"spreading",
"describing",
"narrating",
"reciting",
"recounting",
"rehearsing",
"relating",
"reporting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buckboards":{
"as in caroches , barouches":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barouches",
"broughams",
"buggies",
"cabriolets",
"cabs",
"calashes",
"cal\u00e8ches",
"caleches",
"caroches",
"carryalls",
"chaises",
"chariots",
"coaches",
"coup\u00e9s",
"coupes",
"curricles",
"diligences",
"dogcarts",
"droshkies",
"droskies",
"four-in-hands",
"gigs",
"go-carts",
"hackneys",
"hansoms",
"hansom cabs",
"jaunting cars",
"landaus",
"phaetons",
"post chaises",
"roadsters",
"rockaways",
"stagecoaches",
"stages",
"stanhopes",
"surreys",
"tandems",
"tilburies",
"tongas",
"traps",
"troikas",
"victorias",
"carriages",
"equipages",
"rigs",
"turnouts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burlesque":{
"a work that imitates and exaggerates another work for comic effect":{
"examples":[
"it is interesting to note that the first novel ever written in English was followed by a burlesque of it"
],
"synonyms":[
"caricature",
"parody",
"put-on",
"rib",
"send-up",
"spoof",
"takeoff",
"travesty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lampoon",
"mockery",
"satire",
"comedy",
"farce",
"humor",
"sketch",
"slapstick",
"squib",
"distortion",
"exaggeration",
"imitation",
"impersonation",
"mimicking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of":{
"examples":[
"burlesquing the teacher's nervous tic isn't very nice"
],
"synonyms":[
"caricature",
"do",
"imitate",
"mimic",
"mock",
"parody",
"send up",
"spoof",
"travesty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lampoon",
"pasquinade",
"satirize",
"deride",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"ridicule",
"ape",
"copycat",
"monkey",
"parrot",
"duplicate",
"emulate",
"replicate",
"reproduce",
"act",
"counterfeit",
"dissemble",
"fake",
"feign",
"pretend",
"sham",
"simulate",
"elaborate",
"embellish",
"embroider",
"exaggerate",
"magnify",
"pad",
"play up",
"stretch",
"amplify",
"enhance",
"enlarge (on or upon)",
"expand",
"flesh (out)",
"overdraw",
"overstate",
"put on",
"mime",
"pantomime",
"impersonate",
"perform",
"personate",
"play"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"buckling (down)":{
"as in pitching in , digging in":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"applying (oneself)",
"digging in",
"hammering (away)",
"knuckling down",
"pitching in",
"banging away",
"beavering (away)",
"digging (away)",
"drudging",
"endeavoring",
"fagging",
"grubbing",
"humping",
"hustling",
"laboring",
"moiling",
"pegging (away)",
"plodding",
"plowing",
"plugging",
"slaving",
"slogging",
"straining",
"striving",
"struggling",
"sweating",
"toiling",
"travailing",
"tugging",
"working",
"attacking",
"driving",
"essaying",
"trying",
"exercising",
"exerting",
"overexerting",
"overworking",
"eking out",
"grinding (out)",
"putting out",
"scrabbling",
"scratching",
"trudging",
"wading"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking",
"easing (up)",
"letting up",
"slackening",
"bumming",
"chilling",
"dallying",
"dillydallying",
"footling",
"goldbricking",
"goofing (off)",
"hacking (around)",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"lazing",
"loafing",
"lounging",
"shirking",
"slacking (off)",
"vegging out",
"basking",
"lolling",
"relaxing",
"reposing",
"resting",
"unwinding",
"dabbling",
"doodling",
"fooling around",
"fribbling",
"goofing (around)",
"hanging",
"hanging about",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bump (up)":{
"as in maximize , ratchet (up)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"maximize",
"ratchet (up)",
"rachet (up)",
"accelerate",
"add (to)",
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"boost",
"build up",
"compound",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"extend",
"hype",
"increase",
"multiply",
"pump up",
"raise",
"stoke",
"supersize",
"swell",
"up",
"blow up",
"dilate",
"distend",
"inflate",
"draw out",
"elongate",
"flesh (out)",
"lengthen",
"prolong",
"protract",
"stretch",
"develop",
"enhance",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"magnify",
"complement",
"supplement",
"beef (up)",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"strengthen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"minimize",
"abate",
"decrease",
"de-escalate",
"diminish",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"lower",
"minify",
"reduce",
"subtract (from)",
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"curtail",
"shorten",
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"cut back",
"retrench"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bullyboys":{
"a person who teases, threatens, or hurts smaller, weaker, or more vulnerable persons":{
"examples":[
"residents reported on some bullyboys who were causing problems at the park"
],
"synonyms":[
"bullies",
"hectors",
"intimidators"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antagonists",
"enemies",
"abusers",
"baiters",
"gibers",
"jibers",
"harassers",
"harriers",
"hecklers",
"mockers",
"needlers",
"oppressors",
"persecutors",
"ridiculers",
"taunters",
"teasers",
"teases",
"torturers",
"goons",
"hoodlums",
"hoods",
"hooligans",
"mugs",
"punks",
"roughnecks",
"roughs",
"rowdies",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"toughies",
"toughs",
"cutthroats",
"felons",
"gangsters",
"gunmen",
"mobsters",
"racketeers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buoyancy":{
"the ability to remain strong and joyful despite challenges":{
"examples":[
"Never ones to be discouraged by a few setbacks, they woke up every morning with a renewed buoyancy to move forward."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"jauntiness",
"springiness",
"animation",
"briskness",
"exuberance",
"jazziness",
"liveliness",
"lustiness",
"peppiness",
"robustness",
"sprightliness",
"vibrance",
"vibrancy",
"vigorousness",
"vitality",
"potency",
"power",
"resilience",
"strength",
"doggedness",
"perseverance",
"persistency",
"tenacity",
"backbone",
"fortitude",
"grit",
"iron",
"pluck",
"sand",
"brightness",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"chirpiness",
"effervescence",
"friskiness",
"pizzazz",
"pizazz",
"sparkle",
"spirit",
"verve",
"vivaciousness",
"vivacity",
"eagerness",
"ebullience",
"ebulliency",
"enthusiasm",
"keenness",
"spiritedness",
"good-humoredness",
"good-naturedness",
"humor",
"sunniness",
"frivolity",
"levity",
"jollification",
"jollity",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"revelry",
"gamesomeness",
"insouciance",
"lightheartedness",
"sportiveness",
"impishness",
"pertness",
"playfulness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"helplessness",
"impotence",
"impotency",
"inadequacy",
"weakness",
"indolence",
"laziness",
"languidness",
"languor",
"lethargy",
"limpness",
"listlessness",
"sleepiness",
"sluggishness",
"spiritlessness",
"torpidity",
"torpor",
"weariness",
"apathy",
"impassivity",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"pallidness",
"tediousness",
"tedium",
"vapidity",
"vapidness",
"inactivity",
"lifelessness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"butchering":{
"to kill on a large scale":{
"examples":[
"the barbarians butchered the monks in the monasteries without mercy"
],
"synonyms":[
"massacring",
"mowing (down)",
"slaughtering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assassinating",
"croaking",
"dispatching",
"doing in",
"executing",
"felling",
"murdering",
"slaying",
"smiting",
"snuffing",
"annihilating",
"blotting out",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"eradicating",
"exterminating",
"wasting",
"wiping out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"the new piano student butchered the sonatina"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"bobbling",
"boggling",
"bollixing (up)",
"booting",
"botching",
"buggering (up)",
"bumbling",
"bungling",
"dubbing",
"flubbing",
"fluffing",
"foozling",
"fouling up",
"fumbling",
"goofing (up)",
"lousing up",
"mangling",
"messing (up)",
"mucking up",
"muffing",
"murdering",
"screwing up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blundering",
"gumming (up)",
"muddling",
"piffling",
"blemishing",
"blighting",
"damaging",
"flawing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"marring",
"mutilating",
"ruining",
"spoiling",
"vitiating",
"destroying",
"wrecking",
"mishandling",
"mismanaging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"helping",
"improving",
"meliorating",
"rectifying",
"refining",
"reforming",
"remedying",
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"patching",
"reconditioning",
"renovating",
"repairing",
"revamping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bupkus":{
"the smallest amount or part imaginable":{
"examples":[
"she always eats out and proudly admits that she doesn't know bubkes about cooking"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"continental",
"damn",
"darn",
"durn",
"diddly",
"diddly-squat",
"doodley-squat",
"doodly-squat",
"fig",
"ghost",
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"lick",
"modicum",
"rap",
"squat",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"whit",
"whoop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"pin",
"ray",
"scrap",
"scruple",
"semblance",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"bullishly":{
"as in confidently , positively":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"confidently",
"expectantly",
"positively",
"amusedly",
"exuberantly",
"giddily",
"gigglingly",
"joyfully",
"joyously",
"blithely",
"blithesomely",
"breezily",
"gladly",
"gladsomely",
"laughingly",
"lightheartedly",
"sunnily",
"hopefully",
"optimistically",
"sanguinely",
"amicably",
"friendlily",
"friendly",
"good-humoredly",
"good-naturedly",
"jocularly",
"blissfully",
"elatedly",
"euphorically",
"rapturously",
"brightly",
"cheerfully",
"cheerily",
"gaily",
"happily",
"heartily",
"jocosely",
"jovially",
"merrily",
"mirthfully",
"smilingly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blackly",
"dismally",
"drearily",
"gloomily",
"pessimistically",
"abjectly",
"dejectedly",
"despondently",
"disconsolately",
"dispiritedly",
"wretchedly",
"dolefully",
"dolorously",
"forlornly",
"mournfully",
"plaintively",
"sorrowfully",
"dourly",
"glumly",
"mirthlessly",
"sourly",
"sternly",
"sulkily",
"sullenly",
"bleakly",
"cheerlessly",
"darkly",
"heavily",
"miserably",
"morosely",
"unhappily"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"bustling":{
"involved in often constant activity":{
"examples":[
"a bustling greeter was there to welcome guests to the grand opening"
],
"synonyms":[
"active",
"assiduous",
"busy",
"diligent",
"employed",
"engaged",
"hopping",
"industrious",
"laborious",
"occupied",
"sedulous",
"tied-up",
"working"
],
"near synonyms":[
"knee-deep",
"swamped",
"animated",
"astir",
"buzzing",
"flourishing",
"happening",
"humming",
"lively",
"thriving",
"vibrant",
"absorbed",
"concentrating",
"engrossed",
"focused",
"focussed",
"immersed",
"intent",
"preoccupied",
"alive",
"functional",
"functioning",
"going",
"living",
"operating",
"operational",
"operative",
"running",
"energetic",
"vigorous",
"hardworking",
"indefatigable",
"tireless",
"untiring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"free",
"asleep",
"dormant",
"latent",
"lifeless",
"quiescent",
"sleepy",
"inert",
"passive",
"dead",
"dull",
"slow",
"inoperative",
"nonoperating"
],
"antonyms":[
"idle",
"inactive",
"unbusy",
"unemployed",
"unoccupied"
]
},
"marked by much life, movement, or activity":{
"examples":[
"a bustling shopping center during the Christmas season"
],
"synonyms":[
"aboil",
"abubble",
"abuzz",
"alive",
"animated",
"astir",
"brisk",
"busy",
"buzzing",
"flourishing",
"happening",
"hopping",
"humming",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"rousing",
"stirring",
"thriving",
"vibrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abounding",
"crowded",
"overflowing",
"populous",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thronging"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"asleep",
"dead",
"inactive",
"lifeless",
"sleepy"
]
},
"to be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"on Saturdays the city's downtown bustles with activity as a farmers' market sets up shop"
],
"synonyms":[
"abounding",
"brimming",
"bristling",
"bulging",
"bursting",
"buzzing",
"crawling",
"humming",
"overflowing",
"pullulating",
"swarming",
"teeming"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lacking",
"needing",
"wanting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"the hostess bustled about, taking care of last-minute preparations for the party"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bundling",
"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":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"burdened":{
"to place a weight or burden on":{
"examples":[
"burdened the dog with a little backpack"
],
"synonyms":[
"encumbered",
"freighted",
"laded",
"ladened",
"loaded",
"lumbered",
"saddled",
"weighted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clogged",
"cluttered",
"filled",
"packed",
"heaped",
"mounded",
"piled",
"stacked",
"pressed",
"weighed",
"strained",
"taxed",
"overburdened",
"overloaded",
"overtaxed",
"surcharged",
"hampered",
"handicapped",
"afflicted",
"oppressed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alleviated",
"eased",
"lightened",
"relieved"
],
"antonyms":[
"disburdened",
"discharged",
"disencumbered",
"unburdened",
"unladed",
"unloaded"
]
},
"to make sad":{
"examples":[
"refuses to let everyday problems burden her"
],
"synonyms":[
"bummed (out)",
"dashed",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"got down",
"oppressed",
"saddened",
"weighed down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ailed",
"distressed",
"troubled",
"afflicted",
"tormented",
"tortured",
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dismayed",
"dispirited",
"unnerved",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"concerned",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"disturbed",
"exercised",
"freaked (out)",
"perturbed",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animated",
"enlivened",
"invigorated",
"assured",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"excited",
"inspired",
"stimulated",
"elated",
"exhilarated",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"delighted",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"boosted",
"elevated",
"lifted",
"uplifted"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightened",
"buoyed",
"cheered (up)",
"gladdened",
"lightened",
"rejoiced"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bummer":{
"something (as a situation or event) that is depressing":{
"examples":[
"boy, breaking your leg right before vacation is a bummer"
],
"synonyms":[
"down",
"downer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bore",
"drag",
"accident",
"fatality",
"mishap",
"woe",
"calamity",
"catastrophe",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"misfortune",
"tragedy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pick-me-up",
"trip"
],
"antonyms":[
"upper"
]
},
"something that disappoints":{
"examples":[
"the cancellation of the holiday office party was a total bummer"
],
"synonyms":[
"bringdown",
"disappointment",
"letdown"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anticlimax",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"fizzle",
"lemon",
"loser"
],
"near antonyms":[
"success",
"winner",
"relief"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that has failed":{
"examples":[
"that new start-up company proved to be a real bummer"
],
"synonyms":[
"bomb",
"bust",
"catastrophe",
"clinker",
"clunker",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"disaster",
"dud",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"fizzle",
"flop",
"frost",
"lemon",
"loser",
"miss",
"shipwreck",
"turkey",
"washout"
],
"near synonyms":[
"also-ran",
"disappointment",
"dog",
"has-been",
"near miss",
"botch",
"hash",
"mess",
"muddle",
"shambles",
"nonevent",
"nonstarter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dandy",
"jim-dandy",
"phenomenon"
],
"antonyms":[
"blockbuster",
"hit",
"smash",
"success",
"winner"
]
},
"a homeless wanderer who may beg or steal for a living":{
"examples":[
"a lifelong bummer , he never knew the satisfaction of having to work for a living"
],
"synonyms":[
"bindle stiff",
"bum",
"hobo",
"sundowner",
"swaggie",
"swagman",
"tramp",
"vagabond",
"vagrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drifter",
"roamer",
"transient",
"beggar",
"derelict",
"mendicant",
"panhandler",
"stiff",
"dodger",
"malingerer",
"shirker",
"slacker",
"gamine",
"ragamuffin",
"urchin",
"waif"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buffoonish":{
"as in clownish":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clownish",
"notional",
"ill-advised",
"unconsidered",
"unreasoned",
"farcical",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"fallacious",
"illogical",
"invalid",
"irrational",
"nonrational",
"surd",
"unreasonable",
"unreasoning",
"unsound",
"weak",
"airheaded",
"birdbrained",
"boobish",
"brain-dead",
"chowderheaded",
"chuckleheaded",
"clueless",
"dense",
"dim",
"dim-witted",
"doltish",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"dorky",
"dull",
"dumb",
"dunderheaded",
"empty-headed",
"feebleminded",
"gormless",
"idiotic",
"idiotical",
"imbecile",
"imbecilic",
"knuckleheaded",
"lamebrain",
"lamebrained",
"mindless",
"moronic",
"oafish",
"obtuse",
"opaque",
"pinheaded",
"simple",
"slow",
"slow-witted",
"soft",
"softheaded",
"thick",
"thickheaded",
"thoughtless",
"unintelligent",
"vacuous",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"brainless",
"bubbleheaded",
"cockeyed",
"crackpot",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dippy",
"dotty",
"fatuous",
"featherheaded",
"fool",
"foolish",
"half-baked",
"half-witted",
"harebrained",
"inept",
"insane",
"jerky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"lunkheaded",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"senseless",
"silly",
"simpleminded",
"stupid",
"tomfool",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"weak-minded",
"witless",
"zany"
],
"near antonyms":[
"judicious",
"prudent",
"sagacious",
"sage",
"sane",
"sapient",
"sensible",
"sound",
"wise",
"brainy",
"bright",
"clever",
"intelligent",
"smart",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"valid",
"well-advised"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"busybodies":{
"a person who meddles in the affairs of others":{
"examples":[
"that busybody across the street is always telling me how to tend to my own garden"
],
"synonyms":[
"buttinskies",
"interferers",
"interlopers",
"intermeddlers",
"intruders",
"kibitzers",
"kibbitzers",
"meddlers",
"nosey parkers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gapers",
"gawkers",
"gawpers",
"gazers",
"peepers",
"peeping Toms",
"priers",
"pryers",
"rubberneckers",
"rubbernecks",
"snoopers",
"snoops",
"spies",
"blabbers",
"disclosers",
"gossipers",
"gossips",
"prattlers",
"quidnuncs",
"revealers",
"tellers",
"betrayers",
"talebearers",
"tattlers",
"tattletales",
"telltales",
"snakes",
"sneaks",
"informants",
"informers",
"snitchers",
"squealers",
"stool pigeons"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buckles (under)":{
"as in knuckles under":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"knuckles under",
"acquiesces (to)",
"concedes (to)",
"gives over (to)",
"caters (to)",
"gratifies",
"indulges",
"wallows",
"bows",
"caves (in)",
"gives in",
"submits",
"succumbs",
"surrenders",
"yields"
],
"near antonyms":[
"holds off",
"resists",
"battles",
"breasts",
"combats",
"confronts",
"counters",
"defies",
"faces",
"fights",
"meets",
"objects",
"opposes",
"repels",
"thwarts",
"withstands",
"rejects",
"bridles",
"checks",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"inhibits",
"restrains",
"stifles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"butters up":{
"to praise too much":{
"examples":[
"a flunky who shamelessly butters up the boss"
],
"synonyms":[
"adulates",
"belauds",
"blarneys",
"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"
]
},
"buttress":{
"something or someone to which one looks for support":{
"examples":[
"the mother had always been the buttress of our family in trying times"
],
"synonyms":[
"anchor",
"dependence",
"dependance",
"mainstay",
"pillar",
"reliance",
"standby"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backbone",
"sinew(s)",
"spine",
"right hand",
"bolsterer",
"crutch",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"prop",
"stay",
"anchorage",
"harbor",
"refuge"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a structure that holds up or serves as a foundation for something else":{
"examples":[
"after the wall collapsed, the construction company agreed to rebuild it with a buttress"
],
"synonyms":[
"brace",
"mount",
"mounting",
"prop",
"reinforcement",
"shore",
"spur",
"stay",
"support",
"underpinning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shoring",
"column",
"pedestal",
"pilaster",
"pillar",
"arch",
"bolster",
"bracket",
"cantilever",
"girder",
"bearing",
"crutch",
"peg",
"post",
"stake",
"stanchion",
"stand",
"stilt",
"strut",
"truss",
"base",
"foundation",
"frame"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"a brace buttressed the wall"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear",
"bolster",
"brace",
"carry",
"prop (up)",
"shore (up)",
"stay",
"support",
"sustain",
"undergird",
"underpin",
"uphold"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steady",
"truss",
"underlie"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)":{
"examples":[
"a mass of circumstantial evidence buttresses the prosecutor's case"
],
"synonyms":[
"back",
"bolster",
"corroborate",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"shore (up)",
"substantiate",
"support"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confirm",
"establish",
"prove",
"verify",
"affirm",
"avouch",
"validate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undercut",
"undermine",
"weaken"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"buried":{
"as in hidden , obscure":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"concealed",
"covert",
"disguised",
"hidden",
"obscure",
"shrouded",
"unapparent",
"vague",
"faint",
"insignificant",
"liminal",
"slender",
"slight",
"subtle",
"trivial",
"inconspicuous",
"indistinct",
"unnoticeable",
"unseeable",
"unseen",
"inaudible",
"intangible",
"invisible",
"impalpable",
"imperceptible",
"inappreciable",
"indistinguishable",
"insensible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appreciable",
"discernible",
"discernable",
"palpable",
"perceptible",
"ponderable",
"sensible",
"audible",
"observable",
"recognizable",
"tangible",
"visible",
"clear",
"conspicuous",
"evident",
"eye-catching",
"manifest",
"noticeable",
"obvious",
"plain",
"prominent",
"striking",
"apparent",
"distinct",
"significant",
"straightforward"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea":{
"examples":[
"he died on Tuesday and was buried on Friday"
],
"synonyms":[
"entombed",
"hearsed",
"inhumed",
"interred",
"laid",
"put away",
"tombed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immured",
"inurned",
"enshrined",
"concealed",
"covered",
"ensconced",
"hid",
"obscured",
"shaded",
"shielded",
"cloaked",
"curtained",
"enshrouded",
"shrouded",
"reburied",
"reinterred",
"coffined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burned",
"burnt",
"cremated",
"bared",
"disclosed",
"discovered",
"displayed",
"exhibited",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed",
"uncoffined"
],
"antonyms":[
"disinterred",
"exhumed",
"unearthed"
]
},
"to put into a hiding place":{
"examples":[
"buried his face in his hands as his wife recounted the embarrassing incident"
],
"synonyms":[
"cached",
"concealed",
"ensconced",
"hid",
"secreted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoarded",
"squirreled (away)",
"squirrelled (away)",
"stashed",
"entombed",
"interred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bared",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"unveiled",
"unwrapped",
"flaunted",
"paraded",
"showed off",
"disinterred",
"unearthed"
],
"antonyms":[
"displayed",
"exhibited"
]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"if we don't work harder, the other softball team will bury us"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilated",
"blew away",
"bombed",
"clobbered",
"creamed",
"drubbed",
"dusted",
"flattened",
"pasted",
"routed",
"shellacked",
"skinned",
"skunked",
"smoked",
"smothered",
"snowed under",
"thrashed",
"trimmed",
"tromped",
"trounced",
"walloped",
"waxed",
"whipped",
"whomped",
"whopped",
"whapped",
"whupped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swept",
"upset",
"beat",
"bested",
"conquered",
"dispatched",
"hurdled",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"threw",
"took",
"triumphed (over)",
"won (against)",
"worsted",
"crushed",
"knocked off",
"knocked over",
"overpowered",
"overthrew",
"overwhelmed",
"subjugated",
"upended",
"vanquished",
"aced (out)",
"bettered",
"eclipsed",
"exceeded",
"outdid",
"outdistanced",
"outfought",
"outshone",
"outshined",
"outstripped",
"overtopped",
"surpassed",
"topped",
"transcended",
"edged (out)",
"nosed out",
"pipped",
"capped",
"excelled",
"flourished",
"scored",
"succeeded",
"broke",
"destroyed",
"did in",
"finished",
"sank",
"sunk",
"slaughtered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"built up":{
"as in amassed , aggregated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accruable",
"accrued",
"aggregated",
"amassed",
"compiled",
"conglomerated",
"increscent",
"progressive",
"gradual",
"step-by-step",
"stepwise",
"accretive",
"accumulative",
"additive",
"conglomerative",
"cumulative",
"incremental"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decremental",
"decrescent",
"degressive",
"regressive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"static electricity built up on the cat's fur"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"accumulated",
"appreciated",
"ballooned",
"boomed",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"climbed",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"gained",
"increased",
"mounted",
"multiplied",
"mushroomed",
"proliferated",
"rolled up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"spread",
"swelled",
"waxed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumped",
"rocketed",
"skyrocketed",
"surged",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"redoubled",
"blew up",
"bulked",
"distended",
"inflated",
"puffed (up)",
"crescendoed",
"crested",
"peaked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracted",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"receded",
"waned"
]
},
"to gradually increase in":{
"examples":[
"the roller coaster built up momentum"
],
"synonyms":[
"gained",
"gathered",
"grew (in)",
"picked up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doubled (in)",
"tripled (in)",
"accrued",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"excited",
"stimulated",
"enhanced",
"enlarged",
"enriched",
"expanded",
"extended",
"maximized",
"boosted",
"elevated",
"jacked (up)",
"mounted",
"ramped (up)",
"stepped up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abated",
"declined (in)",
"diminished (in)",
"dipped",
"dwindled",
"fell (in)",
"lessened",
"tapered",
"tapered off"
],
"antonyms":[
"decreased (in)",
"lost"
]
},
"to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass":{
"examples":[
"evidence that the toxic chemical builds up in the bloodstream to unhealthy levels"
],
"synonyms":[
"accreted",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"collected",
"concentrated",
"conglomerated",
"gathered",
"massed",
"piled (up)",
"stacked (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agglutinated",
"clumped",
"lumped",
"banked",
"drifted",
"ridged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dispersed",
"dissipated",
"scattered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"he patiently built up his coin collection over several decades",
"the young stockbroker worked hard to build up a clientele"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"added (to)",
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"boosted",
"compounded",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"extended",
"hyped",
"increased",
"multiplied",
"pumped up",
"raised",
"stoked",
"supersized",
"swelled",
"upped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boomed",
"jumped",
"skyrocketed",
"spiked",
"bumped (up)",
"ratcheted (up)",
"racheted (up)",
"blew up",
"dilated",
"distended",
"inflated",
"drew out",
"elongated",
"fleshed (out)",
"lengthened",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"stretched",
"developed",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"magnified",
"complemented",
"supplemented",
"beefed (up)",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"strengthened",
"maximized",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"collected",
"followed up",
"parlayed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"shortened",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"cut back",
"retrenched"
],
"antonyms":[
"abated",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"minified",
"reduced",
"subtracted (from)"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"businessmen":{
"as in entrepreneurs , enterprisers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"enterprisers",
"entrepreneurs",
"dealers",
"merchandisers",
"merchants",
"traders",
"tradesmen",
"traffickers",
"buyers",
"marketers",
"purchasers",
"hawkers",
"hucksters",
"hustlers",
"peddlers",
"pedlars",
"retailers",
"sellers",
"shopkeepers",
"storekeepers",
"vendors",
"venders",
"engrossers",
"monopolists",
"jobbers",
"middlemen",
"wholesalers",
"distributors",
"providers",
"provisioners",
"purveyors",
"suppliers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burdening":{
"to place a weight or burden on":{
"examples":[
"burdened the dog with a little backpack"
],
"synonyms":[
"encumbering",
"freighting",
"ladening",
"lading",
"loading",
"lumbering",
"saddling",
"weighting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clogging",
"cluttering",
"filling",
"packing",
"heaping",
"mounding",
"piling",
"stacking",
"pressing",
"weighing",
"straining",
"taxing",
"overburdening",
"overloading",
"overtaxing",
"surcharging",
"hampering",
"handicapping",
"afflicting",
"oppressing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alleviating",
"easing",
"lightening",
"relieving"
],
"antonyms":[
"disburdening",
"discharging",
"disencumbering",
"unburdening",
"unlading",
"unloading"
]
},
"to make sad":{
"examples":[
"refuses to let everyday problems burden her"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumming (out)",
"dashing",
"dejecting",
"depressing",
"getting down",
"oppressing",
"saddening",
"weighing down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ailing",
"distressing",
"troubling",
"afflicting",
"tormenting",
"torturing",
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismaying",
"dispiriting",
"unnerving",
"agitating",
"bothering",
"concerning",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"disturbing",
"exercising",
"freaking (out)",
"perturbing",
"undoing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animating",
"enlivening",
"invigorating",
"assuring",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"exciting",
"inspiring",
"stimulating",
"elating",
"exhilarating",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"delighting",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"boosting",
"elevating",
"lifting",
"uplifting"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightening",
"buoying",
"cheering (up)",
"gladdening",
"lightening",
"rejoicing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bunted":{
"as in tapped , flicked":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flicked",
"stroked",
"tapped",
"scuffed",
"bumped",
"butted",
"jabbed",
"jostled",
"kicked",
"kneed",
"poked",
"prodded",
"pushed",
"shoved",
"stamped",
"battered",
"beat",
"buffeted",
"bunged",
"chopped",
"cuffed",
"drubbed",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"licked",
"mangled",
"mauled",
"pelted",
"peppered",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"roughed",
"bowled (down or over)",
"creamed",
"decked",
"dumped",
"felled",
"floored",
"knocked down",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"banged",
"bashed",
"batted",
"belted",
"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",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bugeye":{
"as in ketch , yacht":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brigantine",
"ca\u00efque",
"caravel",
"catamaran",
"catboat",
"cat rig",
"clipper",
"corvette",
"cutter",
"frigate",
"galleon",
"galley",
"junk",
"keelboat",
"ketch",
"knockabout",
"lugger",
"outrigger",
"pinnace",
"piragua",
"sailer",
"schooner",
"shallop",
"sharpie",
"sharpy",
"sloop",
"square-rigger",
"xebec",
"yacht",
"yawl",
"bark",
"dinghy",
"sailboat",
"windjammer",
"bottom",
"craft",
"vessel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bungee cord":{
"as in whipcord":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"whipcord",
"guy",
"halyard",
"lanyard",
"stay",
"cable",
"cord",
"lace",
"lacing",
"line",
"rope",
"string",
"wire"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bunk bed":{
"as in couch , sofa bed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cot",
"couch",
"daybed",
"feather bed",
"four-poster",
"hammock",
"Murphy bed",
"shakedown",
"sleigh bed",
"sofa",
"sofa bed",
"studio couch",
"trundle bed",
"water bed",
"bunk",
"doss",
"hay",
"kip",
"lair",
"pad",
"rack",
"sack",
"bedstead",
"futon",
"mattress",
"pallet",
"bassinet",
"carry-cot",
"cradle",
"crib"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bugbear":{
"something or someone that causes fear or dread especially without reason":{
"examples":[
"communism was once the nation's biggest bugbear"
],
"synonyms":[
"b\u00eate noire",
"black beast",
"bogey",
"bogie",
"bogy",
"bugaboo",
"dread",
"hobgoblin",
"ogre"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparition",
"ghost",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"phantom",
"poltergeist",
"shade",
"specter",
"spectre",
"spirit",
"spook",
"wraith",
"banshee",
"bogeyman",
"bogyman",
"demon",
"daemon",
"devil",
"fiend",
"ghoul",
"imp",
"incubus",
"fright",
"horrible",
"horror",
"monster",
"monstrosity",
"terror",
"bane",
"curse",
"enemy",
"plague",
"scourge",
"torment",
"abomination",
"anathema"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that is a source of irritation":{
"examples":[
"hated all the bugbears of modern life, especially those long commutes to work"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravation",
"aggro",
"annoyance",
"bother",
"botheration",
"exasperation",
"frustration",
"hair shirt",
"hassle",
"headache",
"inconvenience",
"irk",
"irritant",
"nuisance",
"peeve",
"pest",
"rub",
"ruffle",
"thorn",
"trial",
"vexation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discomfort",
"fleabite",
"pinprick",
"affront",
"insult",
"offense",
"offence",
"upset",
"worry",
"affliction",
"albatross",
"burden",
"cross",
"curse",
"menace",
"millstone",
"plague",
"sore",
"anxiety",
"plight",
"predicament",
"tribulation",
"trouble",
"hang-up",
"pet peeve",
"problem",
"annoyer",
"disturber",
"harasser",
"mischief",
"offender",
"pandora's box"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delight",
"joy",
"pleasure"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buzzed (off)":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"you've outstayed your welcome, so buzz off"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailed",
"bailed out",
"booked",
"bugged off",
"bugged out",
"buggered off",
"cleared off",
"cleared out",
"cut out",
"departed",
"dug out",
"exited",
"got",
"got off",
"moved",
"packed (up or off)",
"parted",
"peeled off",
"piked (out or off)",
"pulled out",
"pushed off",
"pushed on",
"quit",
"quitted",
"ran along",
"sallied (forth)",
"scarpered",
"shoved (off)",
"stepped (along)",
"took off",
"vamoosed",
"walked out",
"went",
"went off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"started",
"struck out",
"absconded",
"decamped",
"escaped",
"evacuated",
"fled",
"flew",
"got out",
"mizzled",
"ran away",
"scatted",
"scrammed",
"skipped",
"lit",
"lighted out",
"stepped out",
"went out",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"forsook",
"vacated",
"emigrated",
"adjourned",
"removed",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"lodged",
"remained",
"settled",
"stayed",
"tarried",
"approached",
"closed",
"neared",
"hit",
"landed",
"reached"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrived",
"came",
"showed up",
"turned up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bugbears":{
"something or someone that causes fear or dread especially without reason":{
"examples":[
"communism was once the nation's biggest bugbear"
],
"synonyms":[
"b\u00eates noires",
"black beasts",
"bogeys",
"bogies",
"bugaboos",
"dreads",
"hobgoblins",
"ogres"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparitions",
"ghosts",
"phantasms",
"fantasms",
"phantoms",
"poltergeists",
"shades",
"specters",
"spectres",
"spirits",
"spooks",
"wraiths",
"banshees",
"bogeymen",
"bogymen",
"demons",
"daemons",
"devils",
"fiends",
"ghouls",
"imps",
"incubi",
"incubuses",
"frights",
"horribles",
"horrors",
"monsters",
"monstrosities",
"terrors",
"banes",
"curses",
"enemies",
"plagues",
"scourges",
"torments",
"abominations",
"anathemas"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"something that is a source of irritation":{
"examples":[
"hated all the bugbears of modern life, especially those long commutes to work"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravations",
"aggros",
"annoyances",
"botherations",
"bothers",
"exasperations",
"frustrations",
"hair shirts",
"hassles",
"headaches",
"inconveniences",
"irks",
"irritants",
"nuisances",
"peeves",
"pests",
"rubs",
"ruffles",
"thorns",
"trials",
"vexations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discomforts",
"fleabites",
"pinpricks",
"affronts",
"insults",
"offenses",
"offences",
"upsets",
"worries",
"afflictions",
"albatross",
"albatrosses",
"burdens",
"crosses",
"curses",
"menaces",
"millstones",
"plagues",
"sores",
"anxieties",
"plights",
"predicaments",
"tribulations",
"troubles",
"hang-ups",
"pet peeves",
"problems",
"annoyers",
"disturbers",
"harassers",
"mischiefs",
"offenders",
"pandora's boxes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delights",
"joys",
"pleasures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"button-down":{
"tending to favor established ideas, conditions, or institutions":{
"examples":[
"a button-down architectural firm would never have the imagination to produce such a cutting-edge design"
],
"synonyms":[
"archconservative",
"brassbound",
"conservative",
"die-hard",
"hidebound",
"mossbacked",
"old-fashioned",
"old-line",
"old-school",
"orthodox",
"paleoconservative",
"reactionary",
"standpat",
"traditional",
"traditionalistic",
"ultraconservative",
"unprogressive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conventional",
"square",
"devoted",
"faithful",
"loyal",
"staunch",
"stanch",
"steadfast",
"steady",
"true",
"true-blue",
"blimpish",
"neoconservative",
"Tory",
"ultraright",
"ultrarightist",
"dowdy",
"fogyish",
"fogeyish",
"fuddy-duddy",
"ossified",
"set",
"stodgy",
"right",
"right-wing",
"antiliberal",
"antimodern",
"antiprogressive",
"antireform",
"antirevolutionary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anticonventional",
"antiestablishment",
"antitraditional",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"nonconformist",
"advanced",
"contemporary",
"modern",
"lefty",
"radical",
"ultraleft",
"ultraleftist",
"ultraprogressive",
"ultraradical"
],
"antonyms":[
"broad-minded",
"large-minded",
"liberal",
"nonconservative",
"nonconventional",
"nonorthodox",
"nontraditional",
"open-minded",
"progressive",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bubbleheads":{
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"a murder mystery so obvious that even bubbleheads need not tax their brains"
],
"synonyms":[
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"boneheads",
"chowderheads",
"chuckleheads",
"clodpolls",
"clodpoles",
"clots",
"clucks",
"clunks",
"cretins",
"cuddies",
"deadheads",
"dim bulbs",
"dimwits",
"dips",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"dullards",
"dumbbells",
"dumbheads",
"dum-dums",
"dummies",
"dummkopfs",
"dunces",
"dunderheads",
"fatheads",
"ganders",
"golems",
"goofs",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"hammerheads",
"hardheads",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"jackasses",
"know-nothings",
"knuckleheads",
"lamebrains",
"loggerheads",
"loons",
"lumps",
"lunkheads",
"meatheads",
"momes",
"morons",
"mugs",
"mutts",
"naturals",
"nimrods",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"ninnyhammers",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"noddies",
"noodles",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"oafs",
"pinheads",
"prats",
"ratbags",
"sapheads",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schnooks",
"simpletons",
"stocks",
"stupes",
"stupids",
"thickheads",
"turkeys",
"woodenheads",
"yahoos",
"yo-yos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boobies",
"buffoons",
"fools",
"geese",
"loonies",
"lunatics",
"madmen",
"nuts",
"zanies",
"losers",
"gawks",
"featherbrains",
"scatterbrains",
"beasts",
"boors",
"cads",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"curs",
"heels",
"jerks",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"snakes",
"stinkers",
"villains"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellects",
"intellectuals",
"sages",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"polymaths",
"Renaissance men",
"sharpies"
],
"antonyms":[
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bunch":{
"a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially":{
"examples":[
"that bunch goes out to lunch together every Friday"
],
"synonyms":[
"body",
"circle",
"clan",
"clique",
"community",
"coterie",
"coven",
"crowd",
"fold",
"gal\u00e8re",
"gang",
"klatch",
"klatsch",
"lot",
"network",
"pack",
"ring",
"set"
],
"near synonyms":[
"charmed circle",
"elite",
"in-group",
"closed shop",
"club",
"college",
"fellowship",
"guild",
"gild",
"league",
"organization",
"society",
"camp",
"faction",
"sect",
"side",
"tribe",
"mess",
"squad",
"brotherhood",
"fraternity",
"order",
"sisterhood",
"sodality",
"sorority",
"commune",
"alliance",
"bloc",
"coalition",
"confederation",
"congress",
"council",
"federation",
"union"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loner",
"individualist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a number of things considered as a unit":{
"examples":[
"bought a bunch of grapes"
],
"synonyms":[
"array",
"assemblage",
"band",
"bank",
"batch",
"battery",
"block",
"clot",
"clump",
"cluster",
"clutch",
"collection",
"constellation",
"group",
"grouping",
"huddle",
"knot",
"lot",
"muster",
"package",
"parcel",
"passel",
"set",
"suite"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accumulation",
"aggregate",
"aggregation",
"conglomeration",
"agglomeration",
"assortment",
"hodgepodge",
"jumble",
"miscellany",
"mixture",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"variety",
"cycle",
"run",
"series",
"suit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"entity",
"item",
"single",
"unit"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a usually small number of persons considered as a unit":{
"examples":[
"a small bunch of people were sent to clean up the place"
],
"synonyms":[
"array",
"band",
"batch",
"battery",
"body",
"boodle",
"cluster",
"clutch",
"consort",
"constellation",
"crop",
"group",
"grouping",
"huddle",
"knot",
"lot",
"parcel",
"party",
"passel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assembly",
"collective",
"congregation",
"gathering",
"muster",
"organization",
"circle",
"clan",
"clique",
"coterie",
"fellowship",
"gang",
"ring",
"round",
"set",
"faction",
"guild",
"gild",
"order",
"school",
"sect",
"brigade",
"crew",
"outfit",
"phalanx",
"platoon",
"posse",
"task force",
"team",
"alliance",
"bloc",
"coalition",
"confederacy",
"confederation",
"federation",
"league",
"union",
"battalion",
"squadron",
"bevy",
"brood",
"covey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"individual",
"single"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a part that sticks out from the general mass of something":{
"examples":[
"a bunch in the blanket"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulge",
"convexity",
"jut",
"overhang",
"projection",
"protrusion",
"protuberance",
"swell"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dome",
"blob",
"bump",
"dilatation",
"gibbosity",
"hump",
"knob",
"knot",
"knurl",
"lump",
"nub",
"obtrusion",
"puff",
"snag",
"swelling",
"block",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"enlargement",
"escalation",
"expansion",
"increase",
"hill",
"mound"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crater",
"hole",
"well",
"basin",
"bowl",
"dip",
"valley",
"furrow",
"groove",
"trench",
"trough",
"dimple",
"gouge",
"impression",
"notch",
"pocket"
],
"antonyms":[
"cavity",
"concave",
"concavity",
"dent",
"depression",
"dint",
"hollow",
"indent",
"indentation",
"indenture",
"pit",
"recess"
]
},
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"I have a bunch of thoughts on the matter, so grab a notepad"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"shipload",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemic",
"plague",
"rash",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"deluge",
"flood",
"overflow",
"army",
"bevy",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"score",
"sea",
"swarm",
"throng",
"gazillion",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillion",
"zillion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atom",
"crumb",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"fragment",
"grain",
"granule",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dash",
"drop",
"morsel",
"shot",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"absence",
"dearth",
"famine",
"lack",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"meagerness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"skimpiness"
],
"antonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"the dress bunches a bit at the waist"
],
"synonyms":[
"bag",
"balloon",
"beetle",
"belly",
"billow",
"bulge",
"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 gather into a closely packed group":{
"examples":[
"the slow service caused the customers at the pick-up counter to bunch up"
],
"synonyms":[
"cluster",
"crowd",
"huddle",
"pile",
"press"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assemble",
"collect",
"concenter",
"concentrate",
"conglomerate",
"congregate",
"convene",
"converge",
"flock",
"forgather",
"foregather",
"herd",
"swarm",
"throng",
"encircle",
"mob",
"surround",
"embrace",
"hug"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break up",
"disband",
"disperse",
"split (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bumming (out)":{
"to make sad":{
"examples":[
"that sort of news really bums me out"
],
"synonyms":[
"burdening",
"dashing",
"dejecting",
"depressing",
"getting down",
"oppressing",
"saddening",
"weighing down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ailing",
"distressing",
"troubling",
"afflicting",
"tormenting",
"torturing",
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismaying",
"dispiriting",
"unnerving",
"agitating",
"bothering",
"concerning",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"disturbing",
"exercising",
"freaking (out)",
"perturbing",
"undoing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animating",
"enlivening",
"invigorating",
"assuring",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"exciting",
"inspiring",
"stimulating",
"elating",
"exhilarating",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"delighting",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"boosting",
"elevating",
"lifting",
"uplifting"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightening",
"buoying",
"cheering (up)",
"gladdening",
"lightening",
"rejoicing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buzz (off)":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"you've outstayed your welcome, so buzz off"
],
"synonyms":[
"bail",
"bail out",
"begone",
"book",
"bug off",
"bug out",
"bugger off",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"dig out",
"exit",
"get",
"get off",
"go",
"go off",
"move",
"pack (up or off)",
"part",
"peel off",
"pike (out or off)",
"pull out",
"push off",
"push on",
"quit",
"run along",
"sally (forth)",
"scarper",
"shove (off)",
"step (along)",
"take off",
"vamoose",
"walk out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"start",
"strike out",
"abscond",
"decamp",
"escape",
"evacuate",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"mizzle",
"run away",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip",
"go out",
"light out",
"step out",
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"vacate",
"emigrate",
"adjourn",
"remove",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"lodge",
"remain",
"settle",
"stay",
"tarry",
"approach",
"close",
"near",
"hit",
"land",
"reach"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrive",
"come",
"show up",
"turn up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"build a fire under":{
"to rouse to strong feeling or action":{
"examples":[
"He was a well-known self-help guru who could build a fire under anyone to finally take those next steps."
],
"synonyms":[
"arouse",
"encourage",
"excite",
"fire (up)",
"impassion",
"incite",
"instigate",
"move",
"pique",
"provoke",
"rev (up)",
"spark",
"stimulate",
"stir"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fan",
"ignite",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"kindle",
"trigger",
"activate",
"animate",
"drive",
"energize",
"galvanize",
"induce",
"inspire",
"key (up)",
"motivate",
"motive",
"pump up",
"quicken",
"set off",
"vitalize",
"abet",
"ferment",
"foment",
"raise",
"whip (up)",
"anger",
"enrage",
"madden",
"upset",
"jeer",
"taunt",
"tease",
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"exasperate",
"gall",
"get",
"irritate",
"vex"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"soothe",
"subdue",
"tranquilize",
"tranquillize",
"appease",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"burnt out":{
"depleted in strength, energy, or freshness":{
"examples":[
"I'm feeling so burned-out that I can't wait for vacation"
],
"synonyms":[
"all in",
"aweary",
"beat",
"beaten",
"bleary",
"bushed",
"dead",
"done",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"fatigued",
"jaded",
"knackered",
"limp",
"logy",
"loggy",
"played out",
"pooped",
"prostrate",
"spent",
"tapped out",
"tired",
"tuckered (out)",
"washed-out",
"wearied",
"weary",
"wiped out",
"worn",
"worn-out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overfatigued",
"overtaxed",
"overworked",
"broken-down",
"run-down",
"debilitated",
"enervate",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"weakened",
"drowsy",
"heavy",
"sleepy",
"lethargic",
"sluggish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fresh",
"refreshed",
"rejuvenated",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"revitalized",
"active",
"energetic",
"invigorated",
"peppy",
"strengthened",
"strong",
"tireless",
"vitalized",
"weariless"
],
"antonyms":[
"unwearied"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"working 12-hour days at that job just burned me out"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"busted",
"bust",
"did in",
"did up",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"fagged",
"fatigued",
"frazzled",
"harassed",
"killed",
"knocked out",
"outwore",
"tired",
"tuckered (out)",
"washed out",
"wearied",
"wore",
"wore out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitated",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"wasted",
"weakened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activated",
"energized",
"invigorated",
"rejuvenated",
"strengthened",
"vitalized",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"unwound"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bull's-eye":{
"the central part or aspect of something under consideration":{
"examples":[
"you hit the bull's-eye when you noted that the real issue here is money"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom line",
"centerpiece",
"core",
"crux",
"essence",
"gist",
"heart",
"kernel",
"keynote",
"meat",
"meat and potatoes",
"net",
"nub",
"nubbin",
"nucleus",
"pith",
"pivot",
"point",
"root",
"sum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"course",
"direction",
"drift",
"tenor",
"body",
"content",
"substance",
"hypothesis",
"proposition",
"purport",
"subject",
"theme",
"thesis"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burnt-out":{
"depleted in strength, energy, or freshness":{
"examples":[
"I'm feeling so burned-out that I can't wait for vacation"
],
"synonyms":[
"all in",
"aweary",
"beat",
"beaten",
"bleary",
"bushed",
"dead",
"done",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"fatigued",
"jaded",
"knackered",
"limp",
"logy",
"loggy",
"played out",
"pooped",
"prostrate",
"spent",
"tapped out",
"tired",
"tuckered (out)",
"washed-out",
"wearied",
"weary",
"wiped out",
"worn",
"worn-out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overfatigued",
"overtaxed",
"overworked",
"broken-down",
"run-down",
"debilitated",
"enervate",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"weakened",
"drowsy",
"heavy",
"sleepy",
"lethargic",
"sluggish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fresh",
"refreshed",
"rejuvenated",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"revitalized",
"active",
"energetic",
"invigorated",
"peppy",
"strengthened",
"strong",
"tireless",
"vitalized",
"weariless"
],
"antonyms":[
"unwearied"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"working 12-hour days at that job just burned me out"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"busted",
"bust",
"did in",
"did up",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"fagged",
"fatigued",
"frazzled",
"harassed",
"killed",
"knocked out",
"outwore",
"tired",
"tuckered (out)",
"washed out",
"wearied",
"wore",
"wore out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitated",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"wasted",
"weakened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activated",
"energized",
"invigorated",
"rejuvenated",
"strengthened",
"vitalized",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"unwound"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bulking":{
"as in inflating , blowing up":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blowing up",
"distending",
"inflating",
"puffing (up)",
"accelerating",
"accumulating",
"appreciating",
"ballooning",
"booming",
"building up",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"climbing",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"gaining",
"increasing",
"mounting",
"multiplying",
"mushrooming",
"proliferating",
"rising",
"rolling up",
"snowballing",
"spreading",
"swelling",
"waxing",
"jumping",
"rocketing",
"skyrocketing",
"surging",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling",
"crescendoing",
"cresting",
"peaking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contracting",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"receding",
"waning",
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"shrinking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bloating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bloating",
"drenching",
"flooding",
"glutting",
"swamping",
"crowding",
"crushing",
"matting",
"pressing",
"ramming",
"shoving",
"squashing",
"squeezing",
"brimming",
"charging",
"cramming",
"filling",
"heaping",
"jamming",
"jam-packing",
"loading",
"packing",
"stuffing",
"refilling",
"refreshing",
"reloading",
"repacking",
"replenishing",
"overcharging",
"overfilling",
"overflowing",
"saturating",
"honeycombing",
"penetrating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clearing",
"emptying",
"evacuating",
"vacating",
"voiding",
"lightening",
"depleting",
"draining",
"eliminating",
"exhausting",
"bleeding",
"drawing (off)",
"cleaning",
"flushing",
"purging",
"scouring",
"sweeping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buy the farm":{
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"After years of ignoring his health problems, the old man finally bought it ."
],
"synonyms":[
"check out",
"conk (out)",
"croak",
"decease",
"demise",
"depart",
"die",
"drop",
"end",
"exit",
"expire",
"fall",
"flatline",
"go",
"kick in",
"kick off",
"pass (on)",
"pass away",
"part",
"peg out",
"perish",
"pop off",
"step out",
"succumb"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predecease",
"consume",
"disappear",
"dry up",
"fade",
"fail"
],
"near antonyms":[
"come to",
"revive",
"linger",
"be",
"exist",
"subsist",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathe",
"live"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"buncombe":{
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"a cinematic depiction of the Middle Ages that was derided as pure bunkum by historians"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"fatuity",
"foolery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"kookiness",
"lunacy",
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"madness",
"witlessness",
"hoity-toity",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"gas",
"hot air",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"double-talk",
"greek",
"hocus-pocus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bucketed":{
"to lift out with something that holds liquid":{
"examples":[
"bucketing water from the well, we raced to put out the fire"
],
"synonyms":[
"dipped",
"laded",
"ladled",
"scooped",
"spooned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bailed",
"depleted",
"drained",
"eliminated",
"emptied",
"exhausted",
"bled",
"drew (off)",
"dished",
"slopped",
"decanted",
"drew",
"pumped",
"siphoned",
"syphoned",
"suctioned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"poured",
"filled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"examples":[
"getting the troops into the bucketing landing craft proved to be challenging"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitated",
"convulsed",
"jerked",
"jiggled",
"joggled",
"jolted",
"jounced",
"juddered",
"quaked",
"quivered",
"shook",
"shuddered",
"vibrated",
"wobbled",
"wabbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocked",
"swayed",
"swung",
"chattered",
"quavered",
"shivered",
"thrilled",
"trembled",
"twitched",
"doddered",
"wavered",
"flickered",
"fluctuated",
"fluttered",
"oscillated",
"undulated",
"waved",
"beat",
"palpitated",
"pit-a-patted",
"pitter-pattered",
"pulsated",
"pulsed",
"throbbed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burdens":{
"a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported":{
"examples":[
"the early settlers often used horses to carry their burdens"
],
"synonyms":[
"cargoes",
"cargos",
"drafts",
"freights",
"hauls",
"ladings",
"loadings",
"loads",
"payloads",
"weights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consignments",
"boatloads",
"carloads",
"shiploads",
"trainloads",
"truckloads",
"wagonloads",
"ballasts",
"deadweights",
"overloads",
"surcharges",
"bales",
"bundles",
"packages",
"packets",
"packs",
"parcels",
"shipments",
"manifests",
"bodies",
"bulks",
"masses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something one must do because of prior agreement":{
"examples":[
"the burden of homework prevented the youngster from joining his friends at the game"
],
"synonyms":[
"charges",
"commitments",
"devoirs",
"dos",
"do's",
"duties",
"imperatives",
"incumbencies",
"needs",
"obligations",
"offices",
"responsibilities"
],
"near synonyms":[
"oaths",
"pledges",
"promises",
"troths",
"vows",
"words",
"arrangements",
"prearrangements",
"pre-arrangements",
"setups",
"compacts",
"contracts",
"covenants",
"pacts",
"trusts",
"debts",
"payments",
"tributes",
"compulsions",
"constraints",
"restraints",
"musts",
"requirements",
"coercions",
"duresses",
"forces",
"appointments",
"engagements",
"reservations",
"onuses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"graces",
"postponements",
"stays",
"discharges",
"eases",
"exemptions",
"releases",
"reliefs",
"waivers",
"loopholes",
"alternatives",
"choices",
"options",
"picks",
"preferences",
"selections"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a part of a song or hymn that is repeated every so often":{
"examples":[
"had some trouble coming up with a burden for the song"
],
"synonyms":[
"choruses",
"refrains"
],
"near synonyms":[
"repeats",
"responses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to place a weight or burden on":{
"examples":[
"burdened the dog with a little backpack"
],
"synonyms":[
"encumbers",
"freights",
"ladens",
"lades",
"loads",
"lumbers",
"saddles",
"weights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clogs",
"clutters",
"fills",
"packs",
"heaps",
"mounds",
"piles",
"stacks",
"presses",
"weighs",
"strains",
"taxes",
"overburdens",
"overloads",
"overtaxes",
"surcharges",
"hampers",
"handicaps",
"afflicts",
"oppresses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alleviates",
"eases",
"lightens",
"relieves"
],
"antonyms":[
"disburdens",
"discharges",
"disencumbers",
"unburdens",
"unlades",
"unloads"
]
},
"to make sad":{
"examples":[
"refuses to let everyday problems burden her"
],
"synonyms":[
"bums (out)",
"dashes",
"dejects",
"depresses",
"gets down",
"oppresses",
"saddens",
"weighs down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ails",
"distresses",
"troubles",
"afflicts",
"torments",
"tortures",
"daunts",
"demoralizes",
"discourages",
"disheartens",
"dismays",
"dispirits",
"unnerves",
"agitates",
"bothers",
"concerns",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"disquiets",
"disturbs",
"exercises",
"freaks (out)",
"perturbs",
"undoes",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"worries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animates",
"enlivens",
"invigorates",
"assures",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"excites",
"inspires",
"stimulates",
"elates",
"exhilarates",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"delights",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"boosts",
"elevates",
"lifts",
"uplifts"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightens",
"buoys",
"cheers (up)",
"gladdens",
"lightens",
"rejoices"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bums (out)":{
"to make sad":{
"examples":[
"that sort of news really bums me out"
],
"synonyms":[
"burdens",
"dashes",
"dejects",
"depresses",
"gets down",
"oppresses",
"saddens",
"weighs down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ails",
"distresses",
"troubles",
"afflicts",
"torments",
"tortures",
"daunts",
"demoralizes",
"discourages",
"disheartens",
"dismays",
"dispirits",
"unnerves",
"agitates",
"bothers",
"concerns",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"disquiets",
"disturbs",
"exercises",
"freaks (out)",
"perturbs",
"undoes",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"worries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animates",
"enlivens",
"invigorates",
"assures",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"excites",
"inspires",
"stimulates",
"elates",
"exhilarates",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"delights",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"boosts",
"elevates",
"lifts",
"uplifts"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightens",
"buoys",
"cheers (up)",
"gladdens",
"lightens",
"rejoices"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burglaries":{
"the act of illegally entering a building in order to steal things":{
"examples":[
"There have been a number of burglaries in the neighborhood in recent months."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"housebreakings",
"larcenies",
"robberies",
"thefts",
"thieveries",
"embezzlements",
"grafts",
"misapplications",
"misappropriations",
"peculations",
"petit larcenies",
"petty larcenies",
"pilferages",
"abductions",
"carjackings",
"hijackings",
"highjackings",
"kidnappings",
"kidnapings",
"despoilments",
"despoliations",
"pillages",
"rapines",
"spoliations",
"black marketeerings",
"banditries",
"piracies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bushmaster":{
"as in cobra , copperhead":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adder",
"anaconda",
"asp",
"black racer",
"blacksnake",
"blue racer",
"boa",
"bull snake",
"chicken snake",
"cobra",
"constrictor",
"copperhead",
"coral snake",
"cottonmouth moccasin",
"diamondback rattlesnake",
"fer-de-lance",
"garter snake",
"gopher snake",
"green snake",
"hognose snake",
"horned viper",
"indigo snake",
"king cobra",
"king snake",
"krait",
"mamba",
"milk snake",
"moccasin",
"pine snake",
"pit viper",
"puff adder",
"python",
"racer",
"rat snake",
"rattlesnake",
"sea serpent",
"sea snake",
"sidewinder",
"taipan",
"water moccasin",
"water snake",
"worm snake",
"serpent",
"snake",
"viper"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"built-ins":{
"as in fixtures":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fixtures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appointment",
"cabinetwork",
"furnishings",
"furniture",
"movables",
"moveables",
"belongings",
"chattels",
"effects",
"gear",
"goods",
"holdings",
"paraphernalia",
"possessions",
"things",
"case goods"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"bunging":{
"to close up so that no empty spaces remain":{
"examples":[
"we had bunged up the moving van so much that we couldn't have possibly squeezed in one more thing"
],
"synonyms":[
"blocking",
"damming",
"filling",
"packing",
"plugging",
"stopping",
"stuffing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choking",
"clogging",
"closing (off)",
"clotting",
"congesting",
"jamming",
"obstructing",
"occluding",
"caulking",
"calking",
"chinking",
"sealing",
"repacking",
"restuffing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excavating",
"hollowing (out)",
"scooping (out)",
"shoveling",
"shovelling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bunches":{
"a group of people sharing a common interest and relating together socially":{
"examples":[
"that bunch goes out to lunch together every Friday"
],
"synonyms":[
"bodies",
"circles",
"clans",
"cliques",
"communities",
"coteries",
"covens",
"crowds",
"folds",
"gal\u00e8res",
"gangs",
"klatches",
"klatsches",
"lots",
"networks",
"packs",
"rings",
"sets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"charmed circles",
"elites",
"in-groups",
"closed shops",
"clubs",
"colleges",
"fellowships",
"guilds",
"gilds",
"leagues",
"organizations",
"societies",
"camps",
"factions",
"sects",
"sides",
"tribes",
"messes",
"squads",
"brotherhoods",
"fraternities",
"orders",
"sisterhoods",
"sodalities",
"sororities",
"communes",
"alliances",
"blocs",
"coalitions",
"confederations",
"congresses",
"councils",
"federations",
"unions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loners",
"individualists"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a number of things considered as a unit":{
"examples":[
"bought a bunch of grapes"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrays",
"assemblages",
"bands",
"banks",
"batches",
"batteries",
"blocks",
"clots",
"clumps",
"clusters",
"clutches",
"collections",
"constellations",
"groupings",
"groups",
"huddles",
"knots",
"lots",
"musters",
"packages",
"parcels",
"passels",
"sets",
"suites"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accumulations",
"aggregates",
"aggregations",
"conglomerations",
"agglomerations",
"assortments",
"hodgepodges",
"jumbles",
"miscellanies",
"mixtures",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"varieties",
"cycles",
"runs",
"series",
"suits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"entities",
"items",
"singles",
"units"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a usually small number of persons considered as a unit":{
"examples":[
"a small bunch of people were sent to clean up the place"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrays",
"bands",
"batches",
"batteries",
"bodies",
"boodles",
"clusters",
"clutches",
"consorts",
"constellations",
"crops",
"groupings",
"groups",
"huddles",
"knots",
"lots",
"parcels",
"parties",
"passels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assemblies",
"collectives",
"congregations",
"gatherings",
"musters",
"organizations",
"circles",
"clans",
"cliques",
"coteries",
"fellowships",
"gangs",
"rings",
"rounds",
"sets",
"factions",
"guilds",
"gilds",
"orders",
"schools",
"sects",
"brigades",
"crews",
"outfits",
"phalanxes",
"phalanges",
"platoons",
"posses",
"task forces",
"teams",
"alliances",
"blocs",
"coalitions",
"confederacies",
"confederations",
"federations",
"leagues",
"unions",
"battalions",
"squadrons",
"bevies",
"broods",
"coveys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"individuals",
"singles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a part that sticks out from the general mass of something":{
"examples":[
"a bunch in the blanket"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulges",
"convexities",
"juts",
"overhangs",
"projections",
"protrusions",
"protuberances",
"swells"
],
"near synonyms":[
"domes",
"blobs",
"bumps",
"dilatations",
"gibbosities",
"humps",
"knobs",
"knots",
"knurls",
"lumps",
"nubs",
"obtrusions",
"puffs",
"snags",
"swellings",
"blocks",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"enlargements",
"escalations",
"expansions",
"increases",
"hills",
"mounds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"craters",
"holes",
"wells",
"basins",
"bowls",
"dips",
"valleys",
"furrows",
"grooves",
"trenches",
"troughs",
"dimples",
"gouges",
"impressions",
"notches",
"pockets"
],
"antonyms":[
"cavities",
"concaves",
"concavities",
"dents",
"depressions",
"dints",
"hollows",
"indentations",
"indents",
"indentures",
"pits",
"recesses"
]
},
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"I have a bunch of thoughts on the matter, so grab a notepad"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"basketfuls",
"basketsful",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bundles",
"bushels",
"carloads",
"chunks",
"deals",
"dozens",
"dozen",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"good deals",
"heaps",
"hundreds",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"multiplicities",
"myriads",
"oodles",
"packs",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"platefuls",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"plentitudes",
"potfuls",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaves",
"shiploads",
"sights",
"slews",
"spates",
"stacks",
"stores",
"tons",
"truckloads",
"volumes",
"wads",
"wealths",
"yards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemics",
"plagues",
"rashes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"plethoras",
"redundancies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"deluges",
"floods",
"overflows",
"armies",
"bevies",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"droves",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"legions",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"presses",
"scores",
"seas",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"gazillions",
"jillions",
"kazillions",
"millions",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillions",
"zillions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atoms",
"crumbs",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"fragments",
"grains",
"granules",
"iotas",
"jots",
"modicums",
"molecules",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"particles",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scraps",
"shreds",
"tittles",
"whits",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"dashes",
"drops",
"morsels",
"shots",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"absences",
"dearths",
"famines",
"lacks",
"paucities",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies"
],
"antonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"mouthfuls",
"nips",
"ounces",
"peanuts",
"pinches",
"pittances",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"tastes",
"touches",
"traces"
]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"the dress bunches a bit at the waist"
],
"synonyms":[
"bags",
"balloons",
"beetles",
"bellies",
"billows",
"bulges",
"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 gather into a closely packed group":{
"examples":[
"the slow service caused the customers at the pick-up counter to bunch up"
],
"synonyms":[
"clusters",
"crowds",
"huddles",
"piles",
"presses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assembles",
"collects",
"concenters",
"concentrates",
"conglomerates",
"congregates",
"convenes",
"converges",
"flocks",
"forgathers",
"foregathers",
"herds",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"encircles",
"mobs",
"surrounds",
"embraces",
"hugs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks up",
"disbands",
"disperses",
"splits (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"buffoonery":{
"wildly playful or mischievous behavior":{
"examples":[
"their madcap buffoonery turned the duo into the nation's hottest comedy act"
],
"synonyms":[
"clownery",
"clowning",
"foolery",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"horsing around",
"monkey business",
"monkeying",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"roughhouse",
"roughhousing",
"shenanigan(s)",
"skylarking",
"slapstick",
"tomfoolery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"childishness",
"clownishness",
"foolishness",
"funning",
"jesting",
"joking",
"nonsense",
"silliness",
"waggery",
"boisterousness",
"rambunctiousness",
"rowdiness",
"rowdyism",
"rumbustiousness",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"prankishness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"roguishness",
"trickery",
"cavorting",
"frivolity",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"merrymaking",
"playfulness",
"revelry",
"roistering",
"romping",
"sporting",
"sportiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buggered off":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"bugger off , or I'll call the police!"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailed",
"bailed out",
"booked",
"bugged off",
"bugged out",
"buzzed (off)",
"cleared off",
"cleared out",
"cut out",
"departed",
"dug out",
"exited",
"got",
"got off",
"moved",
"packed (up or off)",
"parted",
"peeled off",
"piked (out or off)",
"pulled out",
"pushed off",
"pushed on",
"quit",
"quitted",
"ran along",
"sallied (forth)",
"scarpered",
"shoved (off)",
"stepped (along)",
"took off",
"vamoosed",
"walked out",
"went",
"went off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"started",
"struck out",
"absconded",
"decamped",
"escaped",
"evacuated",
"fled",
"flew",
"got out",
"mizzled",
"ran away",
"scatted",
"scrammed",
"skipped",
"lit",
"lighted out",
"stepped out",
"went out",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"forsook",
"vacated",
"emigrated",
"adjourned",
"removed",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"lodged",
"remained",
"settled",
"stayed",
"tarried",
"approached",
"closed",
"neared",
"hit",
"landed",
"reached"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrived",
"came",
"showed up",
"turned up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bung":{
"to close up so that no empty spaces remain":{
"examples":[
"we had bunged up the moving van so much that we couldn't have possibly squeezed in one more thing"
],
"synonyms":[
"block",
"dam",
"fill",
"pack",
"plug",
"stop",
"stuff"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choke",
"clog",
"close (off)",
"clot",
"congest",
"jam",
"obstruct",
"occlude",
"caulk",
"chink",
"seal",
"repack",
"restuff"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excavate",
"hollow (out)",
"scoop (out)",
"shovel"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burlesquer":{
"as in satirist , caricaturist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"caricaturist",
"lampooner",
"mocker",
"parodist",
"satirist",
"imitator",
"impersonator",
"impressionist",
"mimic",
"personator",
"mime",
"mimer",
"mummer",
"pantomime",
"pantomimist",
"actor",
"entertainer",
"performer",
"player",
"trouper",
"ape",
"copycat",
"echo",
"parrot",
"rubber stamp"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bugs off":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"I wish you would just bug off and leave me alone"
],
"synonyms":[
"bails",
"bails out",
"books",
"buggers off",
"bugs out",
"buzzes (off)",
"clears off",
"clears out",
"cuts out",
"departs",
"digs out",
"exits",
"gets",
"gets off",
"goes",
"goes off",
"moves",
"packs (up or off)",
"parts",
"peels off",
"pikes (out or off)",
"pulls out",
"pushes off",
"pushes on",
"quits",
"runs along",
"sallies (forth)",
"scarpers",
"shoves (off)",
"steps (along)",
"takes off",
"vamooses",
"walks out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sets out",
"starts",
"strikes out",
"absconds",
"decamps",
"escapes",
"evacuates",
"flees",
"flies",
"gets out",
"mizzles",
"runs away",
"scats",
"scrams",
"skips",
"goes out",
"lights out",
"steps out",
"abandons",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"vacates",
"emigrates",
"adjourns",
"removes",
"retires",
"retreats",
"withdraws"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abides",
"dwells",
"lodges",
"remains",
"settles",
"stays",
"tarries",
"approaches",
"closes",
"nears",
"hits",
"lands",
"reaches"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrives",
"comes",
"shows up",
"turns up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bugger off":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"bugger off , or I'll call the police!"
],
"synonyms":[
"bail",
"bail out",
"begone",
"book",
"bug off",
"bug out",
"buzz (off)",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"dig out",
"exit",
"get",
"get off",
"go",
"go off",
"move",
"pack (up or off)",
"part",
"peel off",
"pike (out or off)",
"pull out",
"push off",
"push on",
"quit",
"run along",
"sally (forth)",
"scarper",
"shove (off)",
"step (along)",
"take off",
"vamoose",
"walk out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"start",
"strike out",
"abscond",
"decamp",
"escape",
"evacuate",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"mizzle",
"run away",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip",
"go out",
"light out",
"step out",
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"vacate",
"emigrate",
"adjourn",
"remove",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"lodge",
"remain",
"settle",
"stay",
"tarry",
"approach",
"close",
"near",
"hit",
"land",
"reach"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrive",
"come",
"show up",
"turn up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buttery":{
"as in fat , oily":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fat",
"fatty",
"greasy",
"oily",
"heavy",
"rich",
"caloric",
"calorific",
"fattening",
"cloying",
"oversweet",
"filling",
"overfilling",
"satiating",
"sating",
"spicy",
"sugary",
"sweet",
"creamy",
"sauced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"light",
"lite",
"natural",
"plain",
"simple",
"unseasoned",
"diet",
"nonfattening",
"slimming",
"nonfat"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in larder , spence":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ambry",
"larder",
"spence",
"closet",
"cuddy",
"cupboard",
"pantry",
"press",
"cloakroom",
"coatroom",
"garderobe",
"vestiary",
"wardrobe"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"busker":{
"as in performer , player":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"entertainer",
"performer",
"player",
"trouper",
"mime",
"mimic",
"mummer",
"pantomime",
"pantomimist",
"aper",
"imitator",
"impersonator",
"impressionist",
"clown",
"pantaloon"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bumptious":{
"having a feeling of superiority that shows itself in an overbearing attitude":{
"examples":[
"a bumptious young man whose family wealth gave him a sense of entitlement"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrogant",
"assumptive",
"cavalier",
"chesty",
"haughty",
"high-and-mighty",
"high-handed",
"high-hat",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"huffish",
"huffy",
"imperious",
"important",
"lofty",
"lordly",
"masterful",
"overweening",
"peremptory",
"pompous",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive",
"sniffy",
"stiff-necked",
"supercilious",
"superior",
"toplofty",
"toploftical",
"uppish",
"uppity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authoritarian",
"bossy",
"dominant",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"magisterial",
"pontifical",
"pontificating",
"condescending",
"disdainful",
"patronizing",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"saucy",
"snobbish",
"snobby",
"snooty",
"blusterous",
"blustery",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"braggart",
"bragging",
"braggy",
"cocky",
"swaggering",
"vain",
"vainglorious",
"complacent",
"conceited",
"egocentric",
"egoistic",
"egoistical",
"egotistic",
"egotistical",
"hubristic",
"narcissistic",
"orgulous",
"prideful",
"proud",
"self-affected",
"self-applauding",
"self-centered",
"self-complacent",
"self-conceited",
"self-pleased",
"self-satisfied",
"smug",
"stuck-up",
"self-flattering",
"self-loving",
"self-promoting",
"brash",
"forward",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"immodest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bashful",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"demure",
"diffident",
"introverted",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"self-critical",
"self-doubting",
"sheepish",
"shrinking",
"shy",
"subdued",
"timid",
"acquiescent",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"meek",
"passive",
"submissive",
"unaggressive",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"unobtrusive",
"yielding",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"retiring"
],
"antonyms":[
"humble",
"lowly",
"modest",
"unarrogant",
"unpretentious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bummers":{
"something (as a situation or event) that is depressing":{
"examples":[
"boy, breaking your leg right before vacation is a bummer"
],
"synonyms":[
"downers",
"downs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bores",
"drags",
"accidents",
"fatalities",
"mishaps",
"woes",
"calamities",
"catastrophes",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"misfortunes",
"tragedies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pick-me-ups",
"trips"
],
"antonyms":[
"uppers"
]
},
"something that disappoints":{
"examples":[
"the cancellation of the holiday office party was a total bummer"
],
"synonyms":[
"bringdowns",
"disappointments",
"letdowns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anticlimaxes",
"failures",
"fiascoes",
"fizzles",
"lemons",
"losers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"successes",
"winners",
"reliefs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that has failed":{
"examples":[
"that new start-up company proved to be a real bummer"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombs",
"busts",
"catastrophes",
"clinkers",
"clunkers",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"disasters",
"duds",
"failures",
"fiascoes",
"fizzles",
"flops",
"frosts",
"lemons",
"losers",
"misses",
"shipwrecks",
"turkeys",
"washouts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"also-rans",
"disappointments",
"dogs",
"has-beens",
"near misses",
"botches",
"hashes",
"messes",
"muddles",
"shambles",
"nonevents",
"nonstarters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corkers",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"dandies",
"jim-dandies",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons"
],
"antonyms":[
"blockbusters",
"hits",
"smashes",
"successes",
"winners"
]
},
"a homeless wanderer who may beg or steal for a living":{
"examples":[
"a lifelong bummer , he never knew the satisfaction of having to work for a living"
],
"synonyms":[
"bindle stiffs",
"bums",
"hoboes",
"hobos",
"sundowners",
"swaggies",
"swagmen",
"tramps",
"vagabonds",
"vagrants"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drifters",
"roamers",
"transients",
"beggars",
"derelicts",
"mendicants",
"panhandlers",
"stiffs",
"dodgers",
"malingerers",
"shirkers",
"slackers",
"gamines",
"ragamuffins",
"urchins",
"waifs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bugger (up)":{
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"I've somehow buggered up the program again"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"bobble",
"boggle",
"bollix (up)",
"boot",
"botch",
"bumble",
"bungle",
"butcher",
"dub",
"flub",
"fluff",
"foozle",
"foul up",
"fumble",
"goof (up)",
"louse up",
"mangle",
"mess (up)",
"muck up",
"muff",
"murder",
"screw up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blunder",
"gum (up)",
"muddle",
"piffle",
"blemish",
"blight",
"damage",
"flaw",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"mar",
"mutilate",
"ruin",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"destroy",
"wreck",
"mishandle",
"mismanage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorate",
"better",
"enhance",
"help",
"improve",
"meliorate",
"rectify",
"refine",
"reform",
"remedy",
"doctor",
"fix",
"patch",
"recondition",
"renovate",
"repair",
"revamp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burn one's ears":{
"to criticize (someone) so as to correct a fault":{
"examples":[
"She burned his ears for not wearing a seatbelt."
],
"synonyms":[
"admonish",
"chide",
"rebuke",
"reprimand",
"reproach",
"reprove",
"tick off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berate",
"castigate",
"chew out",
"dress down",
"flay",
"harangue",
"jaw",
"keelhaul",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lecture",
"rail (at or against)",
"rate",
"scold",
"score",
"upbraid",
"abuse",
"assail",
"attack",
"bad-mouth",
"blame",
"blast",
"censure",
"condemn",
"criticize",
"crucify",
"denounce",
"dis",
"diss",
"excoriate",
"fault",
"knock",
"lash",
"pan",
"reprehend",
"slam",
"belittle",
"deprecate",
"disparage",
"minimize",
"mock",
"put down",
"deride",
"ridicule",
"scoff",
"scorn"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approve",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"OK",
"okay",
"sanction",
"applaud",
"extol",
"extoll",
"hail",
"laud",
"praise",
"salute",
"tout"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"bungs":{
"to close up so that no empty spaces remain":{
"examples":[
"we had bunged up the moving van so much that we couldn't have possibly squeezed in one more thing"
],
"synonyms":[
"blocks",
"dams",
"fills",
"packs",
"plugs",
"stops",
"stuffs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chokes",
"clogs",
"closes (off)",
"clots",
"congests",
"jams",
"obstructs",
"occludes",
"caulks",
"calks",
"chinks",
"seals",
"repacks",
"restuffs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excavates",
"hollows (out)",
"scoops (out)",
"shovels"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burrowed":{
"as in clawed , grubbed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clawed",
"grubbed",
"dredged",
"dug in",
"dug",
"excavated",
"shoveled",
"shovelled",
"scooped",
"spaded",
"delved",
"mined",
"quarried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"filled (in)",
"smoothed (out or over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in huddled , crouched":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"couched",
"crouched",
"huddled",
"hunched",
"hunkered (down)",
"scrunched",
"squatted",
"squinched",
"curled up",
"nestled",
"snugged",
"snuggled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buggering off":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"bugger off , or I'll call the police!"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailing",
"bailing out",
"booking",
"bugging off",
"bugging out",
"buzzing (off)",
"clearing off",
"clearing out",
"cutting out",
"departing",
"digging out",
"exiting",
"getting",
"getting off",
"going",
"going off",
"moving",
"packing (up or off)",
"parting",
"peeling off",
"piking (out or off)",
"pulling out",
"pushing off",
"pushing on",
"quitting",
"running along",
"sallying (forth)",
"scarpering",
"shoving (off)",
"stepping (along)",
"taking off",
"vamoosing",
"walking out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"setting out",
"starting",
"striking out",
"absconding",
"decamping",
"escaping",
"evacuating",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"getting out",
"mizzling",
"running away",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping",
"going out",
"lighting out",
"stepping out",
"abandoning",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"vacating",
"emigrating",
"adjourning",
"removing",
"retiring",
"retreating",
"withdrawing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"lodging",
"remaining",
"settling",
"staying",
"tarrying",
"approaching",
"closing",
"nearing",
"hitting",
"landing",
"reaching"
],
"antonyms":[
"arriving",
"coming",
"showing up",
"turning up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buttressing":{
"to hold up or serve as a foundation for":{
"examples":[
"a brace buttressed the wall"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing",
"bolstering",
"bracing",
"carrying",
"propping (up)",
"shoring (up)",
"staying",
"supporting",
"sustaining",
"undergirding",
"underpinning",
"upholding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"steadying",
"trussing",
"underlying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide evidence or information for (as a claim or idea)":{
"examples":[
"a mass of circumstantial evidence buttresses the prosecutor's case"
],
"synonyms":[
"backing",
"bolstering",
"corroborating",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"shoring (up)",
"substantiating",
"supporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"confirming",
"establishing",
"proving",
"verifying",
"affirming",
"avouching",
"validating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undercutting",
"undermining",
"weakening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bupkes":{
"the smallest amount or part imaginable":{
"examples":[
"she always eats out and proudly admits that she doesn't know bubkes about cooking"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"continental",
"damn",
"darn",
"durn",
"diddly",
"diddly-squat",
"doodley-squat",
"doodly-squat",
"fig",
"ghost",
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"lick",
"modicum",
"rap",
"squat",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"whit",
"whoop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"pin",
"ray",
"scrap",
"scruple",
"semblance",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"building a fire under":{
"to rouse to strong feeling or action":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"arousing",
"encouraging",
"exciting",
"firing (up)",
"impassioning",
"inciting",
"instigating",
"moving",
"piquing",
"provoking",
"revving (up)",
"sparking",
"stimulating",
"stirring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fanning",
"igniting",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"kindling",
"triggering",
"activating",
"animating",
"driving",
"energizing",
"galvanizing",
"inducing",
"inspiring",
"keying (up)",
"motivating",
"motiving",
"pumping up",
"quickening",
"setting off",
"vitalizing",
"abetting",
"fermenting",
"fomenting",
"raising",
"whipping (up)",
"angering",
"enraging",
"maddening",
"upsetting",
"jeering",
"taunting",
"teasing",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"getting",
"irritating",
"vexing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calming",
"soothing",
"subduing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"appeasing",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"burnt (up)":{
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"seeing people violate smoking bans really burns me up"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"ate",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"chafed",
"exasperated",
"frosted",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"griped",
"hacked (off)",
"irked",
"irritated",
"itched",
"narked",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"persecuted",
"piqued",
"put out",
"rasped",
"riled",
"ruffled",
"spited",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassled",
"heckled",
"nagged",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"provoked",
"roused",
"badgered",
"baited",
"bullyragged",
"ballyragged",
"deviled",
"devilled",
"hagrode",
"harassed",
"harried",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"teased",
"angered",
"antagonized",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"infuriated",
"maddened",
"rankled",
"roiled",
"agitated",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"exercised",
"freaked (out)",
"fretted",
"perturbed",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"miffed",
"offended",
"outraged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"obliged",
"pacified",
"placated",
"propitiated",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"contented",
"quieted",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bundling":{
"to cause to move or proceed fast or faster":{
"examples":[
"the tour guide bundled us off before we had a chance to ask any questions"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"fast-tracking",
"hastening",
"hurrying",
"quickening",
"rushing",
"speeding (up)",
"whisking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"driving",
"goading",
"prodding",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"racing",
"spurring",
"stirring",
"urging",
"aiding",
"dispatching",
"easing",
"encouraging",
"expediting",
"facilitating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delaying",
"encumbering",
"fettering",
"hampering",
"hindering",
"hobbling",
"holding back",
"holding up",
"impeding",
"interfering (with)",
"manacling",
"reining (in)",
"restraining",
"shackling",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"tying up",
"tieing up",
"arresting",
"checking",
"stalling",
"staying",
"stilling",
"stopping"
],
"antonyms":[
"braking",
"decelerating",
"retarding",
"slowing (down)"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"a group of servants came bundling out of the palace to attend to the returning royals"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"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":[
"verb"
]
},
"butt heads":{
"to express different opinions about something often angrily":{
"examples":[
"Our boss tries not to schedule Rosie and Mark for the same shifts, since the two often butt heads ."
],
"synonyms":[
"altercate",
"argue",
"argufy",
"bicker",
"brabble",
"brawl",
"controvert",
"dispute",
"fall out",
"fight",
"hassle",
"jar",
"quarrel",
"quibble",
"row",
"scrap",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenge",
"dare",
"defy",
"clash",
"contend",
"contest",
"tangle",
"cavil",
"fuss",
"nitpick",
"consider",
"debate",
"discuss",
"kick",
"object",
"protest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coexist",
"get along",
"accept",
"agree",
"assent",
"concur",
"consent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"buttering up":{
"as in sycophancy , fawning":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fawning",
"sycophancy",
"toadying",
"allurement",
"beguilement",
"endearment",
"enticement",
"ingratiation",
"smarm",
"adulation",
"blarney",
"butter",
"charm",
"flannel",
"flattery",
"incense",
"overpraise",
"soft soap",
"sweet talk",
"taffy",
"acclaim",
"applause",
"commendation",
"praise",
"blandishment",
"cajolement",
"cajolery",
"coaxing",
"entreaty",
"exhortation",
"urging",
"wheedling",
"charming",
"courting",
"massaging",
"romancing",
"seduction",
"tempting",
"wooing",
"influencing",
"prompting",
"swaying",
"lobbying",
"pressuring",
"brainwashing",
"overpersuasion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad-mouthing",
"belittlement",
"depreciation",
"detraction",
"disparagement",
"put-down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to praise too much":{
"examples":[
"a flunky who shamelessly butters up the boss"
],
"synonyms":[
"adulating",
"belauding",
"blarneying",
"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":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bugeyes":{
"as in ketches , yachts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brigantines",
"ca\u00efques",
"caravels",
"catamarans",
"catboats",
"cat rigs",
"clippers",
"corvettes",
"cutters",
"frigates",
"galleons",
"galleys",
"junk",
"keelboats",
"ketches",
"knockabouts",
"luggers",
"outriggers",
"pinnaces",
"piraguas",
"sailers",
"schooners",
"shallops",
"sharpies",
"sloops",
"square-riggers",
"xebecs",
"yachts",
"yawls",
"barks",
"dinghies",
"sailboats",
"windjammers",
"bottoms",
"crafts",
"vessels"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bursts":{
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
"examples":[
"the turnover's crust burst when the filling expanded"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows",
"blows up",
"crumps",
"detonates",
"explodes",
"goes off",
"pops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fragments",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"splinters",
"discharges",
"fires",
"shoots",
"balloons",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"mushrooms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"fizzles"
],
"antonyms":[
"implodes"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"examples":[
"finally burst the pi\u00f1ata open with one mighty swing of the bat"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasts",
"blows",
"blows up",
"demolishes",
"explodes",
"pops",
"shatters",
"smashes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dynamites",
"annihilates",
"decimates",
"destroys",
"ruins",
"wrecks",
"detonates",
"discharges",
"fragments",
"splinters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapses",
"implodes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"a young singer/dancer who seems to be bursting with energy and talent"
],
"synonyms":[
"abounds",
"brims",
"bristles",
"bulges",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"crawls",
"hums",
"overflows",
"pullulates",
"swarms",
"teems"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lacks",
"needs",
"wants"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sudden and usually temporary growth of activity":{
"examples":[
"a sudden burst of industriousness whenever the boss appeared"
],
"synonyms":[
"flares",
"flare-ups",
"flashes",
"flickers",
"flurries",
"flutters",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts",
"spurts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recrudescences",
"recurrences",
"renewals",
"binges",
"jags",
"sprees",
"boosts",
"increases",
"pickups",
"upswings",
"upturns",
"epidemics",
"eruptions",
"explosions",
"paroxysms",
"deluges",
"floods",
"rushes",
"spates",
"surges",
"volleys",
"commotions",
"furors",
"uproars"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"doldrums",
"slumps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sudden intense expression of strong feeling":{
"examples":[
"a burst of anger that startled the other members on the panel"
],
"synonyms":[
"agonies",
"blazes",
"ebullitions",
"eruptions",
"explosions",
"fits",
"flares",
"flare-ups",
"flashes",
"flushes",
"gales",
"gushes",
"gusts",
"outbursts",
"paroxysms",
"spasms",
"storms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowups",
"grouches",
"rages",
"tantrums",
"ecstasies",
"raptures",
"transports",
"deliriums",
"firestorms",
"frenzies",
"furors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or an instance of exploding":{
"examples":[
"one burst after another could be heard in the distance"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasts",
"blowups",
"detonations",
"eruptions",
"explosions",
"outbursts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discharges",
"firings",
"shootings",
"blowouts",
"flare-ups",
"bangs",
"booms",
"pops",
"airbursts",
"groundbursts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bulletining":{
"as in billing , gazetting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"billboarding",
"billing",
"gazetting",
"barking",
"calling (off or out)",
"crying",
"knelling",
"ringing",
"tolling",
"advertising",
"announcing",
"annunciating",
"blaring",
"blazing",
"blazoning",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"enunciating",
"flashing",
"giving out",
"heralding",
"placarding",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"promulgating",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"releasing",
"sounding",
"trumpeting",
"blurbing",
"featuring",
"pitching",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"puffing",
"disseminating",
"spreading",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"introducing",
"kithing",
"kything",
"manifesting",
"reporting",
"revealing",
"showing",
"advising",
"apprising",
"handing down",
"informing",
"notifying",
"communicating",
"imparting",
"intimating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealing",
"hushing (up)",
"silencing",
"suppressing",
"withholding",
"recalling",
"recanting",
"retracting",
"revoking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burgle":{
"to enter a house or building by force usually with illegal intent":{
"examples":[
"someone burgled the lab when no one was there and let the animals out of their cages"
],
"synonyms":[
"break in",
"burglarize"
],
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"invade",
"trespass",
"hold up",
"loot",
"plunder",
"rip off",
"rob",
"stick up",
"ransack",
"rifle",
"despoil",
"devastate",
"maraud",
"pillage",
"ravage",
"sack"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"the neighbors returned from vacation to find that their house had been burgled"
],
"synonyms":[
"burglarize",
"knock off",
"knock over",
"rip off",
"rob",
"steal (from)",
"take off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ransack",
"rifle",
"despoil",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravish",
"sack",
"spoil",
"strip",
"bleed",
"break in",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"exploit",
"fleece",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"pluck",
"rook",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"sting",
"swindle",
"hold up",
"mug",
"roll",
"stick up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burps":{
"an expulsion of stomach gas through the mouth":{
"examples":[
"felt embarrassed when a burp escaped from his lips as the table was being cleared"
],
"synonyms":[
"belches",
"eructations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hiccups",
"hiccoughs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burn":{
"to be on fire especially brightly":{
"examples":[
"all evening long we just sat there, contentedly watching the Yule log burn"
],
"synonyms":[
"blaze",
"combust",
"flame",
"glow"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catch",
"enkindle",
"deflagrate",
"fire",
"ignite",
"kindle",
"flare (up)",
"light (up)",
"flicker",
"gutter",
"waver",
"bake",
"broil",
"char",
"cook",
"melt",
"roast",
"scorch",
"swelter",
"smolder",
"smoulder",
"spark",
"sputter",
"beam",
"brighten",
"radiate",
"beat (down)",
"flash",
"glare",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glitter",
"scintillate",
"shimmer",
"shine",
"sparkle",
"twinkle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set (something) on fire":{
"examples":[
"it is not a good idea to try to burn old papers in the sink"
],
"synonyms":[
"enkindle",
"fire",
"ignite",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"kindle",
"light",
"torch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immolate",
"deflagrate",
"char",
"frizzle",
"scorch",
"bake",
"broil",
"cook",
"ash",
"cremate",
"incinerate",
"kiln",
"set off",
"brighten",
"illuminate",
"illumine",
"irradiate",
"lighten",
"radiate",
"scald",
"scathe",
"sear",
"reignite",
"rekindle",
"relight",
"bank",
"stoke"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choke",
"smother",
"suffocate",
"stamp (out)",
"blacken",
"darken",
"dim",
"dull",
"obscure"
],
"antonyms":[
"douse",
"dowse",
"extinguish",
"put out",
"quench",
"snuff (out)"
]
},
"to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger":{
"examples":[
"he came home burning with anger because of a reprimand at work"
],
"synonyms":[
"boil",
"foam",
"fume",
"rage",
"rankle",
"seethe",
"sizzle",
"steam",
"storm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fulminate",
"rant",
"rave",
"smolder",
"smoulder",
"bristle",
"flare (up)",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"chafe",
"fret",
"stew",
"agitate",
"convulse",
"roil",
"shake"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shine with a bright harsh light":{
"examples":[
"the bright streetlight outside our motel room burned all night long"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"blaze",
"flame",
"flare",
"glare"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beam",
"glow",
"radiate",
"flash",
"glance",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glister",
"glitter",
"scintillate",
"shimmer",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"bedazzle",
"blind",
"daze",
"dazzle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"he's been burned before, so he's careful to double-check such claims now"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozle",
"beguile",
"bluff",
"buffalo",
"catch",
"con",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fake out",
"fool",
"gaff",
"gammon",
"gull",
"have",
"have on",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"hornswoggle",
"humbug",
"juggle",
"misguide",
"misinform",
"mislead",
"snooker",
"snow",
"spoof",
"string along",
"suck in",
"sucker",
"take in",
"trick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kid",
"put on",
"tease",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"euchre",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"rook",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"sting",
"swindle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunk",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show up",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"tell",
"unveil",
"disabuse",
"disenchant",
"disillusion"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceive"
]
},
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"heedlessly burning the country's resources without any concern for future generations"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorb",
"consume",
"deplete",
"devour",
"drain",
"draw down",
"exhaust",
"expend",
"play out",
"spend",
"use up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abate",
"decrease",
"de-escalate",
"diminish",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"lower",
"reduce",
"eat",
"use",
"bankrupt",
"clean (out)",
"impoverish",
"cripple",
"debilitate",
"disable",
"enfeeble",
"sap",
"undermine",
"weaken",
"dry up",
"empty",
"blow",
"dissipate",
"fritter (away)",
"guzzle",
"lavish",
"misspend",
"run through",
"squander",
"throw away",
"waste"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augment",
"enlarge",
"increase",
"bolster",
"enforce",
"fortify",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"strengthen",
"rebuild",
"repair",
"restore",
"revive",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"save"
],
"antonyms":[
"renew",
"replace"
]
},
"a natural body of running water smaller than a river":{
"examples":[
"the walkers forded the shallow burn and then came upon a field of gorse"
],
"synonyms":[
"beck",
"bourn",
"bourne",
"brook",
"brooklet",
"creek",
"gill",
"rill",
"rivulet",
"run",
"runlet",
"runnel",
"streamlet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arroyo",
"billabong",
"fresh",
"freshet",
"runoff",
"bayou",
"coulee",
"slough",
"slew",
"slue",
"stream",
"wash",
"canal",
"channel",
"cut",
"cutoff",
"gut",
"kill",
"millrace",
"millstream",
"race",
"watercourse",
"waterway",
"affluent",
"branch",
"confluent",
"distributary",
"influent",
"tributary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bundling up":{
"as in dolling up , dressing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"appareling",
"apparelling",
"arraying",
"attiring",
"bedecking",
"bedizening",
"caparisoning",
"clothing",
"dolling up",
"dressing",
"garbing",
"rigging",
"robing",
"suiting",
"tricking",
"uniforming",
"donning",
"putting on",
"slipping (on or into)",
"throwing (on)",
"overdressing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doffing",
"removing",
"taking off",
"disrobing",
"stripping",
"undressing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burnished":{
"having a shiny surface or finish":{
"examples":[
"bright burnished metal is used extensively in that boutique's decor"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffed",
"glistening",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"polished",
"rubbed",
"satin",
"satiny",
"sleek"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brushed",
"eggshell",
"semigloss",
"semilustrous",
"silken",
"silky",
"slick",
"slippery",
"glassy",
"glazed",
"lacquered",
"shellacked",
"varnished",
"gleaming",
"glittering",
"reflective",
"shining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lackluster",
"unvarnished"
],
"antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"flat",
"lusterless",
"matte",
"mat",
"matt"
]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"burnished the floor of the ballroom to a soft luster"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffed",
"dressed",
"furbished",
"glossed",
"ground",
"polished",
"rubbed",
"shone",
"shined",
"smoothed",
"smoothened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleeked",
"slicked",
"coated",
"glazed",
"japanned",
"lacquered",
"varnished",
"faced",
"finished",
"veneered",
"brightened",
"filed",
"rasped",
"sandblasted",
"sanded",
"sandpapered",
"scoured",
"scraped",
"scrubbed",
"bobbed",
"boned",
"lapped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"roughed (up)",
"roughened",
"ruffled",
"scuffed (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"buses":{
"a self-propelled passenger vehicle on four wheels":{
"examples":[
"this old bus is still running\u2014but barely"
],
"synonyms":[
"automobiles",
"autos",
"cars",
"horseless carriages",
"machines",
"motorcars",
"motors",
"motor vehicles",
"wheels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coaches",
"jitneys",
"microbuses",
"microbusses",
"minibuses",
"minibusses",
"minivans",
"omnibuses",
"vans",
"convertibles",
"fastbacks",
"hardtops",
"hatchbacks",
"notchbacks",
"ragtops",
"sports cars",
"sport-utility vehicles",
"station wagons",
"SUVs",
"town cars",
"wagons",
"woodies",
"compacts",
"coupes",
"coup\u00e9s",
"intermediates",
"limousines",
"minicars",
"minis",
"sedans",
"subcompacts",
"V-8s",
"gas-guzzlers",
"land yachts",
"muscle cars",
"stock cars",
"turbocars",
"beaters",
"clunkers",
"crates",
"flivvers",
"jalopies",
"junkers",
"cream puffs",
"phaetons",
"roadsters",
"tin lizzies",
"touring cars",
"hybrids"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in drives , rides":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cabs",
"coaches",
"cruises",
"drives",
"flies",
"gigs",
"jets",
"motors",
"navigates",
"rides",
"rolls",
"sails",
"trundles",
"migrates",
"road-trips",
"barnstorms",
"gallivants",
"galavants",
"hops",
"jaunts",
"knocks (about)",
"perambulates",
"rambles",
"roams",
"roves",
"traipses",
"wanders",
"journeys",
"peregrinates",
"pilgrimages",
"tours",
"travels",
"treks",
"trips",
"voyages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"burglarizes":{
"to enter a house or building by force usually with illegal intent":{
"examples":[
"the Watergate scandal began when Republican operatives burglarized the Democratic Party's headquarters in Washington, D.C."
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks in",
"burgles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"invades",
"trespasses",
"holds up",
"loots",
"plunders",
"rips off",
"robs",
"sticks up",
"ransacks",
"rifles",
"despoils",
"devastates",
"marauds",
"pillages",
"ravages",
"sacks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"before they were caught, the thieves had burglarized dozens of houses around the city"
],
"synonyms":[
"burgles",
"knocks off",
"knocks over",
"rips off",
"robs",
"steals (from)",
"takes off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ransacks",
"rifles",
"despoils",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ravishes",
"sacks",
"spoils",
"strips",
"bleeds",
"breaks in",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"cozens",
"defrauds",
"exploits",
"fleeces",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"plucks",
"rooks",
"shortchanges",
"skins",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stings",
"swindles",
"holds up",
"mugs",
"rolls",
"sticks up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bunko":{
"an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value":{
"examples":[
"they were experts at that bunco , having fleeced wide-eyed tourists for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"con",
"fiddle",
"flimflam",
"fraud",
"hustle",
"scam",
"shell game",
"sting",
"swindle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cross",
"fix",
"Ponzi scheme",
"pyramid scheme",
"racket",
"rip-off",
"thimblerig",
"three-card monte",
"device",
"dodge",
"gimmick",
"jig",
"ploy",
"scheme",
"sleight",
"stratagem",
"trick",
"wile",
"gouging",
"overcharging",
"soaking",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"forgery",
"hoax",
"humbug",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buzz":{
"a communication by telephone":{
"examples":[
"give me a buzz when you decide"
],
"synonyms":[
"call",
"ring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"callback",
"cold call",
"conference call",
"message",
"toll call",
"voice mail"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a monotonous sound like that of an insect in motion":{
"examples":[
"the motor made a soft buzz"
],
"synonyms":[
"burr",
"chirr",
"churr",
"drone",
"hum",
"purr",
"thrum",
"whir",
"whirr",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"babble",
"coo",
"gasp",
"gurgle",
"hiss",
"moan",
"murmur",
"rustle",
"sigh",
"suspiration",
"susurration",
"susurrus",
"whisper",
"whish",
"zing",
"zip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bawl",
"howl",
"roar",
"scream",
"screech",
"shriek",
"squall",
"squeal",
"yelp",
"yell"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"information or opinion that is widely disseminated without any authority or confirmation of accuracy":{
"examples":[
"the buzz is that this would-be blockbuster will be the bomb of the summer"
],
"synonyms":[
"dish",
"gossip",
"hearsay",
"noise",
"report",
"rumor",
"scuttlebutt",
"talk",
"tattle",
"word"
],
"near synonyms":[
"tale",
"whisper",
"whispering",
"hint",
"intimation",
"rumbling",
"disinformation",
"propaganda",
"urban legend",
"urban myth",
"dirt",
"scandal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time":{
"examples":[
"longer hairstyles are the buzz this season"
],
"synonyms":[
"chic",
"craze",
"dernier cri",
"enthusiasm",
"fad",
"fashion",
"flavor",
"go",
"hot ticket",
"last word",
"latest",
"mode",
"rage",
"sensation",
"style",
"ton",
"trend",
"vogue"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nine days' wonder",
"nine day wonder",
"new wave",
"crush",
"infatuation",
"fervor",
"passion",
"furor",
"fuss",
"hullabaloo",
"to-do",
"uproar",
"bandwagon",
"crusade",
"cult",
"movement",
"novelty",
"wrinkle",
"caprice",
"fancy",
"whim"
],
"near antonyms":[
"classic",
"standard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"for months the area has been buzzing with rumors that a megacorporation plans to locate its headquarters here"
],
"synonyms":[
"abound",
"brim",
"bristle",
"bulge",
"burst",
"bustle",
"crawl",
"hum",
"overflow",
"pullulate",
"swarm",
"teem"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lack",
"need",
"want"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"we've been buzzing around all morning getting ready for the meeting with the VIPs from the head office"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"belt",
"blast",
"blaze",
"blow",
"bolt",
"bomb",
"bowl",
"breeze",
"bundle",
"bustle",
"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"
]
},
"to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound":{
"examples":[
"the little plane buzzed past the crowd"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumble",
"burr",
"drone",
"hum",
"whir",
"whirr",
"whish",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chirr",
"churr",
"thrum",
"fizz",
"hiss",
"murmur",
"purr",
"rustle",
"sigh",
"sizzle",
"swish",
"whisper",
"coo",
"curr",
"wheeze",
"whistle",
"whoosh"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bum's rushes":{
"as in sacks , birds":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"birds",
"boots",
"firings",
"heave-hos",
"sacks",
"pink slips",
"closings",
"shutdowns",
"axes",
"discharges",
"dismissals",
"furloughs",
"layoffs",
"redundancies",
"shakeouts",
"shake-ups"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callbacks",
"recalls",
"reemployments",
"re-employments",
"rehires"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bulletin":{
"a publication that appears at regular intervals":{
"examples":[
"picks up a church bulletin every Sunday after Mass"
],
"synonyms":[
"book",
"diurnal",
"gazette",
"journal",
"mag",
"magazine",
"newspaper",
"organ",
"paper",
"periodical",
"rag",
"review",
"serial",
"zine"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annual",
"bimonthly",
"biweekly",
"daily",
"monthly",
"quarterly",
"semimonthly",
"semiweekly",
"triweekly",
"weekly",
"yearbook",
"digest",
"little magazine",
"fanzine",
"pictorial",
"slick",
"broadside",
"edition",
"extra",
"sheet",
"supplement",
"tab",
"tabloid",
"newsletter",
"newsmagazine",
"newsweekly"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a published statement informing the public of a matter of general interest":{
"examples":[
"I signed up to receive the free financial bulletin daily in my in-box"
],
"synonyms":[
"ad",
"advert",
"advertisement",
"announcement",
"communiqu\u00e9",
"notice",
"notification",
"posting",
"release"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broadside",
"brochure",
"circular",
"flyer",
"flier",
"fly sheet",
"gazette",
"handbill",
"handout",
"bill",
"billboard",
"placard",
"playbill",
"poster",
"show bill",
"sign",
"broadcast",
"cablecast",
"newscast",
"telecast",
"advertising",
"billing",
"blurb",
"come-on",
"commercial",
"message",
"pitch",
"plugola",
"spot",
"word",
"communication",
"dispatch",
"report",
"annunciation",
"declaration",
"edict",
"proclamation",
"promulgation",
"pronouncement",
"pronunciamento",
"rescript",
"signification",
"ballyhoo",
"boost",
"buildup",
"campaign",
"plug",
"promo",
"promotion",
"propaganda",
"publicity"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bill , gazette":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bill",
"billboard",
"gazette",
"bark",
"call (off or out)",
"cry",
"knell",
"ring",
"toll",
"advertise",
"announce",
"annunciate",
"blare",
"blaze",
"blazon",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"enunciate",
"flash",
"give out",
"herald",
"placard",
"post",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"publish",
"release",
"sound",
"trumpet",
"blurb",
"feature",
"pitch",
"plug",
"promote",
"puff",
"disseminate",
"spread",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"introduce",
"kithe",
"manifest",
"report",
"reveal",
"show",
"advise",
"apprise",
"hand down",
"inform",
"notify",
"communicate",
"impart",
"intimate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceal",
"hush (up)",
"silence",
"suppress",
"withhold",
"recall",
"recant",
"retract",
"revoke"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bubbling":{
"to flow in a broken irregular stream":{
"examples":[
"the soapy water bubbled down the drain"
],
"synonyms":[
"dribbling",
"guggling",
"gurgling",
"lapping",
"plashing",
"rippling",
"splashing",
"trickling",
"washing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eddying",
"purling",
"swirling",
"swashing",
"swishing",
"swooshing",
"whishing",
"dripping",
"dropping",
"gushing",
"jetting",
"rushing",
"spewing",
"spouting",
"spurting",
"squirting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"running"
],
"antonyms":[
"pouring",
"rolling",
"streaming"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bursting":{
"containing or seeming to contain the greatest quantity or number possible":{
"examples":[
"the store was bursting with bargain hunters on the day of the big sale"
],
"synonyms":[
"brimful",
"brimming",
"chock-full",
"chockful",
"chockablock",
"crammed",
"crowded",
"fat",
"filled",
"full",
"jam-packed",
"jammed",
"loaded",
"packed",
"stuffed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overcrowded",
"overfilled",
"overflowing",
"overfull",
"overladen",
"overloaded",
"overstuffed",
"abounding",
"flush",
"fraught",
"replete",
"rife",
"swarming",
"teeming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"incomplete",
"insufficient",
"short",
"shortish",
"shy",
"wanting",
"depleted",
"drained",
"exhausted"
],
"antonyms":[
"bare",
"blank",
"devoid",
"empty",
"stark",
"vacant",
"void"
]
},
"the act or an instance of exploding":{
"examples":[
"narrowly escaped the bursting of the car's gas tank"
],
"synonyms":[
"blast",
"blowup",
"burst",
"detonation",
"eruption",
"explosion",
"outburst"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discharge",
"firing",
"shooting",
"blowout",
"flare-up",
"bang",
"boom",
"pop",
"airburst",
"groundburst"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
"examples":[
"the turnover's crust burst when the filling expanded"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"blowing up",
"crumping",
"detonating",
"exploding",
"going off",
"popping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fragmenting",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"splintering",
"discharging",
"firing",
"shooting",
"ballooning",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"mushrooming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"fizzling"
],
"antonyms":[
"imploding"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"examples":[
"finally burst the pi\u00f1ata open with one mighty swing of the bat"
],
"synonyms":[
"blasting",
"blowing",
"blowing up",
"demolishing",
"exploding",
"popping",
"shattering",
"smashing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dynamiting",
"annihilating",
"decimating",
"destroying",
"ruining",
"wrecking",
"detonating",
"discharging",
"fragmenting",
"splintering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsing",
"imploding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"a young singer/dancer who seems to be bursting with energy and talent"
],
"synonyms":[
"abounding",
"brimming",
"bristling",
"bulging",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"crawling",
"humming",
"overflowing",
"pullulating",
"swarming",
"teeming"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lacking",
"needing",
"wanting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bundles":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"a bundle of plans for the winter carnival"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"basketfuls",
"basketsful",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bunches",
"bushels",
"carloads",
"chunks",
"deals",
"dozens",
"dozen",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"good deals",
"heaps",
"hundreds",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"multiplicities",
"myriads",
"oodles",
"packs",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"platefuls",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"plentitudes",
"potfuls",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaves",
"shiploads",
"sights",
"slews",
"spates",
"stacks",
"stores",
"tons",
"truckloads",
"volumes",
"wads",
"wealths",
"yards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemics",
"plagues",
"rashes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"plethoras",
"redundancies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"deluges",
"floods",
"overflows",
"armies",
"bevies",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"droves",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"legions",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"presses",
"scores",
"seas",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"gazillions",
"jillions",
"kazillions",
"millions",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillions",
"zillions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atoms",
"crumbs",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"fragments",
"grains",
"granules",
"iotas",
"jots",
"modicums",
"molecules",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"particles",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scraps",
"shreds",
"tittles",
"whits",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"dashes",
"drops",
"morsels",
"shots",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"absences",
"dearths",
"famines",
"lacks",
"paucities",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies"
],
"antonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"mouthfuls",
"nips",
"ounces",
"peanuts",
"pinches",
"pittances",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"tastes",
"touches",
"traces"
]
},
"a wrapped or sealed case containing an item or set of items":{
"examples":[
"a bundle of newspapers"
],
"synonyms":[
"packages",
"packets",
"packs",
"parcels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bags",
"pokes",
"pouches",
"sacks",
"bales",
"boxes",
"containers",
"crates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to move or proceed fast or faster":{
"examples":[
"the tour guide bundled us off before we had a chance to ask any questions"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"fast-tracks",
"hastens",
"hurries",
"quickens",
"rushes",
"speeds (up)",
"whisks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drives",
"goads",
"prods",
"propels",
"pushes",
"races",
"spurs",
"stirs",
"urges",
"aids",
"dispatches",
"eases",
"encourages",
"expedites",
"facilitates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delays",
"encumbers",
"fetters",
"hampers",
"hinders",
"hobbles",
"holds back",
"holds up",
"impedes",
"interferes (with)",
"manacles",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"shackles",
"ties up",
"trammels",
"arrests",
"checks",
"stalls",
"stays",
"stills",
"stops"
],
"antonyms":[
"brakes",
"decelerates",
"retards",
"slows (down)"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"a group of servants came bundling out of the palace to attend to the returning royals"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"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"
]
},
"butter":{
"excessive praise":{
"examples":[
"a junior exec who was laying on the butter so thickly that her colleagues were ready to gag"
],
"synonyms":[
"adulation",
"blarney",
"flannel",
"flattery",
"incense",
"overpraise",
"soft soap",
"sweet talk",
"taffy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allurements",
"blandishments",
"endearments",
"caresses",
"compliments",
"congratulations",
"felicitations",
"greetings",
"regards",
"respects",
"adoration",
"idolatry",
"worship",
"fawning",
"sycophancy",
"toadying",
"cajolement",
"cajolery",
"ingratiation",
"smarm",
"acclaim",
"applause",
"commendation",
"praise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad-mouthing",
"belittlement",
"depreciation",
"detraction",
"disparagement",
"put-down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buggies":{
"a small four-wheeled vehicle designed for pushing a baby around in":{
"examples":[
"we'll need a new buggy if we have another baby"
],
"synonyms":[
"baby buggies",
"baby carriages",
"perambulators",
"prams",
"pushchairs",
"strollers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bassinets",
"cradles",
"cribs",
"carry-cots"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burnish":{
"brightness created by light reflected from a surface":{
"examples":[
"after some much-needed polishing, the silver tea set had a brilliant burnish"
],
"synonyms":[
"gloss",
"luminance",
"luster",
"lustre",
"polish",
"sheen",
"shine"
],
"near synonyms":[
"glare",
"gleam",
"glimmer",
"glint",
"glisten",
"glow",
"shimmer",
"blink",
"flicker",
"sparkle",
"twinkle",
"illumination",
"irradiation",
"iridescence",
"luminescence",
"brilliance",
"luminosity",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"refulgence",
"finish",
"glaze"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dimness",
"dinginess",
"dirtiness",
"drabness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"flatness",
"grayness",
"paleness",
"cloudiness",
"gloom",
"murkiness",
"obscureness",
"obscurity",
"somberness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"burnished the floor of the ballroom to a soft luster"
],
"synonyms":[
"buff",
"dress",
"furbish",
"gloss",
"grind",
"polish",
"rub",
"shine",
"smooth",
"smoothen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleek",
"slick",
"coat",
"glaze",
"japan",
"lacquer",
"varnish",
"face",
"finish",
"veneer",
"brighten",
"file",
"rasp",
"sand",
"sandblast",
"sandpaper",
"scour",
"scrape",
"scrub",
"bob",
"bone",
"lap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rough (up)",
"roughen",
"ruffle",
"scuff (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"buffered":{
"to lessen the shock of":{
"examples":[
"during my walk an umbrella and thick coat buffered the freezing rain"
],
"synonyms":[
"cushioned",
"gentled",
"softened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baffled",
"dampened",
"deadened",
"dulled",
"obtunded",
"moderated",
"modulated",
"tempered",
"allayed",
"alleviated",
"assuaged",
"eased",
"lightened",
"mitigated",
"relieved"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heightened",
"intensified",
"sharpened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"butterflies":{
"a sense of panic or extreme nervousness":{
"examples":[
"even experienced actors sometimes get butterflies before a performance"
],
"synonyms":[
"dither",
"heebie-jeebies",
"jimjams",
"jitters",
"nerves",
"screaming meemies",
"shakes",
"shivers",
"whim-whams",
"willies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cold sweat",
"creeps",
"fidgets",
"goose bumps",
"agitation",
"anxiety",
"fear",
"hysteria",
"uneasiness",
"frazzle",
"nervous breakdown",
"edginess",
"jumpiness",
"skittishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aplomb",
"calm",
"composure",
"equanimity",
"imperturbability",
"self-possession",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"burg":{
"a thickly settled, highly populated area":{
"examples":[
"moved from a small town into a much bigger burg"
],
"synonyms":[
"asphalt jungle",
"city",
"cosmopolis",
"megacity",
"megalopolis",
"metropolis",
"municipality",
"town"
],
"near synonyms":[
"borough",
"conurbation",
"urban sprawl",
"exurb",
"suburb",
"suburbia",
"central city",
"edge city",
"garden city",
"core city",
"downtown",
"inner city",
"midtown"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burp":{
"an expulsion of stomach gas through the mouth":{
"examples":[
"felt embarrassed when a burp escaped from his lips as the table was being cleared"
],
"synonyms":[
"belch",
"eructation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hiccup",
"hiccough"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buffooneries":{
"wildly playful or mischievous behavior":{
"examples":[
"their madcap buffoonery turned the duo into the nation's hottest comedy act"
],
"synonyms":[
"clownery",
"clowning",
"foolery",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"horsing around",
"monkey business",
"monkeying",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"roughhouse",
"roughhousing",
"shenanigan(s)",
"skylarking",
"slapstick",
"tomfoolery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"childishness",
"clownishness",
"foolishness",
"funning",
"jesting",
"joking",
"nonsense",
"silliness",
"waggery",
"boisterousness",
"rambunctiousness",
"rowdiness",
"rowdyism",
"rumbustiousness",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"prankishness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"roguishness",
"trickery",
"cavorting",
"frivolity",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"merrymaking",
"playfulness",
"revelry",
"roistering",
"romping",
"sporting",
"sportiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bullyragged":{
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"anonymous trolls on the website tried to bullyrag him into backing down"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacked",
"bogarted",
"browbeat",
"bulldozed",
"bullied",
"cowed",
"hectored",
"intimidated",
"strong-armed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustered",
"trash-talked",
"affrighted",
"alarmed",
"alarumed",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"menaced",
"terrorized",
"threatened",
"badgered",
"harassed",
"hounded",
"bludgeoned",
"coerced",
"compelled",
"constrained",
"dragooned",
"forced",
"made",
"obliged",
"pressed",
"pressured",
"pushed around",
"demoralized",
"psyched (out)",
"unmanned",
"unnerved",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"upset"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"steeled",
"convinced",
"persuaded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buttinsky":{
"a person who meddles in the affairs of others":{
"examples":[
"there's always some buttinsky who has to tell you there's a better way to do whatever you're doing"
],
"synonyms":[
"busybody",
"interferer",
"interloper",
"intermeddler",
"intruder",
"kibitzer",
"kibbitzer",
"meddler",
"nosey parker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gaper",
"gawker",
"gawper",
"gazer",
"peeper",
"peeping Tom",
"prier",
"pryer",
"rubberneck",
"rubbernecker",
"snoop",
"snooper",
"spy",
"blabber",
"discloser",
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"prattler",
"quidnunc",
"revealer",
"teller",
"betrayer",
"talebearer",
"tattler",
"tattletale",
"telltale",
"snake",
"sneak",
"informant",
"informer",
"snitcher",
"squealer",
"stool pigeon"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"butch":{
"as in Amazonian":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Amazonian",
"boyish",
"hoydenish",
"tomboyish",
"hairy-chested",
"hypermasculine",
"macho",
"ultramasculine",
"male",
"manlike",
"manly",
"mannish",
"man-size",
"man-sized",
"masculine",
"virile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unmanly",
"unmasculine",
"metrosexual",
"unmacho",
"effeminate",
"girlish",
"sissified",
"sissy",
"feminine",
"womanish",
"womanlike",
"womanly",
"emasculated",
"impotent",
"weakened",
"androgynous",
"neuter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bump into":{
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"I bumped into Kenny the other day."
],
"synonyms":[
"catch",
"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"happen (upon)",
"meet",
"stumble (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accost",
"confront",
"face",
"greet",
"salute",
"collide (with)",
"crash (into)",
"crisscross",
"cross",
"pass",
"hit (upon)",
"light (upon)",
"tumble (to)",
"reencounter",
"remeet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"shake",
"shun"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"Turn any corner in the old city and you're likely to bump into a piece of history."
],
"synonyms":[
"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"find",
"happen (on or upon)",
"hit (upon)",
"light (on or upon)",
"meet",
"pitch (upon)",
"stumble (on or onto)",
"tumble (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luck (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confront",
"face",
"discover",
"strike",
"turn up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"bulletproof":{
"incapable of being defeated, overcome, or subdued":{
"examples":[
"this year the coach's strategy seems bulletproof"
],
"synonyms":[
"impregnable",
"indomitable",
"insuperable",
"insurmountable",
"invincible",
"invulnerable",
"unbeatable",
"unconquerable",
"unstoppable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inviolable",
"unassailable",
"unbreachable",
"untouchable",
"armored",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"safe",
"safeguarded",
"secure",
"shielded",
"unbeaten",
"unbowed",
"unconquered",
"undefeated",
"unsubdued"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exposed",
"imperiled",
"imperilled",
"insecure",
"liable",
"open",
"susceptible",
"unguarded",
"unprotected",
"unsafe",
"defenseless",
"helpless",
"powerless",
"weak"
],
"antonyms":[
"superable",
"surmountable",
"vincible",
"vulnerable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"burliness":{
"as in brawniness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brawniness",
"huskiness",
"stoutness",
"endomorphy",
"bulkiness",
"heaviness",
"adiposity",
"chubbiness",
"corpulence",
"corpulency",
"embonpoint",
"fat",
"fatness",
"fattiness",
"fleshiness",
"grossness",
"obesity",
"plumpness",
"portliness",
"pudginess",
"pursiness",
"rotundity",
"weight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"leanness",
"reediness",
"slenderness",
"slimness",
"svelteness",
"thinness",
"fitness",
"trimness",
"gauntness",
"scrawniness",
"skinniness",
"weediness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bushed":{
"depleted in strength, energy, or freshness":{
"examples":[
"I'm bushed after a day of moving boxes from the cellar to the attic"
],
"synonyms":[
"all in",
"aweary",
"beat",
"beaten",
"bleary",
"burned-out",
"burnt-out",
"dead",
"done",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"fatigued",
"jaded",
"knackered",
"limp",
"logy",
"loggy",
"played out",
"pooped",
"prostrate",
"spent",
"tapped out",
"tired",
"tuckered (out)",
"washed-out",
"wearied",
"weary",
"wiped out",
"worn",
"worn-out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overfatigued",
"overtaxed",
"overworked",
"broken-down",
"run-down",
"debilitated",
"enervate",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"weakened",
"drowsy",
"heavy",
"sleepy",
"lethargic",
"sluggish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fresh",
"refreshed",
"rejuvenated",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"revitalized",
"active",
"energetic",
"invigorated",
"peppy",
"strengthened",
"strong",
"tireless",
"vitalized",
"weariless"
],
"antonyms":[
"unwearied"
]
},
"suffering from mental confusion":{
"examples":[
"we were thoroughly bushed after listening to the convoluted directions from a well-meaning Sydneysider"
],
"synonyms":[
"addle",
"addled",
"addlepated",
"bedeviled",
"befogged",
"befuddled",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"confounded",
"confused",
"dazed",
"distracted",
"dizzy",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"fogged",
"mixed-up",
"muddleheaded",
"muzzy",
"pixilated",
"pixillated",
"punch-drunk",
"punchy",
"raddled",
"shell-shocked",
"silly",
"slaphappy",
"spaced-out",
"spaced",
"spacey",
"spacy",
"stunned",
"stupefied",
"zonked",
"zonked-out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"senseless",
"unconscious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alert",
"conscious"
],
"antonyms":[
"clearheaded"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"burgher":{
"a person who lives in a town on a permanent basis":{
"examples":[
"many of the college students are regarded by the local burghers as obnoxious louts"
],
"synonyms":[
"citizen",
"townie",
"towny",
"townsman",
"villager"
],
"near synonyms":[
"townswoman",
"cliff dweller",
"denizen",
"dweller",
"habitant",
"inhabitant",
"national",
"native",
"occupant",
"resident",
"resider",
"subject",
"town",
"townsfolk",
"townspeople",
"suburbanite",
"urbanite"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alien",
"foreigner",
"guest",
"nonnative",
"tourist",
"transient",
"visitor",
"gownsman"
],
"antonyms":[
"noncitizen"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buffets":{
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"delivered a powerful buffet to the side of the prisoner's head"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"beats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"blows",
"bops",
"boxes",
"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":[]
},
"a storage case typically having doors and shelves":{
"examples":[
"a buffet completed the kitchen set"
],
"synonyms":[
"cabinets",
"closets",
"consoles",
"cupboards",
"hutches",
"lockers",
"presses",
"sideboards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bookcases",
"breakfronts",
"chests",
"china closets",
"credences",
"credenzas",
"\u00e9tag\u00e8res",
"etageres",
"secretaries",
"showcases",
"taborets",
"tabourets",
"vitrines",
"cuddies",
"dressers",
"pie safes",
"armoires",
"clothespresses",
"garderobes",
"wardrobes",
"cabinetries",
"shelvings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"fierce winds buffeted the small sailboat"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashes",
"bastes",
"bats",
"batters",
"beats",
"belabors",
"belts",
"birches",
"bludgeons",
"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":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"burned (up)":{
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"seeing people violate smoking bans really burns me up"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"ate",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"chafed",
"exasperated",
"frosted",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"griped",
"hacked (off)",
"irked",
"irritated",
"itched",
"narked",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"persecuted",
"piqued",
"put out",
"rasped",
"riled",
"ruffled",
"spited",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassled",
"heckled",
"nagged",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"provoked",
"roused",
"badgered",
"baited",
"bullyragged",
"ballyragged",
"deviled",
"devilled",
"hagrode",
"harassed",
"harried",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"teased",
"angered",
"antagonized",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"infuriated",
"maddened",
"rankled",
"roiled",
"agitated",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"exercised",
"freaked (out)",
"fretted",
"perturbed",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"miffed",
"offended",
"outraged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"obliged",
"pacified",
"placated",
"propitiated",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"contented",
"quieted",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burkes":{
"to keep from being publicly known":{
"examples":[
"the executives knew that the drug had dangerous side effects, but they burked the findings"
],
"synonyms":[
"covers (up)",
"hushes (up)",
"suppresses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blacks out",
"censors",
"gags",
"muzzles",
"silences",
"quashes",
"represses",
"smothers",
"spikes",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"throttles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunks",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"shows up",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks",
"blabs",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"spills",
"tells",
"unveils",
"broadcasts",
"circulates",
"publishes",
"spreads",
"describes",
"narrates",
"recites",
"recounts",
"rehearses",
"relates",
"reports"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"busters":{
"as in buddies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"buddies",
"masters",
"misters",
"sirs",
"bastards",
"blokes",
"bucks",
"cats",
"chappies",
"chaps",
"dudes",
"fellas",
"fellers",
"fellows",
"galoots",
"gentlemen",
"gents",
"guys",
"hombres",
"jacks",
"joes",
"jokers",
"lads",
"males",
"men"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buncos":{
"an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value":{
"examples":[
"they were experts at that bunco , having fleeced wide-eyed tourists for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"cons",
"fiddles",
"flimflams",
"frauds",
"hustles",
"scams",
"shell games",
"stings",
"swindles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crosses",
"fixes",
"Ponzi schemes",
"pyramid schemes",
"rackets",
"rip-offs",
"thimblerigs",
"three-card montes",
"devices",
"dodges",
"gimmicks",
"jigs",
"ploys",
"schemes",
"sleights",
"stratagems",
"tricks",
"wiles",
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"forgeries",
"hoaxes",
"humbug",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"shams"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burned out":{
"depleted in strength, energy, or freshness":{
"examples":[
"I'm feeling so burned-out that I can't wait for vacation"
],
"synonyms":[
"all in",
"aweary",
"beat",
"beaten",
"bleary",
"bushed",
"dead",
"done",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"fatigued",
"jaded",
"knackered",
"limp",
"logy",
"loggy",
"played out",
"pooped",
"prostrate",
"spent",
"tapped out",
"tired",
"tuckered (out)",
"washed-out",
"wearied",
"weary",
"wiped out",
"worn",
"worn-out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"overfatigued",
"overtaxed",
"overworked",
"broken-down",
"run-down",
"debilitated",
"enervate",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"weakened",
"drowsy",
"heavy",
"sleepy",
"lethargic",
"sluggish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fresh",
"refreshed",
"rejuvenated",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"revitalized",
"active",
"energetic",
"invigorated",
"peppy",
"strengthened",
"strong",
"tireless",
"vitalized",
"weariless"
],
"antonyms":[
"unwearied"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"working 12-hour days at that job just burned me out"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"busted",
"bust",
"did in",
"did up",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"fagged",
"fatigued",
"frazzled",
"harassed",
"killed",
"knocked out",
"outwore",
"tired",
"tuckered (out)",
"washed out",
"wearied",
"wore",
"wore out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitated",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"wasted",
"weakened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activated",
"energized",
"invigorated",
"rejuvenated",
"strengthened",
"vitalized",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"unwound"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"buoys (up)":{
"to fill with courage or strength of purpose":{
"examples":[
"the sudden improvement in his health buoyed him up"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears up",
"bucks up",
"cheers (up)",
"chirks (up)",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"inspires",
"inspirits",
"steels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animates",
"enlivens",
"invigorates",
"enforces",
"fortifies",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"strengthens",
"assures",
"reassures",
"boosts",
"energizes",
"excites",
"galvanizes",
"provokes",
"quickens",
"rallies",
"stimulates",
"stirs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demoralizes",
"depresses",
"saddens",
"debilitates",
"enfeebles",
"hamstrings",
"undermines",
"weakens",
"intimidates",
"psychs (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"daunts",
"discourages",
"disheartens",
"dispirits"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buckeroos":{
"a hired hand who tends cattle or horses at a ranch or on the range":{
"examples":[
"a rip-roaring buckaroo of the Old West"
],
"synonyms":[
"cowboys",
"cowhands",
"cowmen",
"cowpokes",
"cowpunchers",
"waddies",
"wranglers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cowgirls",
"caballeros",
"gauchos",
"vaqueros",
"horsemen",
"horsewomen",
"cattlemen",
"ranchers",
"stockmen",
"cowherds",
"drovers",
"herders",
"herdsmen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burnout":{
"a complete depletion of energy or strength":{
"examples":[
"people in that job often suffer burnout and have to retire at a relatively early age"
],
"synonyms":[
"collapse",
"exhaustion",
"fatigue",
"frazzle",
"lassitude",
"prostration",
"tiredness",
"weariness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitation",
"debility",
"disablement",
"enervation",
"enfeeblement",
"faintness",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"impotence",
"infirmity",
"weakness",
"overfatigue",
"languor",
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"sluggishness",
"slumber",
"stupor",
"torpidity",
"torpor",
"apathy",
"inertia",
"passiveness",
"passivity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bounce",
"dash",
"drive",
"energy",
"ginger",
"go",
"liveliness",
"pep",
"punch",
"sap",
"snap",
"starch",
"verve",
"vigor",
"vim",
"vitality",
"zing",
"zip",
"might",
"muscle",
"potency",
"power",
"puissance",
"strength",
"briskness",
"jauntiness",
"spiritedness",
"sprightliness",
"vivaciousness",
"vivacity"
],
"antonyms":[
"refreshment",
"rejuvenation",
"rejuvenescence",
"revitalization"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"working 12-hour days at that job just burned me out"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"bust",
"do in",
"do up",
"drain",
"exhaust",
"fag",
"fatigue",
"frazzle",
"harass",
"kill",
"knock out",
"outwear",
"tire",
"tucker (out)",
"wash out",
"wear",
"wear out",
"weary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitate",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"sap",
"waste",
"weaken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activate",
"energize",
"invigorate",
"rejuvenate",
"strengthen",
"vitalize",
"relax",
"rest",
"unwind"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bump off":{
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"these drug dealers mean business, and they'll bump off anyone who gets in their way"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinate",
"croak",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"execute",
"get",
"ice",
"knock off",
"liquidate",
"murder",
"neutralize",
"off",
"put away",
"rub out",
"slay",
"snuff",
"take out",
"terminate",
"whack"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blow away",
"shoot",
"shoot down",
"blot out",
"carry off",
"claim",
"cut down",
"destroy",
"fell",
"kill",
"smite",
"zap",
"butcher",
"massacre",
"mow (down)",
"slaughter",
"annihilate",
"eliminate",
"eradicate",
"exterminate",
"wipe out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animate",
"raise",
"restore",
"resurrect",
"resuscitate",
"revive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bumbled":{
"to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound":{
"examples":[
"a fly bumbling around the room while we were trying to sleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"burred",
"buzzed",
"droned",
"hummed",
"whirred",
"whished",
"whizzed",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chirred",
"churred",
"thrummed",
"fizzed",
"hissed",
"murmured",
"purred",
"rustled",
"sighed",
"sizzled",
"swished",
"whispered",
"cooed",
"curred",
"wheezed",
"whistled",
"whooshed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"accused the White House staff of bumbling the announcement of the replacement for the cabinet post"
],
"synonyms":[
"blew",
"bobbled",
"boggled",
"bollixed (up)",
"booted",
"botched",
"buggered (up)",
"bungled",
"butchered",
"dubbed",
"flubbed",
"fluffed",
"foozled",
"fouled up",
"fumbled",
"goofed (up)",
"loused up",
"mangled",
"messed (up)",
"mucked up",
"muffed",
"murdered",
"screwed up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blundered",
"gummed (up)",
"muddled",
"piffled",
"blemished",
"blighted",
"damaged",
"flawed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"marred",
"mutilated",
"ruined",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"vitiated",
"destroyed",
"wrecked",
"mishandled",
"mismanaged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"enhanced",
"helped",
"improved",
"meliorated",
"rectified",
"refined",
"reformed",
"remedied",
"doctored",
"fixed",
"patched",
"reconditioned",
"renovated",
"repaired",
"revamped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
"examples":[
"I sort of bumbled through the dance number, hoping that it would soon end"
],
"synonyms":[
"blundered",
"flogged",
"floundered",
"limped",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"struggled",
"stumbled",
"trudged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jogged",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"wallowed",
"weltered",
"faltered",
"lurched",
"reeled",
"staggered",
"swayed",
"teetered",
"tottered",
"fumbled",
"muddled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coasted",
"flew",
"glided",
"kilted",
"sailed",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly":{
"examples":[
"overcome with stage fright, I could only bumble through the speech"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbled",
"chatted",
"chattered",
"driveled",
"drivelled",
"drooled",
"gabbled",
"gibbered",
"jabbered",
"prattled",
"sputtered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blabbered",
"blathered",
"bleated",
"blithered",
"gabbed",
"jangled",
"jawed",
"pattered",
"prated",
"ran on",
"rattled",
"smattered",
"tittle-tattled",
"trolled",
"yakked",
"yacked",
"chuntered",
"maundered",
"mouthed",
"mumbled",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"stammered",
"stuttered",
"screeched",
"shouted",
"shrieked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulated",
"enunciated",
"pronounced"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"butt in":{
"to interest oneself in what is not one's concern":{
"examples":[
"stop butting in on my personal life"
],
"synonyms":[
"interfere",
"interlope",
"intermeddle",
"intrude",
"meddle",
"mess",
"muck (about or around)",
"nose",
"obtrude",
"poke",
"pry",
"snoop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"intercede",
"interpose",
"intervene",
"barge (in)",
"chisel (in)",
"encroach",
"infringe",
"invade",
"trespass",
"fiddle",
"fool",
"monkey",
"play",
"tamper"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"eschew",
"shun",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buffalo":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"I'm not some newcomer that you can buffalo with that nonsense"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozle",
"beguile",
"bluff",
"burn",
"catch",
"con",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fake out",
"fool",
"gaff",
"gammon",
"gull",
"have",
"have on",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"hornswoggle",
"humbug",
"juggle",
"misguide",
"misinform",
"mislead",
"snooker",
"snow",
"spoof",
"string along",
"suck in",
"sucker",
"take in",
"trick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kid",
"put on",
"tease",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"euchre",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"rook",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"sting",
"swindle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunk",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show up",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"tell",
"unveil",
"disabuse",
"disenchant",
"disillusion"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceive"
]
},
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"in this debate I refuse to be buffaloed by a flurry of irrelevant issues"
],
"synonyms":[
"addle",
"baffle",
"bamboozle",
"beat",
"befog",
"befuddle",
"bemuse",
"bewilder",
"confound",
"confuse",
"discombobulate",
"disorient",
"flummox",
"fox",
"fuddle",
"get",
"gravel",
"maze",
"muddle",
"muddy",
"mystify",
"perplex",
"pose",
"puzzle",
"vex"
],
"near synonyms":[
"stick",
"stump",
"weird out",
"abash",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"discountenance",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"fluster",
"mortify",
"nonplus",
"rattle",
"agitate",
"bother",
"chagrin",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"dismay",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"stun",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"beguile",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"humbug",
"misguide",
"mislead",
"snow",
"string along",
"take in",
"trick"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assure",
"reassure",
"satisfy",
"enlighten",
"inform"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bulky":{
"of a size greater than average of its kind":{
"examples":[
"bulky packages might cost more to mail"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"boxcar",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"husky",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"voluminous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"astronomical",
"astronomic",
"Brobdingnagian",
"bumper",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"hellacious",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"leviathan",
"major",
"mammoth",
"massive",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"super",
"super-duper",
"supersized",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"vasty",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whopping",
"excessive",
"exorbitant",
"extravagant",
"extreme",
"immoderate",
"inordinate",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"copious",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"capacious",
"commodious",
"roomy",
"spacious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diminutive",
"half-pint",
"infinitesimal",
"Lilliputian",
"little bitty",
"microminiature",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"petite",
"slender",
"slight",
"slim",
"thin"
],
"antonyms":[
"bantam",
"dinky",
"dwarf",
"dwarfish",
"little",
"puny",
"shrimpy",
"small",
"smallish",
"undersized",
"undersize"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"buffaloing":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"I'm not some newcomer that you can buffalo with that nonsense"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozling",
"beguiling",
"bluffing",
"burning",
"catching",
"conning",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"faking out",
"fooling",
"gaffing",
"gammoning",
"gulling",
"having",
"having on",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"hornswoggling",
"humbugging",
"juggling",
"misguiding",
"misinforming",
"misleading",
"snookering",
"snowing",
"spoofing",
"stringing along",
"suckering",
"sucking in",
"taking in",
"tricking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kidding",
"putting on",
"teasing",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"euchring",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"rooking",
"shortchanging",
"skinning",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stinging",
"swindling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunking",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing up",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"telling",
"unveiling",
"disabusing",
"disenchanting",
"disillusioning"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceiving"
]
},
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"in this debate I refuse to be buffaloed by a flurry of irrelevant issues"
],
"synonyms":[
"addling",
"baffling",
"bamboozling",
"beating",
"befogging",
"befuddling",
"bemusing",
"bewildering",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discombobulating",
"disorienting",
"flummoxing",
"foxing",
"fuddling",
"getting",
"graveling",
"gravelling",
"mazing",
"muddling",
"muddying",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"posing",
"puzzling",
"vexing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sticking",
"stumping",
"weirding out",
"abashing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"flustering",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling",
"agitating",
"bothering",
"chagrining",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"dismaying",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"stunning",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"beguiling",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"humbugging",
"misguiding",
"misleading",
"snowing",
"stringing along",
"taking in",
"tricking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assuring",
"reassuring",
"satisfying",
"enlightening",
"informing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burrowing":{
"as in clawing , grubbing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"clawing",
"grubbing",
"dredging",
"digging in",
"digging",
"excavating",
"shoveling",
"shovelling",
"scooping",
"spading",
"delving",
"mining",
"quarrying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"filling (in)",
"smoothing (out or over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in huddling , crouching":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"couching",
"crouching",
"huddling",
"hunching",
"hunkering (down)",
"scrunching",
"squatting",
"squinching",
"curling up",
"nestling",
"snugging",
"snuggling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bursting (forth)":{
"to develop suddenly and violently":{
"examples":[
"hives burst forth on the child's arms and face whenever she goes near that plant"
],
"synonyms":[
"blazing (up)",
"breaking out",
"erupting",
"exploding",
"flaming",
"flaring (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocketing",
"skyrocketing",
"ballooning",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"mounting",
"multiplying",
"mushrooming",
"proliferating",
"snowballing",
"swelling",
"waxing",
"blowing up",
"detonating",
"touching off"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bullyragging":{
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"anonymous trolls on the website tried to bullyrag him into backing down"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacking",
"bogarting",
"browbeating",
"bulldozing",
"bullying",
"cowing",
"hectoring",
"intimidating",
"strong-arming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustering",
"trash-talking",
"affrighting",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"frightening",
"horrifying",
"scaring",
"shocking",
"spooking",
"startling",
"terrifying",
"menacing",
"terrorizing",
"threatening",
"badgering",
"harassing",
"hounding",
"bludgeoning",
"coercing",
"compelling",
"constraining",
"dragooning",
"forcing",
"making",
"obliging",
"pressing",
"pressuring",
"pushing around",
"demoralizing",
"psyching (out)",
"unmanning",
"unnerving",
"discomposing",
"disconcerting",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"steeling",
"convincing",
"persuading"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bull market":{
"as in bear market":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bear market",
"call",
"demand",
"market",
"request",
"buyer's market",
"seller's market"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"businessperson":{
"as in entrepreneur , businessman":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"businessman",
"businesswoman",
"enterpriser",
"entrepreneur",
"retailer",
"seller",
"vendor",
"vender",
"buyer",
"marketer",
"purchaser",
"dealer",
"merchandiser",
"merchant",
"trader",
"tradesman",
"trafficker",
"jobber",
"middleman",
"wholesaler",
"distributor",
"provider",
"provisioner",
"purveyor",
"supplier",
"author",
"begetter",
"establisher",
"father",
"founder",
"founding father",
"generator",
"inaugurator",
"initiator",
"instituter",
"institutor",
"originator",
"sire",
"factory",
"manufactory",
"mill",
"plant",
"shop",
"works",
"workshop",
"groundbreaker",
"pioneer",
"planner",
"researcher",
"researchist",
"agriculturist",
"agriculturalist",
"agronomist",
"cultivator",
"farmer",
"grower",
"planter",
"tiller"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burning one's ears":{
"to criticize (someone) so as to correct a fault":{
"examples":[
"She burned his ears for not wearing a seatbelt."
],
"synonyms":[
"admonishing",
"chiding",
"rebuking",
"reprimanding",
"reproaching",
"reproving",
"ticking off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berating",
"castigating",
"chewing out",
"dressing down",
"flaying",
"haranguing",
"jawing",
"keelhauling",
"lambasting",
"lecturing",
"railing (at or against)",
"rating",
"scolding",
"scoring",
"upbraiding",
"abusing",
"assailing",
"attacking",
"bad-mouthing",
"blaming",
"blasting",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"crucifying",
"denouncing",
"dissing",
"excoriating",
"faulting",
"knocking",
"lashing",
"panning",
"reprehending",
"slamming",
"belittling",
"deprecating",
"disparaging",
"minimizing",
"mocking",
"putting down",
"deriding",
"ridiculing",
"scoffing",
"scorning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approving",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"OK'ing",
"okaying",
"sanctioning",
"applauding",
"extolling",
"hailing",
"lauding",
"praising",
"saluting",
"touting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"bumptiousness":{
"an exaggerated sense of one's importance that shows itself in the making of excessive or unjustified claims":{
"examples":[
"for unbridled bumptiousness , it would be hard to beat that upstart"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrogance",
"assumption",
"consequence",
"haughtiness",
"hauteur",
"high horse",
"huffiness",
"imperiousness",
"loftiness",
"lordliness",
"masterfulness",
"peremptoriness",
"pomposity",
"pompousness",
"presumptuousness",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness",
"self-consequence",
"self-importance",
"superciliousness",
"superiority",
"toploftiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authoritativeness",
"bossiness",
"bowwow",
"brag",
"dominance",
"high-handedness",
"condescension",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"chest-thumping",
"inflation",
"self-assertion",
"side",
"snobbery",
"snobbishness",
"snobbism",
"snootiness",
"attitude",
"cheek",
"cheekiness",
"impertinence",
"impudence",
"sauciness",
"boastfulness",
"bombast",
"braggadocio",
"bravado",
"strut",
"swagger",
"triumphalism",
"vaingloriousness",
"vainglory",
"cockiness",
"complacence",
"conceit",
"egoism",
"egotism",
"pride",
"pridefulness",
"self-assumption",
"self-centeredness",
"self-complacency",
"self-conceit",
"self-content",
"self-contentment",
"self-opinion",
"self-partiality",
"self-satisfaction",
"smugness",
"swelled head",
"vanity",
"superiority complex"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bashfulness",
"demureness",
"retiringness",
"shyness",
"diffidence",
"self-distrust",
"self-doubt",
"timidity",
"timidness",
"lowliness",
"meekness",
"mousiness",
"passiveness",
"passivity",
"submissiveness",
"quietness",
"reserve",
"reservedness"
],
"antonyms":[
"humility",
"modesty",
"unassumingness",
"unpretentiousness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bureaus":{
"a large unit of a governmental, business, or educational organization":{
"examples":[
"the federal revenue bureau"
],
"synonyms":[
"agencies",
"arms",
"branches",
"departments",
"desks",
"divisions",
"offices",
"services"
],
"near synonyms":[
"subdepartments",
"sub-departments",
"subdivisions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bulling":{
"to force one's way":{
"examples":[
"the beleaguered governor bulled through the crowd of reporters without answering a single question"
],
"synonyms":[
"boring",
"bulldozing",
"crashing",
"elbowing",
"jamming",
"jostling",
"muscling",
"pressing",
"pushing",
"shouldering",
"squeezing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ramming",
"shoving",
"thrusting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to praise or express pride in one's own possessions, qualities, or accomplishments often to excess":{
"examples":[
"no one bought all his bulling about how he had beaten the stock market"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"boasting",
"bragging",
"crowing",
"gasconading",
"swaggering",
"vaporing",
"vaunting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustering",
"haranguing",
"puffing",
"priding",
"gushing",
"exulting",
"glorying",
"rejoicing",
"brandishing",
"displaying",
"exhibiting",
"exposing",
"flaunting",
"glorifying",
"parading",
"showing off",
"magnifying",
"maximizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittling",
"deprecating",
"diminishing",
"discounting",
"laughing off",
"minimizing",
"playing down",
"pooh-poohing",
"poohing",
"shrugging off",
"underrating",
"undervaluing",
"bemoaning",
"lamenting",
"mourning",
"regretting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burns one's ears":{
"to criticize (someone) so as to correct a fault":{
"examples":[
"She burned his ears for not wearing a seatbelt."
],
"synonyms":[
"admonishes",
"chides",
"rebukes",
"reprimands",
"reproaches",
"reproves",
"ticks off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berates",
"castigates",
"chews out",
"dresses down",
"flays",
"harangues",
"jaws",
"keelhauls",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"lectures",
"rails (at or against)",
"rates",
"scolds",
"scores",
"upbraids",
"abuses",
"assails",
"attacks",
"bad-mouths",
"blames",
"blasts",
"censures",
"condemns",
"criticizes",
"crucifies",
"denounces",
"disses",
"excoriates",
"faults",
"knocks",
"lashes",
"pans",
"reprehends",
"slams",
"belittles",
"deprecates",
"disparages",
"minimizes",
"mocks",
"puts down",
"derides",
"ridicules",
"scoffs",
"scorns"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approves",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"OKs",
"okays",
"sanctions",
"applauds",
"extols",
"extolls",
"hails",
"lauds",
"praises",
"salutes",
"touts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"bum-rushed":{
"as in swarmed , mobbed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ganged up (on)",
"mobbed",
"swarmed",
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"beset",
"bushwhacked",
"charged",
"descended (on or upon)",
"jumped (on)",
"pounced (on or upon)",
"raided",
"rushed",
"set on",
"sicced",
"sicked",
"stormed",
"struck",
"trashed",
"turned (on)",
"went in (on)",
"mugged",
"robbed",
"ambuscaded",
"ambushed",
"surprised",
"surprized",
"waylaid",
"blitzed",
"bombarded",
"bombed",
"nuked",
"barraged",
"cannonaded",
"cannoned",
"banged away (at)",
"battered",
"buffeted",
"plastered",
"beleaguered",
"besieged",
"pressed",
"harried",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravaged",
"sacked",
"forayed",
"invaded",
"overran"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covered",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"secured",
"shielded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burrs":{
"a monotonous sound like that of an insect in motion":{
"examples":[
"heard the burr of a distant engine"
],
"synonyms":[
"buzzes",
"chirrs",
"churrs",
"drones",
"hums",
"purrs",
"thrums",
"whirs",
"whirrs",
"whizzes",
"zooms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"babbles",
"coos",
"gasps",
"gurgles",
"hisses",
"moans",
"murmurs",
"rustles",
"sighs",
"suspirations",
"susurrations",
"susurruses",
"whispers",
"whishes",
"zings",
"zips"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bawls",
"howls",
"roars",
"screams",
"screeches",
"shrieks",
"squalls",
"squeals",
"yells",
"yelps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound":{
"examples":[
"the pitch burred past the batter's ear"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumbles",
"buzzes",
"drones",
"hums",
"whirs",
"whirrs",
"whishes",
"whizzes",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chirrs",
"churrs",
"thrums",
"fizzes",
"hisses",
"murmurs",
"purrs",
"rustles",
"sighs",
"sizzles",
"swishes",
"whispers",
"coos",
"currs",
"wheezes",
"whistles",
"whooshes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bungs up":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"he's a bit of a mess, but he says he bunged up the other guy in the fight even worse"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashes",
"bastes",
"bats",
"batters",
"beats",
"belabors",
"belts",
"birches",
"bludgeons",
"buffets",
"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"
]
},
"buggers":{
"a person whose behavior is offensive to others":{
"examples":[
"a cranky bugger who's always at odds with his neighbors"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastards",
"beasts",
"bleeders",
"blighters",
"boors",
"bounders",
"buzzards",
"cads",
"chuffs",
"churls",
"clowns",
"creeps",
"cretins",
"cruds",
"crumbs",
"curs",
"dirtbags",
"dogs",
"finks",
"heels",
"hounds",
"jerks",
"jokers",
"louses",
"louts",
"pills",
"rat finks",
"rats",
"reptiles",
"rotters",
"schmucks",
"scumbags",
"scums",
"scuzzballs",
"skunks",
"skunk",
"sleazebags",
"sleazeballs",
"sleazes",
"slimeballs",
"slimes",
"slobs",
"snakes",
"so-and-sos",
"so-and-so's",
"sods",
"stinkards",
"stinkers",
"swine",
"toads",
"varmints",
"vermin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barbarians",
"brutes",
"cavemen",
"Neanderthals",
"savages",
"loudmouths",
"vulgarians",
"lowlifes",
"lowlives",
"miscreants",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"roughnecks",
"scabs",
"scamps",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"wretches",
"boobies",
"doofuses",
"dufuses",
"fools",
"jackasses",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"nits",
"nitwits",
"nuts",
"schmoes",
"airheads",
"birdbrains",
"blockheads",
"dinks",
"dolts",
"dopes",
"dorks",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"idiots",
"imbeciles",
"morons",
"turkeys",
"brats",
"insolents",
"nuisances",
"pests",
"snips",
"snobs",
"snoots",
"snots",
"dweebs",
"nerds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heroes",
"heroines",
"idols",
"role models",
"gentlemen",
"ladies",
"angels",
"saints"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"busty":{
"as in buxom , voluptuous":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ample",
"bosomy",
"built",
"buxom",
"chesty",
"corn-fed",
"curvaceous",
"curvy",
"full-figured",
"ripe",
"Rubenesque",
"shapely",
"stacked",
"voluptuous",
"well-endowed",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"blubbery",
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"fleshy",
"full",
"gross",
"lardy",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"podgy",
"portly",
"pudgy",
"replete",
"roly-poly",
"rotund",
"round",
"tubby",
"Junoesque",
"statuesque",
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"plumpish",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"hefty",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"squat",
"stubby",
"hippy",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"endomorphic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angular",
"bony",
"boney",
"gaunt",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rawboned",
"sinewy",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"puny",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"slight",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"svelte",
"sylphlike",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"willowy",
"ectomorphic",
"anorexic",
"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bungalow":{
"a house having one or one and a half stories and often a front porch":{
"examples":[
"She bought a small bungalow just outside the city."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cabin",
"casita",
"chalet",
"cottage",
"duplex",
"ranch",
"ranch house",
"saltbox",
"semi",
"split level",
"townhome",
"town house",
"tract house",
"triplex",
"farmhouse",
"grange",
"hacienda",
"homestead",
"castle",
"ch\u00e2teau",
"countryseat",
"estate",
"hall",
"manor",
"manor house",
"mansion",
"McMansion",
"palace",
"villa",
"hermitage",
"manse",
"parsonage",
"rectory",
"vicarage",
"hooch",
"hootch",
"hovel",
"hut",
"hutch",
"shack",
"shanty",
"accommodations",
"housing",
"nest",
"residency",
"shelter",
"apartment",
"apartment house",
"condo",
"condominium",
"flat",
"tenement",
"tenement house",
"walk-up",
"penthouse",
"salon",
"suite",
"barracks",
"billet",
"boardinghouse",
"dorm",
"dormitory",
"flophouse",
"lodging house",
"lodgment",
"lodgement",
"room(s)",
"rooming house",
"double-wide",
"houseboat",
"house trailer",
"mobile home",
"motor home",
"recreational vehicle",
"RV",
"trailer",
"abode",
"diggings",
"domicile",
"dwelling",
"fireside",
"habitation",
"hearth",
"hearthstone",
"home",
"house",
"lodging",
"pad",
"place",
"quarters",
"residence",
"roof"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bureaucratese":{
"as in legalese , psychobabble":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"computerese",
"educationese",
"governmentese",
"legalese",
"Pentagonese",
"psychobabble",
"technobabble",
"bafflegab",
"double-talk",
"gibberish",
"gobbledygook",
"gobbledegook",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"song and dance",
"bombast",
"fustian",
"gas",
"grandiloquence",
"hot air",
"hype",
"oratory",
"rhetoric",
"wind"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buntings":{
"as in gonfalons":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gonfalons",
"banderoles",
"banderols",
"banners",
"colors",
"ensigns",
"flags",
"guidons",
"jacks",
"pendants",
"pendents",
"pennants",
"pennons",
"standards",
"streamers",
"black flags",
"Jolly Rogers",
"tricolors",
"union jacks",
"white flags",
"burgees",
"semaphores",
"signalers",
"signallers",
"wafts",
"badges",
"coats of arms",
"crests",
"insignia",
"insignias"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in skirtings":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"skirtings",
"plaits",
"pleats",
"ruffs",
"borders",
"edgings",
"fringes",
"trims",
"flounces",
"frills",
"furbelows",
"ruffles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burbled":{
"as in prattled , blabbered":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blabbed",
"blabbered",
"blithered",
"bumbled",
"chatted",
"chattered",
"driveled",
"drivelled",
"drooled",
"gabbed",
"gabbled",
"gibbered",
"jabbered",
"pattered",
"prated",
"prattled",
"waffled",
"sidetracked",
"deviated",
"digressed",
"strayed",
"wandered",
"blathered (on)",
"maundered",
"rambled",
"ran on",
"rattled",
"went on"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buzzed":{
"to be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"for months the area has been buzzing with rumors that a megacorporation plans to locate its headquarters here"
],
"synonyms":[
"abounded",
"brimmed",
"bristled",
"bulged",
"burst",
"bursted",
"bustled",
"crawled",
"hummed",
"overflowed",
"pullulated",
"swarmed",
"teemed"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lacked",
"needed",
"wanted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"we've been buzzing around all morning getting ready for the meeting with the VIPs from the head office"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"belted",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blew",
"bolted",
"bombed",
"bowled",
"breezed",
"bundled",
"bustled",
"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"
]
},
"to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound":{
"examples":[
"the little plane buzzed past the crowd"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumbled",
"burred",
"droned",
"hummed",
"whirred",
"whished",
"whizzed",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chirred",
"churred",
"thrummed",
"fizzed",
"hissed",
"murmured",
"purred",
"rustled",
"sighed",
"sizzled",
"swished",
"whispered",
"cooed",
"curred",
"wheezed",
"whistled",
"whooshed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bulging":{
"as in dilated , protuberant":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dilated",
"protuberant",
"bloated",
"blown",
"distended",
"overinflated",
"puffed",
"swollen",
"tumescent",
"tumid",
"turgid",
"varicose",
"varicosed",
"ballooned",
"blown up",
"expanded",
"ventricose",
"ballooning",
"dilating",
"turgescent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapsed",
"deflated",
"detumescent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bursting , crammed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brimming",
"bursting",
"chock-full",
"chockful",
"crammed",
"crowded",
"fat",
"filled",
"full",
"jammed",
"jam-packed",
"loaded",
"packed",
"saturated",
"stuffed",
"abounding",
"abundant",
"awash",
"flush",
"fraught",
"lousy",
"replete",
"rife",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thick",
"thronging",
"clogged",
"congested",
"overcrowded",
"overfilled",
"overflowing",
"overfull",
"overladen",
"overloaded",
"overstuffed",
"surfeited",
"alive",
"animated",
"astir",
"bustling",
"busy",
"buzzing",
"humming",
"lively"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bare",
"barren",
"blank",
"devoid",
"empty",
"stark",
"vacant",
"void",
"depleted",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"deficient",
"incomplete",
"insufficient",
"short"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"the sides of the returning camper's suitcase bulged with a month's worth of dirty laundry"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagging",
"ballooning",
"beetling",
"bellying",
"billowing",
"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 be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"this guidebook to San Francisco positively bulges with useful information"
],
"synonyms":[
"abounding",
"brimming",
"bristling",
"bursting",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"crawling",
"humming",
"overflowing",
"pullulating",
"swarming",
"teeming"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lacking",
"needing",
"wanting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"budding":{
"beginning to come into existence":{
"examples":[
"the budding romance between the coworkers was the talk of the office"
],
"synonyms":[
"aborning",
"inceptive",
"inchoate",
"incipient",
"nascent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"first",
"formative",
"inaugural",
"inchoative",
"initial",
"original",
"elementary",
"embryonic",
"fundamental",
"rudimentary",
"formless",
"incoherent",
"introductory",
"preliminary",
"preparatory",
"crude",
"primitive",
"rude"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advanced",
"developed",
"evolved",
"high",
"higher",
"improved",
"refined"
],
"antonyms":[
"adult",
"full-blown",
"full-fledged",
"mature",
"ripe",
"ripened"
]
},
"as in blossoming , blooming":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blooming",
"blossoming",
"blowing",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"efflorescing",
"flowering",
"unfolding",
"leafing",
"leaving",
"opening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drying up",
"fading",
"shriveling",
"shrivelling",
"wilting",
"withering",
"dropping",
"dying",
"expiring",
"perishing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bullies":{
"a person who teases, threatens, or hurts smaller, weaker, or more vulnerable persons":{
"examples":[
"the school has a procedure for students who want to report problems with bullies"
],
"synonyms":[
"bullyboys",
"hectors",
"intimidators"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antagonists",
"enemies",
"abusers",
"baiters",
"gibers",
"jibers",
"harassers",
"harriers",
"hecklers",
"mockers",
"needlers",
"oppressors",
"persecutors",
"ridiculers",
"taunters",
"teasers",
"teases",
"torturers",
"goons",
"hoodlums",
"hoods",
"hooligans",
"mugs",
"punks",
"roughnecks",
"roughs",
"rowdies",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"toughies",
"toughs",
"cutthroats",
"felons",
"gangsters",
"gunmen",
"mobsters",
"racketeers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"examples":[
"the local loan shark and his bullies have ways of making people pay up"
],
"synonyms":[
"gangbangers",
"gangstas",
"gangsters",
"goons",
"gorillas",
"hoodlums",
"hoods",
"hooligans",
"mobsters",
"mugs",
"plug-uglies",
"punks",
"roughnecks",
"rowdies",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"toughies",
"toughs",
"yobbos",
"yobboes",
"yobs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cutthroats",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"assassins",
"bandits",
"bravos",
"bravoes",
"brigands",
"criminals",
"crooks",
"desperadoes",
"desperados",
"felons",
"gunmen",
"highwaymen",
"lawbreakers",
"mafiosi",
"malefactors",
"offenders",
"outlaws",
"perpetrators",
"perps",
"pirates",
"pickpockets",
"racketeers",
"robbers",
"swindlers",
"thieves",
"vandals",
"juvenile delinquents",
"tearaways"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to inflict physical or emotional harm upon":{
"examples":[
"the kindergarten teacher explained why it was wrong to bully classmates"
],
"synonyms":[
"abuses",
"brutalizes",
"ill-treats",
"ill-uses",
"kicks around",
"maltreats",
"manhandles",
"messes over",
"mishandles",
"mistreats",
"misuses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"molests",
"outrages",
"violates",
"harasses",
"harms",
"hurts",
"injures",
"oppresses",
"persecutes",
"torments",
"tortures",
"burns",
"sandbags",
"victimizes",
"wrongs",
"beats (up)",
"messes (up)",
"roughs (up)",
"works (over)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cares (for)",
"cherishes",
"fosters",
"nurtures",
"babies",
"caters (to)",
"coddles",
"favors",
"gratifies",
"humors",
"indulges",
"mollycoddles",
"pampers",
"spoils"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"the manager was fired for bullying employees"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"bogarts",
"browbeats",
"bulldozes",
"bullyrags",
"ballyrags",
"cows",
"hectors",
"intimidates",
"strong-arms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blusters",
"trash-talks",
"affrights",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"frightens",
"horrifies",
"scares",
"shocks",
"spooks",
"startles",
"terrifies",
"menaces",
"terrorizes",
"threatens",
"badgers",
"harasses",
"hounds",
"bludgeons",
"coerces",
"compels",
"constrains",
"dragoons",
"forces",
"makes",
"obliges",
"presses",
"pressures",
"pushes around",
"demoralizes",
"psychs (out)",
"unmans",
"unnerves",
"discomposes",
"disconcerts",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"upsets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"steels",
"convinces",
"persuades"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bucolic":{
"of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people":{
"examples":[
"a bucolic region where farms are still common"
],
"synonyms":[
"country",
"pastoral",
"rural",
"rustic",
"rustical"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backwoods",
"backwoodsy",
"countrified",
"countryfied",
"provincial",
"agrarian",
"agricultural",
"nonurban",
"semirural"
],
"near antonyms":[
"citified",
"urbanized",
"metro",
"metropolitan",
"municipal",
"nonagricultural",
"nonfarm"
],
"antonyms":[
"urban"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"buyers":{
"as in purchasers , correspondents":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"correspondents",
"purchasers",
"vendees",
"consumers",
"end users",
"users",
"browsers",
"prospects",
"shoppers",
"window-shoppers",
"accounts",
"clients",
"customers",
"guests",
"patrons",
"punters",
"bargainers",
"hagglers",
"regulars"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brokers",
"merchants",
"sellers",
"vendors",
"venders",
"shopkeepers",
"tradesmen",
"black marketers",
"black marketeers",
"fences"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buckaroo":{
"a hired hand who tends cattle or horses at a ranch or on the range":{
"examples":[
"a rip-roaring buckaroo of the Old West"
],
"synonyms":[
"cowboy",
"cowhand",
"cowman",
"cowpoke",
"cowpuncher",
"waddy",
"waddie",
"wrangler"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cowgirl",
"caballero",
"gaucho",
"vaquero",
"horseman",
"horsewoman",
"cattleman",
"rancher",
"stockman",
"cowherd",
"drover",
"herder",
"herdsman"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buttonhole":{
"as in keyhole , armhole":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"airhole",
"armhole",
"keyhole",
"knothole",
"peephole",
"pothole",
"wormhole",
"pinhole",
"pinprick",
"punch",
"puncture",
"entrance",
"inlet",
"intake",
"exit",
"mouth",
"outlet",
"pore",
"vent",
"slot",
"space",
"breach",
"break",
"chink",
"cleft",
"crack",
"cranny",
"crevice",
"cut",
"fissure",
"gash",
"notch",
"rent",
"rift",
"rupture",
"slash",
"slit",
"split",
"tear",
"loophole",
"aperture",
"hole",
"opening",
"orifice",
"perforation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fill",
"filler",
"filling",
"patch",
"plug",
"seal",
"stopper",
"barrier",
"blockage",
"obstacle",
"obstruction"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bunkhouse":{
"as in dorm , dormitory":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dorm",
"dormitory",
"camp",
"campground",
"boardinghouse",
"lodging house",
"rooming house",
"court",
"motel",
"motor court",
"motor inn",
"motor lodge",
"resort",
"spa",
"tourist court",
"youth hostel",
"doss-house",
"fleabag",
"flophouse",
"accommodations",
"lodgings",
"rest",
"apartment hotel",
"B and B",
"bed-and-breakfast",
"guesthouse",
"auberge",
"caravansary",
"caravanserai",
"hospice",
"hostel",
"hostelry",
"hotel",
"inn",
"lodge",
"public house",
"tavern"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bum":{
"of low quality":{
"examples":[
"that was bum advice that you got from that website"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bargain-basement",
"cheap",
"cheapjack",
"cheesy",
"coarse",
"common",
"crappy",
"cut-rate",
"el cheapo",
"execrable",
"gimcrack",
"inferior",
"junky",
"lousy",
"low-grade",
"low-rent",
"mediocre",
"miserable",
"poor",
"rotten",
"rubbishy",
"schlock",
"schlocky",
"shlock",
"shlocky",
"second-rate",
"shoddy",
"sleazy",
"terrible",
"trashy",
"trumpery",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"useless",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"indifferent",
"lackluster",
"second-class",
"brummagem",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"kitsch",
"kitschy",
"meretricious",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"splashy",
"swank",
"swanky",
"tawdry",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"tacky",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham",
"supercheap",
"ultracheap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elegant",
"handsome",
"tasteful",
"handcrafted",
"polished",
"refined"
],
"antonyms":[
"excellent",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"good",
"high-grade",
"superior",
"top-notch"
]
},
"the part of the body upon which someone sits":{
"examples":[
"I decided to get off my bum and get some exercise"
],
"synonyms":[
"backside",
"behind",
"booty",
"bootie",
"bottom",
"breech",
"buns",
"butt",
"buttocks",
"caboose",
"can",
"cheeks",
"derriere",
"derri\u00e8re",
"duff",
"fanny",
"fundament",
"hams",
"haunches",
"heinie",
"hunkers",
"keister",
"keester",
"nates",
"posterior",
"rear",
"rear end",
"rump",
"seat",
"tail",
"tail end",
"tush"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beam",
"stern",
"moon"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an idle worthless person":{
"examples":[
"if you expect an allowance, you have to do some chores and stop being such a bum"
],
"synonyms":[
"derelict",
"do-nothing",
"good-for-nothing",
"ne'er-do-well",
"no-account",
"no-good",
"no-goodnik",
"slacker",
"vagrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hobo",
"sundowner",
"tramp",
"vagabond",
"drifter",
"roamer",
"transient",
"beggar",
"panhandler",
"dodger",
"goldbrick",
"shirker",
"gamine",
"ragamuffin",
"urchin",
"waif",
"drone",
"idler",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"slouch",
"slug",
"sluggard",
"down-and-out",
"down-and-outer",
"indigent",
"pauper"
],
"near antonyms":[
"success",
"winner"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a homeless wanderer who may beg or steal for a living":{
"examples":[
"I feel sorry for bums and occasionally give them money"
],
"synonyms":[
"bindle stiff",
"bummer",
"hobo",
"sundowner",
"swaggie",
"swagman",
"tramp",
"vagabond",
"vagrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drifter",
"roamer",
"transient",
"beggar",
"derelict",
"mendicant",
"panhandler",
"stiff",
"dodger",
"malingerer",
"shirker",
"slacker",
"gamine",
"ragamuffin",
"urchin",
"waif"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to spend time doing nothing":{
"examples":[
"spent most of the summer just bumming around the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"chill",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drone",
"footle",
"goof (off)",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around or out)",
"hang about",
"idle",
"kick around",
"kick back",
"laze",
"lazy",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"veg out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddle (around)",
"fool",
"mess",
"monkey",
"muck",
"piddle",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"doze",
"estivate",
"aestivate",
"hibernate",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"relax",
"rest",
"tarry",
"amble",
"mosey",
"saunter",
"stroll",
"swan",
"furlough",
"goldbrick",
"malinger",
"truant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudge",
"grind",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"work",
"apply",
"buckle (down)",
"exert",
"put out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bust":{
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"delivered a bust to the boxer's chops"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"beat",
"belt",
"biff",
"blow",
"bop",
"box",
"buffet",
"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":[]
},
"something that has failed":{
"examples":[
"the first movie was a hit, but the sequel was an unexpected bust"
],
"synonyms":[
"bomb",
"bummer",
"catastrophe",
"clinker",
"clunker",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"disaster",
"dud",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"fizzle",
"flop",
"frost",
"lemon",
"loser",
"miss",
"shipwreck",
"turkey",
"washout"
],
"near synonyms":[
"also-ran",
"disappointment",
"dog",
"has-been",
"near miss",
"botch",
"hash",
"mess",
"muddle",
"shambles",
"nonevent",
"nonstarter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dandy",
"jim-dandy",
"phenomenon"
],
"antonyms":[
"blockbuster",
"hit",
"smash",
"success",
"winner"
]
},
"the act of taking or holding under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"those lowlifes were nabbed for drug dealing in a massive bust last month"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehension",
"arrest",
"arrestment",
"collar",
"pinch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"raid",
"house arrest",
"capture",
"entrapment",
"seizure",
"captivity",
"confinement",
"detention",
"enchainment",
"hold",
"immurement",
"imprisonment",
"incarceration",
"restraint",
"rearrest",
"remand"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipation",
"liberation",
"release"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharge"
]
},
"a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking":{
"examples":[
"a bunch of underage kids having a beer bust while the parents were away for the weekend"
],
"synonyms":[
"bender",
"binge",
"carousal",
"carouse",
"drunk",
"jamboree",
"spree",
"toot",
"wassail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowout",
"kegger",
"keg party",
"bacchanalia",
"orgy",
"revel",
"revelry",
"bibbery",
"bibulousness",
"drunkenness",
"inebriation",
"inebriety",
"intoxication",
"jag",
"tipsiness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring to a lower grade or rank":{
"examples":[
"the commander threatened to bust her for failing to salute"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"degrade",
"demote",
"disrate",
"downgrade",
"reduce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"can",
"cashier",
"dismiss",
"downsize",
"fire",
"lay off",
"sack",
"abase",
"debase",
"demean",
"humble",
"humiliate",
"lower"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hire"
],
"antonyms":[
"advance",
"elevate",
"promote",
"raise"
]
},
"to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts":{
"examples":[
"gambling is a dangerous habit that has busted many unfortunate souls"
],
"synonyms":[
"bankrupt",
"break",
"ruin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beggar",
"impoverish",
"pauperize",
"reduce",
"straiten",
"clean (out)",
"wipe out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enrich",
"richen"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly":{
"examples":[
"the butterfingered husband had busted more plates than he cared to remember"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"break up",
"disintegrate",
"dismember",
"disrupt",
"fracture",
"fragment",
"rive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"atomize",
"crush",
"grind",
"powder",
"pulverize",
"reduce",
"blast",
"blow up",
"burst",
"detonate",
"explode",
"crack",
"pop",
"shatter",
"shiver",
"smash",
"chip",
"sliver",
"splinter",
"split",
"implode",
"destroy",
"ruin",
"wreck"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctor",
"fix",
"heal",
"mend",
"patch",
"rebuild",
"recondition",
"reconstruct",
"renovate",
"repair"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"busted the storekeeper on the nose and was promptly arrested for it"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"belt",
"biff",
"bludgeon",
"bob",
"bonk",
"bop",
"box",
"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 take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"the cops busted the revelers for drinking in public"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehend",
"arrest",
"collar",
"nab",
"nail",
"nick",
"pick up",
"pinch",
"pull in",
"restrain",
"run in",
"seize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bag",
"capture",
"catch",
"get",
"grab",
"grapple",
"hook",
"land",
"snap (up)",
"snare",
"snatch",
"trap",
"commit",
"confine",
"detain",
"hold",
"immure",
"imprison",
"incarcerate",
"intern",
"jail",
"jug",
"lock (up)",
"bind",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel",
"rearrest",
"remand"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipate",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"release",
"spring",
"unbind",
"unchain"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharge"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"I had to bust my butt in order to get the project done on time"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"burn out",
"do in",
"do up",
"drain",
"exhaust",
"fag",
"fatigue",
"frazzle",
"harass",
"kill",
"knock out",
"outwear",
"tire",
"tucker (out)",
"wash out",
"wear",
"wear out",
"weary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitate",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"sap",
"waste",
"weaken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activate",
"energize",
"invigorate",
"rejuvenate",
"strengthen",
"vitalize",
"relax",
"rest",
"unwind"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in bankrupt , insolvent":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"insolvent",
"beggared",
"beggarly",
"broke",
"destitute",
"dirt-poor",
"down-and-out",
"famished",
"hard up",
"impecunious",
"impoverished",
"indigent",
"necessitous",
"needful",
"needy",
"pauperized",
"penniless",
"penurious",
"poor",
"poverty-stricken",
"skint",
"threadbare",
"deprived",
"disadvantaged",
"dispossessed",
"unaffluent",
"underprivileged",
"possessionless",
"ruined",
"depressed",
"distressed",
"hand-to-mouth",
"hardscrabble",
"pinched",
"poorish",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"cash-strapped",
"low",
"short",
"tapped out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comfortable",
"prosperous",
"affluent",
"deep-pocketed",
"fat",
"fat-cat",
"flush",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"silk-stocking",
"wealthy",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"buggers off":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"bugger off , or I'll call the police!"
],
"synonyms":[
"bails",
"bails out",
"books",
"bugs off",
"bugs out",
"buzzes (off)",
"clears off",
"clears out",
"cuts out",
"departs",
"digs out",
"exits",
"gets",
"gets off",
"goes",
"goes off",
"moves",
"packs (up or off)",
"parts",
"peels off",
"pikes (out or off)",
"pulls out",
"pushes off",
"pushes on",
"quits",
"runs along",
"sallies (forth)",
"scarpers",
"shoves (off)",
"steps (along)",
"takes off",
"vamooses",
"walks out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sets out",
"starts",
"strikes out",
"absconds",
"decamps",
"escapes",
"evacuates",
"flees",
"flies",
"gets out",
"mizzles",
"runs away",
"scats",
"scrams",
"skips",
"goes out",
"lights out",
"steps out",
"abandons",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"vacates",
"emigrates",
"adjourns",
"removes",
"retires",
"retreats",
"withdraws"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abides",
"dwells",
"lodges",
"remains",
"settles",
"stays",
"tarries",
"approaches",
"closes",
"nears",
"hits",
"lands",
"reaches"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrives",
"comes",
"shows up",
"turns up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burnishing":{
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"burnished the floor of the ballroom to a soft luster"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffing",
"dressing",
"furbishing",
"glossing",
"grinding",
"polishing",
"rubbing",
"shining",
"smoothening",
"smoothing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleeking",
"slicking",
"coating",
"glazing",
"japanning",
"lacquering",
"varnishing",
"facing",
"finishing",
"veneering",
"brightening",
"filing",
"rasping",
"sandblasting",
"sanding",
"sandpapering",
"scouring",
"scraping",
"scrubbing",
"bobbing",
"boning",
"lapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"roughening",
"roughing (up)",
"ruffling",
"scuffing (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buying the farm":{
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"After years of ignoring his health problems, the old man finally bought it ."
],
"synonyms":[
"checking out",
"conking (out)",
"croaking",
"deceasing",
"demising",
"departing",
"dropping",
"dying",
"ending",
"exiting",
"expiring",
"falling",
"flatlining",
"going",
"kicking in",
"kicking off",
"parting",
"passing away",
"passing (on)",
"pegging out",
"perishing",
"popping off",
"stepping out",
"succumbing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predeceasing",
"consuming",
"disappearing",
"drying up",
"fading",
"failing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming to",
"reviving",
"lingering",
"being",
"existing",
"subsisting",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathing",
"living"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"busted":{
"forcibly separated into many pieces":{
"examples":[
"a busted headlight"
],
"synonyms":[
"broken",
"fractured",
"fragmented",
"shattered",
"smashed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blasted",
"detonated",
"exploded",
"cracked",
"slivered",
"splintered",
"split",
"collapsed",
"imploded",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"pulverized",
"ruinate",
"ruined",
"wrecked",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"disintegrated",
"dynamited",
"mangled",
"mutilated",
"eradicated",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"obliterated",
"wiped out",
"breakable",
"brittle",
"delicate",
"fragile",
"frail",
"frangible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fixed",
"healed",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"repaired",
"infrangible",
"unbreakable"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbroken"
]
},
"to bring to a lower grade or rank":{
"examples":[
"the commander threatened to bust her for failing to salute"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"degraded",
"demoted",
"disrated",
"downgraded",
"reduced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canned",
"cashiered",
"dismissed",
"downsized",
"fired",
"laid off",
"sacked",
"abased",
"debased",
"demeaned",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"lowered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hired"
],
"antonyms":[
"advanced",
"elevated",
"promoted",
"raised"
]
},
"to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts":{
"examples":[
"gambling is a dangerous habit that has busted many unfortunate souls"
],
"synonyms":[
"bankrupted",
"broke",
"ruined"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beggared",
"impoverished",
"pauperized",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"cleaned (out)",
"wiped out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enriched",
"richened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly":{
"examples":[
"the butterfingered husband had busted more plates than he cared to remember"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"broke up",
"disintegrated",
"dismembered",
"disrupted",
"fractured",
"fragmented",
"rived"
],
"near synonyms":[
"atomized",
"crushed",
"ground",
"powdered",
"pulverized",
"reduced",
"blasted",
"blew up",
"burst",
"bursted",
"detonated",
"exploded",
"cracked",
"popped",
"shattered",
"shivered",
"smashed",
"chipped",
"slivered",
"splintered",
"split",
"imploded",
"destroyed",
"ruined",
"wrecked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctored",
"fixed",
"healed",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconditioned",
"reconstructed",
"renovated",
"repaired"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"busted the storekeeper on the nose and was promptly arrested for it"
],
"synonyms":[
"banged",
"bashed",
"batted",
"belted",
"biffed",
"bludgeoned",
"bobbed",
"bonked",
"bopped",
"boxed",
"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 take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"the cops busted the revelers for drinking in public"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehended",
"arrested",
"collared",
"nabbed",
"nailed",
"nicked",
"picked up",
"pinched",
"pulled in",
"ran in",
"restrained",
"seized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bagged",
"captured",
"caught",
"got",
"grabbed",
"grappled",
"hooked",
"landed",
"snapped (up)",
"snared",
"snatched",
"trapped",
"committed",
"confined",
"detained",
"held",
"immured",
"imprisoned",
"incarcerated",
"interned",
"jailed",
"jugged",
"locked (up)",
"bound",
"enchained",
"fettered",
"handcuffed",
"manacled",
"shackled",
"trammeled",
"trammelled",
"rearrested",
"remanded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipated",
"freed",
"liberated",
"loosed",
"loosened",
"released",
"sprang",
"sprung",
"unbound",
"unchained"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharged"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"I had to bust my butt in order to get the project done on time"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"burned out",
"burnt out",
"did in",
"did up",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"fagged",
"fatigued",
"frazzled",
"harassed",
"killed",
"knocked out",
"outwore",
"tired",
"tuckered (out)",
"washed out",
"wearied",
"wore",
"wore out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitated",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"wasted",
"weakened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activated",
"energized",
"invigorated",
"rejuvenated",
"strengthened",
"vitalized",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"unwound"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bucks":{
"something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment":{
"examples":[
"hoping to win some major bucks at the slot machines"
],
"synonyms":[
"bread",
"cabbage",
"cash",
"change",
"chips",
"coin",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"green",
"jack",
"kale",
"legal tender",
"lolly",
"long green",
"loot",
"lucre",
"money",
"moola",
"moolah",
"needful",
"pelf",
"scratch",
"shekels",
"sheqels",
"shekelim",
"shekalim",
"sheqalim",
"tender",
"wampum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coinage",
"specie",
"dead presidents",
"folding money",
"paper money",
"scrip",
"banknote",
"cashier's check",
"check",
"draft",
"money order",
"note",
"promissory note",
"bill",
"dollar",
"greenback",
"bankroll",
"capital",
"finances",
"funds",
"roll",
"wad",
"wallet",
"chump change",
"dibs",
"dime",
"mite",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"shoestring",
"big bucks",
"bomb",
"boodle",
"bundle",
"earth",
"fortune",
"king's ransom",
"megabucks",
"mint",
"packet",
"pile",
"pot",
"abundance",
"means",
"opulence",
"riches",
"treasure",
"wealth",
"resources",
"wherewithal",
"mad money",
"petty cash",
"pin money",
"pocket money",
"spending money"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move or cause to move with a sharp quick motion":{
"examples":[
"the car bucked and stalled"
],
"synonyms":[
"hitches",
"hoicks",
"jerks",
"jolts",
"twitches",
"yanks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bumps",
"jounces",
"lurches",
"pitches",
"staggers",
"jiggles",
"jigs",
"joggles",
"jogs",
"shakes",
"drags",
"lugs",
"pulls",
"tugs",
"plucks",
"tweaks",
"grabs",
"rips",
"snaps (up)",
"snatches",
"tears",
"wrenches",
"wrests",
"wrings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to refuse to give in to":{
"examples":[
"bucked the trend to outdo everyone else and just wore the same clothes they had in previous years"
],
"synonyms":[
"defies",
"fights",
"opposes",
"repels",
"resists",
"withstands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battles",
"combats",
"contends (with)",
"challenges",
"contests",
"contradicts",
"disputes",
"baffles",
"balks",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"thwarts",
"checks",
"counters",
"hinders",
"obstructs",
"stems"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"bows (to)",
"capitulates (to)",
"gives in (to)",
"knuckles under (to)",
"stoops (to)",
"submits (to)",
"succumbs (to)",
"surrenders (to)",
"yields (to)"
]
},
"to shift possession of (something) from one person to another":{
"examples":[
"buck each box to the next person in line, and the last person will stack them in the storeroom"
],
"synonyms":[
"hands",
"hands over",
"passes",
"reaches",
"transfers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"relays",
"bears",
"carries",
"fingers",
"handles",
"paws",
"cedes",
"delivers",
"gives",
"gives up",
"releases",
"relinquishes",
"renders",
"surrenders",
"turns over",
"yields"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"burden":{
"a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported":{
"examples":[
"the early settlers often used horses to carry their burdens"
],
"synonyms":[
"cargo",
"draft",
"freight",
"haul",
"lading",
"load",
"loading",
"payload",
"weight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consignment",
"boatload",
"carload",
"shipload",
"trainload",
"truckload",
"wagonload",
"ballast",
"deadweight",
"overload",
"surcharge",
"bale",
"bundle",
"pack",
"package",
"packet",
"parcel",
"shipment",
"manifest",
"body",
"bulk",
"mass"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something one must do because of prior agreement":{
"examples":[
"the burden of homework prevented the youngster from joining his friends at the game"
],
"synonyms":[
"charge",
"commitment",
"devoir",
"do",
"duty",
"imperative",
"incumbency",
"need",
"obligation",
"office",
"responsibility"
],
"near synonyms":[
"oath",
"pledge",
"promise",
"troth",
"vow",
"word",
"arrangement",
"prearrangement",
"setup",
"compact",
"contract",
"covenant",
"pact",
"trust",
"debt",
"payment",
"tribute",
"compulsion",
"constraint",
"restraint",
"must",
"requirement",
"coercion",
"duress",
"force",
"appointment",
"engagement",
"reservation",
"onus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"grace",
"postponement",
"stay",
"discharge",
"ease",
"exemption",
"release",
"relief",
"waiver",
"loophole",
"alternative",
"choice",
"option",
"pick",
"preference",
"selection"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a part of a song or hymn that is repeated every so often":{
"examples":[
"had some trouble coming up with a burden for the song"
],
"synonyms":[
"chorus",
"refrain"
],
"near synonyms":[
"repeat",
"response"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to place a weight or burden on":{
"examples":[
"burdened the dog with a little backpack"
],
"synonyms":[
"encumber",
"freight",
"lade",
"laden",
"load",
"lumber",
"saddle",
"weight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clog",
"clutter",
"fill",
"pack",
"heap",
"mound",
"pile",
"stack",
"press",
"weigh",
"strain",
"tax",
"overburden",
"overload",
"overtax",
"surcharge",
"hamper",
"handicap",
"afflict",
"oppress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alleviate",
"ease",
"lighten",
"relieve"
],
"antonyms":[
"disburden",
"discharge",
"disencumber",
"unburden",
"unlade",
"unload"
]
},
"to make sad":{
"examples":[
"refuses to let everyday problems burden her"
],
"synonyms":[
"bum (out)",
"dash",
"deject",
"depress",
"get down",
"oppress",
"sadden",
"weigh down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ail",
"distress",
"trouble",
"afflict",
"torment",
"torture",
"daunt",
"demoralize",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"dismay",
"dispirit",
"unnerve",
"agitate",
"bother",
"concern",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"disturb",
"exercise",
"freak (out)",
"perturb",
"undo",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animate",
"enliven",
"invigorate",
"assure",
"comfort",
"console",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe",
"excite",
"inspire",
"stimulate",
"elate",
"exhilarate",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"delight",
"gratify",
"please",
"boost",
"elevate",
"lift",
"uplift"
],
"antonyms":[
"brighten",
"buoy",
"cheer (up)",
"gladden",
"lighten",
"rejoice"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"buildup":{
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"static electricity built up on the cat's fur"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"accumulate",
"appreciate",
"balloon",
"boom",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"climb",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"gain",
"increase",
"mount",
"multiply",
"mushroom",
"proliferate",
"rise",
"roll up",
"snowball",
"spread",
"swell",
"wax"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jump",
"rocket",
"skyrocket",
"surge",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"redouble",
"blow up",
"bulk",
"distend",
"inflate",
"puff (up)",
"crescendo",
"crest",
"peak"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contract",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"recede",
"wane"
]
},
"to gradually increase in":{
"examples":[
"the roller coaster built up momentum"
],
"synonyms":[
"gain",
"gather",
"grow (in)",
"pick up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"double (in)",
"triple (in)",
"accrue",
"accumulate",
"amass",
"excite",
"stimulate",
"enhance",
"enlarge",
"enrich",
"expand",
"extend",
"maximize",
"boost",
"elevate",
"jack (up)",
"mount",
"ramp (up)",
"step up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abate",
"decline (in)",
"diminish (in)",
"dip",
"dwindle",
"fall (in)",
"lessen",
"taper",
"taper off"
],
"antonyms":[
"decrease (in)",
"lose"
]
},
"to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass":{
"examples":[
"evidence that the toxic chemical builds up in the bloodstream to unhealthy levels"
],
"synonyms":[
"accrete",
"accumulate",
"amass",
"collect",
"concentrate",
"conglomerate",
"gather",
"mass",
"pile (up)",
"stack (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agglutinate",
"clump",
"lump",
"bank",
"drift",
"ridge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"scatter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"he patiently built up his coin collection over several decades",
"the young stockbroker worked hard to build up a clientele"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"add (to)",
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"boost",
"compound",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"extend",
"hype",
"increase",
"multiply",
"pump up",
"raise",
"stoke",
"supersize",
"swell",
"up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boom",
"jump",
"skyrocket",
"spike",
"bump (up)",
"ratchet (up)",
"rachet (up)",
"blow up",
"dilate",
"distend",
"inflate",
"draw out",
"elongate",
"flesh (out)",
"lengthen",
"prolong",
"protract",
"stretch",
"develop",
"enhance",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"magnify",
"complement",
"supplement",
"beef (up)",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"strengthen",
"maximize",
"accumulate",
"amass",
"collect",
"follow up",
"parlay"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"curtail",
"shorten",
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"cut back",
"retrench"
],
"antonyms":[
"abate",
"decrease",
"de-escalate",
"diminish",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"lower",
"minify",
"reduce",
"subtract (from)"
]
},
"as in campaign , boost":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ballyhoo",
"boost",
"campaign",
"plug",
"promo",
"promotion",
"propaganda",
"publicity",
"ad",
"advert",
"advertisement",
"announcement",
"bulletin",
"communiqu\u00e9",
"notice",
"notification",
"posting",
"release",
"broadside",
"brochure",
"circular",
"flyer",
"flier",
"fly sheet",
"gazette",
"handbill",
"handout",
"bill",
"billboard",
"placard",
"playbill",
"poster",
"show bill",
"sign",
"broadcast",
"cablecast",
"newscast",
"telecast",
"advertising",
"billing",
"blurb",
"come-on",
"commercial",
"message",
"pitch",
"plugola",
"spot",
"word",
"communication",
"dispatch",
"report",
"annunciation",
"declaration",
"edict",
"proclamation",
"promulgation",
"pronouncement",
"pronunciamento",
"rescript",
"signification"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"butteries":{
"as in larders , spences":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ambries",
"larders",
"spences",
"closets",
"cuddies",
"cupboards",
"pantries",
"presses",
"cloakrooms",
"coatrooms",
"garderobes",
"vestiaries",
"wardrobes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"budges":{
"to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)":{
"examples":[
"despite hours of intense pressure, she refused to budge from her position"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinks",
"bows",
"capitulates",
"concedes",
"gives in",
"knuckles under",
"quits",
"relents",
"submits",
"succumbs",
"surrenders",
"yields"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiesces",
"defers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contends",
"fights",
"holds off",
"battles",
"breasts",
"combats",
"confronts",
"counters",
"defies",
"faces",
"meets",
"objects",
"opposes",
"repels",
"thwarts",
"withstands"
],
"antonyms":[
"resists"
]
},
"to change one's position":{
"examples":[
"he finally budged from his beach blanket when the tide started swirling up around him"
],
"synonyms":[
"locomotes",
"moves",
"shifts",
"stirs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddles",
"fidgets",
"jiggles",
"squiggles",
"squirms",
"tosses",
"twitches",
"wiggles",
"wriggles",
"writhes",
"rouses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hangs around",
"remains",
"stays",
"sticks around",
"tarries",
"stabilizes"
],
"antonyms":[
"freezes",
"stills"
]
},
"to change the place or position of":{
"examples":[
"the bureau was so heavy that two people couldn't budge it"
],
"synonyms":[
"dislocates",
"displaces",
"disturbs",
"moves",
"relocates",
"removes",
"repositions",
"shifts",
"transfers",
"transposes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bears",
"carries",
"carts",
"conveys",
"drives",
"hauls",
"lugs",
"totes",
"transmits",
"transplants",
"transports",
"replaces",
"supersedes",
"supplants",
"alters",
"makes over",
"modifies",
"redoes",
"refashions",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"varies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anchors",
"fixes",
"freezes",
"moors",
"secures",
"sets",
"stabilizes",
"embeds",
"imbeds",
"entrenches",
"intrenches",
"implants",
"ingrains",
"engrains",
"lodges",
"roots"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bush pilots":{
"as in aces , test pilots":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aces",
"barnstormers",
"copilots",
"flyboys",
"test pilots",
"airmen",
"aviators",
"birdmen",
"fliers",
"flyers",
"pilots",
"captains",
"skippers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buddy-buddy":{
"closely acquainted":{
"examples":[
"those two army officers have been buddy-buddy for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"bosom",
"chummy",
"close",
"especial",
"familiar",
"friendly",
"inseparable",
"intimate",
"inward",
"near",
"thick",
"tight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clannish",
"close-knit",
"tight-knit",
"affable",
"boon",
"companionable",
"convivial",
"cordial",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hearty",
"gregarious",
"sociable",
"social",
"comfortable",
"cozy",
"easy",
"snug",
"amicable",
"neighborly",
"confidential",
"secretive",
"adoring",
"affectionate",
"dear",
"devoted",
"fond",
"loving",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warm"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aloof",
"antisocial",
"cold",
"cool",
"detached",
"distant",
"frosty",
"remote",
"reserved",
"standoffish",
"unfriendly",
"unsociable",
"withdrawn"
],
"antonyms":[
"distant"
]
},
"having or showing kindly feeling and sincere interest":{
"examples":[
"he's even buddy-buddy to people he's only just met"
],
"synonyms":[
"amicable",
"bonhomous",
"chummy",
"collegial",
"companionable",
"comradely",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"hail-fellow",
"hail-fellow-well-met",
"hearty",
"matey",
"neighborly",
"palsy",
"palsy-walsy",
"warm",
"warmhearted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affable",
"agreeable",
"approachable",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"nice",
"sweet",
"clubby",
"convivial",
"folksy",
"gregarious",
"hospitable",
"sociable",
"social",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"merry",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"outgoing",
"brotherly",
"fraternal",
"sisterly",
"close",
"familiar",
"intimate",
"adoring",
"affectionate",
"devoted",
"fond",
"lovesome",
"loving",
"tender",
"tenderhearted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alienated",
"estranged",
"chilly",
"cold",
"cold-blooded",
"cool",
"frigid",
"frosty",
"glacial",
"icy",
"wintry",
"wintery",
"unsociable",
"unsocial",
"aggressive",
"argumentative",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"combative",
"contentious",
"disputatious",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"scrappy",
"truculent",
"inhospitable",
"inimical"
],
"antonyms":[
"antagonistic",
"hostile",
"unfriendly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"buys":{
"to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for":{
"examples":[
"I really want to buy that new book, but I don't have enough money right now"
],
"synonyms":[
"cops",
"picks up",
"purchases",
"takes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquires",
"gains",
"garners",
"gets",
"obtains",
"procures",
"secures",
"wins",
"finances",
"pays (for)",
"springs (for)",
"barters (for)",
"deals (for)",
"dickers (over)",
"exchanges (for)",
"haggles (for)",
"negotiates (about)",
"trades (for)",
"bargains (with)",
"chaffers (with)",
"horse-trades (with)",
"palters (with)",
"bids",
"offers",
"rebuys",
"repurchases"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deals (in)",
"markets",
"merchandises",
"merchandizes",
"retails",
"sells",
"vends"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to influence someone with a bribe":{
"examples":[
"there were rumors that the mobster had bought the judge"
],
"synonyms":[
"bribes",
"corrupts",
"has",
"pays off",
"squares"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fixes",
"tampers (with)",
"abases",
"debases",
"debauches",
"defiles",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"depraves",
"dishonors",
"perverts",
"poisons",
"profanes",
"prostitutes",
"subverts",
"taints",
"warps",
"allures",
"baits",
"beguiles",
"entices",
"leads on",
"lures",
"seduces",
"tempts",
"motivates",
"provokes",
"spurs",
"stimulates",
"goads",
"induces",
"flatters",
"persuades",
"snares",
"traps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to regard as right or true":{
"examples":[
"if you buy that story, then I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in"
],
"synonyms":[
"accepts",
"believes",
"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"
]
},
"something bought or offered for sale at a desirable price":{
"examples":[
"four cartons of ice cream for four dollars is a real buy"
],
"synonyms":[
"bargains",
"deals",
"pennyworth",
"pennyworths",
"snips",
"steals"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clearances",
"closeouts",
"markdowns",
"cheapies",
"bonuses",
"freebies",
"freebees",
"gifts",
"giveaways",
"premiums",
"presents",
"boons",
"windfalls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"overcharges",
"rip-offs",
"markups",
"surcharges",
"extravagances",
"luxuries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bullied":{
"as in intimidated , cowed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"browbeaten",
"cowed",
"hectored",
"intimidated",
"crushed",
"downtrodden",
"oppressed",
"persecuted",
"tyrannized",
"abused",
"maltreated",
"mistreated",
"abject",
"despairing",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"downcast",
"hopeless"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to inflict physical or emotional harm upon":{
"examples":[
"the kindergarten teacher explained why it was wrong to bully classmates"
],
"synonyms":[
"abused",
"brutalized",
"ill-treated",
"ill-used",
"kicked around",
"maltreated",
"manhandled",
"messed over",
"mishandled",
"mistreated",
"misused"
],
"near synonyms":[
"molested",
"outraged",
"violated",
"harassed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"injured",
"oppressed",
"persecuted",
"tormented",
"tortured",
"burned",
"burnt",
"sandbagged",
"victimized",
"wronged",
"beat (up)",
"messed (up)",
"roughed (up)",
"worked (over)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cared (for)",
"cherished",
"fostered",
"nurtured",
"babied",
"catered (to)",
"coddled",
"favored",
"gratified",
"humored",
"indulged",
"mollycoddled",
"pampered",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"the manager was fired for bullying employees"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacked",
"bogarted",
"browbeat",
"bulldozed",
"bullyragged",
"ballyragged",
"cowed",
"hectored",
"intimidated",
"strong-armed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustered",
"trash-talked",
"affrighted",
"alarmed",
"alarumed",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"menaced",
"terrorized",
"threatened",
"badgered",
"harassed",
"hounded",
"bludgeoned",
"coerced",
"compelled",
"constrained",
"dragooned",
"forced",
"made",
"obliged",
"pressed",
"pressured",
"pushed around",
"demoralized",
"psyched (out)",
"unmanned",
"unnerved",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"upset"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"steeled",
"convinced",
"persuaded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bunco":{
"an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value":{
"examples":[
"they were experts at that bunco , having fleeced wide-eyed tourists for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"con",
"fiddle",
"flimflam",
"fraud",
"hustle",
"scam",
"shell game",
"sting",
"swindle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cross",
"fix",
"Ponzi scheme",
"pyramid scheme",
"racket",
"rip-off",
"thimblerig",
"three-card monte",
"device",
"dodge",
"gimmick",
"jig",
"ploy",
"scheme",
"sleight",
"stratagem",
"trick",
"wile",
"gouging",
"overcharging",
"soaking",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"forgery",
"hoax",
"humbug",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bused":{
"as in drove , rode":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cabbed",
"coached",
"cruised",
"drove",
"flew",
"gigged",
"jetted",
"motored",
"navigated",
"rode",
"rid",
"rolled",
"sailed",
"trundled",
"migrated",
"road-tripped",
"barnstormed",
"gallivanted",
"galavanted",
"hopped",
"jaunted",
"knocked (about)",
"perambulated",
"rambled",
"roamed",
"roved",
"traipsed",
"wandered",
"journeyed",
"peregrinated",
"pilgrimaged",
"toured",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trekked",
"tripped",
"voyaged"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bull markets":{
"as in bear markets":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bear markets",
"calls",
"demands",
"markets",
"requests",
"buyer's markets",
"seller's markets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"butchers":{
"someone who bungles an effort":{
"examples":[
"the newest intern on the campaign is a butcher when it comes to writing press releases"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunderbusses",
"blunderers",
"botchers",
"bumblers",
"bunglers",
"fumblers",
"screwups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incompetents",
"muddlers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aces",
"adepts",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"experts",
"maestros",
"maestri",
"masters",
"virtuosos",
"virtuosi",
"wizards"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to kill on a large scale":{
"examples":[
"the barbarians butchered the monks in the monasteries without mercy"
],
"synonyms":[
"massacres",
"mows (down)",
"slaughters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assassinates",
"croaks",
"dispatches",
"does in",
"executes",
"fells",
"murders",
"slays",
"smites",
"snuffs",
"annihilates",
"blots out",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"eradicates",
"exterminates",
"wastes",
"wipes out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"the new piano student butchered the sonatina"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows",
"bobbles",
"boggles",
"bollixes (up)",
"boots",
"botches",
"buggers (up)",
"bumbles",
"bungles",
"dubs",
"flubs",
"fluffs",
"foozles",
"fouls up",
"fumbles",
"goofs (up)",
"louses up",
"mangles",
"messes (up)",
"mucks up",
"muffs",
"murders",
"screws up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blunders",
"gums (up)",
"muddles",
"piffles",
"blemishes",
"blights",
"damages",
"flaws",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"ruins",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"destroys",
"wrecks",
"mishandles",
"mismanages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"enhances",
"helps",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"rectifies",
"refines",
"reforms",
"remedies",
"doctors",
"fixes",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"revamps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bullseyes":{
"the central part or aspect of something under consideration":{
"examples":[
"you hit the bull's-eye when you noted that the real issue here is money"
],
"synonyms":[
"bottom lines",
"centerpieces",
"cores",
"cruxes",
"cruces",
"essences",
"gists",
"hearts",
"kernels",
"keynotes",
"meat and potatoes",
"meats",
"nets",
"nubbins",
"nubs",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"piths",
"pivots",
"points",
"roots",
"sums"
],
"near synonyms":[
"courses",
"directions",
"drifts",
"tenors",
"bodies",
"contents",
"substances",
"hypotheses",
"propositions",
"purports",
"subjects",
"themes",
"theses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bums (around)":{
"as in hangs , lounges (around or about)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dawdles",
"goldbricks",
"hangs",
"hangs about",
"idles",
"loafs",
"lounges (around or about)",
"relaxes",
"rests",
"screws around",
"slacks (off)",
"dabbles",
"fiddles (around)",
"messes around",
"putters (around)",
"jests",
"jokes",
"teases",
"delights",
"pleases",
"amuses",
"diverts",
"entertains",
"dabbles",
"trifles",
"cavorts",
"frisks",
"gambols",
"romps",
"dallies",
"disports",
"frolics",
"plays",
"recreates",
"rollicks",
"skylarks",
"sports",
"toys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudges",
"labors",
"plods",
"plugs (away)",
"slaves",
"strains",
"strives",
"struggles",
"sweats",
"toils",
"works"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buckler":{
"means or method of defending":{
"examples":[
"a strong and free press is our best buckler against tyranny"
],
"synonyms":[
"aegis",
"egis",
"ammunition",
"armor",
"cover",
"defense",
"guard",
"protection",
"safeguard",
"screen",
"security",
"shield",
"wall",
"ward"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arm",
"armament",
"munitions",
"weapon",
"weaponry",
"fastness",
"fort",
"fortress",
"palisade",
"stronghold"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggression",
"assault",
"attack",
"offense",
"offence",
"offensive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buttoning (up)":{
"as in zipping (up)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"zipping (up)",
"barring",
"bolting",
"clasping",
"fastening",
"latching",
"locking",
"closing",
"shutting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"opening",
"unclosing",
"unbarring",
"unbolting",
"unclasping",
"unfastening",
"unlatching",
"unlocking",
"unbuttoning",
"unclenching",
"unfolding",
"unfurling",
"unzipping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buildings":{
"something built as a dwelling, shelter, or place for human activity":{
"examples":[
"English class will be in that big stone building over there"
],
"synonyms":[
"edifices",
"structures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"constructions",
"erections",
"bungalows",
"cabins",
"chalets",
"cottages",
"houses",
"lodges",
"summerhouses",
"hovels",
"hutments",
"huts",
"shacks",
"shanties",
"sheds",
"castles",
"ch\u00e2teaus",
"ch\u00e2teaux",
"estates",
"halls",
"manors",
"mansions",
"palaces",
"piles",
"villas",
"skyscrapers",
"towers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buckling":{
"to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure":{
"examples":[
"the flimsy bridge buckled under the weight of the caravan of trucks"
],
"synonyms":[
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"crumpling",
"foundering",
"giving",
"going",
"going out",
"imploding",
"tumbling",
"yielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deflating",
"flattening",
"melting",
"melting down",
"breaking",
"breaking down",
"conking (out)",
"crashing",
"dying",
"failing",
"giving out",
"stalling",
"bursting",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"splintering",
"splitting",
"cracking",
"crumbling",
"popping",
"snapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inflating",
"rising",
"swelling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attention":{
"examples":[
"buckled himself down and finished the assignment in record time"
],
"synonyms":[
"addressing",
"applying",
"bending",
"devoting",
"giving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readdressing",
"reapplying",
"knuckling down",
"setting (to)",
"settling (down)",
"busying",
"committing",
"concerning",
"engaging",
"involving",
"exerting",
"exhausting",
"putting out",
"spending",
"straining",
"stressing",
"taxing",
"troubling",
"wearing out",
"carrying on",
"pitching in",
"plunging (in)",
"grinding",
"humping",
"hustling",
"pegging (away)",
"plodding",
"plowing",
"plugging (away)",
"working"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling around",
"idling",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bushwhacks":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"a remote area of the park in which gangs of hoodlums have been known to bushwhack lone joggers"
],
"synonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"charges",
"descends (on or upon)",
"goes in (on)",
"jumps (on)",
"pounces (on or upon)",
"raids",
"rushes",
"sets on",
"sics",
"sicks",
"storms",
"strikes",
"trashes",
"turns (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushes",
"gangs up (on)",
"mobs",
"swarms",
"mugs",
"robs",
"ambuscades",
"ambushes",
"surprises",
"surprizes",
"waylays",
"blitzes",
"bombards",
"bombs",
"nukes",
"barrages",
"cannonades",
"cannons",
"bangs away (at)",
"batters",
"buffets",
"plasters",
"beleaguers",
"besieges",
"presses",
"harries",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ravages",
"sacks",
"forays",
"invades",
"overruns",
"envelops",
"flanks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covers",
"defends",
"guards",
"protects",
"secures",
"shields"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bumblers":{
"someone who bungles an effort":{
"examples":[
"we can't trust that bumbler to do anything right"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunderbusses",
"blunderers",
"botchers",
"bunglers",
"butchers",
"fumblers",
"screwups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incompetents",
"muddlers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aces",
"adepts",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"experts",
"maestros",
"maestri",
"masters",
"virtuosos",
"virtuosi",
"wizards"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"built (up)":{
"as in amassed , aggregated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accruable",
"accrued",
"aggregated",
"amassed",
"compiled",
"conglomerated",
"increscent",
"progressive",
"gradual",
"step-by-step",
"stepwise",
"accretive",
"accumulative",
"additive",
"conglomerative",
"cumulative",
"incremental"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decremental",
"decrescent",
"degressive",
"regressive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"static electricity built up on the cat's fur"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"accumulated",
"appreciated",
"ballooned",
"boomed",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"climbed",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"gained",
"increased",
"mounted",
"multiplied",
"mushroomed",
"proliferated",
"rolled up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"spread",
"swelled",
"waxed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumped",
"rocketed",
"skyrocketed",
"surged",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"redoubled",
"blew up",
"bulked",
"distended",
"inflated",
"puffed (up)",
"crescendoed",
"crested",
"peaked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracted",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"receded",
"waned"
]
},
"to gradually increase in":{
"examples":[
"the roller coaster built up momentum"
],
"synonyms":[
"gained",
"gathered",
"grew (in)",
"picked up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doubled (in)",
"tripled (in)",
"accrued",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"excited",
"stimulated",
"enhanced",
"enlarged",
"enriched",
"expanded",
"extended",
"maximized",
"boosted",
"elevated",
"jacked (up)",
"mounted",
"ramped (up)",
"stepped up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abated",
"declined (in)",
"diminished (in)",
"dipped",
"dwindled",
"fell (in)",
"lessened",
"tapered",
"tapered off"
],
"antonyms":[
"decreased (in)",
"lost"
]
},
"to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass":{
"examples":[
"evidence that the toxic chemical builds up in the bloodstream to unhealthy levels"
],
"synonyms":[
"accreted",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"collected",
"concentrated",
"conglomerated",
"gathered",
"massed",
"piled (up)",
"stacked (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agglutinated",
"clumped",
"lumped",
"banked",
"drifted",
"ridged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dispersed",
"dissipated",
"scattered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"he patiently built up his coin collection over several decades",
"the young stockbroker worked hard to build up a clientele"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"added (to)",
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"boosted",
"compounded",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"extended",
"hyped",
"increased",
"multiplied",
"pumped up",
"raised",
"stoked",
"supersized",
"swelled",
"upped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boomed",
"jumped",
"skyrocketed",
"spiked",
"bumped (up)",
"ratcheted (up)",
"racheted (up)",
"blew up",
"dilated",
"distended",
"inflated",
"drew out",
"elongated",
"fleshed (out)",
"lengthened",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"stretched",
"developed",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"magnified",
"complemented",
"supplemented",
"beefed (up)",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"strengthened",
"maximized",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"collected",
"followed up",
"parlayed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"shortened",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"cut back",
"retrenched"
],
"antonyms":[
"abated",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"minified",
"reduced",
"subtracted (from)"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bumped into":{
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"I bumped into Kenny the other day."
],
"synonyms":[
"caught",
"chanced (upon)",
"encountered",
"happened (upon)",
"met",
"stumbled (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accosted",
"confronted",
"faced",
"greeted",
"saluted",
"collided (with)",
"crashed (into)",
"crisscrossed",
"crossed",
"passed",
"hit (upon)",
"lit (upon)",
"lighted (upon)",
"tumbled (to)",
"reencountered",
"re-encountered",
"remet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoided",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"escaped",
"evaded",
"shook",
"shunned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"Turn any corner in the old city and you're likely to bump into a piece of history."
],
"synonyms":[
"chanced (upon)",
"encountered",
"found",
"happened (on or upon)",
"hit (upon)",
"lit (on or upon)",
"lighted (on or upon)",
"met",
"pitched (upon)",
"stumbled (on or onto)",
"tumbled (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucked (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronted",
"faced",
"discovered",
"struck",
"turned up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"butcheries":{
"the killing of a large number of people":{
"examples":[
"butchery on a scale that horrified the civilized world"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloodbaths",
"carnages",
"deaths",
"holocausts",
"massacres",
"slaughters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bloodlettings",
"bloodsheds",
"foul play",
"homicides",
"killings",
"manslaughters",
"murders",
"slayings",
"mortalities",
"annihilations",
"decimations",
"destructions",
"devastations",
"eradications",
"exterminations",
"genocides",
"pogroms",
"assassinations",
"executions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"button men":{
"as in gangsters , mobsters":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blackhanders",
"gangsters",
"hoodlums",
"mafiosi",
"mobsters",
"blackmailers",
"extortioners",
"extortionists",
"racketeers",
"bullies",
"ruffians",
"thugs",
"cheaters",
"cheats",
"chiselers",
"chisellers",
"cozeners",
"defrauders",
"dodgers",
"double-dealers",
"gougers",
"hustlers",
"profiteers",
"sharks",
"sharpers",
"sharpies",
"swindlers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burring":{
"to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound":{
"examples":[
"the pitch burred past the batter's ear"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumbling",
"buzzing",
"droning",
"humming",
"whirring",
"whishing",
"whizzing",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chirring",
"churring",
"thrumming",
"fizzing",
"hissing",
"murmuring",
"purring",
"rustling",
"sighing",
"sizzling",
"swishing",
"whispering",
"cooing",
"curring",
"wheezing",
"whistling",
"whooshing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bucket":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"made buckets of money in the stock market"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"basketful",
"boatload",
"bunch",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"carload",
"chunk",
"deal",
"dozen",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"good deal",
"heap",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
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"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
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"multiplicity",
"myriad",
"oodles",
"pack",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plateful",
"plenitude",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"pot",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaf",
"shipload",
"sight",
"slew",
"spate",
"stack",
"store",
"ton",
"truckload",
"volume",
"wad",
"wealth",
"yard"
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"epidemic",
"plague",
"rash",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"redundancy",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"deluge",
"flood",
"overflow",
"army",
"bevy",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"drove",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"score",
"sea",
"swarm",
"throng",
"gazillion",
"jillion",
"kazillion",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillion",
"zillion"
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"atom",
"crumb",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"fragment",
"grain",
"granule",
"iota",
"jot",
"modicum",
"molecule",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"particle",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scrap",
"shred",
"tittle",
"whit",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dash",
"drop",
"morsel",
"shot",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"absence",
"dearth",
"famine",
"lack",
"paucity",
"poverty",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"inadequacy",
"insufficiency",
"meagerness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"skimpiness"
],
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"ace",
"bit",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"handful",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"mouthful",
"nip",
"ounce",
"peanuts",
"pinch",
"pittance",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkle",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"taste",
"touch",
"trace"
]
},
"a round container that is open at the top and outfitted with a handle":{
"examples":[
"carried water from the well in a bucket"
],
"synonyms":[
"pail"
],
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"cauldron",
"kettle",
"pot",
"canteen",
"flagon",
"jar",
"jug",
"pitcher",
"bail",
"hod",
"tank",
"tub",
"vat",
"holder",
"receptacle",
"vessel"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lift out with something that holds liquid":{
"examples":[
"bucketing water from the well, we raced to put out the fire"
],
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"dip",
"lade",
"ladle",
"scoop",
"spoon"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bail",
"deplete",
"drain",
"eliminate",
"empty",
"exhaust",
"bleed",
"draw (off)",
"dish",
"slop",
"decant",
"draw",
"pump",
"siphon",
"syphon",
"suction"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pour",
"fill"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"examples":[
"getting the troops into the bucketing landing craft proved to be challenging"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitate",
"convulse",
"jerk",
"jiggle",
"joggle",
"jolt",
"jounce",
"judder",
"quake",
"quiver",
"shake",
"shudder",
"vibrate",
"wobble",
"wabble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rock",
"sway",
"swing",
"chatter",
"quaver",
"shiver",
"thrill",
"tremble",
"twitch",
"dodder",
"waver",
"flicker",
"fluctuate",
"flutter",
"oscillate",
"undulate",
"wave",
"beat",
"palpitate",
"pit-a-pat",
"pitter-patter",
"pulsate",
"pulse",
"throb"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bush-league":{
"falling short of a standard":{
"examples":[
"that's just a bush-league ploy to get cast on a TV reality show"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bastard",
"bush",
"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",
"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":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bumping off":{
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"these drug dealers mean business, and they'll bump off anyone who gets in their way"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinating",
"croaking",
"dispatching",
"doing in",
"executing",
"getting",
"icing",
"knocking off",
"liquidating",
"murdering",
"neutralizing",
"offing",
"putting away",
"rubbing out",
"slaying",
"snuffing",
"taking out",
"terminating",
"whacking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowing away",
"shooting",
"shooting down",
"blotting out",
"carrying off",
"claiming",
"cutting down",
"destroying",
"felling",
"killing",
"smiting",
"zapping",
"butchering",
"massacring",
"mowing (down)",
"slaughtering",
"annihilating",
"eliminating",
"eradicating",
"exterminating",
"wiping out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animating",
"raising",
"restoring",
"resurrecting",
"resuscitating",
"reviving"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buddies":{
"a person who has a strong liking for and trust in another":{
"examples":[
"my old college buddy is the one person I can always turn to"
],
"synonyms":[
"alter egos",
"amigos",
"chums",
"compadres",
"comrades",
"confidantes",
"confidants",
"cronies",
"familiars",
"friends",
"intimates",
"mates",
"musketeers",
"pals"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquaintances",
"associates",
"cohorts",
"colleagues",
"companions",
"fellows",
"hearties",
"hobnobbers",
"partners",
"peers",
"sports",
"blood brothers",
"brothers",
"brethren",
"main men",
"sisters",
"abettors",
"abetters",
"accomplices",
"allies",
"collaborators",
"confederates",
"pen pals",
"benefactors",
"supporters",
"sympathizers",
"well-wishers",
"friendlies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adversaries",
"antagonists",
"competitors",
"opponents",
"rivals",
"archenemies",
"nemeses"
],
"antonyms":[
"enemies",
"foes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buss":{
"as in smack , osculate":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"French-kiss",
"lip",
"osculate",
"smack",
"kiss",
"smooch",
"canoodle",
"make out",
"neck",
"pet",
"spoon",
"caress",
"embrace",
"fondle",
"hug",
"love",
"bill",
"cuddle",
"nestle",
"snuggle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bummed (around)":{
"as in hung , lounged (around or about)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dawdled",
"goldbricked",
"hung",
"hanged",
"hung about",
"idled",
"loafed",
"lounged (around or about)",
"relaxed",
"rested",
"screwed around",
"slacked (off)",
"dabbled",
"fiddled (around)",
"messed around",
"puttered (around)",
"jested",
"joked",
"teased",
"delighted",
"pleased",
"amused",
"diverted",
"entertained",
"dabbled",
"trifled",
"cavorted",
"frisked",
"gamboled",
"gambolled",
"romped",
"dallied",
"disported",
"frolicked",
"played",
"recreated",
"rollicked",
"skylarked",
"sported",
"toyed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudged",
"labored",
"plodded",
"plugged (away)",
"slaved",
"strained",
"strove",
"strived",
"struggled",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"toiled",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bushels":{
"a considerable amount":{
"examples":[
"picked up a bushel of decorations at the after-Christmas sale"
],
"synonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"basketfuls",
"basketsful",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bunches",
"bundles",
"carloads",
"chunks",
"deals",
"dozens",
"dozen",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"good deals",
"heaps",
"hundreds",
"hundred",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"multiplicities",
"myriads",
"oodles",
"packs",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"platefuls",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"plentitudes",
"potfuls",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"sheaves",
"shiploads",
"sights",
"slews",
"spates",
"stacks",
"stores",
"tons",
"truckloads",
"volumes",
"wads",
"wealths",
"yards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"epidemics",
"plagues",
"rashes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"plethoras",
"redundancies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"deluges",
"floods",
"overflows",
"armies",
"bevies",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"droves",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"legions",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"presses",
"scores",
"seas",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"gazillions",
"jillions",
"kazillions",
"millions",
"million",
"thousands",
"trillions",
"zillions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"atoms",
"crumbs",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"fragments",
"grains",
"granules",
"iotas",
"jots",
"modicums",
"molecules",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"particles",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scraps",
"shreds",
"tittles",
"whits",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"dashes",
"drops",
"morsels",
"shots",
"pieces",
"portions",
"sections",
"absences",
"dearths",
"famines",
"lacks",
"paucities",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies"
],
"antonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"mouthfuls",
"nips",
"ounces",
"peanuts",
"pinches",
"pittances",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"specks",
"spots",
"sprinkles",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"tastes",
"touches",
"traces"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burnoose":{
"as in pelisse , pelerine":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"capelet",
"capuchin",
"cowl",
"domino",
"joseph",
"manta",
"mantelet",
"mantilla",
"palatine",
"pelerine",
"pelisse",
"poncho",
"roquelaure",
"tippet",
"cape",
"capote",
"cloak",
"frock",
"manteau",
"mantle",
"serape",
"sarape",
"shawl",
"stole",
"wrap"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"built a fire under":{
"to rouse to strong feeling or action":{
"examples":[
"He was a well-known self-help guru who could build a fire under anyone to finally take those next steps."
],
"synonyms":[
"aroused",
"encouraged",
"excited",
"fired (up)",
"impassioned",
"incited",
"instigated",
"moved",
"piqued",
"provoked",
"revved (up)",
"sparked",
"stimulated",
"stirred"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fanned",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled",
"triggered",
"activated",
"animated",
"drove",
"energized",
"galvanized",
"induced",
"inspired",
"keyed (up)",
"motivated",
"motived",
"pumped up",
"quickened",
"set off",
"vitalized",
"abetted",
"fermented",
"fomented",
"raised",
"whipped (up)",
"angered",
"enraged",
"maddened",
"upset",
"jeered",
"taunted",
"teased",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bothered",
"exasperated",
"galled",
"got",
"irritated",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calmed",
"soothed",
"subdued",
"tranquilized",
"tranquillized",
"appeased",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"bungles":{
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"bungled the job the first time she tried to do it"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows",
"bobbles",
"boggles",
"bollixes (up)",
"boots",
"botches",
"buggers (up)",
"bumbles",
"butchers",
"dubs",
"flubs",
"fluffs",
"foozles",
"fouls up",
"fumbles",
"goofs (up)",
"louses up",
"mangles",
"messes (up)",
"mucks up",
"muffs",
"murders",
"screws up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blunders",
"gums (up)",
"muddles",
"piffles",
"blemishes",
"blights",
"damages",
"flaws",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"ruins",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"destroys",
"wrecks",
"mishandles",
"mismanages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"enhances",
"helps",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"rectifies",
"refines",
"reforms",
"remedies",
"doctors",
"fixes",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"revamps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in fumbles , botches":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bobbles",
"botches",
"fumbles",
"foul-ups",
"mix-ups",
"blunders",
"errors",
"faults",
"flubs",
"goofs",
"inaccuracies",
"lapses",
"miscues",
"missteps",
"mistakes",
"oversights",
"slips",
"slipups",
"stumbles",
"chaoses",
"confusions",
"disarrangements",
"disarrays",
"disorders",
"disorganizations",
"hashes",
"jumbles",
"messes",
"muddles",
"shambles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"burningly":{
"as in blazingly , flamingly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blazingly",
"flamingly",
"bright",
"brightly",
"brilliantly",
"dazzlingly",
"fulgently",
"glowingly",
"incandescently",
"lambently",
"luminously",
"lustrously",
"radiantly",
"splendidly",
"blindingly",
"flaringly",
"flickeringly",
"glaringly",
"glitteringly",
"opalescently",
"pellucidly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dimly",
"dully",
"darkly",
"duskily",
"gloomily",
"murkily",
"obscurely",
"somberly",
"cloudily",
"shadily",
"shadowily"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"buoyantly":{
"in a quick and spirited manner":{
"examples":[
"went about her chores cheerfully and buoyantly"
],
"synonyms":[
"airily",
"animatedly",
"animately",
"bouncily",
"gaily",
"gayly",
"high-spiritedly",
"livelily",
"lively",
"perkily",
"pertly",
"snappily",
"sparkily",
"spiritedly",
"sprightly",
"trippingly",
"vivaciously"
],
"near synonyms":[
"friskily",
"gamesomely",
"playfully",
"skittishly",
"sportively",
"briskly",
"crisply",
"effervescently",
"energetically",
"jazzily",
"racily",
"springily",
"breezily",
"cockily",
"dapperly",
"dashingly",
"jauntily",
"agilely",
"nimbly",
"spryly",
"allegro"
],
"near antonyms":[
"halfheartedly",
"idly",
"indolently",
"lazily",
"lethargically",
"slothfully",
"heavily",
"inactively",
"listlessly",
"tiredly",
"wearily"
],
"antonyms":[
"dully",
"inanimately",
"sluggishly",
"tardily"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"bull pen":{
"as in cell , hole":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cage",
"cell",
"hole",
"tank",
"bastille",
"big house",
"bridewell",
"brig",
"calaboose",
"can",
"clink",
"cooler",
"coop",
"guardroom",
"hock",
"hold",
"hoosegow",
"jail",
"jailhouse",
"joint",
"jug",
"lockup",
"nick",
"pen",
"penitentiary",
"pokey",
"prison",
"quod",
"slam",
"slammer",
"stir",
"stockade",
"tolbooth",
"block",
"ward",
"glasshouse",
"guardhouse",
"hulk(s)",
"concentration camp",
"gulag",
"labor camp",
"prison camp",
"stalag",
"work camp",
"dungeon",
"keep",
"oubliette",
"reformatory",
"reform school",
"training school"
],
"near antonyms":[
"outside"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bun":{
"as in updo , chignon":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beehive",
"big hair",
"chignon",
"French twist",
"pageboy",
"pug",
"updo",
"upsweep",
"Afro",
"conk",
"cornrow",
"dreadlocks",
"perm",
"permanent",
"bob",
"buzz cut",
"crew cut",
"crop",
"fade",
"Mohawk",
"shag",
"shingle",
"trim",
"coiffure",
"cut",
"do",
"haircut",
"hairdo",
"hairstyle",
"braid",
"pigtail",
"plait",
"ponytail",
"queue",
"comb-over",
"ducktail",
"pompadour",
"roach"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buttons":{
"as in switches , keys":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dials",
"keys",
"knobs",
"levers",
"push buttons",
"selectors",
"switches",
"actuators",
"controllers",
"controls",
"regulators"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in colors , badges":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"badges",
"chevrons",
"clasps",
"cockades",
"colors",
"ensigns",
"rosettes",
"stars",
"bronzes",
"golds",
"silvers",
"distinctions",
"crowns",
"insignia",
"insignias",
"laurels",
"ribbons",
"titles",
"awards",
"prizes",
"trophies",
"decorations",
"honors",
"citations",
"commendations",
"medallions",
"medals",
"orders"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in does up , belays":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"battens",
"belays",
"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":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bull session":{
"as in meeting , skull session":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chat room",
"forum",
"meeting",
"roundtable",
"seminar",
"skull session",
"skull practice",
"symposium",
"talkathon",
"argument",
"argumentation",
"argy-bargy",
"back-and-forth",
"colloquy",
"confab",
"confabulation",
"conference",
"consult",
"consultation",
"council",
"counsel",
"debate",
"deliberation",
"dialogue",
"dialog",
"discussion",
"give-and-take",
"palaver",
"parley",
"talk",
"chat",
"conversation",
"rap",
"words",
"discourse",
"disquisition",
"bargaining",
"consultancy",
"negotiation",
"pourparler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buckles":{
"to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure":{
"examples":[
"the flimsy bridge buckled under the weight of the caravan of trucks"
],
"synonyms":[
"caves (in)",
"collapses",
"crumples",
"founders",
"gives",
"goes",
"goes out",
"implodes",
"tumbles",
"yields"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deflates",
"flattens",
"melts",
"melts down",
"breaks",
"breaks down",
"conks (out)",
"crashes",
"dies",
"fails",
"gives out",
"stalls",
"bursts",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"splinters",
"splits",
"cracks",
"crumbles",
"pops",
"snaps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inflates",
"rises",
"swells"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attention":{
"examples":[
"buckled himself down and finished the assignment in record time"
],
"synonyms":[
"addresses",
"applies",
"bends",
"devotes",
"gives"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readdresses",
"reapplies",
"knuckles down",
"sets (to)",
"settles (down)",
"busies",
"commits",
"concerns",
"engages",
"involves",
"exerts",
"exhausts",
"puts out",
"spends",
"strains",
"stresses",
"taxes",
"troubles",
"wears out",
"carries on",
"pitches in",
"plunges (in)",
"grinds",
"humps",
"hustles",
"pegs (away)",
"plods",
"plows",
"plugs (away)",
"works"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"fiddles (around)",
"fools around",
"idles",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in twists , loops":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"convolutions",
"flexures",
"folds",
"loops",
"spirals",
"swirls",
"twists",
"windings",
"coils",
"curlicues",
"curlycues",
"curls",
"incurvatures",
"reflections",
"circles",
"ringlets",
"rings",
"rounds",
"declines",
"inclinations",
"inclines",
"slopes",
"kinks",
"warps",
"corners",
"turnoffs",
"angles",
"arches",
"arcs",
"bends",
"bows",
"crooks",
"curvatures",
"curves",
"inflections",
"turns",
"winds",
"doglegs",
"hairpins"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bum-rush":{
"as in swarm , mob":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gang up (on)",
"mob",
"swarm",
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"bushwhack",
"charge",
"descend (on or upon)",
"go in (on)",
"jump (on)",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"raid",
"rush",
"set on",
"sic",
"sick",
"storm",
"strike",
"trash",
"turn (on)",
"mug",
"rob",
"ambuscade",
"ambush",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"waylay",
"blitz",
"bomb",
"bombard",
"nuke",
"barrage",
"cannon",
"cannonade",
"bang away (at)",
"batter",
"buffet",
"plaster",
"beleaguer",
"besiege",
"press",
"harry",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"foray",
"invade",
"overrun"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cover",
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"secure",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buzzes":{
"a communication by telephone":{
"examples":[
"give me a buzz when you decide"
],
"synonyms":[
"calls",
"rings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"callbacks",
"cold calls",
"conference calls",
"messages",
"toll calls",
"voice mails"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a monotonous sound like that of an insect in motion":{
"examples":[
"the motor made a soft buzz"
],
"synonyms":[
"burrs",
"chirrs",
"churrs",
"drones",
"hums",
"purrs",
"thrums",
"whirs",
"whirrs",
"whizzes",
"zooms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"babbles",
"coos",
"gasps",
"gurgles",
"hisses",
"moans",
"murmurs",
"rustles",
"sighs",
"suspirations",
"susurrations",
"susurruses",
"whispers",
"whishes",
"zings",
"zips"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bawls",
"howls",
"roars",
"screams",
"screeches",
"shrieks",
"squalls",
"squeals",
"yells",
"yelps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a practice or interest that is very popular for a short time":{
"examples":[
"longer hairstyles are the buzz this season"
],
"synonyms":[
"chics",
"crazes",
"dernier cris",
"enthusiasms",
"fads",
"fashions",
"flavors",
"hot tickets",
"last words",
"modes",
"rages",
"sensations",
"styles",
"tons",
"trends",
"vogues"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nine days' wonders",
"nine day wonders",
"new waves",
"crushes",
"infatuations",
"fervors",
"passions",
"furors",
"fusses",
"hullabaloos",
"to-dos",
"uproars",
"bandwagons",
"crusades",
"cults",
"movements",
"novelties",
"wrinkles",
"caprices",
"fancies",
"whims"
],
"near antonyms":[
"classics",
"standards"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"for months the area has been buzzing with rumors that a megacorporation plans to locate its headquarters here"
],
"synonyms":[
"abounds",
"brims",
"bristles",
"bulges",
"bursts",
"bustles",
"crawls",
"hums",
"overflows",
"pullulates",
"swarms",
"teems"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lacks",
"needs",
"wants"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"we've been buzzing around all morning getting ready for the meeting with the VIPs from the head office"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bundles",
"bustles",
"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"
]
},
"to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound":{
"examples":[
"the little plane buzzed past the crowd"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumbles",
"burrs",
"drones",
"hums",
"whirs",
"whirrs",
"whishes",
"whizzes",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chirrs",
"churrs",
"thrums",
"fizzes",
"hisses",
"murmurs",
"purrs",
"rustles",
"sighs",
"sizzles",
"swishes",
"whispers",
"coos",
"currs",
"wheezes",
"whistles",
"whooshes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"burlesqued":{
"to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of":{
"examples":[
"burlesquing the teacher's nervous tic isn't very nice"
],
"synonyms":[
"caricatured",
"did",
"imitated",
"mimicked",
"mocked",
"parodied",
"sent up",
"spoofed",
"travestied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lampooned",
"pasquinaded",
"satirized",
"derided",
"gibed",
"jibed",
"ridiculed",
"aped",
"copycatted",
"monkeyed",
"parroted",
"duplicated",
"emulated",
"replicated",
"reproduced",
"acted",
"counterfeited",
"dissembled",
"faked",
"feigned",
"pretended",
"shammed",
"simulated",
"elaborated",
"embellished",
"embroidered",
"exaggerated",
"magnified",
"padded",
"played up",
"stretched",
"amplified",
"enhanced",
"enlarged (on or upon)",
"expanded",
"fleshed (out)",
"overdrew",
"overstated",
"put on",
"mimed",
"pantomimed",
"impersonated",
"performed",
"personated",
"played"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buttes":{
"a type of hill with a flat top and steep sides that is found in the southwestern U.S.":{
"examples":[
"The otherworldly sandstone buttes of Monument Valley, Arizona are well worth a visit."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mesas",
"plateaus",
"plateaux",
"tablelands",
"tables",
"altitudes",
"elevations",
"eminences",
"heights",
"highlands",
"humps",
"mounds",
"prominences",
"rises",
"uplands",
"alps",
"mountains",
"mounts",
"peaks",
"bluffs",
"cliffs",
"crags",
"precipices",
"steeps",
"tors",
"ridges",
"sierras",
"domes",
"sugarloafs",
"sugarloaves",
"foothills",
"hillocks",
"hummocks",
"knobs",
"knolls",
"downs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dales",
"dells",
"depressions",
"dingles",
"glens",
"hollows",
"vales",
"valleys",
"canyons",
"gorges",
"ravines",
"basins",
"bottomlands",
"bottoms",
"fens",
"flats",
"floodplains",
"plains",
"tidewaters",
"lowlands"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bullheadedness":{
"a steadfast adherence to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion":{
"examples":[
"bullheadedness runs in that family"
],
"synonyms":[
"doggedness",
"hardheadedness",
"intransigence",
"mulishness",
"obduracy",
"obdurateness",
"obstinacy",
"obstinateness",
"opinionatedness",
"pertinaciousness",
"pertinacity",
"pigheadedness",
"self-opinionatedness",
"self-will",
"stubbornness",
"willfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anal-retentiveness",
"perverseness",
"perversity",
"waywardness",
"wrongheadedness",
"adamancy",
"adamance",
"determination",
"implacability",
"inexorability",
"inflexibility",
"inveteracy",
"perseverance",
"persistence",
"persistency",
"relentlessness",
"resolve",
"single-mindedness",
"steadfastness",
"stick-to-itiveness",
"tenaciousness",
"tenacity",
"firmness",
"hardness",
"rigor",
"rigorousness",
"sternness",
"strictness",
"narrow-mindedness",
"rigidity",
"rigidness",
"bloody-mindedness",
"cantankerousness",
"contrariness",
"cussedness",
"balkiness",
"contumacy",
"defiance",
"disobedience",
"frowardness",
"immovability",
"immovableness",
"insubordination",
"intractability",
"obstreperousness",
"rebelliousness",
"recalcitrance",
"recalcitrancy",
"refractoriness",
"unruliness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broad-mindedness",
"open-mindedness",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"receptiveness",
"receptivity",
"acceptance",
"acquiescence",
"flexibility",
"pliability",
"pliableness",
"pliancy",
"pliantness",
"compliance",
"docility",
"obedience",
"subordinateness",
"subordination",
"submission",
"surrender",
"willingness",
"yielding",
"slavishness",
"subservience",
"subserviency"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bumming (around)":{
"as in hanging , lounging (around or about)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dawdling",
"goldbricking",
"hanging",
"hanging about",
"idling",
"loafing",
"lounging (around or about)",
"relaxing",
"resting",
"screwing around",
"slacking (off)",
"dabbling",
"fiddling (around)",
"messing around",
"puttering (around)",
"jesting",
"joking",
"teasing",
"delighting",
"pleasing",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"dabbling",
"trifling",
"cavorting",
"frisking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"romping",
"dallying",
"disporting",
"frolicking",
"playing",
"recreating",
"rollicking",
"skylarking",
"sporting",
"toying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudging",
"laboring",
"plodding",
"plugging (away)",
"slaving",
"straining",
"striving",
"struggling",
"sweating",
"toiling",
"working"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burglarized":{
"to enter a house or building by force usually with illegal intent":{
"examples":[
"the Watergate scandal began when Republican operatives burglarized the Democratic Party's headquarters in Washington, D.C."
],
"synonyms":[
"broke in",
"burgled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"invaded",
"trespassed",
"held up",
"looted",
"plundered",
"ripped off",
"robbed",
"stuck up",
"ransacked",
"rifled",
"despoiled",
"devastated",
"marauded",
"pillaged",
"ravaged",
"sacked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove valuables from (a place) unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"before they were caught, the thieves had burglarized dozens of houses around the city"
],
"synonyms":[
"burgled",
"knocked off",
"knocked over",
"ripped off",
"robbed",
"stole (from)",
"took off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ransacked",
"rifled",
"despoiled",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravished",
"sacked",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"stripped",
"stript",
"bled",
"broke in",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"cozened",
"defrauded",
"exploited",
"fleeced",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"plucked",
"rooked",
"shortchanged",
"skinned",
"squeezed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"swindled",
"held up",
"mugged",
"rolled",
"stuck up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buckled":{
"to fall down or in as a result of physical pressure":{
"examples":[
"the flimsy bridge buckled under the weight of the caravan of trucks"
],
"synonyms":[
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"crumpled",
"foundered",
"gave",
"imploded",
"tumbled",
"went",
"went out",
"yielded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deflated",
"flattened",
"melted",
"melted down",
"broke",
"broke down",
"conked (out)",
"crashed",
"died",
"failed",
"gave out",
"stalled",
"burst",
"bursted",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"splintered",
"split",
"cracked",
"crumbled",
"popped",
"snapped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inflated",
"rose",
"swelled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to occupy (oneself) diligently or with close attention":{
"examples":[
"buckled himself down and finished the assignment in record time"
],
"synonyms":[
"addressed",
"applied",
"bent",
"devoted",
"gave"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readdressed",
"reapplied",
"knuckled down",
"settled (down)",
"set (to)",
"busied",
"committed",
"concerned",
"engaged",
"involved",
"exerted",
"exhausted",
"put out",
"spent",
"strained",
"stressed",
"taxed",
"troubled",
"wore out",
"carried on",
"pitched in",
"plunged (in)",
"ground",
"humped",
"hustled",
"pegged (away)",
"plodded",
"plowed",
"plugged (away)",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled around",
"idled",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"butterfingers":{
"a clumsy, awkward person":{
"examples":[
"I declined her offer to help us move; I'm not letting that butterfingers near my antiques"
],
"synonyms":[
"dub",
"klutz",
"looby",
"lubber",
"lummox"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clodhopper",
"gawk",
"gawky",
"lout",
"lump",
"oaf",
"tawpie",
"tyke",
"tike",
"bungler",
"duffer",
"fumbler",
"stumblebum",
"stumbler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"buttoned (up)":{
"having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others":{
"examples":[
"a buttoned-up colleague who had no interest in talking about anything but work, even at parties"
],
"synonyms":[
"aloof",
"antisocial",
"asocial",
"cold",
"cold-eyed",
"cool",
"detached",
"distant",
"dry",
"frosty",
"offish",
"remote",
"standoff",
"standoffish",
"unbending",
"unclubbable",
"unsociable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"indrawn",
"introverted",
"nongregarious",
"recessive",
"reclusive",
"reserved",
"unsocial",
"withdrawn",
"misanthropic",
"apathetic",
"hard",
"indifferent",
"unconcerned",
"clinical",
"dispassionate",
"impersonal",
"professional",
"disinterested",
"incurious",
"uninterested",
"reticent",
"silent",
"taciturn",
"uncommunicative",
"diffident",
"shy",
"timid",
"cliquey",
"cliquish",
"clubbish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boon",
"clubbable",
"clubable",
"clubby",
"companionable",
"convivial",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"gregarious",
"outgoing",
"communicative",
"expansive",
"garrulous",
"talkative",
"affable",
"folksy",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"congenial",
"kindly",
"neighborly"
],
"antonyms":[
"cordial",
"friendly",
"sociable",
"social",
"warm"
]
},
"as in zipped (up)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"zipped (up)",
"barred",
"bolted",
"clasped",
"fastened",
"latched",
"locked",
"closed",
"shut"
],
"near antonyms":[
"opened",
"unclosed",
"unbarred",
"unbolted",
"unclasped",
"unfastened",
"unlatched",
"unlocked",
"unbuttoned",
"unclenched",
"unfolded",
"unfurled",
"unzipped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"buzz cuts":{
"as in crew cuts , bobs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bobs",
"crew cuts",
"crops",
"fades",
"Mohawk",
"Mohawks",
"shags",
"shingles",
"trims",
"beehives",
"big hairs",
"buns",
"chignons",
"French twists",
"pageboys",
"pugs",
"updos",
"upsweeps",
"braids",
"pigtails",
"plaits",
"ponytails",
"queues",
"Afros",
"conks",
"cornrows",
"dreadlocks",
"permanents",
"perms",
"comb-overs",
"ducktails",
"pompadours",
"roaches",
"coiffures",
"cuts",
"dos",
"do's",
"haircuts",
"hairdos",
"hairstyles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bucklers":{
"means or method of defending":{
"examples":[
"a strong and free press is our best buckler against tyranny"
],
"synonyms":[
"aegises",
"egises",
"ammunitions",
"armors",
"covers",
"defenses",
"guards",
"protections",
"safeguards",
"screens",
"securities",
"shields",
"walls",
"wards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"armaments",
"arms",
"munitions",
"weaponries",
"weapons",
"fortresses",
"forts",
"palisades",
"strongholds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aggressions",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"offenses",
"offences",
"offensives"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bumpkins":{
"an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country":{
"examples":[
"the bumpkin was overwhelmed by the city's confusing subway system"
],
"synonyms":[
"chawbacons",
"churls",
"clodhoppers",
"cornballs",
"countrymen",
"hayseed",
"hayseeds",
"hicks",
"provincials",
"rubes",
"rustics",
"yokels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boors",
"clods",
"clowns",
"gawks",
"louts",
"oafs",
"greenhorns",
"tenderfeet",
"tenderfoots",
"peasants",
"peons",
"peones",
"backwoodsmen",
"mountaineers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slickers",
"smoothies",
"metropolitans",
"suburbanites",
"urbanites"
],
"antonyms":[
"cosmopolitans",
"cosmopolites",
"sophisticates"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bunk beds":{
"as in couches , sofa beds":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cots",
"couches",
"daybeds",
"feather beds",
"four-posters",
"hammocks",
"Murphy beds",
"shakedowns",
"sleigh beds",
"sofa beds",
"sofas",
"studio couches",
"trundle beds",
"water beds",
"bunks",
"dosses",
"hays",
"kips",
"lairs",
"pads",
"racks",
"sacks",
"bedsteads",
"futons",
"futon",
"mattresses",
"pallets",
"bassinets",
"carry-cots",
"cradles",
"cribs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burred":{
"as in sandpapery , scratchy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"harsh",
"sandpapery",
"scraggly",
"scratchy",
"knobbly",
"knobby",
"knurled",
"knurly",
"nubbly",
"nubby",
"nonuniform",
"pitted",
"pocked",
"rutted",
"rutty",
"undulating",
"undulatory",
"wavy",
"inexact",
"unaligned",
"lopsided",
"unbalanced",
"broken",
"bumpy",
"coarse",
"irregular",
"jagged",
"lumpy",
"pebbly",
"ragged",
"rough",
"roughened",
"rugged",
"scraggy",
"uneven"
],
"near antonyms":[
"even",
"flat",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth",
"exact",
"uniform",
"aligned",
"alined",
"regular",
"true",
"horizontal",
"tabular",
"plumb",
"straight",
"vertical",
"flush"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound":{
"examples":[
"the pitch burred past the batter's ear"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumbled",
"buzzed",
"droned",
"hummed",
"whirred",
"whished",
"whizzed",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chirred",
"churred",
"thrummed",
"fizzed",
"hissed",
"murmured",
"purred",
"rustled",
"sighed",
"sizzled",
"swished",
"whispered",
"cooed",
"curred",
"wheezed",
"whistled",
"whooshed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bunglers":{
"someone who bungles an effort":{
"examples":[
"a hopeless bungler at fixing things around the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunderbusses",
"blunderers",
"botchers",
"bumblers",
"butchers",
"fumblers",
"screwups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incompetents",
"muddlers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aces",
"adepts",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"experts",
"maestros",
"maestri",
"masters",
"virtuosos",
"virtuosi",
"wizards"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buns":{
"the part of the body upon which someone sits":{
"examples":[
"an exercise to firm your buns"
],
"synonyms":[
"backside",
"behind",
"booty",
"bootie",
"bottom",
"breech",
"bum",
"butt",
"buttocks",
"caboose",
"can",
"cheeks",
"derriere",
"derri\u00e8re",
"duff",
"fanny",
"fundament",
"hams",
"haunches",
"heinie",
"hunkers",
"keister",
"keester",
"nates",
"posterior",
"rear",
"rear end",
"rump",
"seat",
"tail",
"tail end",
"tush"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beam",
"stern",
"moon"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"buckled (under)":{
"as in knuckled under":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"knuckled under",
"acquiesced (to)",
"conceded (to)",
"gave over (to)",
"catered (to)",
"gratified",
"indulged",
"wallowed",
"bowed",
"caved (in)",
"gave in",
"submitted",
"succumbed",
"surrendered",
"yielded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"held off",
"resisted",
"battled",
"breasted",
"combated",
"combatted",
"confronted",
"countered",
"defied",
"faced",
"fought",
"met",
"objected",
"opposed",
"repelled",
"thwarted",
"withstood",
"rejected",
"bridled",
"checked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"restrained",
"stifled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bushranger":{
"as in woodsman , mountain man":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mountain man",
"woodsman",
"explorer",
"pathfinder",
"trailblazer",
"colonial",
"colonist",
"colonizer",
"frontiersman",
"homesteader",
"pioneer",
"settler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bunk":{
"a place set aside for sleeping":{
"examples":[
"crawled into their bunks and went to sleep immediately"
],
"synonyms":[
"bed",
"doss",
"hay",
"kip",
"lair",
"pad",
"rack",
"sack"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bedstead",
"futon",
"mattress",
"pallet",
"bunk bed",
"cot",
"couch",
"daybed",
"feather bed",
"four-poster",
"hammock",
"Murphy bed",
"shakedown",
"sleigh bed",
"sofa",
"sofa bed",
"studio couch",
"trundle bed",
"water bed",
"bassinet",
"carry-cot",
"cradle",
"crib"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"the idea that the Great Wall of China is visible from the moon is pure bunk"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"fatuity",
"foolery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"kookiness",
"lunacy",
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"madness",
"witlessness",
"hoity-toity",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"gas",
"hot air",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"double-talk",
"greek",
"hocus-pocus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or an instance of getting free from danger or confinement":{
"examples":[
"he waited until everyone was looking the other way, then did a bunk from the room"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"breakout",
"escape",
"flight",
"getaway",
"lam",
"rout",
"slip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jailbreak",
"deliverance",
"liberation",
"redemption",
"release",
"rescue",
"salvation",
"close call",
"close shave",
"near miss"
],
"near antonyms":[
"captivity",
"confinement",
"immurement",
"imprisonment",
"incarceration",
"internment",
"custody",
"detention",
"hold",
"holding",
"retention",
"endangerment",
"hazard",
"imperilment",
"jeopardy",
"peril",
"risk",
"trouble"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"examples":[
"bunked the guest in the spare room"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodate",
"bestow",
"billet",
"bivouac",
"board",
"camp",
"chamber",
"domicile",
"encamp",
"harbor",
"house",
"lodge",
"put up",
"quarter",
"roof",
"room",
"shelter",
"take in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconce",
"home",
"roost",
"secure",
"shed",
"stable",
"tent",
"barrack",
"bed (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eject",
"evict"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bum-rushes":{
"as in swarms , mobs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gangs up (on)",
"mobs",
"swarms",
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"bushwhacks",
"charges",
"descends (on or upon)",
"goes in (on)",
"jumps (on)",
"pounces (on or upon)",
"raids",
"rushes",
"sets on",
"sics",
"sicks",
"storms",
"strikes",
"trashes",
"turns (on)",
"mugs",
"robs",
"ambuscades",
"ambushes",
"surprises",
"surprizes",
"waylays",
"blitzes",
"bombards",
"bombs",
"nukes",
"barrages",
"cannonades",
"cannons",
"bangs away (at)",
"batters",
"buffets",
"plasters",
"beleaguers",
"besieges",
"presses",
"harries",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ravages",
"sacks",
"forays",
"invades",
"overruns"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covers",
"defends",
"guards",
"protects",
"secures",
"shields"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bunkhouses":{
"as in dorms , dormitories":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dormitories",
"dorms",
"campgrounds",
"camps",
"boardinghouses",
"lodging houses",
"rooming houses",
"courts",
"motels",
"motor courts",
"motor inns",
"motor lodges",
"resorts",
"spas",
"tourist courts",
"youth hostels",
"doss-houses",
"fleabags",
"flophouses",
"accommodations",
"lodgings",
"rests",
"apartment hotels",
"B and Bs",
"bed-and-breakfasts",
"guesthouses",
"auberges",
"caravansaries",
"caravanserais",
"caravanserai",
"hospices",
"hostelries",
"hostels",
"hotels",
"inns",
"lodges",
"public houses",
"taverns"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burials":{
"the act or ceremony of putting a dead body in its final resting place":{
"examples":[
"the children wanted to give the dead bird a proper burial in the backyard"
],
"synonyms":[
"entombments",
"inhumations",
"interments",
"obsequies",
"sepultures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embalmments",
"funerals",
"immurements",
"inurnments",
"reburials",
"reinterments"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cremations"
],
"antonyms":[
"disinterments",
"exhumations"
]
},
"a final resting place for a dead person":{
"examples":[
"archaeologically significant artifacts, such as stone tools, have been discovered in Neanderthal burials"
],
"synonyms":[
"graves",
"sepulchres",
"sepulchers",
"sepultures",
"tombs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catacombs",
"charnels",
"charnel houses",
"columbaria",
"crypts",
"mausoleums",
"mausolea",
"vaults",
"cemeteries",
"churchyards",
"graveyards",
"potter's fields",
"barrows",
"mounds",
"tumuli"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"builds (up)":{
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"static electricity built up on the cat's fur"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"accumulates",
"appreciates",
"balloons",
"booms",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"climbs",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"gains",
"increases",
"mounts",
"multiplies",
"mushrooms",
"proliferates",
"rises",
"rolls up",
"snowballs",
"spreads",
"swells",
"waxes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumps",
"rockets",
"skyrockets",
"surges",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"redoubles",
"blows up",
"bulks",
"distends",
"inflates",
"puffs (up)",
"crescendoes",
"crests",
"peaks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracts",
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"recedes",
"wanes"
]
},
"to gradually increase in":{
"examples":[
"the roller coaster built up momentum"
],
"synonyms":[
"gains",
"gathers",
"grows (in)",
"picks up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doubles (in)",
"triples (in)",
"accrues",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"excites",
"stimulates",
"enhances",
"enlarges",
"enriches",
"expands",
"extends",
"maximizes",
"boosts",
"elevates",
"jacks (up)",
"mounts",
"ramps (up)",
"steps up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abates",
"declines (in)",
"diminishes (in)",
"dips",
"dwindles",
"falls (in)",
"lessens",
"tapers",
"tapers off"
],
"antonyms":[
"decreases (in)",
"loses"
]
},
"to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass":{
"examples":[
"evidence that the toxic chemical builds up in the bloodstream to unhealthy levels"
],
"synonyms":[
"accretes",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"collects",
"concentrates",
"conglomerates",
"gathers",
"masses",
"piles (up)",
"stacks (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agglutinates",
"clumps",
"lumps",
"banks",
"drifts",
"ridges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disperses",
"dissipates",
"scatters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"he patiently built up his coin collection over several decades",
"the young stockbroker worked hard to build up a clientele"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"adds (to)",
"aggrandizes",
"amplifies",
"augments",
"boosts",
"compounds",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"extends",
"hypes",
"increases",
"multiplies",
"pumps up",
"raises",
"stokes",
"supersizes",
"swells",
"ups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"booms",
"jumps",
"skyrockets",
"spikes",
"bumps (up)",
"ratchets (up)",
"rachets (up)",
"blows up",
"dilates",
"distends",
"inflates",
"draws out",
"elongates",
"fleshes (out)",
"lengthens",
"prolongs",
"protracts",
"stretches",
"develops",
"enhances",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"magnifies",
"complements",
"supplements",
"beefs (up)",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"strengthens",
"maximizes",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"collects",
"follows up",
"parlays"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviates",
"abridges",
"curtails",
"shortens",
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"cuts back",
"retrenches"
],
"antonyms":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"diminishes",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"minifies",
"reduces",
"subtracts (from)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bulks (up)":{
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"examples":[
"she bulked up her hair with one hand as she reached for the shears with the other"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"assembles",
"collects",
"concentrates",
"congregates",
"constellates",
"corrals",
"garners",
"gathers",
"groups",
"lumps",
"picks up",
"rounds up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balls",
"batches",
"bunches",
"clusters",
"huddles",
"heaps",
"piles",
"stacks",
"bands",
"brigades",
"musters",
"raises",
"rallies",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hives",
"packs",
"presses",
"swarms",
"throngs",
"combines",
"connects",
"joins",
"links",
"merges",
"pools",
"unites",
"archives",
"arranges",
"collates",
"compiles",
"organizes",
"systematizes",
"scrapes (up or together)",
"re-collects",
"regathers",
"regroups"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks up",
"disbands",
"disintegrates",
"dissolves",
"separates",
"severs",
"splits (up)",
"dismisses",
"sends"
],
"antonyms":[
"dispels",
"disperses",
"dissipates",
"scatters"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bunks":{
"a place set aside for sleeping":{
"examples":[
"crawled into their bunks and went to sleep immediately"
],
"synonyms":[
"beds",
"dosses",
"hays",
"kips",
"lairs",
"pads",
"racks",
"sacks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bedsteads",
"futons",
"futon",
"mattresses",
"pallets",
"bunk beds",
"cots",
"couches",
"daybeds",
"feather beds",
"four-posters",
"hammocks",
"Murphy beds",
"shakedowns",
"sleigh beds",
"sofa beds",
"sofas",
"studio couches",
"trundle beds",
"water beds",
"bassinets",
"carry-cots",
"cradles",
"cribs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or an instance of getting free from danger or confinement":{
"examples":[
"he waited until everyone was looking the other way, then did a bunk from the room"
],
"synonyms":[
"breakouts",
"breaks",
"escapes",
"flights",
"getaways",
"lams",
"routs",
"slips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jailbreaks",
"deliverances",
"liberations",
"redemptions",
"releases",
"rescues",
"salvations",
"close calls",
"close shaves",
"near misses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"captivities",
"confinements",
"immurements",
"imprisonments",
"incarcerations",
"internments",
"custodies",
"detentions",
"holdings",
"holds",
"retentions",
"endangerments",
"hazards",
"imperilments",
"jeopardies",
"perils",
"risks",
"troubles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"examples":[
"bunked the guest in the spare room"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodates",
"bestows",
"billets",
"bivouacs",
"boards",
"camps",
"chambers",
"domiciles",
"encamps",
"harbors",
"houses",
"lodges",
"puts up",
"quarters",
"roofs",
"rooms",
"shelters",
"takes in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconces",
"homes",
"roosts",
"secures",
"sheds",
"stables",
"tents",
"barracks",
"beds (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejects",
"evicts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bulldozed":{
"to force one's way":{
"examples":[
"bulldozed through the crowd at the arena, urgently trying to find the bathroom"
],
"synonyms":[
"bored",
"bulled",
"crashed",
"elbowed",
"jammed",
"jostled",
"muscled",
"pressed",
"pushed",
"shouldered",
"squeezed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rammed",
"shoved",
"thrust"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"one of those gatherings at which high-pressure sales reps try to bulldoze naive people into buying time-shares"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacked",
"bogarted",
"browbeat",
"bullied",
"bullyragged",
"ballyragged",
"cowed",
"hectored",
"intimidated",
"strong-armed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustered",
"trash-talked",
"affrighted",
"alarmed",
"alarumed",
"frightened",
"horrified",
"scared",
"shocked",
"spooked",
"startled",
"terrified",
"menaced",
"terrorized",
"threatened",
"badgered",
"harassed",
"hounded",
"bludgeoned",
"coerced",
"compelled",
"constrained",
"dragooned",
"forced",
"made",
"obliged",
"pressed",
"pressured",
"pushed around",
"demoralized",
"psyched (out)",
"unmanned",
"unnerved",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"upset"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"steeled",
"convinced",
"persuaded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buck up":{
"to become glad or hopeful":{
"examples":[
"buck up , kids, it's not so bad as you're making it out to be"
],
"synonyms":[
"brighten",
"cheer (up)",
"lighten",
"look up",
"perk (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rejoice",
"liven (up)",
"revive",
"beam",
"glow",
"radiate",
"sparkle",
"encourage",
"gladden",
"hearten"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despair",
"despond",
"brood",
"fret",
"mope"
],
"antonyms":[
"darken",
"sadden"
]
},
"to fill with courage or strength of purpose":{
"examples":[
"a surprise presidential visit to buck up the troops"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear up",
"buoy (up)",
"cheer (up)",
"chirk (up)",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"inspire",
"inspirit",
"steel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animate",
"enliven",
"invigorate",
"enforce",
"fortify",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"strengthen",
"assure",
"reassure",
"boost",
"energize",
"excite",
"galvanize",
"provoke",
"quicken",
"rally",
"stimulate",
"stir"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demoralize",
"depress",
"sadden",
"debilitate",
"enfeeble",
"hamstring",
"undermine",
"weaken",
"intimidate",
"psych (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"daunt",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"dispirit"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burst (in or into)":{
"as in barge (in) , breeze (in)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barge (in)",
"breeze (in)",
"waltz (in)",
"access",
"enter",
"penetrate",
"pierce",
"drop in",
"pop (in)",
"stray (into)",
"wander (into)",
"crash",
"encroach",
"gate-crash",
"infiltrate",
"infringe",
"intrude",
"invade",
"trespass"
],
"near antonyms":[
"depart",
"exit",
"leave"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buffi":{
"a comically dressed performer (as at a circus) who entertains with playful tricks and ridiculous behavior":{
"examples":[
"in the comic opera, the buffo shared his entrance aria with a grimacing mime"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffoons",
"clowns",
"harlequins",
"zanies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cutups",
"madcaps",
"antics",
"fools",
"graciosos",
"jesters",
"motleys",
"scaramouches",
"mimes",
"mimics",
"mummers",
"pantaloons",
"comedians",
"comediennes",
"comics",
"drolls",
"farceurs",
"funnymen",
"gaggers",
"gagmen",
"gagsters",
"humorists",
"jokers",
"jokesters",
"merry-andrews",
"second bananas",
"stand-ups",
"top bananas",
"wags",
"wits"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burial":{
"the act or ceremony of putting a dead body in its final resting place":{
"examples":[
"the children wanted to give the dead bird a proper burial in the backyard"
],
"synonyms":[
"burying",
"entombing",
"entombment",
"inhumation",
"interment",
"interring",
"obsequy",
"obsequies",
"sepulture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embalmment",
"funeral",
"immurement",
"inurnment",
"reburial",
"reinterment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cremation"
],
"antonyms":[
"disinterment",
"exhumation",
"unearthing"
]
},
"a final resting place for a dead person":{
"examples":[
"archaeologically significant artifacts, such as stone tools, have been discovered in Neanderthal burials"
],
"synonyms":[
"grave",
"sepulchre",
"sepulcher",
"sepulture",
"tomb"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catacomb",
"charnel",
"charnel house",
"columbarium",
"crypt",
"mausoleum",
"vault",
"cemetery",
"churchyard",
"graveyard",
"potter's field",
"barrow",
"mound",
"tumulus"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buildups":{
"as in campaigns , boosts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ballyhoos",
"boosts",
"campaigns",
"plugs",
"promos",
"promotions",
"propagandas",
"publicities",
"ads",
"advertisements",
"adverts",
"announcements",
"bulletins",
"communiqu\u00e9s",
"notices",
"notifications",
"postings",
"releases",
"broadsides",
"brochures",
"circulars",
"flyers",
"fliers",
"fly sheets",
"gazettes",
"handbills",
"handouts",
"billboards",
"bills",
"placards",
"playbills",
"posters",
"show bills",
"signs",
"broadcasts",
"cablecasts",
"newscasts",
"telecasts",
"advertisings",
"billings",
"blurbs",
"come-ons",
"commercials",
"messages",
"pitches",
"plugolas",
"spots",
"words",
"communications",
"dispatches",
"reports",
"annunciations",
"declarations",
"edicts",
"proclamations",
"promulgations",
"pronouncements",
"pronunciamentos",
"pronunciamentoes",
"rescripts",
"significations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burnous":{
"as in pelisse , pelerine":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"capelet",
"capuchin",
"cowl",
"domino",
"joseph",
"manta",
"mantelet",
"mantilla",
"palatine",
"pelerine",
"pelisse",
"poncho",
"roquelaure",
"tippet",
"cape",
"capote",
"cloak",
"frock",
"manteau",
"mantle",
"serape",
"sarape",
"shawl",
"stole",
"wrap"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bump":{
"a small rounded mass of swollen tissue":{
"examples":[
"that's a nasty bump on your arm where you hit the table"
],
"synonyms":[
"knot",
"lump",
"node",
"nodule",
"swelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"growth",
"tumor",
"wart",
"hump",
"hunch",
"bruise",
"contusion",
"welt",
"blister",
"boil",
"blob",
"chunk",
"clod",
"clump",
"gob",
"gobbet",
"hunk",
"knob",
"nub",
"nubble",
"nugget",
"wad"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or an instance of bringing to a lower grade or rank":{
"examples":[
"the bump was punishment for insubordination"
],
"synonyms":[
"demotion",
"reduction"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disrating",
"downgrade",
"dismissal",
"firing",
"layoff",
"sacking",
"abasement",
"debasement",
"humiliation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a forceful coming together of two things":{
"examples":[
"I felt the bump of the other car, but there was no damage to either vehicle"
],
"synonyms":[
"collision",
"concussion",
"crash",
"impact",
"impingement",
"jar",
"jolt",
"jounce",
"kick",
"shock",
"slam",
"smash",
"strike",
"wallop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blow",
"buffet",
"hit",
"knock",
"punch",
"rap",
"slap",
"thump",
"bashing",
"battering",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"thrashing",
"contact",
"encounter",
"meeting",
"touch"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come into usually forceful contact with something":{
"examples":[
"that police officer bumped into me and should have apologized"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"collide",
"crash",
"hit",
"impact",
"impinge",
"knock",
"ram",
"slam",
"smash",
"strike",
"swipe",
"thud"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounce",
"carom",
"clunk",
"glance",
"rebound",
"ricochet",
"skim",
"skip",
"contact",
"land",
"touch",
"brush",
"graze",
"kiss",
"nudge",
"scrape",
"shave",
"sweep",
"bulldoze",
"jostle",
"muscle",
"press",
"push"
],
"near antonyms":[
"miss",
"skirt"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bulk (up)":{
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"examples":[
"she bulked up her hair with one hand as she reached for the shears with the other"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulate",
"amass",
"assemble",
"collect",
"concentrate",
"congregate",
"constellate",
"corral",
"garner",
"gather",
"group",
"lump",
"pick up",
"round up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ball",
"batch",
"bunch",
"cluster",
"huddle",
"heap",
"pile",
"stack",
"band",
"brigade",
"muster",
"raise",
"rally",
"flock",
"herd",
"hive",
"pack",
"press",
"swarm",
"throng",
"combine",
"connect",
"join",
"link",
"merge",
"pool",
"unite",
"archive",
"arrange",
"collate",
"compile",
"organize",
"systematize",
"scrape (up or together)",
"re-collect",
"regather",
"regroup"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break up",
"disband",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"separate",
"sever",
"split (up)",
"dismiss",
"send"
],
"antonyms":[
"dispel",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"scatter"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"butted in":{
"to interest oneself in what is not one's concern":{
"examples":[
"stop butting in on my personal life"
],
"synonyms":[
"interfered",
"interloped",
"intermeddled",
"intruded",
"meddled",
"messed",
"mucked (about or around)",
"nosed",
"obtruded",
"poked",
"pried",
"snooped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"interceded",
"interposed",
"intervened",
"barged (in)",
"chiseled (in)",
"chiselled (in)",
"encroached",
"infringed",
"invaded",
"trespassed",
"fiddled",
"fooled",
"monkeyed",
"played",
"tampered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoided",
"eschewed",
"shunned",
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overlooked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bung up":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"he's a bit of a mess, but he says he bunged up the other guy in the fight even worse"
],
"synonyms":[
"bash",
"baste",
"bat",
"batter",
"beat",
"belabor",
"belt",
"birch",
"bludgeon",
"buffet",
"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"
]
},
"bumpkin":{
"an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country":{
"examples":[
"the bumpkin was overwhelmed by the city's confusing subway system"
],
"synonyms":[
"chawbacon",
"churl",
"clodhopper",
"cornball",
"countryman",
"hayseed",
"hick",
"provincial",
"rube",
"rustic",
"yokel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boor",
"clod",
"clown",
"gawk",
"lout",
"oaf",
"greenhorn",
"tenderfoot",
"peasant",
"peon",
"backwoodsman",
"mountaineer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slicker",
"smoothy",
"smoothie",
"metropolitan",
"suburbanite",
"urbanite"
],
"antonyms":[
"cosmopolitan",
"cosmopolite",
"sophisticate"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"busting":{
"to bring to a lower grade or rank":{
"examples":[
"the commander threatened to bust her for failing to salute"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"degrading",
"demoting",
"disrating",
"downgrading",
"reducing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canning",
"cashiering",
"dismissing",
"downsizing",
"firing",
"laying off",
"sacking",
"abasing",
"debasing",
"demeaning",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"lowering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hiring"
],
"antonyms":[
"advancing",
"elevating",
"promoting",
"raising"
]
},
"to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts":{
"examples":[
"gambling is a dangerous habit that has busted many unfortunate souls"
],
"synonyms":[
"bankrupting",
"breaking",
"ruining"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beggaring",
"impoverishing",
"pauperizing",
"reducing",
"straitening",
"cleaning (out)",
"wiping out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enriching",
"richening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly":{
"examples":[
"the butterfingered husband had busted more plates than he cared to remember"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"breaking up",
"disintegrating",
"dismembering",
"disrupting",
"fracturing",
"fragmenting",
"riving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"atomizing",
"crushing",
"grinding",
"powdering",
"pulverizing",
"reducing",
"blasting",
"blowing up",
"bursting",
"detonating",
"exploding",
"cracking",
"popping",
"shattering",
"shivering",
"smashing",
"chipping",
"slivering",
"splintering",
"splitting",
"imploding",
"destroying",
"ruining",
"wrecking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"healing",
"mending",
"patching",
"rebuilding",
"reconditioning",
"reconstructing",
"renovating",
"repairing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"busted the storekeeper on the nose and was promptly arrested for it"
],
"synonyms":[
"banging",
"bashing",
"batting",
"belting",
"biffing",
"bludgeoning",
"bobbing",
"bonking",
"bopping",
"boxing",
"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 take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"the cops busted the revelers for drinking in public"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehending",
"arresting",
"collaring",
"nabbing",
"nailing",
"nicking",
"picking up",
"pinching",
"pulling in",
"restraining",
"running in",
"seizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bagging",
"capturing",
"catching",
"getting",
"grabbing",
"grappling",
"hooking",
"landing",
"snapping (up)",
"snaring",
"snatching",
"trapping",
"committing",
"confining",
"detaining",
"holding",
"immuring",
"imprisoning",
"incarcerating",
"interning",
"jailing",
"jugging",
"locking (up)",
"binding",
"enchaining",
"fettering",
"handcuffing",
"manacling",
"shackling",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"rearresting",
"remanding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipating",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"releasing",
"springing",
"unbinding",
"unchaining"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharging"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"I had to bust my butt in order to get the project done on time"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"burning out",
"doing in",
"doing up",
"draining",
"exhausting",
"fagging",
"fatiguing",
"frazzling",
"harassing",
"killing",
"knocking out",
"outwearing",
"tiring",
"tuckering (out)",
"washing out",
"wearing",
"wearing out",
"wearying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitating",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"sapping",
"wasting",
"weakening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activating",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"rejuvenating",
"strengthening",
"vitalizing",
"relaxing",
"resting",
"unwinding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bursted (in or into)":{
"as in barge (in) , breeze (in)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barge (in)",
"breeze (in)",
"waltz (in)",
"access",
"enter",
"penetrate",
"pierce",
"drop in",
"pop (in)",
"stray (into)",
"wander (into)",
"crash",
"encroach",
"gate-crash",
"infiltrate",
"infringe",
"intrude",
"invade",
"trespass"
],
"near antonyms":[
"depart",
"exit",
"leave"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burked":{
"to keep from being publicly known":{
"examples":[
"the executives knew that the drug had dangerous side effects, but they burked the findings"
],
"synonyms":[
"covered (up)",
"hushed (up)",
"suppressed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blacked out",
"censored",
"gagged",
"muzzled",
"silenced",
"quashed",
"repressed",
"smothered",
"spiked",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"stifled",
"strangled",
"throttled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunked",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed up",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"blabbed",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"spilled",
"spilt",
"told",
"unveiled",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"circulated",
"published",
"spread",
"described",
"narrated",
"recited",
"recounted",
"rehearsed",
"related",
"reported"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bumpy":{
"marked by a series of sharp quick motions":{
"examples":[
"a bumpy ride over a badly rutted road"
],
"synonyms":[
"choppy",
"herky-jerky",
"jerky",
"jouncy",
"rough"
],
"near synonyms":[
"erratic",
"fitful",
"irregular",
"spasmodic",
"spastic",
"unsteady",
"jagged",
"ragged",
"uneven"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"placid",
"smooth",
"steady",
"still"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"not having a level or smooth surface":{
"examples":[
"the bumpy road made the jeep bounce all over"
],
"synonyms":[
"broken",
"coarse",
"irregular",
"jagged",
"lumpy",
"pebbly",
"ragged",
"rough",
"roughened",
"rugged",
"scraggy",
"uneven"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lopsided",
"unbalanced",
"inexact",
"unaligned",
"rutted",
"rutty",
"undulating",
"undulatory",
"wavy",
"pitted",
"pocked",
"knobbly",
"knobby",
"knurled",
"knurly",
"nubbly",
"nubby",
"burred",
"harsh",
"sandpapery",
"scraggly",
"scratchy",
"nonuniform"
],
"near antonyms":[
"exact",
"uniform",
"aligned",
"alined",
"regular",
"true",
"horizontal",
"tabular",
"plumb",
"straight",
"vertical",
"flush"
],
"antonyms":[
"even",
"flat",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"burgee":{
"as in waft , semaphore":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"semaphore",
"signaler",
"signaller",
"waft",
"black flag",
"Jolly Roger",
"tricolor",
"union jack",
"white flag",
"badge",
"coat of arms",
"crest",
"insignia",
"bunting",
"gonfalon",
"banderole",
"banderol",
"banner",
"colors",
"ensign",
"flag",
"guidon",
"jack",
"pendant",
"pendent",
"pennant",
"pennon",
"standard",
"streamer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bullheaded":{
"sticking to an opinion, purpose, or course of action in spite of reason, arguments, or persuasion":{
"examples":[
"a bullheaded government official who refused to bend the rules even just a little bit"
],
"synonyms":[
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"dogged",
"hard",
"hard-nosed",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inconvincible",
"inflexible",
"intransigent",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"obstinate",
"opinionated",
"ossified",
"pat",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"self-opinionated",
"self-willed",
"stiff-necked",
"stubborn",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anal-retentive",
"obsessive",
"wayward",
"wrongheaded",
"determined",
"hell-bent",
"inexorable",
"persistent",
"relentless",
"resolved",
"set",
"single-minded",
"steadfast",
"stouthearted",
"tenacious",
"unflinching",
"firm",
"hard-line",
"hard-shell",
"hard-shelled",
"iron",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"hidebound",
"narrow-minded",
"rigid",
"bloody-minded",
"cantankerous",
"contrary",
"cussed",
"contumacious",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"recalcitrant",
"refractory",
"uncooperative",
"ungovernable",
"unmanageable",
"unruly",
"defiant",
"insurgent",
"mutinous",
"indomitable",
"invincible",
"unconquerable",
"confirmed",
"inveterate",
"unregenerate",
"demanding",
"exacting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"docile",
"obedient",
"placable",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"accepting",
"persuadable",
"receptive",
"responsive",
"willing",
"governable",
"manageable",
"reasonable",
"temperate",
"slavish",
"subservient"
],
"antonyms":[
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"complying",
"flexible",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"relenting",
"yielding"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"buxom":{
"having a pleasingly rounded body with large breasts":{
"examples":[
"a buxom blonde"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ample",
"bosomy",
"built",
"busty",
"chesty",
"corn-fed",
"curvaceous",
"curvy",
"full-figured",
"ripe",
"Rubenesque",
"shapely",
"stacked",
"voluptuous",
"well-endowed",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"blubbery",
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"fleshy",
"full",
"gross",
"lardy",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"podgy",
"portly",
"pudgy",
"replete",
"roly-poly",
"rotund",
"round",
"tubby",
"Junoesque",
"statuesque",
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"plumpish",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"hefty",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"squat",
"stubby",
"hippy",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"endomorphic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angular",
"bony",
"boney",
"gaunt",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rawboned",
"sinewy",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"puny",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"slight",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"svelte",
"sylphlike",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"willowy",
"ectomorphic",
"anorexic",
"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"burst":{
"to break open or into pieces usually because of internal pressure":{
"examples":[
"the turnover's crust burst when the filling expanded"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"blow up",
"crump",
"detonate",
"explode",
"go off",
"pop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fragment",
"shatter",
"smash",
"splinter",
"discharge",
"fire",
"shoot",
"balloon",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"mushroom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"fizzle"
],
"antonyms":[
"implode"
]
},
"to cause to break open or into pieces by or as if by an explosive":{
"examples":[
"finally burst the pi\u00f1ata open with one mighty swing of the bat"
],
"synonyms":[
"blast",
"blow",
"blow up",
"demolish",
"explode",
"pop",
"shatter",
"smash"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dynamite",
"annihilate",
"decimate",
"destroy",
"ruin",
"wreck",
"detonate",
"discharge",
"fragment",
"splinter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"collapse",
"implode"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"a young singer/dancer who seems to be bursting with energy and talent"
],
"synonyms":[
"abound",
"brim",
"bristle",
"bulge",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"crawl",
"hum",
"overflow",
"pullulate",
"swarm",
"teem"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lack",
"need",
"want"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sudden and usually temporary growth of activity":{
"examples":[
"a sudden burst of industriousness whenever the boss appeared"
],
"synonyms":[
"flare",
"flare-up",
"flash",
"flicker",
"flurry",
"flutter",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"spurt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recrudescence",
"recurrence",
"renewal",
"binge",
"jag",
"spree",
"boost",
"increase",
"pickup",
"upswing",
"upturn",
"epidemic",
"eruption",
"explosion",
"paroxysm",
"deluge",
"flood",
"rush",
"spate",
"surge",
"volley",
"commotion",
"furor",
"uproar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm",
"doldrums",
"slump"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a sudden intense expression of strong feeling":{
"examples":[
"a burst of anger that startled the other members on the panel"
],
"synonyms":[
"agony",
"blaze",
"ebullition",
"eruption",
"explosion",
"fit",
"flare",
"flare-up",
"flash",
"flush",
"gale",
"gush",
"gust",
"outburst",
"paroxysm",
"spasm",
"storm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowup",
"grouch",
"rage",
"tantrum",
"ecstasy",
"rapture",
"transport",
"delirium",
"firestorm",
"frenzy",
"furor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or an instance of exploding":{
"examples":[
"one burst after another could be heard in the distance"
],
"synonyms":[
"blast",
"blowup",
"bursting",
"detonation",
"eruption",
"explosion",
"outburst"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discharge",
"firing",
"shooting",
"blowout",
"flare-up",
"bang",
"boom",
"pop",
"airburst",
"groundburst"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bum (around)":{
"as in hang , lounge (around or about)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dawdle",
"goldbrick",
"hang",
"hang about",
"idle",
"loaf",
"lounge (around or about)",
"relax",
"rest",
"screw around",
"slack (off)",
"dabble",
"fiddle (around)",
"mess around",
"putter (around)",
"jest",
"joke",
"tease",
"delight",
"please",
"amuse",
"divert",
"entertain",
"dabble",
"trifle",
"cavort",
"frisk",
"gambol",
"romp",
"dally",
"disport",
"frolic",
"play",
"recreate",
"rollick",
"skylark",
"sport",
"toy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudge",
"labor",
"plod",
"plug (away)",
"slave",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"work"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buffaloed":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"I'm not some newcomer that you can buffalo with that nonsense"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozled",
"beguiled",
"bluffed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"caught",
"conned",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"faked out",
"fooled",
"gaffed",
"gammoned",
"gulled",
"had",
"had on",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"hornswoggled",
"humbugged",
"juggled",
"misguided",
"misinformed",
"misled",
"snookered",
"snowed",
"spoofed",
"strung along",
"sucked in",
"suckered",
"took in",
"tricked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kidded",
"put on",
"teased",
"bled",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"defrauded",
"diddled",
"euchred",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"rooked",
"shortchanged",
"skinned",
"squeezed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"swindled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunked",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed up",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"told",
"unveiled",
"disabused",
"disenchanted",
"disillusioned"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceived"
]
},
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"in this debate I refuse to be buffaloed by a flurry of irrelevant issues"
],
"synonyms":[
"addled",
"baffled",
"bamboozled",
"beat",
"befogged",
"befuddled",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discombobulated",
"disoriented",
"flummoxed",
"foxed",
"fuddled",
"got",
"graveled",
"gravelled",
"mazed",
"muddied",
"muddled",
"mystified",
"perplexed",
"posed",
"puzzled",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near synonyms":[
"stuck",
"stumped",
"weirded out",
"abashed",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"stunned",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"beguiled",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"humbugged",
"misguided",
"misled",
"snowed",
"strung along",
"took in",
"tricked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assured",
"reassured",
"satisfied",
"enlightened",
"informed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bumps off":{
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"these drug dealers mean business, and they'll bump off anyone who gets in their way"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinates",
"croaks",
"dispatches",
"does in",
"executes",
"gets",
"ices",
"knocks off",
"liquidates",
"murders",
"neutralizes",
"offs",
"puts away",
"rubs out",
"slays",
"snuffs",
"takes out",
"terminates",
"whacks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blows away",
"shoots",
"shoots down",
"blots out",
"carries off",
"claims",
"cuts down",
"destroys",
"fells",
"kills",
"smites",
"zaps",
"butchers",
"massacres",
"mows (down)",
"slaughters",
"annihilates",
"eliminates",
"eradicates",
"exterminates",
"wipes out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animates",
"raises",
"restores",
"resurrects",
"resuscitates",
"revives"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buffering":{
"as in softening , emollient":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cushioning",
"emollient",
"softening",
"clement",
"compassionate",
"easy",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"sleek",
"slick",
"smooth",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"balmy",
"benign",
"bland",
"delicate",
"gentle",
"light",
"mellow",
"mild",
"nonabrasive",
"soft",
"soothing",
"tender"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abrasive",
"caustic",
"coarse",
"hard",
"harsh",
"rough",
"scathing",
"stern",
"ungentle",
"exquisite",
"fierce",
"intense",
"powerful",
"severe",
"forceful",
"forcible",
"savage",
"violent",
"roughened",
"rugged",
"strong",
"abrading",
"irritating",
"roughening",
"grim",
"gruff",
"rude",
"stiff",
"heavy-handed",
"oppressive",
"pitiless",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lessen the shock of":{
"examples":[
"during my walk an umbrella and thick coat buffered the freezing rain"
],
"synonyms":[
"cushioning",
"gentling",
"softening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baffling",
"dampening",
"deadening",
"dulling",
"obtunding",
"moderating",
"modulating",
"tempering",
"allaying",
"alleviating",
"assuaging",
"easing",
"lightening",
"mitigating",
"relieving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"sharpening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bubble":{
"to flow in a broken irregular stream":{
"examples":[
"the soapy water bubbled down the drain"
],
"synonyms":[
"dribble",
"guggle",
"gurgle",
"lap",
"plash",
"ripple",
"splash",
"trickle",
"wash"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eddy",
"purl",
"swirl",
"swash",
"swish",
"swoosh",
"whish",
"drip",
"drop",
"gush",
"jet",
"rush",
"spew",
"spout",
"spurt",
"squirt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"run"
],
"antonyms":[
"pour",
"roll",
"stream"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"businesslike":{
"having or showing qualities that are considered good in business":{
"examples":[
"His businesslike approach to the dispute was very helpful.",
"a businesslike manner"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"professional",
"earnest",
"grave",
"humorless",
"no-nonsense",
"po-faced",
"polite",
"practical",
"sedate",
"serious",
"severe",
"sober",
"sobersided",
"solemn",
"staid",
"uncomic",
"unsmiling",
"weighty",
"harsh",
"stern",
"strict",
"dignified",
"distinguished",
"elevated",
"serious-minded",
"gloomy",
"grim"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antic",
"comic",
"comical",
"droll",
"farcical",
"funny",
"hilarious",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"laughable",
"light",
"light-headed",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"riotous",
"risible",
"screaming",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious",
"featherbrained",
"flighty",
"frivolous",
"goofy",
"harebrained",
"lighthearted",
"puerile",
"scatterbrained",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"balmy",
"brainless",
"cockeyed",
"crazy",
"cuckoo",
"daffy",
"daft",
"dotty",
"fatuous",
"foolish",
"half-witted",
"insane",
"jerky",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"loony",
"looney",
"lunatic",
"mad",
"nonsensical",
"nutty",
"preposterous",
"sappy",
"screwball",
"senseless",
"silly",
"unwise",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"weak-minded",
"witless",
"zany",
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"humorous",
"jesting",
"jocular",
"joking",
"kittenish",
"ludic",
"playful"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"burly":{
"strongly and heavily built":{
"examples":[
"a burly delivery man brought the furniture"
],
"synonyms":[
"beefy",
"brawny",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"husky",
"mesomorphic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"able-bodied",
"athletic",
"herculean",
"mighty",
"muscle-bound",
"muscular",
"powerful",
"robust",
"rugged",
"sinewy",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"strapping",
"strong",
"sturdy",
"chunky",
"compact",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"solid",
"squat",
"squatty",
"stocky",
"thickset",
"chubby",
"dumpy",
"lumpish",
"podgy",
"portly",
"pudgy",
"roly-poly",
"tubby"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lean",
"light",
"lightweight",
"slender",
"slight",
"slim",
"svelte",
"sylphlike",
"thin",
"willowy",
"bony",
"boney",
"gangling",
"gangly",
"gaunt",
"gawky",
"lanky",
"reedy",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"skinny",
"spare",
"stringy",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"spidery",
"wiry",
"debilitated",
"delicate",
"effete",
"emaciated",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"feeble",
"fragile",
"frail",
"infirm",
"puny",
"unathletic",
"weak",
"weakly",
"wimpy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"buggers (up)":{
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"I've somehow buggered up the program again"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows",
"bobbles",
"boggles",
"bollixes (up)",
"boots",
"botches",
"bumbles",
"bungles",
"butchers",
"dubs",
"flubs",
"fluffs",
"foozles",
"fouls up",
"fumbles",
"goofs (up)",
"louses up",
"mangles",
"messes (up)",
"mucks up",
"muffs",
"murders",
"screws up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blunders",
"gums (up)",
"muddles",
"piffles",
"blemishes",
"blights",
"damages",
"flaws",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"ruins",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"destroys",
"wrecks",
"mishandles",
"mismanages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"enhances",
"helps",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"rectifies",
"refines",
"reforms",
"remedies",
"doctors",
"fixes",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"revamps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bush pilot":{
"as in ace , test pilot":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ace",
"barnstormer",
"copilot",
"flyboy",
"test pilot",
"airman",
"aviator",
"birdman",
"flier",
"flyer",
"pilot",
"captain",
"skipper"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burnt":{
"as in charred , scorched":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"charred",
"incinerated",
"scorched",
"seared",
"singed",
"broiling",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sizzling",
"aglow",
"flaring",
"flickering",
"glowing",
"live",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"ablaze",
"afire",
"aflame",
"alight",
"blazing",
"burning",
"combusting",
"conflagrant",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled",
"lit",
"lighted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choked",
"damped",
"dead",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"extinguished",
"quenched",
"smothered",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"suffocated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be on fire especially brightly":{
"examples":[
"all evening long we just sat there, contentedly watching the Yule log burn"
],
"synonyms":[
"blazed",
"combusted",
"flamed",
"glowed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caught",
"enkindled",
"deflagrated",
"fired",
"ignited",
"kindled",
"flared (up)",
"lit (up)",
"lighted (up)",
"flickered",
"guttered",
"wavered",
"baked",
"broiled",
"charred",
"cooked",
"melted",
"roasted",
"scorched",
"sweltered",
"smoldered",
"smouldered",
"sparked",
"sputtered",
"beamed",
"brightened",
"radiated",
"beat (down)",
"flashed",
"glared",
"gleamed",
"glimmered",
"glinted",
"glistened",
"glittered",
"scintillated",
"shimmered",
"shone",
"shined",
"sparkled",
"twinkled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set (something) on fire":{
"examples":[
"it is not a good idea to try to burn old papers in the sink"
],
"synonyms":[
"enkindled",
"fired",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled",
"lit",
"lighted",
"torched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immolated",
"deflagrated",
"charred",
"frizzled",
"scorched",
"baked",
"broiled",
"cooked",
"ashed",
"cremated",
"incinerated",
"kilned",
"set off",
"brightened",
"illuminated",
"illumined",
"irradiated",
"lightened",
"radiated",
"scalded",
"scathed",
"seared",
"reignited",
"rekindled",
"relit",
"relighted",
"banked",
"stoked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choked",
"smothered",
"suffocated",
"stamped (out)",
"blackened",
"darkened",
"dimmed",
"dulled",
"obscured"
],
"antonyms":[
"doused",
"dowsed",
"extinguished",
"put out",
"quenched",
"snuffed (out)"
]
},
"to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger":{
"examples":[
"he came home burning with anger because of a reprimand at work"
],
"synonyms":[
"boiled",
"foamed",
"fumed",
"raged",
"rankled",
"seethed",
"sizzled",
"steamed",
"stormed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fulminated",
"ranted",
"raved",
"smoldered",
"smouldered",
"bristled",
"flared (up)",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"chafed",
"fretted",
"stewed",
"agitated",
"convulsed",
"roiled",
"shook"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shine with a bright harsh light":{
"examples":[
"the bright streetlight outside our motel room burned all night long"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"blazed",
"flamed",
"flared",
"glared"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beamed",
"glowed",
"radiated",
"flashed",
"glanced",
"gleamed",
"glimmered",
"glinted",
"glistened",
"glistered",
"glittered",
"scintillated",
"shimmered",
"sparkled",
"twinkled",
"bedazzled",
"blinded",
"dazed",
"dazzled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"he's been burned before, so he's careful to double-check such claims now"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozled",
"beguiled",
"bluffed",
"buffaloed",
"caught",
"conned",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"faked out",
"fooled",
"gaffed",
"gammoned",
"gulled",
"had",
"had on",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"hornswoggled",
"humbugged",
"juggled",
"misguided",
"misinformed",
"misled",
"snookered",
"snowed",
"spoofed",
"strung along",
"sucked in",
"suckered",
"took in",
"tricked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kidded",
"put on",
"teased",
"bled",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"defrauded",
"diddled",
"euchred",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"rooked",
"shortchanged",
"skinned",
"squeezed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"swindled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunked",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed up",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"told",
"unveiled",
"disabused",
"disenchanted",
"disillusioned"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceived"
]
},
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"heedlessly burning the country's resources without any concern for future generations"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbed",
"consumed",
"depleted",
"devoured",
"drained",
"drew down",
"exhausted",
"expended",
"played out",
"spent",
"used up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abated",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"reduced",
"ate",
"used",
"bankrupted",
"cleaned (out)",
"impoverished",
"crippled",
"debilitated",
"disabled",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"undermined",
"weakened",
"dried up",
"emptied",
"blew",
"dissipated",
"frittered (away)",
"guzzled",
"lavished",
"misspent",
"ran through",
"squandered",
"threw away",
"wasted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augmented",
"enlarged",
"increased",
"bolstered",
"enforced",
"fortified",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"strengthened",
"rebuilt",
"repaired",
"restored",
"revived",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"saved"
],
"antonyms":[
"renewed",
"replaced"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bullwhips":{
"as in quirts , knouts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"birches",
"blacksnakes",
"cat-o'-nine-tails",
"cowhides",
"crops",
"hickories",
"knouts",
"quirts",
"rattans",
"rawhides",
"straps",
"floggers",
"lashes",
"scourges",
"switches",
"whips",
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batons",
"bats",
"billies",
"billy clubs",
"bludgeons",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"flails",
"nightsticks",
"staffs",
"staves"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"button (up)":{
"as in zip (up)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"zip (up)",
"bar",
"bolt",
"clasp",
"fasten",
"latch",
"lock",
"close",
"shut"
],
"near antonyms":[
"open",
"unclose",
"unbar",
"unbolt",
"unclasp",
"unfasten",
"unlatch",
"unlock",
"unbutton",
"unclench",
"unfold",
"unfurl",
"unzip"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buys (back)":{
"as in wins (back) , redeems":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"redeems",
"wins (back)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hocks",
"pawns",
"pledges",
"deposits",
"mortgages",
"bonds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"budget":{
"a sum of money set aside for a particular purpose":{
"examples":[
"we've spent a little more than our budget this year"
],
"synonyms":[
"account",
"deposit",
"fund",
"kitty",
"nest egg",
"pool"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chest",
"coffer(s)",
"assets",
"savings",
"savings account",
"bankroll",
"cache",
"collection",
"cushion",
"hoard",
"pocketbook",
"reserve",
"treasure",
"petty cash",
"pin money",
"pocket money",
"spending money"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the number of individuals or amount of something available at any given time":{
"examples":[
"the tour group had a whole budget of complaints"
],
"synonyms":[
"force",
"fund",
"inventory",
"pool",
"repertoire",
"reservoir",
"stock",
"supply"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reserve",
"resource",
"cache",
"hoard",
"stockpile",
"refill",
"renewal",
"replacement",
"kitty",
"nest egg",
"pot",
"purse",
"fountain",
"mine",
"source",
"spring",
"well",
"wellspring"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"costing little":{
"examples":[
"a budget phone plan for people on fixed incomes"
],
"synonyms":[
"affordable",
"bargain-basement",
"cheap",
"cheapie",
"cheapo",
"chintzy",
"cut-price",
"cut-rate",
"dime-store",
"dirt cheap",
"el cheapo",
"inexpensive",
"low",
"low-end",
"popular",
"reasonable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cheapish",
"moderate",
"discount",
"discounted",
"fire-sale",
"lowered",
"reduced",
"wholesale",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"supercheap",
"ultracheap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"increased",
"inflated",
"exorbitant",
"extravagant",
"overpriced",
"prohibitive",
"prohibitory",
"steep",
"stiff",
"superexpensive",
"ultraexpensive",
"unreasonable",
"invaluable",
"priceless",
"luxurious"
],
"antonyms":[
"costly",
"dear",
"deluxe",
"expensive",
"high",
"high-ticket",
"precious",
"premium",
"pricey",
"pricy",
"spendy",
"valuable"
]
},
"to work out the details of (something) in advance":{
"examples":[
"the vacationers carefully budgeted how they would spend their limited time in Italy"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrange",
"blueprint",
"calculate",
"chart",
"choreograph",
"design",
"frame",
"lay out",
"map (out)",
"organize",
"plan",
"prepare",
"project",
"scheme (out)",
"shape",
"strategize (about)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conspire",
"contrive",
"devise",
"intrigue",
"machinate",
"plot",
"put up",
"concert",
"get up",
"draft",
"outline",
"sketch",
"aim",
"figure",
"have on",
"intend",
"mean",
"contemplate",
"meditate",
"premeditate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"busts":{
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"delivered a bust to the boxer's chops"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"beats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"blows",
"bops",
"boxes",
"buffets",
"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":[]
},
"something that has failed":{
"examples":[
"the first movie was a hit, but the sequel was an unexpected bust"
],
"synonyms":[
"bombs",
"bummers",
"catastrophes",
"clinkers",
"clunkers",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"disasters",
"duds",
"failures",
"fiascoes",
"fizzles",
"flops",
"frosts",
"lemons",
"losers",
"misses",
"shipwrecks",
"turkeys",
"washouts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"also-rans",
"disappointments",
"dogs",
"has-beens",
"near misses",
"botches",
"hashes",
"messes",
"muddles",
"shambles",
"nonevents",
"nonstarters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corkers",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"dandies",
"jim-dandies",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons"
],
"antonyms":[
"blockbusters",
"hits",
"smashes",
"successes",
"winners"
]
},
"the act of taking or holding under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"those lowlifes were nabbed for drug dealing in a massive bust last month"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehensions",
"arrestments",
"arrests",
"collars",
"pinches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"raids",
"house arrests",
"captures",
"entrapments",
"seizures",
"captivities",
"confinements",
"detentions",
"enchainments",
"holds",
"immurements",
"imprisonments",
"incarcerations",
"restraints",
"rearrests",
"remands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipations",
"liberations",
"releases"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharges"
]
},
"a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking":{
"examples":[
"a bunch of underage kids having a beer bust while the parents were away for the weekend"
],
"synonyms":[
"benders",
"binges",
"carousals",
"carouses",
"drunks",
"jamborees",
"sprees",
"toots",
"wassails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowouts",
"keggers",
"keg parties",
"bacchanalia",
"orgies",
"revelries",
"revels",
"bibberies",
"inebriations",
"inebrieties",
"intoxications",
"jags"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring to a lower grade or rank":{
"examples":[
"the commander threatened to bust her for failing to salute"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"degrades",
"demotes",
"disrates",
"downgrades",
"reduces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cans",
"cashiers",
"dismisses",
"downsizes",
"fires",
"lays off",
"sacks",
"abases",
"debases",
"demeans",
"humbles",
"humiliates",
"lowers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hires"
],
"antonyms":[
"advances",
"elevates",
"promotes",
"raises"
]
},
"to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts":{
"examples":[
"gambling is a dangerous habit that has busted many unfortunate souls"
],
"synonyms":[
"bankrupts",
"breaks",
"ruins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beggars",
"impoverishes",
"pauperizes",
"reduces",
"straitens",
"cleans (out)",
"wipes out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enriches",
"richens"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to separate into pieces usually suddenly or forcibly":{
"examples":[
"the butterfingered husband had busted more plates than he cared to remember"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"breaks up",
"disintegrates",
"dismembers",
"disrupts",
"fractures",
"fragments",
"rives"
],
"near synonyms":[
"atomizes",
"crushes",
"grinds",
"powders",
"pulverizes",
"reduces",
"blasts",
"blows up",
"bursts",
"detonates",
"explodes",
"cracks",
"pops",
"shatters",
"shivers",
"smashes",
"chips",
"slivers",
"splinters",
"splits",
"implodes",
"destroys",
"ruins",
"wrecks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctors",
"fixes",
"heals",
"mends",
"patches",
"rebuilds",
"reconditions",
"reconstructs",
"renovates",
"repairs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"busted the storekeeper on the nose and was promptly arrested for it"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"bludgeons",
"bobs",
"bonks",
"bops",
"boxes",
"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 take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"the cops busted the revelers for drinking in public"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehends",
"arrests",
"collars",
"nabs",
"nails",
"nicks",
"picks up",
"pinches",
"pulls in",
"restrains",
"runs in",
"seizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bags",
"captures",
"catches",
"gets",
"grabs",
"grapples",
"hooks",
"lands",
"snaps (up)",
"snares",
"snatches",
"traps",
"commits",
"confines",
"detains",
"holds",
"immures",
"imprisons",
"incarcerates",
"interns",
"jails",
"jugs",
"locks (up)",
"binds",
"enchains",
"fetters",
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"trammels",
"rearrests",
"remands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipates",
"frees",
"liberates",
"loosens",
"looses",
"releases",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"unchains"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharges"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"I had to bust my butt in order to get the project done on time"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"burns out",
"does in",
"does up",
"drains",
"exhausts",
"fags",
"fatigues",
"frazzles",
"harasses",
"kills",
"knocks out",
"outwears",
"tires",
"tuckers (out)",
"washes out",
"wearies",
"wears",
"wears out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitates",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"wastes",
"weakens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activates",
"energizes",
"invigorates",
"rejuvenates",
"strengthens",
"vitalizes",
"relaxes",
"rests",
"unwinds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"busying":{
"to hold the attention of":{
"examples":[
"the video game busied the child for hours"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbing",
"bemusing",
"catching up",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"enthralling",
"enwrapping",
"fascinating",
"gripping",
"immersing",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"occupying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alluring",
"attracting",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"obsessing",
"hypnotizing",
"mesmerizing",
"distracting",
"preoccupying",
"hogging",
"monopolizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boring",
"jading",
"palling",
"tiring",
"wearying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bumped off":{
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"these drug dealers mean business, and they'll bump off anyone who gets in their way"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinated",
"croaked",
"did in",
"dispatched",
"executed",
"got",
"iced",
"knocked off",
"liquidated",
"murdered",
"neutralized",
"offed",
"put away",
"rubbed out",
"slew",
"snuffed",
"terminated",
"took out",
"whacked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blew away",
"shot",
"shot down",
"blotted out",
"carried off",
"claimed",
"cut down",
"destroyed",
"felled",
"killed",
"smote",
"zapped",
"butchered",
"massacred",
"mowed (down)",
"slaughtered",
"annihilated",
"eliminated",
"eradicated",
"exterminated",
"wiped out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animated",
"raised",
"restored",
"resurrected",
"resuscitated",
"revived"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bubkes":{
"the smallest amount or part imaginable":{
"examples":[
"she always eats out and proudly admits that she doesn't know bubkes about cooking"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"continental",
"damn",
"darn",
"durn",
"diddly",
"diddly-squat",
"doodley-squat",
"doodly-squat",
"fig",
"ghost",
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"lick",
"modicum",
"rap",
"squat",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"whit",
"whoop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"pin",
"ray",
"scrap",
"scruple",
"semblance",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"speck",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"buttonholes":{
"as in keyholes , armholes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"airholes",
"armholes",
"keyholes",
"knotholes",
"peepholes",
"potholes",
"wormholes",
"pinholes",
"pinpricks",
"punches",
"punctures",
"entrances",
"inlets",
"intakes",
"exits",
"mouths",
"outlets",
"pores",
"vents",
"slots",
"spaces",
"breaches",
"breaks",
"chinks",
"clefts",
"cracks",
"crannies",
"crevices",
"cuts",
"fissures",
"gashes",
"notches",
"rents",
"rifts",
"ruptures",
"slashes",
"slits",
"splits",
"tears",
"loopholes",
"apertures",
"holes",
"openings",
"orifices",
"perforations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fillers",
"fillings",
"fills",
"patches",
"plugs",
"seals",
"stoppers",
"barriers",
"blockages",
"obstacles",
"obstructions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burnouts":{
"a complete depletion of energy or strength":{
"examples":[
"people in that job often suffer burnout and have to retire at a relatively early age"
],
"synonyms":[
"collapse",
"exhaustion",
"fatigue",
"frazzle",
"lassitude",
"prostration",
"tiredness",
"weariness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitation",
"debility",
"disablement",
"enervation",
"enfeeblement",
"faintness",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"impotence",
"infirmity",
"weakness",
"overfatigue",
"languor",
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"sluggishness",
"slumber",
"stupor",
"torpidity",
"torpor",
"apathy",
"inertia",
"passiveness",
"passivity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bounce",
"dash",
"drive",
"energy",
"ginger",
"go",
"liveliness",
"pep",
"punch",
"sap",
"snap",
"starch",
"verve",
"vigor",
"vim",
"vitality",
"zing",
"zip",
"might",
"muscle",
"potency",
"power",
"puissance",
"strength",
"briskness",
"jauntiness",
"spiritedness",
"sprightliness",
"vivaciousness",
"vivacity"
],
"antonyms":[
"refreshment",
"rejuvenation",
"rejuvenescence",
"revitalization"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"working 12-hour days at that job just burned me out"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"bust",
"do in",
"do up",
"drain",
"exhaust",
"fag",
"fatigue",
"frazzle",
"harass",
"kill",
"knock out",
"outwear",
"tire",
"tucker (out)",
"wash out",
"wear",
"wear out",
"weary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitate",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"sap",
"waste",
"weaken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activate",
"energize",
"invigorate",
"rejuvenate",
"strengthen",
"vitalize",
"relax",
"rest",
"unwind"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bulldozing":{
"as in bullying , browbeating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"browbeating",
"bullying",
"arm-twisting",
"coercion",
"compulsion",
"constraint",
"duress",
"force",
"pressure",
"fear",
"intimidation",
"menace",
"sword",
"terror",
"terrorism",
"threat",
"violence",
"squeeze",
"squeeze play",
"might",
"muscle",
"potency",
"puissance",
"strength",
"hardheadedness",
"self-will",
"willfulness",
"strain",
"stress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreement",
"approval",
"consent",
"permission",
"convincing",
"persuasion",
"reason",
"suasion"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to force one's way":{
"examples":[
"bulldozed through the crowd at the arena, urgently trying to find the bathroom"
],
"synonyms":[
"boring",
"bulling",
"crashing",
"elbowing",
"jamming",
"jostling",
"muscling",
"pressing",
"pushing",
"shouldering",
"squeezing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ramming",
"shoving",
"thrusting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"one of those gatherings at which high-pressure sales reps try to bulldoze naive people into buying time-shares"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacking",
"bogarting",
"browbeating",
"bullying",
"bullyragging",
"ballyragging",
"cowing",
"hectoring",
"intimidating",
"strong-arming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blustering",
"trash-talking",
"affrighting",
"alarming",
"alaruming",
"frightening",
"horrifying",
"scaring",
"shocking",
"spooking",
"startling",
"terrifying",
"menacing",
"terrorizing",
"threatening",
"badgering",
"harassing",
"hounding",
"bludgeoning",
"coercing",
"compelling",
"constraining",
"dragooning",
"forcing",
"making",
"obliging",
"pressing",
"pressuring",
"pushing around",
"demoralizing",
"psyching (out)",
"unmanning",
"unnerving",
"discomposing",
"disconcerting",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"steeling",
"convincing",
"persuading"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bunking":{
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"examples":[
"bunked the guest in the spare room"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodating",
"bestowing",
"billeting",
"bivouacking",
"boarding",
"camping",
"chambering",
"domiciling",
"encamping",
"harboring",
"housing",
"lodging",
"putting up",
"quartering",
"roofing",
"rooming",
"sheltering",
"taking in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconcing",
"homing",
"roosting",
"securing",
"shedding",
"stabling",
"tenting",
"barracking",
"bedding (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejecting",
"evicting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buys the farm":{
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"After years of ignoring his health problems, the old man finally bought it ."
],
"synonyms":[
"checks out",
"conks (out)",
"croaks",
"deceases",
"demises",
"departs",
"dies",
"drops",
"ends",
"exits",
"expires",
"falls",
"flatlines",
"goes",
"kicks in",
"kicks off",
"parts",
"passes away",
"passes (on)",
"pegs out",
"perishes",
"pops off",
"steps out",
"succumbs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predeceases",
"consumes",
"disappears",
"dries up",
"fades",
"fails"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comes to",
"revives",
"lingers",
"exists",
"is",
"subsists",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathes",
"lives"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"bumboat":{
"as in jolly boat , lifeboat":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"auxiliary",
"cutter",
"jolly boat",
"launch",
"lifeboat",
"longboat",
"tender",
"yawl",
"houseboat",
"riverboat",
"barge",
"hoy",
"keel",
"keelboat",
"lighter",
"narrow boat",
"cruiser",
"inboard",
"motorboat",
"outboard",
"powerboat",
"towboat",
"tug",
"tugboat",
"bateau",
"ca\u00efque",
"canoe",
"catamaran",
"coracle",
"curragh",
"currach",
"dhow",
"dinghy",
"dink",
"dory",
"dugout",
"flatboat",
"garvey",
"gig",
"johnboat",
"kayak",
"outrigger",
"paddleboat",
"pinnace",
"piragua",
"pirogue",
"pontoon",
"pram",
"punt",
"raft",
"rowboat",
"rowing boat",
"sampan",
"scow",
"scull",
"shallop",
"shell",
"skiff",
"surfboat",
"umiak",
"wherry",
"ferry",
"ferryboat",
"gondola",
"taxi",
"water taxi",
"catboat",
"ketch",
"sailboat",
"schooner",
"yacht",
"banker",
"coble",
"dragger",
"gillnetter",
"hooker",
"lugger",
"scalloper",
"seiner",
"shrimper",
"trawler",
"whaleboat",
"whaler",
"workboat",
"boat",
"bottom",
"craft",
"vessel",
"watercraft"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burgeon":{
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"the trout population in the stream is burgeoning now that the water is clean"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"accumulate",
"appreciate",
"balloon",
"boom",
"build up",
"climb",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"gain",
"increase",
"mount",
"multiply",
"mushroom",
"proliferate",
"rise",
"roll up",
"snowball",
"spread",
"swell",
"wax"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jump",
"rocket",
"skyrocket",
"surge",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"redouble",
"blow up",
"bulk",
"distend",
"inflate",
"puff (up)",
"crescendo",
"crest",
"peak"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contract",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"recede",
"wane"
]
},
"to grow vigorously":{
"examples":[
"the spring flowers burgeoned once the warm weather set in for good"
],
"synonyms":[
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luxuriate",
"overgrow",
"proliferate",
"shoot up",
"germinate",
"root",
"sprout",
"bloom",
"flower",
"fruit",
"produce",
"propagate",
"regenerate",
"seed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to produce flowers":{
"examples":[
"chrysanthemums usually burgeon in early fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloom",
"blossom",
"blow",
"effloresce",
"flower",
"unfold"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leaf",
"leave",
"bud",
"open"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dry up",
"fade",
"shrivel",
"wilt",
"wither",
"die",
"drop",
"expire",
"perish"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"busy":{
"involved in often constant activity":{
"examples":[
"the deadline is in two days, so everyone at work has been extremely busy"
],
"synonyms":[
"active",
"assiduous",
"bustling",
"diligent",
"employed",
"engaged",
"hopping",
"industrious",
"laborious",
"occupied",
"sedulous",
"tied-up",
"working"
],
"near synonyms":[
"knee-deep",
"swamped",
"animated",
"astir",
"buzzing",
"flourishing",
"happening",
"humming",
"lively",
"thriving",
"vibrant",
"absorbed",
"concentrating",
"engrossed",
"focused",
"focussed",
"immersed",
"intent",
"preoccupied",
"alive",
"functional",
"functioning",
"going",
"living",
"operating",
"operational",
"operative",
"running",
"energetic",
"vigorous",
"hardworking",
"indefatigable",
"tireless",
"untiring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"free",
"asleep",
"dormant",
"latent",
"lifeless",
"quiescent",
"sleepy",
"inert",
"passive",
"dead",
"dull",
"slow",
"inoperative",
"nonoperating"
],
"antonyms":[
"idle",
"inactive",
"unbusy",
"unemployed",
"unoccupied"
]
},
"marked by much life, movement, or activity":{
"examples":[
"the busy , often hectic floor of the New York Stock Exchange"
],
"synonyms":[
"aboil",
"abubble",
"abuzz",
"alive",
"animated",
"astir",
"brisk",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"flourishing",
"happening",
"hopping",
"humming",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"rousing",
"stirring",
"thriving",
"vibrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abounding",
"crowded",
"overflowing",
"populous",
"swarming",
"teeming",
"thronging"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"asleep",
"dead",
"inactive",
"lifeless",
"sleepy"
]
},
"thrusting oneself where one is not welcome or invited":{
"examples":[
"she's one of those busy production facilitators\u2014always concerned about other people's work and never her own"
],
"synonyms":[
"interfering",
"intruding",
"intrusive",
"meddlesome",
"meddling",
"nosy",
"nosey",
"obtrusive",
"officious",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"protrusive",
"prying",
"pushing",
"pushy",
"snoopy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bold",
"brazen",
"bumptious",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"rude",
"invading",
"trespassing",
"curious",
"inquisitive",
"annoying",
"harassing",
"pestiferous",
"overbearing",
"superserviceable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hands-off",
"uninvolved",
"quiet",
"reclusive",
"reserved",
"reticent",
"retiring",
"silent",
"taciturn",
"withdrawn",
"inhibited",
"restrained",
"subdued"
],
"antonyms":[
"unobtrusive"
]
},
"to hold the attention of":{
"examples":[
"the video game busied the child for hours"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorb",
"bemuse",
"catch up",
"engage",
"engross",
"enthrall",
"enthral",
"enwrap",
"fascinate",
"grip",
"immerse",
"interest",
"intrigue",
"involve",
"occupy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allure",
"attract",
"beguile",
"bewitch",
"captivate",
"charm",
"enchant",
"obsess",
"hypnotize",
"mesmerize",
"distract",
"preoccupy",
"hog",
"monopolize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bore",
"jade",
"pall",
"tire",
"weary"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bug":{
"a person with a strong and habitual liking for something":{
"examples":[
"a camera bug who loves taking candid shots at fairs and festivals"
],
"synonyms":[
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"fanatic",
"fancier",
"fiend",
"fool",
"freak",
"habitu\u00e9",
"habitue",
"head",
"hound",
"junkie",
"junky",
"lover",
"maniac",
"maven",
"mavin",
"nut",
"sucker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"groupie",
"admirer",
"amateur",
"collector",
"connoisseur",
"dilettante",
"authority",
"expert",
"adherent",
"convert",
"cultist",
"disciple",
"follower",
"hanger-on",
"votary",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"champion",
"evangelist",
"exponent",
"friend",
"patron",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"supporter",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"zealot",
"booster",
"rooter",
"well-wisher",
"faddist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonadmirer",
"belittler",
"carper",
"critic",
"detractor"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonfan"
]
},
"an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning":{
"examples":[
"I can't go to work today because I've caught some bug that's going around"
],
"synonyms":[
"affection",
"ail",
"ailment",
"complaint",
"complication",
"condition",
"disease",
"disorder",
"distemper",
"distemperature",
"fever",
"ill",
"illness",
"infirmity",
"malady",
"sickness",
"trouble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contagion",
"contagious disease",
"contagium",
"infection",
"attack",
"bout",
"fit",
"spell",
"debility",
"decrepitude",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"lameness",
"sickliness",
"unhealthiness",
"unsoundness",
"unwellness",
"weakness",
"malaise",
"matter",
"pip",
"epidemic",
"pest",
"pestilence",
"plague"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fitness",
"healthiness",
"heartiness",
"robustness",
"soundness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness",
"fettle",
"shape"
],
"antonyms":[
"health",
"wellness"
]
},
"a person having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind":{
"examples":[
"a bug with a fascination for committing arson"
],
"synonyms":[
"crackbrain",
"crazy",
"fool",
"fruitcake",
"head case",
"loon",
"loony",
"lunatic",
"maniac",
"nut",
"nutcase",
"nutter",
"psycho",
"psychopath",
"sickie",
"sicko",
"wacko",
"whacko"
],
"near synonyms":[
"madman",
"abnormal",
"deviant",
"monomaniac",
"mythomaniac",
"neurotic",
"obsessive",
"obsessive-compulsive",
"paranoid",
"psychotic",
"schizo",
"schizoid",
"schizophrenic",
"sociopath",
"character",
"codger",
"crack",
"crackpot",
"crank",
"eccentric",
"fantastic",
"flake",
"kook",
"oddball",
"oddity",
"original",
"quiz",
"screwball",
"tyke",
"tike",
"weirdo",
"zany",
"case",
"patient"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"these incessant phone calls are really starting to bug me"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"burn (up)",
"chafe",
"eat",
"exasperate",
"frost",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"gripe",
"hack (off)",
"irk",
"irritate",
"itch",
"nark",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"persecute",
"pique",
"put out",
"rasp",
"rile",
"ruffle",
"spite",
"vex"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassle",
"heckle",
"nag",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"provoke",
"rouse",
"badger",
"bait",
"bullyrag",
"ballyrag",
"devil",
"hagride",
"harass",
"harry",
"pester",
"plague",
"tease",
"anger",
"antagonize",
"enrage",
"incense",
"infuriate",
"madden",
"rankle",
"roil",
"agitate",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"exercise",
"freak (out)",
"fret",
"perturb",
"undo",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry",
"affront",
"insult",
"miff",
"offend",
"outrage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"oblige",
"pacify",
"placate",
"propitiate",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"satisfy",
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"content",
"quiet",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to thrust oneself upon (another) without invitation":{
"examples":[
"I hate to bug you, but could you help me move this table?"
],
"synonyms":[
"bother",
"chivy",
"chivvy",
"disturb",
"intrude (upon)",
"pester"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inconvenience",
"trouble",
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bedevil",
"chafe",
"devil",
"dog",
"dun",
"exasperate",
"fret",
"gall",
"get",
"gnaw",
"grate",
"hassle",
"irk",
"irritate",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"persecute",
"pique",
"put out",
"rankle",
"rasp",
"rile",
"roil",
"torment",
"vex",
"worry",
"beleaguer",
"beset",
"besiege",
"distress",
"plague",
"afflict",
"harass",
"provoke",
"anger",
"antagonize",
"enrage",
"incense",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"infuriate",
"madden",
"outrage",
"agitate",
"perturb",
"butt in",
"cut in (on)",
"obtrude",
"encroach",
"infringe",
"invade",
"trespass"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregard",
"forget",
"ignore",
"leave",
"slight",
"appease",
"conciliate",
"disarm",
"mollify",
"oblige",
"placate",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"satisfy",
"comfort",
"console",
"content"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bulking (up)":{
"to bring together in one body or place":{
"examples":[
"she bulked up her hair with one hand as she reached for the shears with the other"
],
"synonyms":[
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"assembling",
"collecting",
"concentrating",
"congregating",
"constellating",
"corralling",
"garnering",
"gathering",
"grouping",
"lumping",
"picking up",
"rounding up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balling",
"batching",
"bunching",
"clustering",
"huddling",
"heaping",
"piling",
"stacking",
"banding",
"brigading",
"mustering",
"raising",
"rallying",
"flocking",
"herding",
"hiving",
"packing",
"pressing",
"swarming",
"thronging",
"combining",
"connecting",
"joining",
"linking",
"merging",
"pooling",
"uniting",
"archiving",
"arranging",
"collating",
"compiling",
"organizing",
"systematizing",
"scraping (up or together)",
"re-collecting",
"regathering",
"regrouping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting (up)",
"dismissing",
"sending"
],
"antonyms":[
"dispelling",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"budging":{
"to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)":{
"examples":[
"despite hours of intense pressure, she refused to budge from her position"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinking",
"bowing",
"capitulating",
"conceding",
"giving in",
"knuckling under",
"quitting",
"relenting",
"submitting",
"succumbing",
"surrendering",
"yielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiescing",
"deferring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contending",
"fighting",
"holding off",
"battling",
"breasting",
"combating",
"combatting",
"confronting",
"countering",
"defying",
"facing",
"meeting",
"objecting",
"opposing",
"repelling",
"thwarting",
"withstanding"
],
"antonyms":[
"resisting"
]
},
"to change one's position":{
"examples":[
"he finally budged from his beach blanket when the tide started swirling up around him"
],
"synonyms":[
"locomoting",
"moving",
"shifting",
"stirring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddling",
"fidgeting",
"jiggling",
"squiggling",
"squirming",
"tossing",
"twitching",
"wiggling",
"wriggling",
"writhing",
"rousing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hanging around",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying",
"stabilizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"freezing",
"stilling"
]
},
"to change the place or position of":{
"examples":[
"the bureau was so heavy that two people couldn't budge it"
],
"synonyms":[
"dislocating",
"displacing",
"disturbing",
"moving",
"relocating",
"removing",
"repositioning",
"shifting",
"transferring",
"transposing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bearing",
"carrying",
"carting",
"conveying",
"driving",
"hauling",
"lugging",
"toting",
"transmitting",
"transplanting",
"transporting",
"replacing",
"superseding",
"supplanting",
"altering",
"making over",
"modifying",
"redoing",
"refashioning",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"varying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anchoring",
"fixing",
"freezing",
"mooring",
"securing",
"setting",
"stabilizing",
"embedding",
"imbedding",
"entrenching",
"intrenching",
"implanting",
"ingraining",
"engraining",
"lodging",
"rooting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buskers":{
"as in performers , players":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"entertainers",
"performers",
"players",
"troupers",
"mimes",
"mimics",
"mummers",
"pantomimes",
"pantomimists",
"apers",
"imitators",
"impersonators",
"impressionists",
"clowns",
"pantaloons"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bugs":{
"a person with a strong and habitual liking for something":{
"examples":[
"a camera bug who loves taking candid shots at fairs and festivals"
],
"synonyms":[
"addicts",
"aficionados",
"afficionados",
"buffs",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fanatics",
"fanciers",
"fans",
"fiends",
"fools",
"freaks",
"habitu\u00e9s",
"habitues",
"heads",
"hounds",
"junkies",
"lovers",
"maniacs",
"mavens",
"mavins",
"nuts",
"suckers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"groupies",
"admirers",
"amateurs",
"collectors",
"connoisseurs",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti",
"authorities",
"experts",
"adherents",
"converts",
"cultists",
"disciples",
"followers",
"hangers-on",
"votaries",
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"champions",
"evangelists",
"exponents",
"friends",
"patrons",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"supporters",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"zealots",
"boosters",
"rooters",
"well-wishers",
"faddists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonadmirers",
"belittlers",
"carpers",
"critics",
"detractors"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonfans"
]
},
"an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning":{
"examples":[
"I can't go to work today because I've caught some bug that's going around"
],
"synonyms":[
"affections",
"ailments",
"ails",
"complaints",
"complications",
"conditions",
"diseases",
"disorders",
"distemperatures",
"distempers",
"fevers",
"illnesses",
"ills",
"infirmities",
"maladies",
"sicknesses",
"troubles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contagions",
"contagious diseases",
"contagia",
"infections",
"attacks",
"bouts",
"fits",
"spells",
"debilities",
"decrepitudes",
"weaknesses",
"malaises",
"matters",
"pips",
"epidemics",
"pestilences",
"pests",
"plagues"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind":{
"examples":[
"a bug with a fascination for committing arson"
],
"synonyms":[
"crackbrains",
"crazies",
"fools",
"fruitcakes",
"head cases",
"loonies",
"loons",
"lunatics",
"maniacs",
"nutcases",
"nuts",
"nutters",
"psychopaths",
"psychos",
"sickies",
"sickos",
"wackos",
"whackos"
],
"near synonyms":[
"madmen",
"abnormals",
"deviants",
"monomaniacs",
"mythomaniacs",
"neurotics",
"obsessive-compulsives",
"obsessives",
"paranoids",
"psychotics",
"schizophrenics",
"sociopaths",
"characters",
"codgers",
"crackpots",
"cracks",
"cranks",
"eccentrics",
"fantastics",
"flakes",
"kooks",
"oddballs",
"oddities",
"originals",
"quizzes",
"screwballs",
"tykes",
"tikes",
"weirdos",
"zanies",
"cases",
"patients"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"these incessant phone calls are really starting to bug me"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"bothers",
"burns (up)",
"chafes",
"eats",
"exasperates",
"frosts",
"galls",
"gets",
"grates",
"gripes",
"hacks (off)",
"irks",
"irritates",
"itches",
"narks",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"persecutes",
"piques",
"puts out",
"rasps",
"riles",
"ruffles",
"spites",
"vexes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassles",
"heckles",
"nags",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"provokes",
"rouses",
"badgers",
"baits",
"bullyrags",
"ballyrags",
"devils",
"hagrides",
"harasses",
"harries",
"pesters",
"plagues",
"teases",
"angers",
"antagonizes",
"enrages",
"incenses",
"infuriates",
"maddens",
"rankles",
"roils",
"agitates",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"exercises",
"freaks (out)",
"frets",
"perturbs",
"undoes",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"worries",
"affronts",
"insults",
"miffs",
"offends",
"outrages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"mollifies",
"obliges",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"propitiates",
"delights",
"gladdens",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"satisfies",
"assures",
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"contents",
"quiets",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to thrust oneself upon (another) without invitation":{
"examples":[
"I hate to bug you, but could you help me move this table?"
],
"synonyms":[
"bothers",
"chivies",
"chivvies",
"disturbs",
"intrudes (upon)",
"pesters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inconveniences",
"troubles",
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"bedevils",
"chafes",
"devils",
"dogs",
"duns",
"exasperates",
"frets",
"galls",
"gets",
"gnaws",
"grates",
"hassles",
"irks",
"irritates",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"persecutes",
"piques",
"puts out",
"rankles",
"rasps",
"riles",
"roils",
"torments",
"vexes",
"worries",
"beleaguers",
"besets",
"besieges",
"distresses",
"plagues",
"afflicts",
"harasses",
"provokes",
"angers",
"antagonizes",
"enrages",
"incenses",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"infuriates",
"maddens",
"outrages",
"agitates",
"perturbs",
"butts in",
"cuts in (on)",
"obtrudes",
"encroaches",
"infringes",
"invades",
"trespasses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregards",
"forgets",
"ignores",
"leaves",
"slights",
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"disarms",
"mollifies",
"obliges",
"placates",
"delights",
"gladdens",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"satisfies",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"contents"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"burgeoning":{
"as in flourishing , flowering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blooming",
"blossoming",
"flourishing",
"flowering",
"undeveloped",
"unfinished",
"unfledged",
"unformed",
"unripe",
"unripened",
"babyish",
"childish",
"childlike",
"infantile",
"infantine",
"kiddish",
"callow",
"green",
"inexperienced",
"puerile",
"raw",
"embryonic",
"emergent",
"ephebic",
"minor",
"preteen",
"subadult",
"teenage",
"teenaged",
"underage",
"adolescent",
"immature",
"juvenile",
"young",
"youngish",
"youthful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adult",
"grown-up",
"mature",
"matured",
"aged",
"aging",
"ageing",
"ancient",
"elderly",
"geriatric",
"long-lived",
"old",
"older",
"oldish",
"senescent",
"senior",
"full-blown",
"full-fledged",
"golden",
"mellow",
"ripe",
"ripened",
"middle-aged",
"anile",
"decrepit",
"doddering",
"over-the-hill",
"senile",
"spavined",
"tottery"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"the trout population in the stream is burgeoning now that the water is clean"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"accumulating",
"appreciating",
"ballooning",
"booming",
"building up",
"climbing",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"gaining",
"increasing",
"mounting",
"multiplying",
"mushrooming",
"proliferating",
"rising",
"rolling up",
"snowballing",
"spreading",
"swelling",
"waxing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumping",
"rocketing",
"skyrocketing",
"surging",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling",
"blowing up",
"bulking",
"distending",
"inflating",
"puffing (up)",
"crescendoing",
"cresting",
"peaking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracting",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"receding",
"waning"
]
},
"to grow vigorously":{
"examples":[
"the spring flowers burgeoned once the warm weather set in for good"
],
"synonyms":[
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luxuriating",
"overgrowing",
"proliferating",
"shooting up",
"germinating",
"rooting",
"sprouting",
"blooming",
"flowering",
"fruiting",
"producing",
"propagating",
"regenerating",
"seeding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to produce flowers":{
"examples":[
"chrysanthemums usually burgeon in early fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooming",
"blossoming",
"blowing",
"efflorescing",
"flowering",
"unfolding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leafing",
"leaving",
"budding",
"opening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drying up",
"fading",
"shriveling",
"shrivelling",
"wilting",
"withering",
"dropping",
"dying",
"expiring",
"perishing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"buffed":{
"having a shiny surface or finish":{
"examples":[
"a beautiful, buffed antique table"
],
"synonyms":[
"burnished",
"glistening",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"polished",
"rubbed",
"satin",
"satiny",
"sleek"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brushed",
"eggshell",
"semigloss",
"semilustrous",
"silken",
"silky",
"slick",
"slippery",
"glassy",
"glazed",
"lacquered",
"shellacked",
"varnished",
"gleaming",
"glittering",
"reflective",
"shining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lackluster",
"unvarnished"
],
"antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"flat",
"lusterless",
"matte",
"mat",
"matt"
]
},
"to make smooth by friction":{
"examples":[
"she learned to buff semiprecious stones in order to make her own jewelry"
],
"synonyms":[
"filed",
"ground",
"honed",
"rasped",
"rubbed",
"sanded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"planed",
"scraped",
"sandblasted",
"scoured",
"burnished",
"dressed",
"glossed",
"polished",
"shone",
"shined",
"smoothed",
"edged",
"sharpened",
"stropped",
"whetted",
"reground"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarsened",
"roughed (up)",
"roughened",
"scuffed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"the janitor buffed the lobby floor until it shone"
],
"synonyms":[
"burnished",
"dressed",
"furbished",
"glossed",
"ground",
"polished",
"rubbed",
"shone",
"shined",
"smoothed",
"smoothened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleeked",
"slicked",
"coated",
"glazed",
"japanned",
"lacquered",
"varnished",
"faced",
"finished",
"veneered",
"brightened",
"filed",
"rasped",
"sandblasted",
"sanded",
"sandpapered",
"scoured",
"scraped",
"scrubbed",
"bobbed",
"boned",
"lapped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"roughed (up)",
"roughened",
"ruffled",
"scuffed (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bunching":{
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"the dress bunches a bit at the waist"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagging",
"ballooning",
"beetling",
"bellying",
"billowing",
"bulging",
"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 gather into a closely packed group":{
"examples":[
"the slow service caused the customers at the pick-up counter to bunch up"
],
"synonyms":[
"clustering",
"crowding",
"huddling",
"piling",
"pressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assembling",
"collecting",
"concentering",
"concentrating",
"conglomerating",
"congregating",
"convening",
"converging",
"flocking",
"forgathering",
"foregathering",
"herding",
"swarming",
"thronging",
"encircling",
"mobbing",
"surrounding",
"embracing",
"hugging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"dispersing",
"splitting (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bulwarking":{
"to drive danger or attack away from":{
"examples":[
"vowed to use any means necessary to bulwark the country against attack"
],
"synonyms":[
"covering",
"defending",
"fencing",
"fending",
"forfending",
"guarding",
"keeping",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"screening",
"securing",
"shielding",
"warding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averting",
"preventing",
"opposing",
"resisting",
"withstanding",
"battling",
"contending",
"fighting",
"warring",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"saving",
"buffering",
"palisading",
"picketing",
"walling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bombarding",
"storming",
"besetting",
"besieging",
"overrunning",
"capitulating",
"caving",
"submitting",
"yielding"
],
"antonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bushwhacked":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"a remote area of the park in which gangs of hoodlums have been known to bushwhack lone joggers"
],
"synonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"beset",
"charged",
"descended (on or upon)",
"jumped (on)",
"pounced (on or upon)",
"raided",
"rushed",
"set on",
"sicced",
"sicked",
"stormed",
"struck",
"trashed",
"turned (on)",
"went in (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushed",
"ganged up (on)",
"mobbed",
"swarmed",
"mugged",
"robbed",
"ambuscaded",
"ambushed",
"surprised",
"surprized",
"waylaid",
"blitzed",
"bombarded",
"bombed",
"nuked",
"barraged",
"cannonaded",
"cannoned",
"banged away (at)",
"battered",
"buffeted",
"plastered",
"beleaguered",
"besieged",
"pressed",
"harried",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravaged",
"sacked",
"forayed",
"invaded",
"overran",
"enveloped",
"flanked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covered",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"secured",
"shielded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buckled (down)":{
"as in pitched in , dug in":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"applied (oneself)",
"dug in",
"hammered (away)",
"knuckled down",
"pitched in",
"banged away",
"beavered (away)",
"drudged",
"dug (away)",
"endeavored",
"fagged",
"grubbed",
"humped",
"hustled",
"labored",
"moiled",
"pegged (away)",
"plodded",
"plowed",
"plugged",
"slaved",
"slogged",
"strained",
"strove",
"strived",
"struggled",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"toiled",
"travailed",
"tugged",
"worked",
"wrought",
"attacked",
"drove",
"essayed",
"tried",
"exercised",
"exerted",
"overexerted",
"overworked",
"eked out",
"ground (out)",
"put out",
"scrabbled",
"scratched",
"trudged",
"waded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broke",
"eased (up)",
"let up",
"slackened",
"bummed",
"chilled",
"dallied",
"dillydallied",
"footled",
"goldbricked",
"goofed (off)",
"hacked (around)",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"lazed",
"loafed",
"lounged",
"shirked",
"slacked (off)",
"vegged out",
"basked",
"lolled",
"relaxed",
"reposed",
"rested",
"unwound",
"dabbled",
"doodled",
"fooled around",
"fribbled",
"goofed (around)",
"hung",
"hanged",
"hung about",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"builds a fire under":{
"to rouse to strong feeling or action":{
"examples":[
"He was a well-known self-help guru who could build a fire under anyone to finally take those next steps."
],
"synonyms":[
"arouses",
"encourages",
"excites",
"fires (up)",
"impassions",
"incites",
"instigates",
"moves",
"piques",
"provokes",
"revs (up)",
"sparks",
"stimulates",
"stirs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fans",
"ignites",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"kindles",
"triggers",
"activates",
"animates",
"drives",
"energizes",
"galvanizes",
"induces",
"inspires",
"keys (up)",
"motivates",
"motives",
"pumps up",
"quickens",
"sets off",
"vitalizes",
"abets",
"ferments",
"foments",
"raises",
"whips (up)",
"angers",
"enrages",
"maddens",
"upsets",
"jeers",
"taunts",
"teases",
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"bothers",
"exasperates",
"galls",
"gets",
"irritates",
"vexes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"soothes",
"subdues",
"tranquilizes",
"tranquillizes",
"appeases",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"buffeted":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"fierce winds buffeted the small sailboat"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashed",
"basted",
"batted",
"battered",
"beat",
"belabored",
"belted",
"birched",
"bludgeoned",
"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"
]
},
"bushwhacker":{
"one who violently sets upon another":{
"examples":[
"bushwhackers have made that lonely stretch of road very dangerous"
],
"synonyms":[
"assailant",
"assaulter",
"attacker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mugger",
"robber",
"molester",
"predator",
"raper",
"rapist",
"ravager",
"aggressor",
"besieger",
"invader",
"raider",
"counterattacker"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bumble":{
"to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound":{
"examples":[
"a fly bumbling around the room while we were trying to sleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"burr",
"buzz",
"drone",
"hum",
"whir",
"whirr",
"whish",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chirr",
"churr",
"thrum",
"fizz",
"hiss",
"murmur",
"purr",
"rustle",
"sigh",
"sizzle",
"swish",
"whisper",
"coo",
"curr",
"wheeze",
"whistle",
"whoosh"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"accused the White House staff of bumbling the announcement of the replacement for the cabinet post"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"bobble",
"boggle",
"bollix (up)",
"boot",
"botch",
"bugger (up)",
"bungle",
"butcher",
"dub",
"flub",
"fluff",
"foozle",
"foul up",
"fumble",
"goof (up)",
"louse up",
"mangle",
"mess (up)",
"muck up",
"muff",
"murder",
"screw up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blunder",
"gum (up)",
"muddle",
"piffle",
"blemish",
"blight",
"damage",
"flaw",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"mar",
"mutilate",
"ruin",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"destroy",
"wreck",
"mishandle",
"mismanage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorate",
"better",
"enhance",
"help",
"improve",
"meliorate",
"rectify",
"refine",
"reform",
"remedy",
"doctor",
"fix",
"patch",
"recondition",
"renovate",
"repair",
"revamp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
"examples":[
"I sort of bumbled through the dance number, hoping that it would soon end"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunder",
"flog",
"flounder",
"limp",
"lumber",
"plod",
"struggle",
"stumble",
"trudge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jog",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"wallow",
"welter",
"falter",
"lurch",
"reel",
"stagger",
"sway",
"teeter",
"totter",
"fumble",
"muddle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coast",
"fly",
"glide",
"kilt",
"sail",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly":{
"examples":[
"overcome with stage fright, I could only bumble through the speech"
],
"synonyms":[
"babble",
"chat",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"drool",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"jabber",
"prattle",
"sputter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blabber",
"blather",
"bleat",
"blither",
"gab",
"jangle",
"jaw",
"patter",
"prate",
"rattle",
"run on",
"smatter",
"tittle-tattle",
"troll",
"yak",
"yack",
"chunter",
"maunder",
"mouth",
"mumble",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"stammer",
"stutter",
"screech",
"shout",
"shriek"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulate",
"enunciate",
"pronounce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burgees":{
"as in wafts , semaphores":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"semaphores",
"signalers",
"signallers",
"wafts",
"black flags",
"Jolly Rogers",
"tricolors",
"union jacks",
"white flags",
"badges",
"coats of arms",
"crests",
"insignia",
"insignias",
"buntings",
"gonfalons",
"banderoles",
"banderols",
"banners",
"colors",
"ensigns",
"flags",
"guidons",
"jacks",
"pendants",
"pendents",
"pennants",
"pennons",
"standards",
"streamers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"business":{
"transactions or economic support provided by customers":{
"examples":[
"only places that are equal opportunity employers will get my business"
],
"synonyms":[
"custom",
"patronage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"marketplace",
"trade",
"traffic",
"free trade",
"affairs",
"dealings",
"horse-trading",
"merchandising",
"retailing",
"wholesaling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a commercial or industrial activity or organization":{
"examples":[
"most of the local businesses belong to the association"
],
"synonyms":[
"company",
"concern",
"enterprise",
"establishment",
"firm",
"house",
"interest",
"outfit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conglomerate",
"corporation",
"multinational",
"association",
"cartel",
"chain",
"combine",
"syndicate",
"trust",
"agency",
"dealer",
"outlet",
"microenterprise"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something to be dealt with":{
"examples":[
"we have one piece of business remaining for today's meeting"
],
"synonyms":[
"affair",
"matter",
"thing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consideration",
"issue",
"problem",
"crisis",
"crossroad(s)",
"crunch",
"emergency",
"exigency",
"flash point",
"head",
"juncture",
"strait",
"zero hour",
"concern",
"trouble",
"worry",
"care",
"lookout",
"responsibility",
"deadlock",
"halt",
"impasse",
"stalemate",
"standstill",
"corner",
"fix",
"hole",
"hot water",
"jam",
"pickle",
"pinch",
"predicament",
"scrape",
"spot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the buying and selling of goods especially on a large scale and between different places":{
"examples":[
"this bookstore is a place of business , not a free library, so please do your reading elsewhere"
],
"synonyms":[
"commerce",
"marketplace",
"trade",
"traffic"
],
"near synonyms":[
"free trade",
"black market",
"gray market",
"dealings",
"horse-trading",
"e-tail",
"merchandising",
"retailing",
"wholesaling",
"bartering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists":{
"examples":[
"plants going about the business of photosynthesis provide the Earth with a renewable source of oxygen"
],
"synonyms":[
"capacity",
"function",
"job",
"part",
"place",
"position",
"purpose",
"role",
"r\u00f4le",
"task",
"work"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affair",
"concern",
"hand",
"involvement",
"participation",
"niche",
"office",
"post",
"situation",
"calling",
"occupation",
"pursuit",
"vocation",
"activity",
"assignment",
"charge",
"commission",
"duty",
"employ",
"mission",
"responsibility",
"service",
"use"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a region of activity, knowledge, or influence":{
"examples":[
"if you want a medical malpractice lawyer, he's the best in the business"
],
"synonyms":[
"area",
"arena",
"bailiwick",
"barony",
"circle",
"demesne",
"department",
"discipline",
"domain",
"element",
"fief",
"fiefdom",
"field",
"firmament",
"front",
"game",
"kingdom",
"line",
"precinct",
"province",
"realm",
"specialty",
"sphere",
"terrain",
"walk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frontier",
"study",
"subject",
"territory",
"turf",
"occupation",
"profession",
"pursuit",
"racket",
"vocation",
"ambit",
"amplitude",
"breadth",
"compass",
"confine",
"dimension(s)",
"extent",
"ken",
"reach",
"scope",
"sweep",
"width",
"subfield",
"subspecialty"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a specific task with which a person or group is charged":{
"examples":[
"the interrogators demanded to know what business the suspect had in the restricted area at that time of night"
],
"synonyms":[
"assignment",
"brief",
"charge",
"detail",
"job",
"mission",
"operation",
"post"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burden",
"chore",
"duty",
"need",
"obligation",
"office",
"requirement",
"responsibility",
"errand",
"labor",
"work",
"commitment",
"pledge",
"promise",
"appointment",
"commission",
"designation",
"nomination",
"compulsion",
"constraint",
"restraint"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or fact of violating the trust or confidence of another":{
"examples":[
"the price for giving the drug lord the business was certain death"
],
"synonyms":[
"backstabbing",
"betrayal",
"disloyalty",
"double cross",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"infidelity",
"perfidy",
"sellout",
"treachery",
"treason",
"two-timing",
"unfaithfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandonment",
"desertion",
"deceit",
"deception",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"guile",
"two-facedness",
"fraud",
"informing",
"lying",
"snitching",
"talebearing",
"trickery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependability",
"reliability",
"trustworthiness",
"defense",
"protection",
"safeguard",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[
"allegiance",
"devotion",
"faithfulness",
"fealty",
"fidelity",
"loyalty",
"staunchness",
"steadfastness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burrows":{
"the shelter or resting place of a wild animal":{
"examples":[
"the chipmunk retreated to its burrow to have its babies"
],
"synonyms":[
"dens",
"holes",
"houses",
"lairs",
"lodges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nests",
"territories"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in claws , grubs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"claws",
"grubs",
"dredges",
"digs in",
"digs",
"excavates",
"shovels",
"scoops",
"spades",
"delves",
"mines",
"quarries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fills (in)",
"smooths (out or over)",
"smoothes (out or over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in huddles , crouches":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"couches",
"crouches",
"huddles",
"hunches",
"hunkers (down)",
"scrunches",
"squats",
"squinches",
"curls up",
"nestles",
"snuggles",
"snugs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bunkum":{
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"a cinematic depiction of the Middle Ages that was derided as pure bunkum by historians"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"fatuity",
"foolery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"kookiness",
"lunacy",
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"madness",
"witlessness",
"hoity-toity",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"gas",
"hot air",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"double-talk",
"greek",
"hocus-pocus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bull snake":{
"as in rat snake , garter snake":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adder",
"anaconda",
"asp",
"black racer",
"blacksnake",
"blue racer",
"boa",
"bushmaster",
"chicken snake",
"cobra",
"constrictor",
"copperhead",
"coral snake",
"cottonmouth moccasin",
"diamondback rattlesnake",
"fer-de-lance",
"garter snake",
"gopher snake",
"green snake",
"hognose snake",
"horned viper",
"indigo snake",
"king cobra",
"king snake",
"krait",
"mamba",
"milk snake",
"moccasin",
"pine snake",
"pit viper",
"puff adder",
"python",
"racer",
"rat snake",
"rattlesnake",
"sea serpent",
"sea snake",
"sidewinder",
"taipan",
"water moccasin",
"water snake",
"worm snake",
"serpent",
"snake",
"viper"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burns (up)":{
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"seeing people violate smoking bans really burns me up"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"bothers",
"bugs",
"chafes",
"eats",
"exasperates",
"frosts",
"galls",
"gets",
"grates",
"gripes",
"hacks (off)",
"irks",
"irritates",
"itches",
"narks",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"persecutes",
"piques",
"puts out",
"rasps",
"riles",
"ruffles",
"spites",
"vexes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassles",
"heckles",
"nags",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"provokes",
"rouses",
"badgers",
"baits",
"bullyrags",
"ballyrags",
"devils",
"hagrides",
"harasses",
"harries",
"pesters",
"plagues",
"teases",
"angers",
"antagonizes",
"enrages",
"incenses",
"infuriates",
"maddens",
"rankles",
"roils",
"agitates",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"exercises",
"freaks (out)",
"frets",
"perturbs",
"undoes",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"worries",
"affronts",
"insults",
"miffs",
"offends",
"outrages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"mollifies",
"obliges",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"propitiates",
"delights",
"gladdens",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"satisfies",
"assures",
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"contents",
"quiets",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buccaneer":{
"someone who engages in robbery of ships at sea":{
"examples":[
"buccaneers preyed upon treasure-laden ships in the Caribbean for nearly three hundred years"
],
"synonyms":[
"corsair",
"freebooter",
"pirate",
"rover"
],
"near synonyms":[
"despoiler",
"looter",
"marauder",
"pillager",
"plunderer",
"raider",
"robber",
"privateer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bustled":{
"to be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"on Saturdays the city's downtown bustles with activity as a farmers' market sets up shop"
],
"synonyms":[
"abounded",
"brimmed",
"bristled",
"bulged",
"burst",
"bursted",
"buzzed",
"crawled",
"hummed",
"overflowed",
"pullulated",
"swarmed",
"teemed"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lacked",
"needed",
"wanted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"the hostess bustled about, taking care of last-minute preparations for the party"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"belted",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blew",
"bolted",
"bombed",
"bowled",
"breezed",
"bundled",
"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"
]
},
"bulldoze":{
"to force one's way":{
"examples":[
"bulldozed through the crowd at the arena, urgently trying to find the bathroom"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"bull",
"crash",
"elbow",
"jam",
"jostle",
"muscle",
"press",
"push",
"shoulder",
"squeeze"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ram",
"shove",
"thrust"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make timid or fearful by or as if by threats":{
"examples":[
"one of those gatherings at which high-pressure sales reps try to bulldoze naive people into buying time-shares"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"bogart",
"browbeat",
"bully",
"bullyrag",
"cow",
"hector",
"intimidate",
"strong-arm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bluster",
"trash-talk",
"affright",
"alarm",
"alarum",
"frighten",
"horrify",
"scare",
"shock",
"spook",
"startle",
"terrify",
"menace",
"terrorize",
"threaten",
"badger",
"harass",
"hound",
"bludgeon",
"coerce",
"compel",
"constrain",
"dragoon",
"force",
"make",
"oblige",
"press",
"pressure",
"push around",
"demoralize",
"psych (out)",
"unman",
"unnerve",
"discompose",
"disconcert",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"disturb",
"perturb",
"upset"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"steel",
"convince",
"persuade"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burgeoned":{
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"the trout population in the stream is burgeoning now that the water is clean"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"accumulated",
"appreciated",
"ballooned",
"boomed",
"built up",
"climbed",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"gained",
"increased",
"mounted",
"multiplied",
"mushroomed",
"proliferated",
"rolled up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"spread",
"swelled",
"waxed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumped",
"rocketed",
"skyrocketed",
"surged",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"redoubled",
"blew up",
"bulked",
"distended",
"inflated",
"puffed (up)",
"crescendoed",
"crested",
"peaked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracted",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"receded",
"waned"
]
},
"to grow vigorously":{
"examples":[
"the spring flowers burgeoned once the warm weather set in for good"
],
"synonyms":[
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luxuriated",
"overgrew",
"proliferated",
"shot up",
"germinated",
"rooted",
"sprouted",
"bloomed",
"flowered",
"fruited",
"produced",
"propagated",
"regenerated",
"seeded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to produce flowers":{
"examples":[
"chrysanthemums usually burgeon in early fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"blew",
"bloomed",
"blossomed",
"effloresced",
"flowered",
"unfolded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leafed",
"leaved",
"budded",
"opened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dried up",
"faded",
"shriveled",
"shrivelled",
"wilted",
"withered",
"died",
"dropped",
"expired",
"perished"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bumbling":{
"to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound":{
"examples":[
"a fly bumbling around the room while we were trying to sleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"burring",
"buzzing",
"droning",
"humming",
"whirring",
"whishing",
"whizzing",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chirring",
"churring",
"thrumming",
"fizzing",
"hissing",
"murmuring",
"purring",
"rustling",
"sighing",
"sizzling",
"swishing",
"whispering",
"cooing",
"curring",
"wheezing",
"whistling",
"whooshing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"accused the White House staff of bumbling the announcement of the replacement for the cabinet post"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"bobbling",
"boggling",
"bollixing (up)",
"booting",
"botching",
"buggering (up)",
"bungling",
"butchering",
"dubbing",
"flubbing",
"fluffing",
"foozling",
"fouling up",
"fumbling",
"goofing (up)",
"lousing up",
"mangling",
"messing (up)",
"mucking up",
"muffing",
"murdering",
"screwing up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blundering",
"gumming (up)",
"muddling",
"piffling",
"blemishing",
"blighting",
"damaging",
"flawing",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"marring",
"mutilating",
"ruining",
"spoiling",
"vitiating",
"destroying",
"wrecking",
"mishandling",
"mismanaging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"enhancing",
"helping",
"improving",
"meliorating",
"rectifying",
"refining",
"reforming",
"remedying",
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"patching",
"reconditioning",
"renovating",
"repairing",
"revamping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually":{
"examples":[
"I sort of bumbled through the dance number, hoping that it would soon end"
],
"synonyms":[
"blundering",
"flogging",
"floundering",
"limping",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"struggling",
"stumbling",
"trudging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jogging",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"wallowing",
"weltering",
"faltering",
"lurching",
"reeling",
"staggering",
"swaying",
"teetering",
"tottering",
"fumbling",
"muddling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coasting",
"flying",
"gliding",
"kilting",
"sailing",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly":{
"examples":[
"overcome with stage fright, I could only bumble through the speech"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbling",
"chattering",
"chatting",
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"drooling",
"gabbling",
"gibbering",
"jabbering",
"prattling",
"sputtering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blabbering",
"blathering",
"bleating",
"blithering",
"gabbing",
"jangling",
"jawing",
"pattering",
"prating",
"rattling",
"running on",
"smattering",
"tittle-tattling",
"trolling",
"yakking",
"yacking",
"chuntering",
"maundering",
"mouthing",
"mumbling",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"stammering",
"stuttering",
"screeching",
"shouting",
"shrieking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulating",
"enunciating",
"pronouncing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bubblehead":{
"a stupid person":{
"examples":[
"a murder mystery so obvious that even bubbleheads need not tax their brains"
],
"synonyms":[
"airhead",
"birdbrain",
"blockhead",
"bonehead",
"chowderhead",
"chucklehead",
"clodpoll",
"clodpole",
"clot",
"cluck",
"clunk",
"cretin",
"cuddy",
"cuddie",
"deadhead",
"dim bulb",
"dimwit",
"dip",
"dodo",
"dolt",
"donkey",
"doofus",
"dope",
"dork",
"dullard",
"dum-dum",
"dumbbell",
"dumbhead",
"dummkopf",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"dunderhead",
"fathead",
"gander",
"golem",
"goof",
"goon",
"half-wit",
"hammerhead",
"hardhead",
"idiot",
"ignoramus",
"imbecile",
"jackass",
"know-nothing",
"knucklehead",
"lamebrain",
"loggerhead",
"loon",
"lump",
"lunkhead",
"meathead",
"mome",
"moron",
"mug",
"mutt",
"natural",
"nimrod",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"ninnyhammer",
"nit",
"nitwit",
"noddy",
"noodle",
"numskull",
"numbskull",
"oaf",
"pinhead",
"prat",
"ratbag",
"saphead",
"schlub",
"shlub",
"schnook",
"simpleton",
"stock",
"stupe",
"stupid",
"thickhead",
"turkey",
"woodenhead",
"yahoo",
"yo-yo"
],
"near synonyms":[
"booby",
"buffoon",
"fool",
"goose",
"loony",
"lunatic",
"madman",
"nut",
"zany",
"loser",
"gawk",
"featherbrain",
"scatterbrain",
"beast",
"boor",
"cad",
"churl",
"clown",
"creep",
"cur",
"heel",
"jerk",
"skunk",
"snake",
"stinker",
"villain"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intellect",
"intellectual",
"sage",
"thinker",
"whiz",
"wizard",
"polymath",
"Renaissance man",
"sharpie",
"sharpy"
],
"antonyms":[
"brain",
"genius"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bummed (out)":{
"to make sad":{
"examples":[
"that sort of news really bums me out"
],
"synonyms":[
"burdened",
"dashed",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"got down",
"oppressed",
"saddened",
"weighed down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ailed",
"distressed",
"troubled",
"afflicted",
"tormented",
"tortured",
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dismayed",
"dispirited",
"unnerved",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"concerned",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"disturbed",
"exercised",
"freaked (out)",
"perturbed",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animated",
"enlivened",
"invigorated",
"assured",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed",
"excited",
"inspired",
"stimulated",
"elated",
"exhilarated",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"delighted",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"boosted",
"elevated",
"lifted",
"uplifted"
],
"antonyms":[
"brightened",
"buoyed",
"cheered (up)",
"gladdened",
"lightened",
"rejoiced"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bussing":{
"as in smacking , osculating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"French-kissing",
"lipping",
"osculating",
"smacking",
"kissing",
"smooching",
"canoodling",
"making out",
"necking",
"petting",
"spooning",
"caressing",
"embracing",
"fondling",
"hugging",
"loving",
"billing",
"cuddling",
"nestling",
"snuggling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buffoons":{
"a comically dressed performer (as at a circus) who entertains with playful tricks and ridiculous behavior":{
"examples":[
"the children at the birthday party giggled at the buffoon's silly tricks"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffi",
"buffos",
"clowns",
"harlequins",
"zanies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cutups",
"madcaps",
"antics",
"fools",
"graciosos",
"jesters",
"motleys",
"scaramouches",
"mimes",
"mimics",
"mummers",
"pantaloons",
"comedians",
"comediennes",
"comics",
"drolls",
"farceurs",
"funnymen",
"gaggers",
"gagmen",
"gagsters",
"humorists",
"jokers",
"jokesters",
"merry-andrews",
"second bananas",
"stand-ups",
"top bananas",
"wags",
"wits"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bungees":{
"as in whipcords":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"whipcords",
"guys",
"halyards",
"lanyards",
"stays",
"cables",
"cords",
"laces",
"lacings",
"lines",
"ropes",
"strings",
"wires"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"businesswomen":{
"as in businessmen , entrepreneurs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"businessmen",
"businesspersons",
"enterprisers",
"entrepreneurs",
"retailers",
"sellers",
"vendors",
"venders",
"buyers",
"marketers",
"purchasers",
"dealers",
"merchandisers",
"merchants",
"traders",
"tradesmen",
"traffickers",
"jobbers",
"middlemen",
"wholesalers",
"distributors",
"providers",
"provisioners",
"purveyors",
"suppliers",
"authors",
"begetters",
"establishers",
"fathers",
"founders",
"founding fathers",
"generators",
"inaugurators",
"initiators",
"instituters",
"institutors",
"originators",
"sires",
"factories",
"manufactories",
"mills",
"plants",
"shops",
"works",
"workshops",
"groundbreakers",
"pioneers",
"planners",
"researchers",
"researchists",
"agriculturists",
"agriculturalists",
"agronomists",
"cultivators",
"farmers",
"growers",
"planters",
"tillers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burlesquers":{
"as in satirists , caricaturists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"caricaturists",
"lampooners",
"mockers",
"parodists",
"satirists",
"imitators",
"impersonators",
"impressionists",
"mimics",
"personators",
"mimers",
"mimes",
"mummers",
"pantomimes",
"pantomimists",
"actors",
"entertainers",
"performers",
"players",
"troupers",
"apes",
"copycats",
"echoes",
"echos",
"parrots",
"rubber stamps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buoyed (up)":{
"to fill with courage or strength of purpose":{
"examples":[
"the sudden improvement in his health buoyed him up"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore up",
"bucked up",
"cheered (up)",
"chirked (up)",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"inspired",
"inspirited",
"steeled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animated",
"enlivened",
"invigorated",
"enforced",
"fortified",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"strengthened",
"assured",
"reassured",
"boosted",
"energized",
"excited",
"galvanized",
"provoked",
"quickened",
"rallied",
"stimulated",
"stirred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demoralized",
"depressed",
"saddened",
"debilitated",
"enfeebled",
"hamstrung",
"undermined",
"weakened",
"intimidated",
"psyched (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"daunted",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buck":{
"a man extremely interested in his clothing and personal appearance":{
"examples":[
"a vain buck who spends an hour before the bathroom mirror every morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"beau",
"Beau Brummell",
"dandy",
"dude",
"fop",
"gallant",
"jay",
"lounge lizard",
"macaroni",
"pretty boy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coxcomb",
"fancy Dan",
"popinjay",
"blade",
"cavalier",
"dasher",
"clotheshorse",
"exquisite",
"swell"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slob",
"sloven"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an adult male human being":{
"examples":[
"found some strong young bucks to help move her furniture"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastard",
"bloke",
"cat",
"chap",
"chappie",
"dude",
"fella",
"fellow",
"galoot",
"gent",
"gentleman",
"guy",
"hombre",
"jack",
"joe",
"joker",
"lad",
"male",
"man"
],
"near synonyms":[
"master",
"mister",
"sir",
"buddy",
"buster"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a U.S. currency bill representing 100 cents":{
"examples":[
"dropped a buck in the collection basket"
],
"synonyms":[
"bone",
"clam",
"dollar",
"one",
"smacker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"greenback",
"dead presidents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment":{
"examples":[
"hoping to win some major bucks at the slot machines"
],
"synonyms":[
"bread",
"cabbage",
"cash",
"change",
"chips",
"coin",
"currency",
"dough",
"gold",
"green",
"jack",
"kale",
"legal tender",
"lolly",
"long green",
"loot",
"lucre",
"money",
"moola",
"moolah",
"needful",
"pelf",
"scratch",
"shekels",
"sheqels",
"shekelim",
"shekalim",
"sheqalim",
"tender",
"wampum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coinage",
"specie",
"dead presidents",
"folding money",
"paper money",
"scrip",
"banknote",
"cashier's check",
"check",
"draft",
"money order",
"note",
"promissory note",
"bill",
"dollar",
"greenback",
"bankroll",
"capital",
"finances",
"funds",
"roll",
"wad",
"wallet",
"chump change",
"dibs",
"dime",
"mite",
"peanuts",
"pittance",
"shoestring",
"big bucks",
"bomb",
"boodle",
"bundle",
"earth",
"fortune",
"king's ransom",
"megabucks",
"mint",
"packet",
"pile",
"pot",
"abundance",
"means",
"opulence",
"riches",
"treasure",
"wealth",
"resources",
"wherewithal",
"mad money",
"petty cash",
"pin money",
"pocket money",
"spending money"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move or cause to move with a sharp quick motion":{
"examples":[
"the car bucked and stalled"
],
"synonyms":[
"hitch",
"hoick",
"jerk",
"jolt",
"twitch",
"yank"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bump",
"jounce",
"lurch",
"pitch",
"stagger",
"jig",
"jiggle",
"jog",
"joggle",
"shake",
"drag",
"lug",
"pull",
"tug",
"pluck",
"tweak",
"grab",
"rip",
"snap (up)",
"snatch",
"tear",
"wrench",
"wrest",
"wring"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to refuse to give in to":{
"examples":[
"bucked the trend to outdo everyone else and just wore the same clothes they had in previous years"
],
"synonyms":[
"defy",
"fight",
"oppose",
"repel",
"resist",
"withstand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battle",
"combat",
"contend (with)",
"challenge",
"contest",
"contradict",
"dispute",
"baffle",
"balk",
"foil",
"frustrate",
"thwart",
"check",
"counter",
"hinder",
"obstruct",
"stem"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"bow (to)",
"capitulate (to)",
"give in (to)",
"knuckle under (to)",
"stoop (to)",
"submit (to)",
"succumb (to)",
"surrender (to)",
"yield (to)"
]
},
"to shift possession of (something) from one person to another":{
"examples":[
"buck each box to the next person in line, and the last person will stack them in the storeroom"
],
"synonyms":[
"hand",
"hand over",
"pass",
"reach",
"transfer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"relay",
"bear",
"carry",
"finger",
"handle",
"paw",
"cede",
"deliver",
"give",
"give up",
"release",
"relinquish",
"render",
"surrender",
"turn over",
"yield"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bungle":{
"to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way":{
"examples":[
"bungled the job the first time she tried to do it"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"bobble",
"boggle",
"bollix (up)",
"boot",
"botch",
"bugger (up)",
"bumble",
"butcher",
"dub",
"flub",
"fluff",
"foozle",
"foul up",
"fumble",
"goof (up)",
"louse up",
"mangle",
"mess (up)",
"muck up",
"muff",
"murder",
"screw up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blunder",
"gum (up)",
"muddle",
"piffle",
"blemish",
"blight",
"damage",
"flaw",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"mar",
"mutilate",
"ruin",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"destroy",
"wreck",
"mishandle",
"mismanage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ameliorate",
"better",
"enhance",
"help",
"improve",
"meliorate",
"rectify",
"refine",
"reform",
"remedy",
"doctor",
"fix",
"patch",
"recondition",
"renovate",
"repair",
"revamp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in fumble , botch":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bobble",
"botch",
"fumble",
"foul-up",
"mix-up",
"blunder",
"error",
"fault",
"flub",
"goof",
"inaccuracy",
"lapse",
"miscue",
"misstep",
"mistake",
"oversight",
"slip",
"slipup",
"stumble",
"chaos",
"confusion",
"disarrangement",
"disarray",
"disorder",
"disorganization",
"hash",
"jumble",
"mess",
"muddle",
"shambles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"butts":{
"the part of the body upon which someone sits":{
"examples":[
"park your butts in the seats and keep quiet, or I'm turning this car around"
],
"synonyms":[
"backsides",
"behinds",
"booties",
"bottoms",
"breeches",
"bums",
"buns",
"buttocks",
"cabooses",
"cans",
"cheeks",
"derrieres",
"derri\u00e8res",
"duffs",
"fannies",
"fundaments",
"hams",
"haunches",
"heinies",
"hunkers",
"keisters",
"keesters",
"nates",
"posteriors",
"rear ends",
"rears",
"rumps",
"seats",
"tail ends",
"tails",
"tushes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beams",
"sterns",
"moons"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person or thing that is made fun of":{
"examples":[
"the social outcast got tired of being the butt of everyone's jokes"
],
"synonyms":[
"derisions",
"jests",
"jokes",
"laughingstocks",
"marks",
"mockeries",
"mocks",
"sports",
"targets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chumps",
"dupes",
"fall guys",
"fools",
"gulls",
"monkeys",
"pigeons",
"saps",
"suckers",
"victims"
],
"near antonyms":[
"darlings",
"favorites",
"pets"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person or thing that is the object of abuse, criticism, or ridicule":{
"examples":[
"usually the U.S. Congress is the butt of the radio commentator's scathing wit"
],
"synonyms":[
"marks",
"prey",
"preys",
"sitting ducks",
"targets",
"victims"
],
"near synonyms":[
"laughingstocks",
"mockeries",
"pilgarlics",
"lightning rods",
"fall guys",
"goats",
"scapegoats",
"whipping boys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gossipers",
"gossips",
"talebearers",
"tattlers",
"tattletales",
"troublemakers",
"defamers",
"libelers",
"libelists",
"traducers",
"baiters",
"hecklers",
"needlers",
"ribbers",
"taunters",
"teasers",
"teases",
"tormentors",
"tormenters",
"torturers",
"deriders",
"insulters",
"mockers",
"ridiculers",
"scoffers",
"scorners",
"caricaturists",
"lampooners",
"parodists",
"satirists"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages":{
"examples":[
"a butt of hard cider that we had pressed ourselves"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"casks",
"firkins",
"hogsheads",
"kegs",
"kilderkins",
"pipes",
"puncheons",
"rundlets",
"runlets",
"tuns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scuttlebutt",
"cisterns",
"tubs",
"vats",
"cans",
"drums"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in pushes , kicks":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bumps",
"jabs",
"jostles",
"kicks",
"knees",
"pokes",
"prods",
"pushes",
"shoves",
"stamps",
"bunts",
"flicks",
"strokes",
"taps",
"bowls (down or over)",
"creams",
"decks",
"dumps",
"fells",
"floors",
"knocks down",
"levels",
"scuffs",
"rabbit-punches",
"sucker punches",
"batters",
"beats",
"buffets",
"bungs",
"chops",
"cuffs",
"drubs",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"licks",
"mangles",
"mauls",
"pelts",
"peppers",
"pommels",
"pummels",
"roughs",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"flails",
"flogs",
"lashes",
"saps",
"slashes",
"sledgehammers",
"sledges",
"spears",
"stabs",
"switches",
"thrashes",
"whips",
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"belts",
"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",
"beans",
"brains",
"conks",
"skulls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bugging off":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"I wish you would just bug off and leave me alone"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailing",
"bailing out",
"booking",
"buggering off",
"bugging out",
"buzzing (off)",
"clearing off",
"clearing out",
"cutting out",
"departing",
"digging out",
"exiting",
"getting",
"getting off",
"going",
"going off",
"moving",
"packing (up or off)",
"parting",
"peeling off",
"piking (out or off)",
"pulling out",
"pushing off",
"pushing on",
"quitting",
"running along",
"sallying (forth)",
"scarpering",
"shoving (off)",
"stepping (along)",
"taking off",
"vamoosing",
"walking out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"setting out",
"starting",
"striking out",
"absconding",
"decamping",
"escaping",
"evacuating",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"getting out",
"mizzling",
"running away",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping",
"going out",
"lighting out",
"stepping out",
"abandoning",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"vacating",
"emigrating",
"adjourning",
"removing",
"retiring",
"retreating",
"withdrawing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"lodging",
"remaining",
"settling",
"staying",
"tarrying",
"approaching",
"closing",
"nearing",
"hitting",
"landing",
"reaching"
],
"antonyms":[
"arriving",
"coming",
"showing up",
"turning up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bugged out":{
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"the ground soldiers bugged out just before the start of the aerial bombing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolted",
"broke",
"fled",
"flew",
"hightailed (it)",
"ran",
"run",
"ran away",
"ran off",
"retreated",
"skedaddled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absconded",
"cleared out",
"decamped",
"eloped",
"escaped",
"got (away)",
"got out",
"lammed",
"lit",
"lighted out",
"made off",
"mizzled",
"scarpered",
"scatted",
"scrammed",
"skipped (out)",
"skirred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearded",
"braved",
"confronted",
"dared",
"defied",
"faced",
"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"hung around",
"lingered",
"remained",
"stayed",
"stuck around",
"tarried"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"the strange visitor bugged out without so much as saying a word"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailed",
"bailed out",
"booked",
"bugged off",
"buggered off",
"buzzed (off)",
"cleared off",
"cleared out",
"cut out",
"departed",
"dug out",
"exited",
"got",
"got off",
"moved",
"packed (up or off)",
"parted",
"peeled off",
"piked (out or off)",
"pulled out",
"pushed off",
"pushed on",
"quit",
"quitted",
"ran along",
"sallied (forth)",
"scarpered",
"shoved (off)",
"stepped (along)",
"took off",
"vamoosed",
"walked out",
"went",
"went off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"started",
"struck out",
"absconded",
"decamped",
"escaped",
"evacuated",
"fled",
"flew",
"got out",
"mizzled",
"ran away",
"scatted",
"scrammed",
"skipped",
"lit",
"lighted out",
"stepped out",
"went out",
"abandoned",
"deserted",
"forsook",
"vacated",
"emigrated",
"adjourned",
"removed",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"dwelled",
"dwelt",
"lodged",
"remained",
"settled",
"stayed",
"tarried",
"approached",
"closed",
"neared",
"hit",
"landed",
"reached"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrived",
"came",
"showed up",
"turned up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buyer's market":{
"as in seller's market":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"seller's market",
"bear market",
"bull market",
"call",
"demand",
"market",
"request"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buckling (down to)":{
"as in focusing (on) , concentrating (on)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"concentrating (on)",
"focusing (on)",
"focussing (on)",
"knuckling down (to)",
"zeroing (in on)",
"addressing",
"approaching",
"facing",
"falling (to)",
"pitching in",
"plunging (in)",
"settling (down)",
"attacking",
"diving (into)",
"tackling",
"wading (in or into)",
"pursuing",
"taking up",
"undertaking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"evading",
"shunning",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling",
"idling",
"lagging",
"messing",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"poking",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buds":{
"a young person who is between infancy and adulthood":{
"examples":[
"that sitcom star is still a bud , so all he needs right now are looks and personality"
],
"synonyms":[
"bairns",
"bambinos",
"bambini",
"chaps",
"chicks",
"children",
"cubs",
"juveniles",
"kiddies",
"kiddos",
"kids",
"moppets",
"sprats",
"sprat",
"sprouts",
"squirts",
"whelps",
"younglings",
"youngsters",
"youths"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adolescents",
"minors",
"kindergartners",
"kindergarteners",
"preschoolers",
"rug rats",
"schoolboys",
"schoolchildren",
"schoolgirls",
"schoolkids",
"babes",
"babies",
"bantlings",
"infants",
"neonates",
"nestlings",
"newborn",
"newborns",
"toddlers",
"tots",
"tykes",
"tikes",
"weanlings",
"devils",
"hellions",
"imps",
"jackanapeses",
"mischiefs",
"monkeys",
"rapscallions",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"urchins",
"whippersnappers",
"cherubs",
"cherubim",
"preteen-agers",
"preteens",
"subteens",
"teenagers",
"teeners",
"teens",
"teenyboppers",
"tweens",
"lads",
"nippers",
"shavers",
"striplings",
"tads",
"bobby-soxers",
"hoydens",
"tomboys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"middle-agers",
"ancients",
"elders",
"golden-agers",
"oldsters",
"old-timers",
"senior citizens",
"seniors"
],
"antonyms":[
"adults",
"grown-ups"
]
},
"as in blossoms , blooms":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blooms",
"blossoms",
"blows",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"effloresces",
"flowers",
"unfolds",
"leafs",
"leaves",
"opens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dries up",
"fades",
"shrivels",
"wilts",
"withers",
"dies",
"drops",
"expires",
"perishes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"buckeroo":{
"a hired hand who tends cattle or horses at a ranch or on the range":{
"examples":[
"a rip-roaring buckaroo of the Old West"
],
"synonyms":[
"cowboy",
"cowhand",
"cowman",
"cowpoke",
"cowpuncher",
"waddy",
"waddie",
"wrangler"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cowgirl",
"caballero",
"gaucho",
"vaquero",
"horseman",
"horsewoman",
"cattleman",
"rancher",
"stockman",
"cowherd",
"drover",
"herder",
"herdsman"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buy it":{
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"After years of ignoring his health problems, the old man finally bought it ."
],
"synonyms":[
"check out",
"conk (out)",
"croak",
"decease",
"demise",
"depart",
"die",
"drop",
"end",
"exit",
"expire",
"fall",
"flatline",
"go",
"kick in",
"kick off",
"pass (on)",
"pass away",
"part",
"peg out",
"perish",
"pop off",
"step out",
"succumb"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predecease",
"consume",
"disappear",
"dry up",
"fade",
"fail"
],
"near antonyms":[
"come to",
"revive",
"linger",
"be",
"exist",
"subsist",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathe",
"live"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"burbles":{
"as in prattles , blabbers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blabbers",
"blabs",
"blithers",
"bumbles",
"chats",
"chatters",
"drivels",
"drools",
"gabbles",
"gabs",
"gibbers",
"jabbers",
"patters",
"prates",
"prattles",
"waffles",
"sidetracks",
"deviates",
"digresses",
"strays",
"wanders",
"blathers (on)",
"goes on",
"maunders",
"rambles",
"rattles",
"runs on"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bunting":{
"as in gonfalon":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gonfalon",
"banderole",
"banderol",
"banner",
"colors",
"ensign",
"flag",
"guidon",
"jack",
"pendant",
"pendent",
"pennant",
"pennon",
"standard",
"streamer",
"black flag",
"Jolly Roger",
"tricolor",
"union jack",
"white flag",
"burgee",
"semaphore",
"signaler",
"signaller",
"waft",
"badge",
"coat of arms",
"crest",
"insignia"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in skirting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"skirting",
"plait",
"pleat",
"ruff",
"border",
"edging",
"fringe",
"trim",
"flounce",
"frill",
"furbelow",
"ruffle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in tapping , flicking":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flicking",
"stroking",
"tapping",
"scuffing",
"bumping",
"butting",
"jabbing",
"jostling",
"kicking",
"kneeing",
"poking",
"prodding",
"pushing",
"shoving",
"stamping",
"battering",
"beating",
"buffeting",
"bunging",
"chopping",
"cuffing",
"drubbing",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"mangling",
"mauling",
"pelting",
"peppering",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"roughing",
"bowling (down or over)",
"creaming",
"decking",
"dumping",
"felling",
"flooring",
"knocking down",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"banging",
"bashing",
"batting",
"belting",
"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",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bugaboos":{
"something or someone that causes fear or dread especially without reason":{
"examples":[
"doing one's tax returns is a real bugaboo for a lot of people"
],
"synonyms":[
"b\u00eates noires",
"black beasts",
"bogeys",
"bogies",
"bugbears",
"dreads",
"hobgoblins",
"ogres"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparitions",
"ghosts",
"phantasms",
"fantasms",
"phantoms",
"poltergeists",
"shades",
"specters",
"spectres",
"spirits",
"spooks",
"wraiths",
"banshees",
"bogeymen",
"bogymen",
"demons",
"daemons",
"devils",
"fiends",
"ghouls",
"imps",
"incubi",
"incubuses",
"frights",
"horribles",
"horrors",
"monsters",
"monstrosities",
"terrors",
"banes",
"curses",
"enemies",
"plagues",
"scourges",
"torments",
"abominations",
"anathemas"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buoy":{
"as in signal , sign":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"indicator",
"knell",
"sign",
"signal",
"notice",
"notification",
"foretaste",
"foretoken",
"omen",
"portent",
"premonition",
"presage",
"announcement",
"declaration",
"caution",
"red flag",
"red light",
"tip-off",
"tocsin",
"wake-up call",
"warning"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in strengthen , lift":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abet",
"boost",
"cheer",
"embolden",
"fortify",
"hearten",
"infuse",
"inspire",
"lift",
"rally",
"steel",
"strengthen",
"enkindle",
"excite",
"ferment",
"foment",
"incite",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"instigate",
"kindle",
"provoke",
"set off",
"spark",
"trigger",
"turn on",
"whip (up)",
"reactivate",
"reanimate",
"reawake",
"reawaken",
"recharge",
"recreate",
"reenergize",
"refresh",
"refreshen",
"regenerate",
"reinvigorate",
"rejuvenate",
"rekindle",
"renew",
"restimulate",
"resurrect",
"resuscitate",
"revitalize",
"revive",
"charge",
"electrify",
"galvanize",
"activate",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"motivate",
"motive",
"move",
"propel",
"arouse",
"awake",
"awaken",
"raise",
"rouse",
"stir",
"wake (up)",
"amp (up)",
"animate",
"brace",
"energize",
"enliven",
"fillip",
"fire",
"ginger (up)",
"invigorate",
"jazz (up)",
"juice up",
"jump-start",
"liven (up)",
"pep (up)",
"quicken",
"spike",
"stimulate",
"vitalize",
"vivify",
"zip (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damp",
"dampen",
"deaden",
"dull",
"kill",
"burn out",
"debilitate",
"do in",
"drain",
"enervate",
"enfeeble",
"exhaust",
"fag",
"fatigue",
"harass",
"kayo",
"knock out",
"sap",
"tucker (out)",
"undermine",
"wash out",
"weaken",
"wear",
"wear out",
"weary",
"check",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"jade",
"quell",
"quench",
"repress",
"restrain",
"slow",
"still",
"stunt",
"suppress",
"daunt",
"demoralize",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"dispirit"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in float , sail":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"drift",
"float",
"glide",
"hang",
"hover",
"poise",
"ride",
"sail",
"swim",
"waft",
"balloon",
"raft",
"bob",
"dangle",
"suspend"
],
"near antonyms":[
"settle",
"sink",
"dive",
"lunge",
"plunge",
"dip",
"immerse",
"submerge",
"submerse"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"builds up":{
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"static electricity built up on the cat's fur"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"accumulates",
"appreciates",
"balloons",
"booms",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"climbs",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"gains",
"increases",
"mounts",
"multiplies",
"mushrooms",
"proliferates",
"rises",
"rolls up",
"snowballs",
"spreads",
"swells",
"waxes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumps",
"rockets",
"skyrockets",
"surges",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"redoubles",
"blows up",
"bulks",
"distends",
"inflates",
"puffs (up)",
"crescendoes",
"crests",
"peaks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracts",
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"recedes",
"wanes"
]
},
"to gradually increase in":{
"examples":[
"the roller coaster built up momentum"
],
"synonyms":[
"gains",
"gathers",
"grows (in)",
"picks up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doubles (in)",
"triples (in)",
"accrues",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"excites",
"stimulates",
"enhances",
"enlarges",
"enriches",
"expands",
"extends",
"maximizes",
"boosts",
"elevates",
"jacks (up)",
"mounts",
"ramps (up)",
"steps up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abates",
"declines (in)",
"diminishes (in)",
"dips",
"dwindles",
"falls (in)",
"lessens",
"tapers",
"tapers off"
],
"antonyms":[
"decreases (in)",
"loses"
]
},
"to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass":{
"examples":[
"evidence that the toxic chemical builds up in the bloodstream to unhealthy levels"
],
"synonyms":[
"accretes",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"collects",
"concentrates",
"conglomerates",
"gathers",
"masses",
"piles (up)",
"stacks (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agglutinates",
"clumps",
"lumps",
"banks",
"drifts",
"ridges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disperses",
"dissipates",
"scatters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"he patiently built up his coin collection over several decades",
"the young stockbroker worked hard to build up a clientele"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"adds (to)",
"aggrandizes",
"amplifies",
"augments",
"boosts",
"compounds",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"extends",
"hypes",
"increases",
"multiplies",
"pumps up",
"raises",
"stokes",
"supersizes",
"swells",
"ups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"booms",
"jumps",
"skyrockets",
"spikes",
"bumps (up)",
"ratchets (up)",
"rachets (up)",
"blows up",
"dilates",
"distends",
"inflates",
"draws out",
"elongates",
"fleshes (out)",
"lengthens",
"prolongs",
"protracts",
"stretches",
"develops",
"enhances",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"magnifies",
"complements",
"supplements",
"beefs (up)",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"strengthens",
"maximizes",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"collects",
"follows up",
"parlays"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviates",
"abridges",
"curtails",
"shortens",
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"cuts back",
"retrenches"
],
"antonyms":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"diminishes",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"minifies",
"reduces",
"subtracts (from)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burdensome":{
"difficult to endure":{
"examples":[
"the burdensome living conditions that the early settlers had to endure"
],
"synonyms":[
"bitter",
"brutal",
"cruel",
"excruciating",
"grievous",
"grim",
"hard",
"hardhanded",
"harsh",
"heavy",
"inhuman",
"murderous",
"onerous",
"oppressive",
"rough",
"rugged",
"searing",
"severe",
"stiff",
"tough",
"trying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"austere",
"bleak",
"comfortless",
"discomforting",
"forbidding",
"inhospitable",
"spartan",
"uncomfortable",
"biting",
"inclement",
"intemperate",
"wild",
"rigorous",
"strict",
"stringent",
"agonizing",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"painful",
"wretched",
"crushing",
"grinding",
"overwhelming",
"wearing",
"insufferable",
"insupportable",
"intolerable",
"unbearable",
"unendurable",
"harrowing",
"tortuous",
"bad",
"disagreeable",
"hostile",
"unfriendly",
"unpleasant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comfortable",
"cozy",
"luxurious",
"snug",
"agreeable",
"friendly",
"genial",
"hospitable",
"pleasant",
"peaceful",
"relaxing",
"reposeful",
"restful",
"bearable",
"endurable",
"painless",
"tolerable",
"balmy",
"calm",
"clement",
"gentle",
"mild",
"moderate",
"temperate"
],
"antonyms":[
"easy",
"light",
"soft"
]
},
"requiring much time, effort, or careful attention":{
"examples":[
"the burdensome task of finishing the tax return"
],
"synonyms":[
"arduous",
"challenging",
"demanding",
"exacting",
"grueling",
"gruelling",
"killing",
"laborious",
"onerous",
"persnickety",
"taxing",
"toilsome"
],
"near synonyms":[
"difficult",
"formidable",
"hard",
"herculean",
"rough",
"rugged",
"stiff",
"strenuous",
"testing",
"tough",
"oppressive",
"trying",
"rigid",
"rigorous",
"severe",
"stern",
"strict",
"stringent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"easy",
"effortless",
"facile",
"simple",
"smooth"
],
"antonyms":[
"light",
"nondemanding",
"unchallenging",
"undemanding"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"bum (out)":{
"to make sad":{
"examples":[
"that sort of news really bums me out"
],
"synonyms":[
"burden",
"dash",
"deject",
"depress",
"get down",
"oppress",
"sadden",
"weigh down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ail",
"distress",
"trouble",
"afflict",
"torment",
"torture",
"daunt",
"demoralize",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"dismay",
"dispirit",
"unnerve",
"agitate",
"bother",
"concern",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"disturb",
"exercise",
"freak (out)",
"perturb",
"undo",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animate",
"enliven",
"invigorate",
"assure",
"comfort",
"console",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe",
"excite",
"inspire",
"stimulate",
"elate",
"exhilarate",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"delight",
"gratify",
"please",
"boost",
"elevate",
"lift",
"uplift"
],
"antonyms":[
"brighten",
"buoy",
"cheer (up)",
"gladden",
"lighten",
"rejoice"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bunkos":{
"an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of value":{
"examples":[
"they were experts at that bunco , having fleeced wide-eyed tourists for years"
],
"synonyms":[
"cons",
"fiddles",
"flimflams",
"frauds",
"hustles",
"scams",
"shell games",
"stings",
"swindles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crosses",
"fixes",
"Ponzi schemes",
"pyramid schemes",
"rackets",
"rip-offs",
"thimblerigs",
"three-card montes",
"devices",
"dodges",
"gimmicks",
"jigs",
"ploys",
"schemes",
"sleights",
"stratagems",
"tricks",
"wiles",
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"forgeries",
"hoaxes",
"humbug",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"shams"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burnt one's ears":{
"to criticize (someone) so as to correct a fault":{
"examples":[
"She burned his ears for not wearing a seatbelt."
],
"synonyms":[
"admonished",
"chid",
"chided",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproached",
"reproved",
"ticked off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"berated",
"castigated",
"chewed out",
"dressed down",
"flayed",
"harangued",
"jawed",
"keelhauled",
"lambasted",
"lectured",
"railed (at or against)",
"rated",
"scolded",
"scored",
"upbraided",
"abused",
"assailed",
"attacked",
"bad-mouthed",
"blamed",
"blasted",
"censured",
"condemned",
"criticized",
"crucified",
"denounced",
"dissed",
"excoriated",
"faulted",
"knocked",
"lashed",
"panned",
"reprehended",
"slammed",
"belittled",
"deprecated",
"disparaged",
"minimized",
"mocked",
"put down",
"derided",
"ridiculed",
"scoffed",
"scorned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"OK'd",
"okayed",
"sanctioned",
"applauded",
"extolled",
"hailed",
"lauded",
"praised",
"saluted",
"touted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"buttered up":{
"to praise too much":{
"examples":[
"a flunky who shamelessly butters up the boss"
],
"synonyms":[
"adulated",
"belauded",
"blarneyed",
"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"
]
},
"bungler":{
"someone who bungles an effort":{
"examples":[
"a hopeless bungler at fixing things around the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"blunderbuss",
"blunderer",
"botcher",
"bumbler",
"butcher",
"fumbler",
"screwup"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incompetent",
"muddler"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ace",
"adept",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"expert",
"maestro",
"master",
"virtuoso",
"wizard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bulge":{
"a part that sticks out from the general mass of something":{
"examples":[
"several bulges in the old vinyl flooring in the dingy bathroom"
],
"synonyms":[
"bunch",
"convexity",
"jut",
"overhang",
"projection",
"protrusion",
"protuberance",
"swell"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dome",
"blob",
"bump",
"dilatation",
"gibbosity",
"hump",
"knob",
"knot",
"knurl",
"lump",
"nub",
"obtrusion",
"puff",
"snag",
"swelling",
"block",
"piece",
"portion",
"section",
"enlargement",
"escalation",
"expansion",
"increase",
"hill",
"mound"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crater",
"hole",
"well",
"basin",
"bowl",
"dip",
"valley",
"furrow",
"groove",
"trench",
"trough",
"dimple",
"gouge",
"impression",
"notch",
"pocket"
],
"antonyms":[
"cavity",
"concave",
"concavity",
"dent",
"depression",
"dint",
"hollow",
"indent",
"indentation",
"indenture",
"pit",
"recess"
]
},
"the more favorable condition or position in a competition":{
"examples":[
"she got the bulge on him in the race for the statehouse"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantage",
"better",
"catbird seat",
"drop",
"edge",
"high ground",
"inside track",
"jump",
"pull",
"stead",
"upper hand",
"vantage",
"whip hand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allowance",
"head start",
"lead",
"leg up",
"margin",
"odds",
"start",
"ascendancy",
"ascendency",
"command",
"dominance",
"mastery",
"predominance",
"superiority",
"supremacy",
"transcendence",
"transcendency",
"precedence",
"preference",
"prerogative",
"privilege",
"seniority",
"break",
"foothold",
"opportunity",
"benefit",
"blessing",
"boon",
"felicity",
"godsend",
"manna",
"windfall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detriment",
"stranglehold",
"disparity",
"imbalance",
"inequality",
"unevenness",
"disability",
"failing",
"impairment",
"shortcoming",
"bar",
"catch",
"check",
"clog",
"crimp",
"embarrassment",
"hindrance",
"hitch",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"rub",
"shackle",
"stop",
"trammel",
"lurch",
"setback"
],
"antonyms":[
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"handicap",
"liability",
"minus",
"penalty",
"strike"
]
},
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"the sides of the returning camper's suitcase bulged with a month's worth of dirty laundry"
],
"synonyms":[
"bag",
"balloon",
"beetle",
"belly",
"billow",
"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 be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"this guidebook to San Francisco positively bulges with useful information"
],
"synonyms":[
"abound",
"brim",
"bristle",
"burst",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"crawl",
"hum",
"overflow",
"pullulate",
"swarm",
"teem"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lack",
"need",
"want"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"burning out":{
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"working 12-hour days at that job just burned me out"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"busting",
"doing in",
"doing up",
"draining",
"exhausting",
"fagging",
"fatiguing",
"frazzling",
"harassing",
"killing",
"knocking out",
"outwearing",
"tiring",
"tuckering (out)",
"washing out",
"wearing",
"wearing out",
"wearying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitating",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"sapping",
"wasting",
"weakening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activating",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"rejuvenating",
"strengthening",
"vitalizing",
"relaxing",
"resting",
"unwinding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"burgeons":{
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"the trout population in the stream is burgeoning now that the water is clean"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"accumulates",
"appreciates",
"balloons",
"booms",
"builds up",
"climbs",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"gains",
"increases",
"mounts",
"multiplies",
"mushrooms",
"proliferates",
"rises",
"rolls up",
"snowballs",
"spreads",
"swells",
"waxes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumps",
"rockets",
"skyrockets",
"surges",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"redoubles",
"blows up",
"bulks",
"distends",
"inflates",
"puffs (up)",
"crescendoes",
"crests",
"peaks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracts",
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"recedes",
"wanes"
]
},
"to grow vigorously":{
"examples":[
"the spring flowers burgeoned once the warm weather set in for good"
],
"synonyms":[
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luxuriates",
"overgrows",
"proliferates",
"shoots up",
"germinates",
"roots",
"sprouts",
"blooms",
"flowers",
"fruits",
"produces",
"propagates",
"regenerates",
"seeds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to produce flowers":{
"examples":[
"chrysanthemums usually burgeon in early fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooms",
"blossoms",
"blows",
"effloresces",
"flowers",
"unfolds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leafs",
"leaves",
"buds",
"opens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dries up",
"fades",
"shrivels",
"wilts",
"withers",
"dies",
"drops",
"expires",
"perishes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"butt (on or against)":{
"to be adjacent to":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"abut",
"adjoin",
"border (on)",
"flank",
"fringe",
"join",
"march (with)",
"neighbor",
"skirt",
"touch",
"verge (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attach (to)",
"communicate (with)",
"connect (with)",
"link (with)",
"bound",
"embrace",
"encircle",
"enclose",
"inclose",
"fence",
"line",
"margin",
"rim",
"surround",
"contact",
"converge",
"meet"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"busybody":{
"a person who meddles in the affairs of others":{
"examples":[
"that busybody across the street is always telling me how to tend to my own garden"
],
"synonyms":[
"buttinsky",
"buttinski",
"interferer",
"interloper",
"intermeddler",
"intruder",
"kibitzer",
"kibbitzer",
"meddler",
"nosey parker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gaper",
"gawker",
"gawper",
"gazer",
"peeper",
"peeping Tom",
"prier",
"pryer",
"rubberneck",
"rubbernecker",
"snoop",
"snooper",
"spy",
"blabber",
"discloser",
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"prattler",
"quidnunc",
"revealer",
"teller",
"betrayer",
"talebearer",
"tattler",
"tattletale",
"telltale",
"snake",
"sneak",
"informant",
"informer",
"snitcher",
"squealer",
"stool pigeon"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bushwhack":{
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"a remote area of the park in which gangs of hoodlums have been known to bushwhack lone joggers"
],
"synonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"charge",
"descend (on or upon)",
"go in (on)",
"jump (on)",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"raid",
"rush",
"set on",
"sic",
"sick",
"storm",
"strike",
"trash",
"turn (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rush",
"gang up (on)",
"mob",
"swarm",
"mug",
"rob",
"ambuscade",
"ambush",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"waylay",
"blitz",
"bomb",
"bombard",
"nuke",
"barrage",
"cannon",
"cannonade",
"bang away (at)",
"batter",
"buffet",
"plaster",
"beleaguer",
"besiege",
"press",
"harry",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"foray",
"invade",
"overrun",
"envelop",
"flank"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cover",
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"secure",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bucked up":{
"to become glad or hopeful":{
"examples":[
"buck up , kids, it's not so bad as you're making it out to be"
],
"synonyms":[
"brightened",
"cheered (up)",
"lightened",
"looked up",
"perked (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rejoiced",
"livened (up)",
"revived",
"beamed",
"glowed",
"radiated",
"sparkled",
"encouraged",
"gladdened",
"heartened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despaired",
"desponded",
"brooded",
"fretted",
"moped"
],
"antonyms":[
"darkened",
"saddened"
]
},
"to fill with courage or strength of purpose":{
"examples":[
"a surprise presidential visit to buck up the troops"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore up",
"buoyed (up)",
"cheered (up)",
"chirked (up)",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"inspired",
"inspirited",
"steeled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animated",
"enlivened",
"invigorated",
"enforced",
"fortified",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"strengthened",
"assured",
"reassured",
"boosted",
"energized",
"excited",
"galvanized",
"provoked",
"quickened",
"rallied",
"stimulated",
"stirred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demoralized",
"depressed",
"saddened",
"debilitated",
"enfeebled",
"hamstrung",
"undermined",
"weakened",
"intimidated",
"psyched (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"daunted",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bulged":{
"to extend outward beyond a usual point":{
"examples":[
"the sides of the returning camper's suitcase bulged with a month's worth of dirty laundry"
],
"synonyms":[
"bagged",
"ballooned",
"beetled",
"bellied",
"billowed",
"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 be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"this guidebook to San Francisco positively bulges with useful information"
],
"synonyms":[
"abounded",
"brimmed",
"bristled",
"burst",
"bursted",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"crawled",
"hummed",
"overflowed",
"pullulated",
"swarmed",
"teemed"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lacked",
"needed",
"wanted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buzzes (off)":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"you've outstayed your welcome, so buzz off"
],
"synonyms":[
"bails",
"bails out",
"books",
"buggers off",
"bugs off",
"bugs out",
"clears off",
"clears out",
"cuts out",
"departs",
"digs out",
"exits",
"gets",
"gets off",
"goes",
"goes off",
"moves",
"packs (up or off)",
"parts",
"peels off",
"pikes (out or off)",
"pulls out",
"pushes off",
"pushes on",
"quits",
"runs along",
"sallies (forth)",
"scarpers",
"shoves (off)",
"steps (along)",
"takes off",
"vamooses",
"walks out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sets out",
"starts",
"strikes out",
"absconds",
"decamps",
"escapes",
"evacuates",
"flees",
"flies",
"gets out",
"mizzles",
"runs away",
"scats",
"scrams",
"skips",
"goes out",
"lights out",
"steps out",
"abandons",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"vacates",
"emigrates",
"adjourns",
"removes",
"retires",
"retreats",
"withdraws"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abides",
"dwells",
"lodges",
"remains",
"settles",
"stays",
"tarries",
"approaches",
"closes",
"nears",
"hits",
"lands",
"reaches"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrives",
"comes",
"shows up",
"turns up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bullwhip":{
"as in quirt , knout":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"birch",
"blacksnake",
"cat-o'-nine-tails",
"cowhide",
"crop",
"hickory",
"knout",
"quirt",
"rattan",
"rawhide",
"strap",
"flogger",
"lash",
"scourge",
"switch",
"whip",
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"bat",
"baton",
"billy",
"billy club",
"bludgeon",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"flail",
"nightstick",
"staff"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"building (up)":{
"to become greater in extent, volume, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"static electricity built up on the cat's fur"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"accumulating",
"appreciating",
"ballooning",
"booming",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"climbing",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"gaining",
"increasing",
"mounting",
"multiplying",
"mushrooming",
"proliferating",
"rising",
"rolling up",
"snowballing",
"spreading",
"swelling",
"waxing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jumping",
"rocketing",
"skyrocketing",
"surging",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling",
"blowing up",
"bulking",
"distending",
"inflating",
"puffing (up)",
"crescendoing",
"cresting",
"peaking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"contracting",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"receding",
"waning"
]
},
"to gradually increase in":{
"examples":[
"the roller coaster built up momentum"
],
"synonyms":[
"gaining",
"gathering",
"growing (in)",
"picking up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doubling (in)",
"tripling (in)",
"accruing",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"exciting",
"stimulating",
"enhancing",
"enlarging",
"enriching",
"expanding",
"extending",
"maximizing",
"boosting",
"elevating",
"jacking (up)",
"mounting",
"ramping (up)",
"stepping up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abating",
"declining (in)",
"diminishing (in)",
"dipping",
"dwindling",
"falling (in)",
"lessening",
"tapering",
"tapering off"
],
"antonyms":[
"decreasing (in)",
"losing"
]
},
"to gradually form into a layer, pile, or mass":{
"examples":[
"evidence that the toxic chemical builds up in the bloodstream to unhealthy levels"
],
"synonyms":[
"accreting",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"collecting",
"concentrating",
"conglomerating",
"gathering",
"massing",
"piling (up)",
"stacking (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"agglutinating",
"clumping",
"lumping",
"banking",
"drifting",
"ridging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"he patiently built up his coin collection over several decades",
"the young stockbroker worked hard to build up a clientele"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"adding (to)",
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"boosting",
"compounding",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"extending",
"hyping",
"increasing",
"multiplying",
"pumping up",
"raising",
"stoking",
"supersizing",
"swelling",
"upping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"booming",
"jumping",
"skyrocketing",
"spiking",
"bumping (up)",
"ratcheting (up)",
"racheting (up)",
"blowing up",
"dilating",
"distending",
"inflating",
"drawing out",
"elongating",
"fleshing (out)",
"lengthening",
"prolonging",
"protracting",
"stretching",
"developing",
"enhancing",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"magnifying",
"complementing",
"supplementing",
"beefing (up)",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"strengthening",
"maximizing",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"collecting",
"following up",
"parlaying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"curtailing",
"shortening",
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"cutting back",
"retrenching"
],
"antonyms":[
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"minifying",
"reducing",
"subtracting (from)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"build":{
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"examples":[
"he spent hours building a model airplane from a kit"
],
"synonyms":[
"assemble",
"confect",
"construct",
"erect",
"fabricate",
"make",
"make up",
"piece",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carpenter",
"fashion",
"forge",
"frame",
"hammer",
"handcraft",
"manufacture",
"mold",
"produce",
"shape",
"prefabricate",
"begin",
"coin",
"create",
"generate",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"invent",
"originate",
"constitute",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"conceive",
"concoct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"design",
"devise",
"imagine",
"think (up)",
"reassemble",
"rebuild",
"reconstruct",
"redevelop",
"reedify",
"retrofit",
"jerry-build",
"rig (up)",
"throw up",
"combine",
"unite"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"flatten",
"level",
"pull down",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"ruin",
"ruinate",
"shatter",
"smash",
"wreck",
"blow up",
"explode",
"detach",
"disengage",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disunite",
"divide",
"separate"
],
"antonyms":[
"demount",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"dismember",
"knock down",
"strike",
"take down",
"tear down"
]
},
"the type of body that a person has":{
"examples":[
"has a slender build"
],
"synonyms":[
"constitution",
"figure",
"form",
"frame",
"habit",
"physique",
"shape"
],
"near synonyms":[
"anatomy",
"structure"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"bud":{
"a young person who is between infancy and adulthood":{
"examples":[
"that sitcom star is still a bud , so all he needs right now are looks and personality"
],
"synonyms":[
"bairn",
"bambino",
"chap",
"chick",
"child",
"cub",
"juvenile",
"kid",
"kiddie",
"kiddy",
"kiddo",
"moppet",
"sprat",
"sprout",
"squirt",
"whelp",
"youngling",
"youngster",
"youth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adolescent",
"minor",
"kindergartner",
"kindergartener",
"preschooler",
"rug rat",
"schoolboy",
"schoolchild",
"schoolgirl",
"schoolkid",
"babe",
"baby",
"bantling",
"infant",
"neonate",
"nestling",
"newborn",
"toddler",
"tot",
"tyke",
"tike",
"weanling",
"devil",
"hellion",
"imp",
"jackanapes",
"mischief",
"monkey",
"rapscallion",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"urchin",
"whippersnapper",
"cherub",
"preteen",
"preteen-ager",
"subteen",
"teen",
"teenager",
"teener",
"teenybopper",
"tween",
"lad",
"nipper",
"shaver",
"stripling",
"tad",
"bobby-soxer",
"hoyden",
"tomboy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"middle-ager",
"ancient",
"elder",
"golden-ager",
"oldster",
"old-timer",
"senior",
"senior citizen"
],
"antonyms":[
"adult",
"grown-up"
]
},
"as in blossom , bloom":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bloom",
"blossom",
"blow",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"effloresce",
"flower",
"unfold",
"leaf",
"leave",
"open"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dry up",
"fade",
"shrivel",
"wilt",
"wither",
"die",
"drop",
"expire",
"perish"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"butting":{
"as in pushing , kicking":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bumping",
"jabbing",
"jostling",
"kicking",
"kneeing",
"poking",
"prodding",
"pushing",
"shoving",
"stamping",
"bunting",
"flicking",
"stroking",
"tapping",
"bowling (down or over)",
"creaming",
"decking",
"dumping",
"felling",
"flooring",
"knocking down",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"scuffing",
"rabbit-punching",
"sucker punching",
"battering",
"beating",
"buffeting",
"bunging",
"chopping",
"cuffing",
"drubbing",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"mangling",
"mauling",
"pelting",
"peppering",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"roughing",
"caning",
"clubbing",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"flailing",
"flogging",
"lashing",
"sapping",
"slashing",
"sledgehammering",
"sledging",
"spearing",
"stabbing",
"switching",
"thrashing",
"whipping",
"banging",
"bashing",
"batting",
"belting",
"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",
"beaning",
"braining",
"conking",
"skulling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"bullyboy":{
"a person who teases, threatens, or hurts smaller, weaker, or more vulnerable persons":{
"examples":[
"residents reported on some bullyboys who were causing problems at the park"
],
"synonyms":[
"bully",
"hector",
"intimidator"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antagonist",
"enemy",
"abuser",
"baiter",
"giber",
"jiber",
"harasser",
"harrier",
"heckler",
"mocker",
"needler",
"oppressor",
"persecutor",
"ridiculer",
"taunter",
"tease",
"teaser",
"torturer",
"goon",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mug",
"punk",
"rough",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"ruffian",
"thug",
"tough",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"cutthroat",
"felon",
"gangster",
"gunman",
"mobster",
"racketeer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buzz cut":{
"as in crew cut , bob":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bob",
"crew cut",
"crop",
"fade",
"Mohawk",
"shag",
"shingle",
"trim",
"beehive",
"big hair",
"bun",
"chignon",
"French twist",
"pageboy",
"pug",
"updo",
"upsweep",
"braid",
"pigtail",
"plait",
"ponytail",
"queue",
"Afro",
"conk",
"cornrow",
"dreadlocks",
"perm",
"permanent",
"comb-over",
"ducktail",
"pompadour",
"roach",
"coiffure",
"cut",
"do",
"haircut",
"hairdo",
"hairstyle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"burning":{
"being on fire":{
"examples":[
"a firefighter must be that rare soul who rushes into a burning house, not away from it"
],
"synonyms":[
"ablaze",
"afire",
"aflame",
"alight",
"blazing",
"combusting",
"conflagrant",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"ignited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"kindled",
"lit",
"lighted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aglow",
"flaring",
"flickering",
"glowing",
"live",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"broiling",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sizzling",
"burned",
"burnt",
"charred",
"incinerated",
"scorched",
"seared",
"singed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choked",
"damped",
"dead",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"extinguished",
"quenched",
"smothered",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"suffocated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"having a notably high temperature":{
"examples":[
"a burning sauna seems like a welcome retreat after a day of shoveling snow"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardent",
"boiling",
"broiling",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"fiery",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sultry",
"superheated",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"ultrahot",
"white-hot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazing",
"glowing",
"igneous",
"molten",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"heated",
"overheated",
"reheated",
"warmed",
"snug",
"toasty",
"warm",
"warmish",
"feverish",
"flushed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"canicular",
"muggy",
"steamy",
"summerlike",
"summery",
"tropical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chill",
"chilly",
"coldish",
"cool",
"coolish",
"nippy",
"snappy",
"blizzardly",
"frosty",
"snowy",
"subfreezing",
"subzero",
"wintry",
"wintery",
"chilled",
"cooled",
"refrigerated",
"unheated",
"benumbed",
"numb",
"shivering"
],
"antonyms":[
"algid",
"arctic",
"bitter",
"bone-chilling",
"cold",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frozen",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"iced",
"icy"
]
},
"having or expressing great depth of feeling":{
"examples":[
"the burning enthusiasm of that candidate's campaign workers"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardent",
"blazing",
"charged",
"demonstrative",
"emotional",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"feverish",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"glowing",
"hot-blooded",
"impassioned",
"incandescent",
"intense",
"passional",
"passionate",
"perfervid",
"red-hot",
"religious",
"superheated",
"torrid",
"vehement",
"warm",
"warm-blooded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gushing",
"gushy",
"maudlin",
"mawkish",
"mushy",
"saccharine",
"sappy",
"schmaltzy",
"sentimental",
"sloppy",
"sugary",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"enthusiastic",
"gung ho",
"keen",
"zealous",
"enamored",
"infatuated",
"obsessed",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved",
"unrestrained",
"frenzied",
"orgiastic",
"overemotional",
"overexcited",
"overheated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"dry",
"impersonal",
"objective",
"reserved",
"undemonstrative"
],
"antonyms":[
"cold",
"cool",
"dispassionate",
"emotionless",
"impassive",
"unemotional"
]
},
"needing immediate attention":{
"examples":[
"once again the media ignored the burning issues and focused on fluff"
],
"synonyms":[
"acute",
"clamant",
"compelling",
"critical",
"crying",
"dire",
"emergent",
"exigent",
"imperative",
"imperious",
"importunate",
"instant",
"necessitous",
"pressing",
"urgent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demanding",
"extreme",
"immediate",
"insistent",
"intense",
"overriding",
"crucial",
"desperate",
"grave",
"life-and-death",
"life-or-death",
"serious",
"severe",
"vital",
"dangerous",
"explosive",
"hazardous",
"perilous",
"precarious",
"unstable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"incidental",
"low-pressure",
"minor",
"negligible",
"trivial",
"unimportant",
"nonthreatening",
"safe",
"stable"
],
"antonyms":[
"noncritical",
"nonurgent"
]
},
"to be on fire especially brightly":{
"examples":[
"all evening long we just sat there, contentedly watching the Yule log burn"
],
"synonyms":[
"blazing",
"combusting",
"flaming",
"glowing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catching",
"enkindling",
"deflagrating",
"firing",
"igniting",
"kindling",
"flaring (up)",
"lighting (up)",
"flickering",
"guttering",
"wavering",
"baking",
"broiling",
"charring",
"cooking",
"melting",
"roasting",
"scorching",
"sweltering",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"sparking",
"sputtering",
"beaming",
"brightening",
"radiating",
"beating (down)",
"flashing",
"glaring",
"gleaming",
"glimmering",
"glinting",
"glistening",
"glittering",
"scintillating",
"shimmering",
"shining",
"sparkling",
"twinkling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to set (something) on fire":{
"examples":[
"it is not a good idea to try to burn old papers in the sink"
],
"synonyms":[
"enkindling",
"firing",
"igniting",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"kindling",
"lighting",
"torching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immolating",
"deflagrating",
"charring",
"frizzling",
"scorching",
"baking",
"broiling",
"cooking",
"ashing",
"cremating",
"incinerating",
"kilning",
"setting off",
"brightening",
"illuminating",
"illumining",
"irradiating",
"lightening",
"radiating",
"scalding",
"scathing",
"searing",
"reigniting",
"rekindling",
"relighting",
"banking",
"stoking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choking",
"smothering",
"suffocating",
"stamping (out)",
"blackening",
"darkening",
"dimming",
"dulling",
"obscuring"
],
"antonyms":[
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"extinguishing",
"putting out",
"quenching",
"snuffing (out)"
]
},
"to be excited or emotionally stirred up with anger":{
"examples":[
"he came home burning with anger because of a reprimand at work"
],
"synonyms":[
"boiling",
"foaming",
"fuming",
"raging",
"rankling",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"steaming",
"storming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fulminating",
"ranting",
"raving",
"smoldering",
"smouldering",
"bristling",
"flaring (up)",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"chafing",
"fretting",
"stewing",
"agitating",
"convulsing",
"roiling",
"shaking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shine with a bright harsh light":{
"examples":[
"the bright streetlight outside our motel room burned all night long"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"blazing",
"flaming",
"flaring",
"glaring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beaming",
"glowing",
"radiating",
"flashing",
"glancing",
"gleaming",
"glimmering",
"glinting",
"glistening",
"glistering",
"glittering",
"scintillating",
"shimmering",
"sparkling",
"twinkling",
"bedazzling",
"blinding",
"dazing",
"dazzling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"he's been burned before, so he's careful to double-check such claims now"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozling",
"beguiling",
"bluffing",
"buffaloing",
"catching",
"conning",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"faking out",
"fooling",
"gaffing",
"gammoning",
"gulling",
"having",
"having on",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"hornswoggling",
"humbugging",
"juggling",
"misguiding",
"misinforming",
"misleading",
"snookering",
"snowing",
"spoofing",
"stringing along",
"suckering",
"sucking in",
"taking in",
"tricking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kidding",
"putting on",
"teasing",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"euchring",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"rooking",
"shortchanging",
"skinning",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stinging",
"swindling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunking",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing up",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"telling",
"unveiling",
"disabusing",
"disenchanting",
"disillusioning"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceiving"
]
},
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"heedlessly burning the country's resources without any concern for future generations"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbing",
"consuming",
"depleting",
"devouring",
"draining",
"drawing down",
"exhausting",
"expending",
"playing out",
"spending",
"using up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reducing",
"eating",
"using",
"bankrupting",
"cleaning (out)",
"impoverishing",
"crippling",
"debilitating",
"disabling",
"enfeebling",
"sapping",
"undermining",
"weakening",
"drying up",
"emptying",
"blowing",
"dissipating",
"frittering (away)",
"guzzling",
"lavishing",
"misspending",
"running through",
"squandering",
"throwing away",
"wasting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augmenting",
"enlarging",
"increasing",
"bolstering",
"enforcing",
"fortifying",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"strengthening",
"rebuilding",
"repairing",
"restoring",
"reviving",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"saving"
],
"antonyms":[
"renewing",
"replacing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"buttoned-up":{
"having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others":{
"examples":[
"a buttoned-up colleague who had no interest in talking about anything but work, even at parties"
],
"synonyms":[
"aloof",
"antisocial",
"asocial",
"cold",
"cold-eyed",
"cool",
"detached",
"distant",
"dry",
"frosty",
"offish",
"remote",
"standoff",
"standoffish",
"unbending",
"unclubbable",
"unsociable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"indrawn",
"introverted",
"nongregarious",
"recessive",
"reclusive",
"reserved",
"unsocial",
"withdrawn",
"misanthropic",
"apathetic",
"hard",
"indifferent",
"unconcerned",
"clinical",
"dispassionate",
"impersonal",
"professional",
"disinterested",
"incurious",
"uninterested",
"reticent",
"silent",
"taciturn",
"uncommunicative",
"diffident",
"shy",
"timid",
"cliquey",
"cliquish",
"clubbish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boon",
"clubbable",
"clubable",
"clubby",
"companionable",
"convivial",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"gregarious",
"outgoing",
"communicative",
"expansive",
"garrulous",
"talkative",
"affable",
"folksy",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"congenial",
"kindly",
"neighborly"
],
"antonyms":[
"cordial",
"friendly",
"sociable",
"social",
"warm"
]
},
"as in zipped (up)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"zipped (up)",
"barred",
"bolted",
"clasped",
"fastened",
"latched",
"locked",
"closed",
"shut"
],
"near antonyms":[
"opened",
"unclosed",
"unbarred",
"unbolted",
"unclasped",
"unfastened",
"unlatched",
"unlocked",
"unbuttoned",
"unclenched",
"unfolded",
"unfurled",
"unzipped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"bureaucrats":{
"a worker in a government agency":{
"examples":[
"the bureaucrats at the town hall seem to think that we need a building permit to build a tree house"
],
"synonyms":[
"civil servants",
"functionaries",
"mandarins",
"public servants"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clerks",
"officeholders",
"officials",
"officiaries",
"employees",
"employes",
"hands",
"hirelings",
"jobholders",
"underlings",
"workers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"bucketing":{
"to lift out with something that holds liquid":{
"examples":[
"bucketing water from the well, we raced to put out the fire"
],
"synonyms":[
"dipping",
"lading",
"ladling",
"scooping",
"spooning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bailing",
"depleting",
"draining",
"eliminating",
"emptying",
"exhausting",
"bleeding",
"drawing (off)",
"dishing",
"slopping",
"decanting",
"drawing",
"pumping",
"siphoning",
"syphoning",
"suctioning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pouring",
"filling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a series of small irregular or violent movements":{
"examples":[
"getting the troops into the bucketing landing craft proved to be challenging"
],
"synonyms":[
"agitating",
"convulsing",
"jerking",
"jiggling",
"joggling",
"jolting",
"jouncing",
"juddering",
"quaking",
"quivering",
"shaking",
"shuddering",
"vibrating",
"wobbling",
"wabbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rocking",
"swaying",
"swinging",
"chattering",
"quavering",
"shivering",
"thrilling",
"trembling",
"twitching",
"doddering",
"wavering",
"flickering",
"fluctuating",
"fluttering",
"oscillating",
"undulating",
"waving",
"beating",
"palpitating",
"pit-a-patting",
"pitter-pattering",
"pulsating",
"pulsing",
"throbbing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buoyant":{
"having or showing a good mood or disposition":{
"examples":[
"all the fans were buoyant the day after the big win in the play-offs"
],
"synonyms":[
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"bright",
"canty",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"eupeptic",
"gay",
"gladsome",
"lightsome",
"sunny",
"upbeat",
"winsome"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"rosy",
"sanguine",
"animated",
"chirpy",
"jaunty",
"lilting",
"lively",
"perky",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"carefree",
"careless",
"cavalier",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"lighthearted",
"unconcerned",
"boon",
"gleeful",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"blissful",
"delighted",
"glad",
"gratified",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"tickled",
"beaming",
"grinning",
"laughing",
"smiling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"joyless",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"unsatisfied",
"dull",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"sluggish",
"torpid",
"blue",
"brokenhearted",
"crestfallen",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"disheartened",
"down",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"droopy",
"forlorn",
"hangdog",
"heavyhearted",
"inconsolable",
"low",
"low-spirited",
"melancholy",
"mirthless",
"sorrowful"
],
"antonyms":[
"dour",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"morose",
"saturnine",
"sulky",
"sullen"
]
},
"joyously unrestrained":{
"examples":[
"gave him a buoyant hug and kiss upon meeting him at the airport"
],
"synonyms":[
"bouncy",
"bubbly",
"crank",
"effervescent",
"exuberant",
"frolic",
"frolicsome",
"gamesome",
"gay",
"high-spirited",
"vivacious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"outgoing",
"uninhibited",
"carefree",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"joyful",
"lighthearted",
"lively",
"sprightly",
"boisterous",
"raucous",
"rollicking",
"rowdy",
"giddy",
"light-headed",
"overexuberant",
"silly",
"ecstatic",
"euphoric",
"lyric",
"rapturous",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brash",
"brazen",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"saucy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constrained",
"inhibited",
"repressed",
"restrained",
"subdued",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"stolid",
"depressed",
"dour",
"glum",
"morose",
"surly"
],
"antonyms":[
"low-spirited",
"sullen"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"burglars":{
"a person who illegally enters a building in order to steal things; a person who commits burglary":{
"examples":[
"The burglar had broken into several homes in the neighborhood."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cat burglars",
"cracksmen",
"housebreakers",
"picklocks",
"safecrackers",
"larcenists",
"pinchers",
"purloiners",
"robbers",
"stealers",
"thieves",
"embezzlers",
"grafters",
"kleptomaniacs",
"kleptos",
"sneak thiefs",
"cutpurses",
"dips",
"pickpockets",
"pilferers",
"shoplifters",
"abductors",
"carjackers",
"hijackers",
"kidnappers",
"kidnapers",
"skyjackers",
"despoilers",
"looters",
"pillagers",
"plunderers",
"ransackers",
"ravishers",
"poachers",
"rustlers",
"smugglers",
"bandits",
"footpads",
"highwaymen",
"pirates",
"muggers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buoyed":{
"as in happy , buoyant":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blissful",
"buoyant",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"delighted",
"glad",
"gladdened",
"gladsome",
"gleeful",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"jubilant",
"sunny",
"upbeat",
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"enraptured",
"entranced",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"exuberant",
"exultant",
"overjoyed",
"rapturous",
"rhapsodic",
"rhapsodical",
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"jocose",
"jocular",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"lightsome",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"excited",
"thrilled",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"rosy",
"sanguine",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"jaunty",
"lively",
"peppy",
"perky",
"spirited",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy",
"content",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"beaming",
"grinning",
"laughing",
"smiling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad",
"blue",
"brokenhearted",
"cast down",
"crestfallen",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"doleful",
"down",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"down in the mouth",
"droopy",
"forlorn",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"hangdog",
"heartbroken",
"heartsick",
"heartsore",
"heavyhearted",
"inconsolable",
"joyless",
"low",
"low-spirited",
"melancholic",
"melancholy",
"miserable",
"mournful",
"sad",
"saddened",
"sorrowful",
"sorry",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"woeful",
"wretched",
"aggrieved",
"distressed",
"troubled",
"uneasy",
"unquiet",
"upset",
"worried",
"despairing",
"hopeless",
"sunk"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in strengthened , lifted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abetted",
"boosted",
"cheered",
"emboldened",
"fortified",
"heartened",
"infused",
"inspired",
"lifted",
"rallied",
"steeled",
"strengthened",
"enkindled",
"excited",
"fermented",
"fomented",
"incited",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"instigated",
"kindled",
"provoked",
"set off",
"sparked",
"triggered",
"turned on",
"whipped (up)",
"reactivated",
"reanimated",
"reawakened",
"reawoke",
"reawaked",
"recharged",
"recreated",
"reenergized",
"re-energized",
"refreshed",
"refreshened",
"regenerated",
"reinvigorated",
"rejuvenated",
"rekindled",
"renewed",
"restimulated",
"resurrected",
"resuscitated",
"revitalized",
"revived",
"charged",
"electrified",
"galvanized",
"activated",
"actuated",
"drove",
"impelled",
"motivated",
"motived",
"moved",
"propelled",
"aroused",
"awakened",
"awoke",
"awaked",
"raised",
"roused",
"stirred",
"woke (up)",
"waked (up)",
"amped (up)",
"animated",
"braced",
"energized",
"enlivened",
"filliped",
"fired",
"gingered (up)",
"invigorated",
"jazzed (up)",
"juiced up",
"jump-started",
"livened (up)",
"pepped (up)",
"quickened",
"spiked",
"stimulated",
"vitalized",
"vivified",
"zipped (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damped",
"dampened",
"deadened",
"dulled",
"killed",
"burned out",
"burnt out",
"debilitated",
"did in",
"drained",
"enervated",
"enfeebled",
"exhausted",
"fagged",
"fatigued",
"harassed",
"kayoed",
"knocked out",
"sapped",
"tuckered (out)",
"undermined",
"washed out",
"weakened",
"wearied",
"wore",
"wore out",
"checked",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"jaded",
"quelled",
"quenched",
"repressed",
"restrained",
"slowed",
"stilled",
"stunted",
"suppressed",
"daunted",
"demoralized",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in floated , sailed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"drifted",
"floated",
"glided",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged",
"poised",
"rode",
"rid",
"sailed",
"swam",
"wafted",
"ballooned",
"rafted",
"bobbed",
"dangled",
"suspended"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sank",
"sunk",
"settled",
"dived",
"dove",
"lunged",
"plunged",
"dipped",
"immersed",
"submerged",
"submersed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"butting in":{
"to interest oneself in what is not one's concern":{
"examples":[
"stop butting in on my personal life"
],
"synonyms":[
"interfering",
"interloping",
"intermeddling",
"intruding",
"meddling",
"messing",
"mucking (about or around)",
"nosing",
"obtruding",
"poking",
"prying",
"snooping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"interceding",
"interposing",
"intervening",
"barging (in)",
"chiseling (in)",
"chiselling (in)",
"encroaching",
"infringing",
"invading",
"trespassing",
"fiddling",
"fooling",
"monkeying",
"playing",
"tampering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"eschewing",
"shunning",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"buyer":{
"as in purchaser , correspondent":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"correspondent",
"purchaser",
"vendee",
"consumer",
"end user",
"user",
"browser",
"prospect",
"shopper",
"window-shopper",
"account",
"client",
"customer",
"guest",
"patron",
"punter",
"bargainer",
"haggler",
"regular"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broker",
"merchant",
"seller",
"vendor",
"vender",
"shopkeeper",
"tradesman",
"black marketer",
"black marketeer",
"fence"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"buoy (up)":{
"to fill with courage or strength of purpose":{
"examples":[
"the sudden improvement in his health buoyed him up"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear up",
"buck up",
"cheer (up)",
"chirk (up)",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"inspire",
"inspirit",
"steel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animate",
"enliven",
"invigorate",
"enforce",
"fortify",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"strengthen",
"assure",
"reassure",
"boost",
"energize",
"excite",
"galvanize",
"provoke",
"quicken",
"rally",
"stimulate",
"stir"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demoralize",
"depress",
"sadden",
"debilitate",
"enfeeble",
"hamstring",
"undermine",
"weaken",
"intimidate",
"psych (out)"
],
"antonyms":[
"daunt",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"dispirit"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}
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