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{
"publicize":{
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the city hasn't done a good job of publicizing the new regulations for its recycling operation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceal",
"hush (up)",
"silence",
"suppress",
"withhold",
"recall",
"recant",
"retract",
"revoke"
],
"related":[
"bark",
"call (off or out)",
"cry",
"bill",
"billboard",
"bulletin",
"gazette",
"knell",
"ring",
"toll",
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertise",
"announce",
"annunciate",
"blare",
"blaze",
"blazon",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"enunciate",
"flash",
"give out",
"herald",
"placard",
"post",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"publish",
"release",
"sound",
"trumpet"
]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the movie studios widely publicized their summer blockbusters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"advertise",
"bark",
"merchandise",
"merchandize",
"sell",
"push",
"acclaim",
"hail",
"laud",
"praise",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"plump (for)",
"plunk (for)",
"plonk (for)",
"recommend",
"review",
"announce",
"broadcast",
"publish"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhoo",
"boost",
"hype",
"pitch",
"plug",
"promote",
"talk up",
"tout"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"publicizing":{
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the city hasn't done a good job of publicizing the new regulations for its recycling operation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealing",
"hushing (up)",
"silencing",
"suppressing",
"withholding",
"recalling",
"recanting",
"retracting",
"revoking"
],
"related":[
"barking",
"calling (off or out)",
"crying",
"billboarding",
"billing",
"bulletining",
"gazetting",
"knelling",
"ringing",
"tolling",
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertising",
"announcing",
"annunciating",
"blaring",
"blazing",
"blazoning",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"enunciating",
"flashing",
"giving out",
"heralding",
"placarding",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"promulgating",
"publishing",
"releasing",
"sounding",
"trumpeting"
]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the movie studios widely publicized their summer blockbusters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"advertising",
"barking",
"merchandising",
"merchandizing",
"selling",
"pushing",
"acclaiming",
"hailing",
"lauding",
"praising",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"plumping (for)",
"plunking (for)",
"plonking (for)",
"recommending",
"reviewing",
"announcing",
"broadcasting",
"publishing"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhooing",
"boosting",
"hyping",
"pitching",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"talking up",
"touting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puffery":{
"information released to the media that is designed to gain public attention or support for a person, business, or cause":{
"examples":[
"the newspaper's local stories are often thinly disguised puffery for area businesses"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhoo",
"hype",
"publicity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ad",
"advertisement",
"commercial",
"message",
"plug",
"promotion",
"spot",
"word",
"banner",
"bill",
"billboard",
"placard",
"poster",
"sign",
"advertising",
"marketing",
"propaganda",
"pronouncement",
"publication",
"release",
"broadcast",
"bulletin",
"dispatch",
"newscast",
"report",
"story",
"ink",
"testimonial",
"write-up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pules":{
"to utter feeble plaintive cries":{
"examples":[
"a distressed baby puling in its crib"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleats",
"mewls",
"whimpers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fusses",
"sniffles",
"snivels",
"snuffles",
"whines",
"bawls",
"blubbers",
"blubs",
"cries",
"sobs",
"weeps",
"peeps",
"squeaks",
"yelps",
"mumbles",
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"groans",
"moans",
"sighs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"screams",
"screeches",
"shrieks",
"squeals",
"howls",
"squalls",
"wails",
"yowls",
"calls",
"caterwauls",
"squawks",
"bellows",
"roars"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pull down":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"a powerful storm pulled down the old fishing shack, which had been immortalized in countless paintings"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilate",
"cream",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"do in",
"extinguish",
"nuke",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"rub out",
"ruin",
"shatter",
"smash",
"tear down",
"total",
"vaporize",
"waste",
"wrack",
"wreck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beat",
"best",
"clobber",
"conquer",
"crush",
"defeat",
"drub",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"rout",
"scotch",
"skunk",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"thrash",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"whip",
"win (against)",
"blast",
"blow up",
"break",
"cripple",
"damage",
"deface",
"deteriorate",
"disfigure",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"dynamite",
"harm",
"impair",
"injure",
"mangle",
"mar",
"mutilate",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"erode",
"scour",
"sweep (away)",
"wash out",
"wear (away)",
"dilapidate",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"gut",
"take down",
"unbuild",
"undo",
"unmake",
"blot out",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"remove",
"root (out)",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"wipe out",
"despoil",
"havoc",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"trample",
"trash",
"vandalize",
"assassinate",
"butcher",
"cut down",
"dispatch",
"execute",
"fell",
"kill",
"kill off",
"massacre",
"mow (down)",
"murder",
"slaughter",
"slay",
"take out",
"zap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctor",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"recondition",
"repair",
"revamp",
"create",
"invent",
"assemble",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"mold",
"produce",
"shape",
"bring about",
"constitute",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"rebuild",
"reconstruct",
"remodel",
"renovate",
"restore"
],
"antonyms":[
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
]
},
"to destroy (as a building) completely by knocking down or breaking to pieces":{
"examples":[
"an ugly billboard that was eventually pulled down"
],
"synonyms":[
"demolish",
"level",
"raze",
"tear down",
"unbuild"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blow up",
"dynamite",
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"crack up",
"crush",
"dash",
"decimate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"devour",
"dissolve",
"do in",
"eradicate",
"extirpate",
"finish",
"flatten",
"obliterate",
"overturn",
"pulverize",
"ravage",
"ruin",
"scourge",
"smash",
"total",
"unmake",
"waste",
"wipe out",
"wreck"
],
"near antonyms":[
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"put up",
"raise",
"rebuild",
"renew",
"renovate",
"restore",
"create",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"make",
"manufacture",
"shape"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to receive as return for effort":{
"examples":[
"he's pulling down six figures at that job"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquire",
"attain",
"bag",
"bring in",
"capture",
"carry",
"come by",
"draw",
"earn",
"gain",
"garner",
"get",
"knock down",
"land",
"make",
"obtain",
"procure",
"realize",
"reap",
"secure",
"win"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clear",
"gross",
"net",
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"notch (up)",
"score",
"accumulate",
"amass",
"rack up",
"catch",
"pick up",
"annex",
"occupy",
"take over",
"reacquire",
"reattain",
"recapture",
"regain",
"remake"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accord",
"give",
"grant",
"pay",
"give up",
"hand over",
"part (with)",
"relinquish",
"surrender",
"yield"
],
"antonyms":[
"forfeit",
"lose"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pull out":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"the party's been fun, but it's time to pull out"
],
"synonyms":[
"bail",
"bail out",
"begone",
"book",
"bug off",
"bug out",
"bugger off",
"buzz (off)",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"dig out",
"exit",
"get",
"get off",
"go",
"go off",
"move",
"pack (up or off)",
"part",
"peel off",
"pike (out or off)",
"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"
]
},
"to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)":{
"examples":[
"the aid workers have been advised to pull out of those regions to which the conflict has spread"
],
"synonyms":[
"back away",
"drop back",
"fall back",
"recede",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flee",
"fly",
"flinch",
"recoil",
"shrink",
"chicken (out)",
"bow out",
"back down",
"backpedal",
"backtrack",
"climb down",
"detach",
"disengage",
"disentangle",
"pull away",
"abandon",
"depart",
"evacuate",
"go",
"leave",
"quit",
"vacate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"brazen",
"breast",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"outbrave"
],
"antonyms":[
"advance"
]
},
"an act of moving away especially from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable":{
"examples":[
"the civil unrest has led the company to initiate a pullout of its operations in the region"
],
"synonyms":[
"pullback",
"recession",
"retirement",
"retreat",
"withdrawal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rout",
"flinch",
"recoil",
"revulsion",
"shrinking",
"disengagement",
"disentanglement"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"advance",
"advancement"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pull round":{
"to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness":{
"examples":[
"after a week without any relapses, it became clear that she would pull round eventually"
],
"synonyms":[
"come back",
"convalesce",
"gain",
"heal",
"mend",
"rally",
"recoup",
"recover",
"recuperate",
"snap back"
],
"near synonyms":[
"come around",
"come round",
"come to",
"improve",
"pick up",
"revive",
"cheer (up)",
"perk (up)",
"pull through",
"survive",
"recruit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ail",
"collapse",
"come down",
"sicken",
"decline",
"degenerate",
"deteriorate",
"fade",
"fail",
"languish",
"sink",
"waste (away)",
"weaken",
"wilt",
"wither",
"worsen",
"regress",
"relapse"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulled down":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"a powerful storm pulled down the old fishing shack, which had been immortalized in countless paintings"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilated",
"creamed",
"decimated",
"demolished",
"desolated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"did in",
"extinguished",
"nuked",
"pulverized",
"razed",
"rubbed out",
"ruined",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"tore down",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"vaporized",
"wasted",
"wracked",
"wrecked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beat",
"bested",
"clobbered",
"conquered",
"crushed",
"defeated",
"drubbed",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"routed",
"scotched",
"skunked",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"thrashed",
"trimmed",
"triumphed (over)",
"trounced",
"walloped",
"whipped",
"won (against)",
"blasted",
"blew up",
"broke",
"crippled",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"deteriorated",
"disfigured",
"disintegrated",
"dissolved",
"dynamited",
"harmed",
"impaired",
"injured",
"mangled",
"marred",
"mutilated",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"vitiated",
"eroded",
"scoured",
"swept (away)",
"washed out",
"wore (away)",
"dilapidated",
"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"gutted",
"took down",
"unbuilt",
"undid",
"unmade",
"blotted out",
"effaced",
"eradicated",
"expunged",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"liquidated",
"obliterated",
"removed",
"rooted (out)",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"wiped out",
"despoiled",
"havocked",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravaged",
"sacked",
"trampled",
"trashed",
"vandalized",
"assassinated",
"butchered",
"cut down",
"dispatched",
"executed",
"felled",
"killed",
"killed off",
"massacred",
"mowed (down)",
"murdered",
"slaughtered",
"slew",
"took out",
"zapped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctored",
"fixed",
"mended",
"patched",
"reconditioned",
"repaired",
"revamped",
"created",
"invented",
"assembled",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"formed",
"framed",
"made",
"manufactured",
"molded",
"produced",
"shaped",
"brought about",
"constituted",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"protected",
"saved",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"remodeled",
"renovated",
"restored"
],
"antonyms":[
"built",
"constructed",
"erected",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up"
]
},
"to destroy (as a building) completely by knocking down or breaking to pieces":{
"examples":[
"an ugly billboard that was eventually pulled down"
],
"synonyms":[
"demolished",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"razed",
"tore down",
"unbuilt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blew up",
"dynamited",
"abolished",
"annihilated",
"cracked up",
"crushed",
"dashed",
"decimated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"devoured",
"did in",
"dissolved",
"eradicated",
"extirpated",
"finished",
"flattened",
"obliterated",
"overturned",
"pulverized",
"ravaged",
"ruined",
"scourged",
"smashed",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"unmade",
"wasted",
"wiped out",
"wrecked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"built",
"constructed",
"erected",
"put up",
"raised",
"rebuilt",
"renewed",
"renovated",
"restored",
"created",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"formed",
"made",
"manufactured",
"shaped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to receive as return for effort":{
"examples":[
"he's pulling down six figures at that job"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquired",
"attained",
"bagged",
"brought in",
"came by",
"captured",
"carried",
"drew",
"earned",
"gained",
"garnered",
"got",
"knocked down",
"landed",
"made",
"obtained",
"procured",
"realized",
"reaped",
"secured",
"won"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleared",
"grossed",
"netted",
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"notched (up)",
"scored",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"racked up",
"caught",
"picked up",
"annexed",
"occupied",
"took over",
"reacquired",
"reattained",
"recaptured",
"regained",
"remade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accorded",
"gave",
"granted",
"paid",
"gave up",
"handed over",
"parted (with)",
"relinquished",
"surrendered",
"yielded"
],
"antonyms":[
"forfeited",
"lost"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulling down":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"a powerful storm pulled down the old fishing shack, which had been immortalized in countless paintings"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilating",
"creaming",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"desolating",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"doing in",
"extinguishing",
"nuking",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"rubbing out",
"ruining",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"tearing down",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"vaporizing",
"wasting",
"wracking",
"wrecking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beating",
"besting",
"clobbering",
"conquering",
"crushing",
"defeating",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"routing",
"scotching",
"skunking",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"triumphing (over)",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"whipping",
"winning (against)",
"blasting",
"blowing up",
"breaking",
"crippling",
"damaging",
"defacing",
"deteriorating",
"disfiguring",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"dynamiting",
"harming",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"mangling",
"marring",
"mutilating",
"spoiling",
"vitiating",
"eroding",
"scouring",
"sweeping (away)",
"washing out",
"wearing (away)",
"dilapidating",
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"gutting",
"taking down",
"unbuilding",
"undoing",
"unmaking",
"blotting out",
"effacing",
"eradicating",
"expunging",
"exterminating",
"extirpating",
"liquidating",
"obliterating",
"removing",
"rooting (out)",
"snuffing (out)",
"stamping (out)",
"wiping out",
"despoiling",
"havocking",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"ravaging",
"sacking",
"trampling",
"trashing",
"vandalizing",
"assassinating",
"butchering",
"cutting down",
"dispatching",
"executing",
"felling",
"killing",
"killing off",
"massacring",
"mowing (down)",
"murdering",
"slaughtering",
"slaying",
"taking out",
"zapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"mending",
"patching",
"reconditioning",
"repairing",
"revamping",
"creating",
"inventing",
"assembling",
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"forming",
"framing",
"making",
"manufacturing",
"molding",
"producing",
"shaping",
"bringing about",
"constituting",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"founding",
"instituting",
"organizing",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"rebuilding",
"reconstructing",
"remodeling",
"renovating",
"restoring"
],
"antonyms":[
"building",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up"
]
},
"to destroy (as a building) completely by knocking down or breaking to pieces":{
"examples":[
"an ugly billboard that was eventually pulled down"
],
"synonyms":[
"demolishing",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"razing",
"tearing down",
"unbuilding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowing up",
"dynamiting",
"abolishing",
"annihilating",
"cracking up",
"crushing",
"dashing",
"decimating",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"devouring",
"dissolving",
"doing in",
"eradicating",
"extirpating",
"finishing",
"flattening",
"obliterating",
"overturning",
"pulverizing",
"ravaging",
"ruining",
"scourging",
"smashing",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"unmaking",
"wasting",
"wiping out",
"wrecking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"building",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rebuilding",
"renewing",
"renovating",
"restoring",
"creating",
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"forming",
"making",
"manufacturing",
"shaping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to receive as return for effort":{
"examples":[
"he's pulling down six figures at that job"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquiring",
"attaining",
"bagging",
"bringing in",
"capturing",
"carrying",
"coming by",
"drawing",
"earning",
"gaining",
"garnering",
"getting",
"knocking down",
"landing",
"making",
"obtaining",
"procuring",
"realizing",
"reaping",
"securing",
"winning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clearing",
"grossing",
"netting",
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"notching (up)",
"scoring",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"racking up",
"catching",
"picking up",
"annexing",
"occupying",
"taking over",
"reacquiring",
"reattaining",
"recapturing",
"regaining",
"remaking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"according",
"giving",
"granting",
"paying",
"giving up",
"handing over",
"parting (with)",
"relinquishing",
"surrendering",
"yielding"
],
"antonyms":[
"forfeiting",
"losing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulling off":{
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"the rebel forces pulled off a surprisingly successful offensive against the better equipped government troops"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"bringing off",
"carrying off",
"carrying out",
"committing",
"compassing",
"doing",
"executing",
"following through (with)",
"fulfilling",
"making",
"negotiating",
"performing",
"perpetrating",
"prosecuting",
"putting through"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bringing about",
"effecting",
"effectuating",
"implementing",
"acing",
"nailing",
"engaging (in)",
"practicing",
"practising",
"working (at)",
"reduplicating",
"reenacting",
"repeating",
"actualizing",
"attaining",
"realizing",
"completing",
"ending",
"finishing",
"winding up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"failing",
"skimping",
"slighting",
"slurring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulling one's leg":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"He was just pulling your leg when he said he won the lottery."
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozling",
"beguiling",
"bluffing",
"buffaloing",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pulls the wool over one's eyes":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozles",
"beguiles",
"bluffs",
"buffaloes",
"burns",
"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"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"pullulate":{
"to be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"a tough city neighborhood that has a reputation for pullulating with prostitutes and petty criminals"
],
"synonyms":[
"abound",
"brim",
"bristle",
"bulge",
"burst",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"crawl",
"hum",
"overflow",
"swarm",
"teem"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lack",
"need",
"want"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pullulating":{
"to be copiously supplied":{
"examples":[
"a tough city neighborhood that has a reputation for pullulating with prostitutes and petty criminals"
],
"synonyms":[
"abounding",
"brimming",
"bristling",
"bulging",
"bursting",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"crawling",
"humming",
"overflowing",
"swarming",
"teeming"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[
"lacking",
"needing",
"wanting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulsate":{
"to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner":{
"examples":[
"the heart muscle pulsates regularly to pump blood"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"palpitate",
"pit-a-pat",
"pitter-patter",
"pulse",
"throb"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fluctuate",
"oscillate",
"vibrate",
"quiver",
"tremble"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulse":{
"a rhythmic expanding and contracting":{
"examples":[
"his resting pulse rate is much lower than that of most men his age"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"beating",
"palpitation",
"pulsation",
"throb"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fluctuation",
"oscillation",
"vibration",
"quiver",
"tremble",
"tremor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner":{
"examples":[
"blood vessels pulsing in time with the heartbeat"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"palpitate",
"pit-a-pat",
"pitter-patter",
"pulsate",
"throb"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fluctuate",
"oscillate",
"vibrate",
"quiver",
"tremble"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pulsed":{
"to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner":{
"examples":[
"blood vessels pulsing in time with the heartbeat"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"palpitated",
"pit-a-patted",
"pitter-pattered",
"pulsated",
"throbbed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fluctuated",
"oscillated",
"vibrated",
"quivered",
"trembled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulverize":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"buildings pulverized by a killer tornado"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilate",
"cream",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"do in",
"extinguish",
"nuke",
"pull down",
"raze",
"rub out",
"ruin",
"shatter",
"smash",
"tear down",
"total",
"vaporize",
"waste",
"wrack",
"wreck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beat",
"best",
"clobber",
"conquer",
"crush",
"defeat",
"drub",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"rout",
"scotch",
"skunk",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"thrash",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"whip",
"win (against)",
"blast",
"blow up",
"break",
"cripple",
"damage",
"deface",
"deteriorate",
"disfigure",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"dynamite",
"harm",
"impair",
"injure",
"mangle",
"mar",
"mutilate",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"erode",
"scour",
"sweep (away)",
"wash out",
"wear (away)",
"dilapidate",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"gut",
"take down",
"unbuild",
"undo",
"unmake",
"blot out",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"remove",
"root (out)",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"wipe out",
"despoil",
"havoc",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"trample",
"trash",
"vandalize",
"assassinate",
"butcher",
"cut down",
"dispatch",
"execute",
"fell",
"kill",
"kill off",
"massacre",
"mow (down)",
"murder",
"slaughter",
"slay",
"take out",
"zap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctor",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"recondition",
"repair",
"revamp",
"create",
"invent",
"assemble",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"mold",
"produce",
"shape",
"bring about",
"constitute",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"rebuild",
"reconstruct",
"remodel",
"renovate",
"restore"
],
"antonyms":[
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
]
},
"to reduce to fine particles":{
"examples":[
"pulverize the cement into dust for reuse"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomize",
"beat",
"bray",
"comminute",
"crush",
"disintegrate",
"grind",
"mill",
"mull",
"pound",
"powder"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grate",
"kibble",
"crumble",
"crunch",
"break",
"bust",
"dash",
"fracture",
"fragment",
"shatter",
"smash",
"splinter",
"micronize"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pummeling":{
"as in pounding , thrashing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bashing",
"battering",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pounding",
"thrashing",
"blow",
"buffet",
"hit",
"knock",
"punch",
"rap",
"slap",
"thump",
"contact",
"encounter",
"meeting",
"touch",
"bump",
"collision",
"concussion",
"crash",
"impact",
"impingement",
"jar",
"jolt",
"jounce",
"kick",
"shock",
"slam",
"smash",
"strike",
"wallop"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"pummeled the mugger with her fists until help arrived"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashing",
"basting",
"battering",
"batting",
"beating",
"belaboring",
"belting",
"birching",
"bludgeoning",
"buffeting",
"bunging up",
"clubbing",
"currying",
"doing",
"drubbing",
"fibbing",
"flogging",
"hammering",
"hiding",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"lashing",
"lathering",
"licking",
"mauling",
"messing (up)",
"paddling",
"pelting",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pounding",
"punching out",
"roughing (up)",
"slating",
"slogging",
"switching",
"tanning",
"thrashing",
"threshing",
"thumping",
"tromping",
"walloping",
"whaling",
"whipping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping",
"working over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"boxing",
"busting",
"chopping",
"clobbering",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"cuffing",
"descending (on or upon)",
"hitting",
"jumping (on)",
"knocking",
"lamming",
"laying on",
"pasting",
"pouncing (on or upon)",
"punching",
"raiding",
"rushing",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"smacking",
"smashing",
"socking",
"spanking",
"storming",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thwacking",
"whacking",
"whamming",
"whomping",
"blackjacking",
"caning",
"cowhiding",
"flagellating",
"fustigating",
"horsewhipping",
"leathering",
"pistol-whipping",
"rawhiding",
"scourging",
"strapping",
"goring",
"lacerating",
"wounding",
"maiming",
"mangling",
"mutilating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pummels":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"pummeled the mugger with her fists until help arrived"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashes",
"bastes",
"bats",
"batters",
"beats",
"belabors",
"belts",
"birches",
"bludgeons",
"buffets",
"bungs up",
"clubs",
"curries",
"does",
"drubs",
"fibs",
"flogs",
"hammers",
"hides",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"lashes",
"lathers",
"licks",
"mauls",
"messes (up)",
"paddles",
"pelts",
"pommels",
"pounds",
"punches out",
"roughs (up)",
"slates",
"slogs",
"switches",
"tans",
"thrashes",
"threshes",
"thumps",
"tromps",
"wallops",
"whales",
"whips",
"whops",
"whaps",
"whups",
"works over"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pump":{
"to make short up-and-down movements":{
"examples":[
"the thighs of the bicyclists were pumping furiously as they neared the finish line"
],
"synonyms":[
"bob",
"bobble",
"jog",
"jounce",
"nod",
"seesaw",
"wag"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerk",
"jiggle",
"shake",
"wiggle",
"wobble",
"wabble",
"oscillate",
"rock",
"sway",
"swing",
"undulate",
"drop",
"duck"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put a series of questions to":{
"examples":[
"prying neighbors pumped the guileless child for information about the family's new pool"
],
"synonyms":[
"catechize",
"examine",
"grill",
"interrogate",
"query",
"question",
"quiz",
"sweat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debrief",
"cross-examine",
"cross-question",
"annoy",
"harass",
"hound",
"pester",
"canvass",
"canvas",
"poll"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"examples":[
"pumped water from the well"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleed",
"draft",
"drain",
"draw (off)",
"siphon",
"syphon",
"tap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"milk",
"suck",
"clear",
"empty",
"evacuate",
"exhaust",
"vacate",
"vacuate",
"void",
"decant",
"effuse",
"deplete",
"clean",
"flush",
"purge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bathe",
"douse",
"dowse",
"drench",
"soak",
"souse",
"wash",
"water",
"wet",
"deluge",
"drown",
"flood",
"inundate",
"overflow",
"submerge",
"swamp"
],
"antonyms":[
"fill"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pumps":{
"to make short up-and-down movements":{
"examples":[
"the thighs of the bicyclists were pumping furiously as they neared the finish line"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbles",
"bobs",
"jogs",
"jounces",
"nods",
"seesaws",
"wags"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerks",
"jiggles",
"shakes",
"wiggles",
"wobbles",
"wabbles",
"oscillates",
"rocks",
"sways",
"swings",
"undulates",
"drops",
"ducks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put a series of questions to":{
"examples":[
"prying neighbors pumped the guileless child for information about the family's new pool"
],
"synonyms":[
"catechizes",
"examines",
"grills",
"interrogates",
"queries",
"questions",
"quizzes",
"sweats"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debriefs",
"cross-examines",
"cross-questions",
"annoys",
"harasses",
"hounds",
"pesters",
"canvasses",
"canvases",
"polls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"examples":[
"pumped water from the well"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleeds",
"drafts",
"drains",
"draws (off)",
"siphons",
"syphons",
"taps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"milks",
"sucks",
"clears",
"empties",
"evacuates",
"exhausts",
"vacates",
"vacuates",
"voids",
"decants",
"effuses",
"depletes",
"cleans",
"flushes",
"purges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bathes",
"douses",
"dowses",
"drenches",
"soaks",
"souses",
"washes",
"waters",
"wets",
"deluges",
"drowns",
"floods",
"inundates",
"overflows",
"submerges",
"swamps"
],
"antonyms":[
"fills"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"punching out":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"you should take a course in anger management\u2014you can't go around punching out people"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashing",
"basting",
"battering",
"batting",
"beating",
"belaboring",
"belting",
"birching",
"bludgeoning",
"buffeting",
"bunging up",
"clubbing",
"currying",
"doing",
"drubbing",
"fibbing",
"flogging",
"hammering",
"hiding",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"lashing",
"lathering",
"licking",
"mauling",
"messing (up)",
"paddling",
"pelting",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"roughing (up)",
"slating",
"slogging",
"switching",
"tanning",
"thrashing",
"threshing",
"thumping",
"tromping",
"walloping",
"whaling",
"whipping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping",
"working over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"boxing",
"busting",
"chopping",
"clobbering",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"cuffing",
"descending (on or upon)",
"hitting",
"jumping (on)",
"knocking",
"lamming",
"laying on",
"pasting",
"pouncing (on or upon)",
"punching",
"raiding",
"rushing",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"smacking",
"smashing",
"socking",
"spanking",
"storming",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thwacking",
"whacking",
"whamming",
"whomping",
"blackjacking",
"caning",
"cowhiding",
"flagellating",
"fustigating",
"horsewhipping",
"leathering",
"pistol-whipping",
"rawhiding",
"scourging",
"strapping",
"goring",
"lacerating",
"wounding",
"maiming",
"mangling",
"mutilating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"punchy":{
"suffering from mental confusion":{
"examples":[
"feeling a little punchy after being up half the night with a crying baby"
],
"synonyms":[
"addle",
"addled",
"addlepated",
"bedeviled",
"befogged",
"befuddled",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"bushed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"dazed",
"distracted",
"dizzy",
"dopey",
"dopy",
"fogged",
"mixed-up",
"muddleheaded",
"muzzy",
"pixilated",
"pixillated",
"punch-drunk",
"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"
]
},
"puniness":{
"the quality or state of being little in size":{
"antonyms":[
"bigness",
"grandness",
"greatness",
"largeness",
"magnitude"
],
"examples":[
"a nagging dissatisfaction with his physical puniness drove him to become a body builder"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enormity",
"enormousness",
"grossness",
"hugeness",
"immenseness",
"immensity",
"magnitude",
"mountainousness",
"prodigiousness",
"stupendousness",
"extensiveness",
"vastness",
"excessiveness",
"extravagance",
"extremeness",
"immoderacy",
"abundance",
"ampleness",
"bountifulness",
"copiousness",
"generosity",
"healthiness",
"liberality",
"adequacy",
"sufficiency",
"heaviness",
"heftiness",
"weightiness",
"bulkiness",
"massiveness",
"voluminousness"
],
"related":[
"petiteness",
"minuteness",
"tininess",
"meagerness",
"poorness",
"scantiness",
"scantness",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"skimpiness",
"slenderness",
"slimness",
"spareness",
"sparseness",
"sparsity",
"stinginess",
"deficiency",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness"
],
"synonyms":[
"diminutiveness",
"fineness",
"littleness",
"slightness",
"smallness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"punish":{
"to inflict a penalty on for a fault or crime":{
"antonyms":[
"excuse",
"pardon",
"spare"
],
"examples":[
"the child was punished for breaking dishes on purpose",
"if caught, the thief will be severely punished"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forfeit",
"get off",
"ransom",
"release",
"commute",
"reprieve",
"absolve",
"acquit",
"exculpate",
"exonerate",
"vindicate"
],
"related":[
"assess",
"charge",
"dock",
"fine",
"impose",
"levy",
"mulct",
"convict",
"sentence",
"condemn",
"damn",
"denounce",
"criticize",
"keelhaul",
"rebuke",
"reprimand",
"reprove",
"wreak"
],
"synonyms":[
"castigate",
"chasten",
"chastise",
"correct",
"discipline",
"penalize"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"punishable":{
"as in impeachable , indictable":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"punishment":{
"suffering, loss, or hardship imposed in response to a crime or offense":{
"examples":[
"he is serving five years in prison as punishment for aggravated assault"
],
"synonyms":[
"castigation",
"chastisement",
"comeuppance",
"correction",
"desert(s)",
"discipline",
"nemesis",
"penalty",
"wrath"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reprisal",
"retaliation",
"retribution",
"revenge",
"vengeance",
"assessment",
"charge",
"fine",
"mulct",
"example",
"sentence",
"confinement",
"imprisonment",
"incarceration",
"condemnation",
"damnation",
"denouncement",
"censure",
"criticism",
"rebuke",
"reprimand",
"reproof"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amnesty",
"indemnity",
"pardon",
"parole",
"acquittal",
"exculpation",
"exoneration",
"vindication",
"exemption",
"immunity",
"impunity",
"release",
"commutation",
"reprieve",
"absolution",
"forgiveness",
"remission",
"remitment",
"condonation",
"disregard",
"overlooking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"punk":{
"falling short of a standard":{
"examples":[
"she plays a punk game of tennis, so you won't have any trouble beating her"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bastard",
"bush",
"bush-league",
"crummy",
"crumby",
"deficient",
"dissatisfactory",
"ill",
"inferior",
"lame",
"lousy",
"off",
"paltry",
"poor",
"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"
]
},
"extremely unsatisfactory":{
"examples":[
"the acting in the movie ranged all the way from poor to punk"
],
"synonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"dismal",
"execrable",
"horrible",
"lousy",
"rotten",
"sucky",
"terrible",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bad",
"deficient",
"inferior",
"off",
"poor",
"substandard",
"wanting",
"contemptible",
"miserable",
"shameful",
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"low-grade",
"mediocre",
"reprehensible",
"second-rate",
"bum",
"useless",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"abominable",
"damnable",
"fiendish",
"odious",
"vile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choice",
"excellent",
"exceptional",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"premium",
"prime",
"superior",
"adequate",
"sufficient",
"acceptable",
"satisfactory"
],
"antonyms":[
"bitchin'",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"wonderful"
]
},
"temporarily suffering from a disorder of the body":{
"examples":[
"I've been feeling punk today"
],
"synonyms":[
"ailing",
"bad",
"down",
"ill",
"indisposed",
"peaked",
"peaky",
"poorly",
"run-down",
"sick",
"sickened",
"unhealthy",
"unsound",
"unwell"
],
"near synonyms":[
"symptomatic",
"cruddy",
"lousy",
"seedy",
"sickish",
"nauseated",
"nauseous",
"qualmish",
"queasy",
"queazy",
"squeamish",
"airsick",
"carsick",
"seasick",
"dizzy",
"light-headed",
"shaky",
"woozy",
"achy",
"feverish",
"diseased",
"disordered",
"decrepit",
"feeble",
"fragile",
"frail",
"infirm",
"invalid",
"sickly",
"weak",
"weakly",
"afflicted",
"troubled",
"challenged",
"debilitated",
"disabled",
"halt",
"incapacitated",
"lame",
"hypochondriac",
"hypochondriacal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"able-bodied",
"conditioned",
"fit",
"well-conditioned",
"cured",
"better",
"convalescing",
"improved",
"mending",
"recovering",
"recuperating",
"rehabilitated",
"hardy",
"hearty",
"lusty",
"robust",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"strong",
"tough",
"blooming",
"bouncing",
"chipper",
"flourishing",
"flush",
"thriving"
],
"antonyms":[
"hale",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"sound",
"well",
"whole",
"wholesome"
]
},
"a person who is just starting out in a field of activity":{
"examples":[
"an impertinent punk who was trying to tell senior colleagues how to do their jobs"
],
"synonyms":[
"abecedarian",
"apprentice",
"babe",
"beginner",
"colt",
"cub",
"fledgling",
"freshman",
"greenhorn",
"neophyte",
"newbie",
"newcomer",
"novice",
"novitiate",
"recruit",
"rook",
"rookie",
"tenderfoot",
"tyro",
"virgin"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boot",
"amateur",
"dabbler",
"dilettante",
"learner",
"student",
"trainee",
"candidate",
"entrant",
"probationer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expert",
"master",
"pro",
"professional"
],
"antonyms":[
"old hand",
"old-timer",
"vet",
"veteran"
]
},
"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"examples":[
"the vigilante was hailed by some as a hero for standing up to the punks who had repeatedly threatened his family"
],
"synonyms":[
"bully",
"gangbanger",
"gangsta",
"gangster",
"goon",
"gorilla",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mobster",
"mug",
"plug-ugly",
"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":[]
},
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"claims made by cosmetic companies about their antiaging creams that turned out to be a lot of punk"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"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":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"puny":{
"of a size that is less than average":{
"examples":[
"a puny , wrinkled apple"
],
"synonyms":[
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
"smallish",
"subnormal",
"toylike",
"undersized",
"undersize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dwarf",
"toy",
"runtish",
"runty",
"scrubby",
"stunted",
"bitty",
"inappreciable",
"infinitesimal",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"miniaturized",
"minikin",
"minim",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pinpoint",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"weeny",
"weensy",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"bite-size",
"bite-sized",
"capsule"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"massive",
"voluminous",
"boxcar",
"Brobdingnagian",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"Himalayan",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"healthy",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"broad",
"wide",
"boundless",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"immeasurable",
"incalculable",
"infinite",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient"
],
"antonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"purchase":{
"to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for":{
"examples":[
"I need to purchase a new heavy coat"
],
"synonyms":[
"buy",
"cop",
"pick up",
"take"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquire",
"gain",
"garner",
"get",
"obtain",
"procure",
"secure",
"win",
"finance",
"pay (for)",
"spring (for)",
"barter (for)",
"deal (for)",
"dicker (over)",
"exchange (for)",
"haggle (for)",
"negotiate (about)",
"trade (for)",
"bargain (with)",
"chaffer (with)",
"horse-trade (with)",
"palter (with)",
"bid",
"offer",
"rebuy",
"repurchase"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deal (in)",
"market",
"merchandise",
"merchandize",
"retail",
"sell",
"vend"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in leverage , anchorage":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anchorage",
"leverage",
"clasp",
"clench",
"grapple",
"grasp",
"grip",
"handgrip",
"handhold",
"hold",
"grab",
"seizure",
"foothold",
"footing",
"toehold",
"clinch",
"embrace",
"hug"
],
"near antonyms":[
"release",
"relinquishment"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in sale , deal":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deal",
"sale",
"trade",
"transaction",
"bargain",
"buy",
"steal",
"garage sale",
"jumble sale",
"rummage sale",
"tag sale",
"yard sale",
"clearance",
"closeout",
"fire sale",
"auction",
"silent auction",
"haggle",
"horse-trading",
"negotiation",
"fair"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pure":{
"free from added matter":{
"antonyms":[
"adulterated",
"alloyed",
"diluted",
"impure",
"mixed"
],
"examples":[
"There is a big difference between pure maple syrup and pancake syrup made with other ingredients.",
"the solution must be kept pure for the experiment to work"
],
"near antonyms":[
"befouled",
"besmirched",
"contaminated",
"corrupted",
"debased",
"defiled",
"fouled",
"polluted",
"soiled",
"spoiled",
"sullied",
"tainted",
"unclarified",
"amalgamated",
"blended",
"coalesced",
"combined",
"commingled",
"compounded",
"incorporated",
"intermingled",
"intermixed",
"merged",
"mingled",
"conjoined",
"fused",
"joined",
"linked",
"united",
"cheapened",
"doctored",
"watered-down"
],
"related":[
"clarified",
"filtered",
"clean",
"fresh",
"taintless",
"uncontaminated",
"uncorrupted",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"untainted",
"rendered",
"tried",
"concentrated",
"full-bodied",
"strong",
"uncombined"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"fine",
"neat",
"plain",
"purified",
"refined",
"straight",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"undiluted",
"unmixed"
]
},
"free from any trace of the coarse or indecent":{
"antonyms":[
"coarse",
"dirty",
"filthy",
"immodest",
"impure",
"indecent",
"obscene",
"smutty",
"unchaste",
"unclean",
"vulgar"
],
"examples":[
"the humor in the movie is as pure and wholesome as any parent could wish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemished",
"defiled",
"soiled",
"spotted",
"stained",
"sullied",
"tainted",
"tarnished",
"improper",
"indecorous",
"indelicate",
"ribald",
"unseemly",
"crude",
"tacky",
"tasteless",
"unrefined"
],
"related":[
"lily-white",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"unblemished",
"undefiled",
"unsoiled",
"unspotted",
"unstained",
"unsullied",
"untainted",
"untarnished",
"decorous",
"proper",
"seemly",
"cultivated",
"refined",
"tasteful",
"harmless",
"innocent",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaste",
"clean",
"decent",
"G-rated",
"immaculate",
"modest",
"vestal",
"virgin",
"virginal"
]
},
"free from sin":{
"antonyms":[
"impure",
"peccant",
"sinful",
"sinning"
],
"examples":[
"in one beatitude those who are pure in heart are promised the sight of God"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lascivious",
"lecherous",
"lewd",
"libidinous",
"lickerish",
"lustful",
"oversexed",
"unchaste",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"reprobate",
"unrighteous",
"virtueless",
"wicked",
"corrupt",
"debased",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"depraved",
"dissolute",
"erring",
"fallen",
"lost",
"perverted",
"condemned",
"damned"
],
"related":[
"chaste",
"moral",
"virgin",
"virtuous",
"immaculate",
"spotless",
"unblemished",
"unstained",
"unsullied",
"decent",
"ethical",
"good",
"honest",
"honorable",
"righteous",
"upright",
"virtuous",
"blameless",
"guiltless"
],
"synonyms":[
"impeccable",
"innocent",
"sinless",
"white"
]
},
"having no exceptions or restrictions":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"that story is pure nonsense"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"equivocal",
"qualified",
"questionable",
"restricted",
"uncertain"
],
"related":[
"authentic",
"classic",
"genuine",
"real",
"veritable",
"constant",
"endless",
"eternal",
"perpetual",
"undying",
"unremitting",
"extreme",
"unrestricted",
"confirmed",
"habitual",
"hopeless",
"inveterate",
"extraordinary",
"frightful",
"horrible",
"huge",
"main",
"superlative",
"supreme",
"surpassing",
"terrible",
"terrific"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"all-out",
"arrant",
"blank",
"blooming",
"bodacious",
"categorical",
"categoric",
"clean",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crashing",
"damn",
"damned",
"dead",
"deadly",
"definite",
"downright",
"dreadful",
"fair",
"flat",
"flat-out",
"out-and-out",
"outright",
"perfect",
"plumb",
"profound",
"rank",
"regular",
"sheer",
"simple",
"stark",
"stone",
"straight-out",
"thorough",
"thoroughgoing",
"total",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"unconditional",
"unmitigated",
"unqualified",
"utter",
"very"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"purebred":{
"of unmixed ancestry":{
"examples":[
"that horse is a purebred Arabian"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooded",
"full-blood",
"full-blooded",
"pedigreed",
"pedigree",
"pure-blooded",
"pure-blood",
"thoroughbred"
],
"near synonyms":[
"well-bred",
"inbred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crossbred",
"crossed",
"half-blood",
"half-blooded",
"half-bred",
"hybridized",
"interbred",
"outcrossed"
],
"antonyms":[
"hybrid",
"mixed",
"mongrel"
]
},
"as in thoroughbred , pureblood":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"full-blood",
"pureblood",
"thoroughbred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cross",
"crossbred",
"crossbreed",
"hybrid",
"intercross",
"mongrel",
"mule",
"outcross"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"puree":{
"as in slice , mash":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purifies":{
"to free from moral guilt or blemish especially ceremonially":{
"examples":[
"Catholics go to confession to be purified"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleanses",
"purges",
"sanctifies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amends",
"improves",
"refines",
"heals",
"regenerates",
"restores",
"elevates",
"ennobles",
"uplifts",
"absolves",
"acquits",
"clears",
"exonerates",
"vindicates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corrupts",
"debases",
"debauches",
"defiles",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"depraves",
"perverts",
"stains",
"warps",
"poisons",
"profanes",
"prostitutes",
"sullies",
"tarnishes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove usually visible impurities from":{
"examples":[
"purify the water by distillation"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarifies",
"clears",
"distills",
"distils",
"filters",
"fines",
"garbles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"processes",
"rectifies",
"refines",
"cleans",
"cleanses",
"decontaminates",
"elutriates",
"purges",
"washes",
"extracts",
"leaches",
"bolts",
"screens",
"sieves",
"sifts",
"disinfects",
"sanitizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clouds",
"dulls",
"muddies",
"contaminates",
"dirties",
"soils",
"defiles",
"pollutes",
"taints",
"begrimes",
"besmirches",
"fouls",
"sullies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purifying":{
"as in cathartic , cleansing":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to free from moral guilt or blemish especially ceremonially":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Catholics go to confession to be purified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corrupting",
"debasing",
"debauching",
"defiling",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"depraving",
"perverting",
"staining",
"warping",
"poisoning",
"profaning",
"prostituting",
"sullying",
"tarnishing"
],
"related":[
"amending",
"improving",
"refining",
"healing",
"regenerating",
"restoring",
"elevating",
"ennobling",
"uplifting",
"absolving",
"acquitting",
"clearing",
"exonerating",
"vindicating"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleansing",
"purging",
"sanctifying"
]
},
"to remove usually visible impurities from":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"purify the water by distillation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clouding",
"dulling",
"muddying",
"contaminating",
"dirtying",
"soiling",
"defiling",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"begriming",
"besmirching",
"fouling",
"sullying"
],
"related":[
"processing",
"rectifying",
"refining",
"cleaning",
"cleansing",
"decontaminating",
"elutriating",
"purging",
"washing",
"extracting",
"leaching",
"bolting",
"screening",
"sieving",
"sifting",
"disinfecting",
"sanitizing"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarifying",
"clearing",
"distilling",
"filtering",
"fining",
"garbling"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"purity":{
"the quality or state of being morally pure":{
"examples":[
"struggling to live a life of purity while surrounded by wickedness"
],
"synonyms":[
"chasteness",
"chastity",
"immaculacy",
"innocence",
"modesty"
],
"near synonyms":[
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtue",
"virtuousness",
"morality",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"decency",
"decorum",
"propriety",
"seemliness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"badness",
"evil",
"sinfulness",
"unrighteousness",
"wickedness",
"impropriety",
"indecency",
"vulgarity"
],
"antonyms":[
"immodesty",
"impurity",
"unchasteness",
"unchastity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"purports":{
"the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action":{
"examples":[
"was able to give the purport of the governor's speech in a few words"
],
"synonyms":[
"contents",
"denotations",
"drifts",
"imports",
"intentions",
"intents",
"meanings",
"senses",
"significances",
"significations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"connotations",
"clues",
"cues",
"hints",
"implications",
"indications",
"inklings",
"intimations",
"suggestions",
"messages",
"tenors",
"themes",
"bottoms",
"essences",
"essentialities",
"natures",
"souls",
"spirits",
"stuff",
"acceptances",
"acceptations",
"definitions",
"burdens",
"cruxes",
"cruces",
"gists",
"cores",
"hearts",
"kernels",
"marrows",
"nubs",
"nuclei",
"nucleuses",
"piths",
"points",
"quicks",
"matters",
"motifs",
"motives",
"questions",
"subjects",
"topics"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have in mind as a purpose or goal":{
"examples":[
"do you purport to spend the rest of your life on that couch, or do you think you might get a job someday?"
],
"synonyms":[
"aims",
"allows",
"aspires",
"calculates",
"contemplates",
"designs",
"goes",
"intends",
"looks",
"means",
"meditates",
"plans",
"proposes",
"purposes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dreams",
"hopes",
"wishes",
"considers",
"debates",
"mulls (over)",
"ponders",
"attempts",
"endeavors",
"strives",
"struggles",
"tries",
"plots",
"schemes",
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"effects",
"executes",
"performs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to state as a fact usually forcefully":{
"examples":[
"he purports to be an expert in criminalistics"
],
"synonyms":[
"affirms",
"alleges",
"asserts",
"avers",
"avouches",
"avows",
"claims",
"contends",
"declares",
"insists",
"maintains",
"professes",
"protests",
"warrants"
],
"near synonyms":[
"announces",
"broadcasts",
"proclaims",
"argues",
"rationalizes",
"reasons",
"confirms",
"justifies",
"vindicates",
"defends",
"perseveres",
"supports",
"upholds",
"reaffirms",
"reasserts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandons",
"disavows",
"disclaims",
"disowns",
"negates",
"negatives",
"rejects",
"repudiates",
"challenges",
"disputes",
"questions",
"confutes",
"disproves",
"rebuts",
"refutes",
"contradicts",
"counters"
],
"antonyms":[
"denies",
"gainsays"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"purposed":{
"to have in mind as a purpose or goal":{
"examples":[
"I've been purposing to fix that thing for some time now"
],
"synonyms":[
"aimed",
"allowed",
"aspired",
"calculated",
"contemplated",
"designed",
"intended",
"looked",
"meant",
"meditated",
"planned",
"proposed",
"purported",
"went"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dreamed",
"dreamt",
"hoped",
"wished",
"considered",
"debated",
"mulled (over)",
"pondered",
"attempted",
"endeavored",
"strove",
"strived",
"struggled",
"tried",
"plotted",
"schemed",
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"effected",
"executed",
"performed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purposive":{
"made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doing":{
"antonyms":[
"nondeliberate",
"nonpurposive",
"unintentional"
],
"examples":[
"facial tics and other unconscious movements that one would not normally call purposive actions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inadvertent",
"unwitting",
"accidental",
"chance",
"haphazard",
"hit-or-miss",
"incidental",
"random",
"aimless",
"desultory",
"purposeless",
"abrupt",
"impetuous",
"sudden",
"coerced",
"forced",
"involuntary",
"compulsory",
"mandatory",
"necessary",
"nonelective",
"obligatory",
"ordered",
"required",
"casual",
"extemporaneous",
"impromptu",
"impulsive",
"instinctive",
"spontaneous",
"unforced",
"unpremeditated"
],
"related":[
"designed",
"planned",
"advised",
"calculated",
"considered",
"measured",
"reasoned",
"studied",
"thoughtful",
"weighed",
"premeditated",
"premeditative",
"prepense",
"discretionary",
"elective",
"optional",
"volunteer"
],
"synonyms":[
"conscious",
"deliberate",
"intended",
"intentional",
"knowing",
"purposeful",
"set",
"voluntary",
"willed",
"willful",
"wilful",
"witting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"purred":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"purses":{
"a container for carrying money and small personal items":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I left my purse at home, so I can't buy anything after all"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"clutch bags",
"clutches",
"minaudi\u00e8res",
"billfolds",
"wallets",
"compacts",
"vanities",
"pokes",
"pouches",
"sacks",
"shoulder bags"
],
"synonyms":[
"bags",
"handbags",
"pocketbooks"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pursued":{
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"the policeman doggedly pursued the pickpocket through the crowded subway station"
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dogged",
"chased",
"coursed",
"dogged",
"followed",
"hounded",
"ran",
"run",
"shadowed",
"tagged",
"tailed",
"traced",
"tracked",
"trailed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompanied",
"chaperoned",
"escorted",
"hunted",
"searched (for)",
"sought",
"eyed",
"observed",
"watched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"headed"
],
"antonyms":[
"guided",
"led",
"piloted"
]
},
"to go in search of":{
"examples":[
"urged the graduates to pursue personal fulfillment instead of financial success"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast about (for)",
"cast around (for)",
"chased (down)",
"foraged (for)",
"hunted",
"looked up",
"quested",
"searched (for or out)",
"shopped (for)",
"sought"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ferreted (out)",
"rooted (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hid",
"lost",
"ignored",
"neglected"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pursuit":{
"an activity outside of one's regular occupation that is engaged in primarily for pleasure":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a workaholic with few pursuits outside of the office"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"amusement",
"distraction",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"pastime",
"relaxation",
"sport"
],
"synonyms":[
"avocation",
"hobby",
"hobbyhorse",
"recreation"
]
},
"the act of going after or in the tracks of another":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the cat ran down the street with a pair of dogs in pursuit"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"hot pursuit",
"tagging along",
"path",
"track",
"trail",
"search",
"seeking"
],
"synonyms":[
"chase",
"chasing",
"dogging",
"following",
"hounding",
"pursuing",
"shadowing",
"tagging",
"tailing",
"tracing",
"tracking",
"trailing"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"push":{
"to apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one":{
"examples":[
"I had to push my damaged bike all the way home"
],
"synonyms":[
"drive",
"propel",
"shove",
"thrust"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impel",
"move",
"bear (down)",
"compress",
"depress",
"jam",
"pressure",
"squash",
"squeeze",
"weigh (upon)",
"bulldoze",
"compel",
"force",
"lean (on or against)",
"muscle",
"ram"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to force one's way":{
"examples":[
"we had to push our way through a crowd that was mostly headed in the opposite direction"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"bull",
"bulldoze",
"crash",
"elbow",
"jam",
"jostle",
"muscle",
"press",
"shoulder",
"squeeze"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ram",
"shove",
"thrust"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a series of activities undertaken to achieve a goal":{
"examples":[
"an unprecedented push to pass stronger gun control measures"
],
"synonyms":[
"bandwagon",
"blitz",
"campaign",
"cause",
"crusade",
"drive",
"juggernaut",
"movement"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assault",
"attack",
"maneuver",
"march",
"offensive",
"action",
"bid",
"enterprise",
"initiative",
"mission",
"project",
"undertaking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"push off":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"antonyms":[
"arrive",
"come",
"show up",
"turn up"
],
"examples":[
"let's push off while it's still early enough to beat the evening rush"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"lodge",
"remain",
"settle",
"stay",
"tarry",
"approach",
"close",
"near",
"hit",
"land",
"reach"
],
"related":[
"set out",
"start",
"strike out",
"abscond",
"decamp",
"escape",
"evacuate",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"mizzle",
"run away",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip",
"go out",
"light out",
"step out",
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"vacate",
"emigrate",
"adjourn",
"remove",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"synonyms":[
"bail",
"bail out",
"begone",
"book",
"bug off",
"bug out",
"bugger off",
"buzz (off)",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"dig out",
"exit",
"get",
"get off",
"go",
"go off",
"move",
"pack (up or off)",
"part",
"peel off",
"pike (out or off)",
"pull out",
"push on",
"quit",
"run along",
"sally (forth)",
"scarper",
"shove (off)",
"step (along)",
"take off",
"vamoose",
"walk out"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pushchair":{
"a small four-wheeled vehicle designed for pushing a baby around in":{
"examples":[
"a fun festival that appeals to adults as well as tots in pushchairs"
],
"synonyms":[
"baby buggy",
"baby carriage",
"buggy",
"perambulator",
"pram",
"stroller"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bassinet",
"cradle",
"crib",
"carry-cot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pushy":{
"having or showing a bold forcefulness in the pursuit of a goal":{
"examples":[
"he's usually very pushy about insinuating his own ideas into other people's projects"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggressive",
"ambitious",
"assertive",
"enterprising",
"fierce",
"go-getting",
"high-pressure",
"in-your-face",
"militant",
"self-asserting",
"self-assertive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"argumentative",
"bellicose",
"belligerent",
"combative",
"contentious",
"discordant",
"disputatious",
"gladiatorial",
"pugnacious",
"quarrelsome",
"trigger-happy",
"truculent",
"warlike",
"hyperaggressive",
"overambitious",
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"gung ho",
"hustling",
"strenuous",
"vigorous",
"emphatic",
"obtrusive",
"adventuresome",
"adventurous",
"daring",
"dashing",
"emboldened",
"gutsy",
"venturesome",
"venturous",
"audacious",
"bold",
"brash",
"brassy",
"bumptious",
"cheeky",
"cocksure",
"cocky",
"confident",
"determined",
"forward",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"overconfident",
"presumptuous",
"unapologetic",
"unsubdued",
"unyielding",
"bare-knuckle",
"bare-knuckled",
"bare-knuckles",
"feisty",
"scrappy",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"imperious",
"lordly",
"magisterial",
"overbearing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"easygoing",
"laid-back",
"relaxed",
"acquiescent",
"amenable",
"compliant",
"deferential",
"docile",
"resigned",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"yielding",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"groveling",
"grovelling",
"shrinking",
"bashful",
"demure",
"diffident",
"humble",
"lowly",
"meek",
"mild",
"modest",
"mousy",
"mousey",
"overmodest",
"passive",
"quiet",
"reserved",
"retiring",
"shy",
"subdued",
"timid",
"unobtrusive",
"obsequious",
"servile",
"slavish",
"subservient"
],
"antonyms":[
"ambitionless",
"low-pressure",
"nonassertive",
"unaggressive",
"unambitious",
"unassertive",
"unenterprising"
]
},
"thrusting oneself where one is not welcome or invited":{
"examples":[
"the pushy cocktail waiter kept asking me if I wanted another drink, even though I hadn't finished the first one"
],
"synonyms":[
"busy",
"interfering",
"intruding",
"intrusive",
"meddlesome",
"meddling",
"nosy",
"nosey",
"obtrusive",
"officious",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"protrusive",
"prying",
"pushing",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"put away":{
"to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea":{
"antonyms":[
"disinter",
"exhume",
"unearth"
],
"examples":[
"the naval authorities put away the body yesterday"
],
"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":[
"bury",
"entomb",
"hearse",
"inhume",
"inter",
"lay",
"tomb"
]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"after a hit man had put away her husband, she'd be free to marry her lover"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animate",
"raise",
"restore",
"resurrect",
"resuscitate",
"revive"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinate",
"bump off",
"croak",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"execute",
"get",
"ice",
"knock off",
"liquidate",
"murder",
"neutralize",
"off",
"rub out",
"slay",
"snuff",
"take out",
"terminate",
"whack"
]
},
"to take in as food":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"can easily put away an entire bowl of popcorn at a single sitting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"digest",
"down",
"mouth (down)",
"swallow",
"bolt",
"chow (down on)",
"devour",
"glut (on)",
"gobble (up or down)",
"gorge",
"gulp",
"scoff",
"slop",
"snarf (down)",
"swill",
"wolf",
"chew",
"gnaw (at or on)",
"gum",
"lap",
"lick",
"nibble (on)",
"nurse",
"pick (at)",
"relish",
"savor",
"savour",
"taste",
"banquet",
"dine",
"fare",
"feast",
"gormandize",
"pig out",
"regale",
"dispatch",
"polish off",
"breakfast",
"lunch",
"sup",
"munch",
"nosh",
"snack"
],
"synonyms":[
"consume",
"eat",
"ingest",
"partake (of)",
"put down",
"tuck (away or in)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"put into words":{
"to express (a thought or emotion) in words":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Their son would hold his feelings inside and only put them into words when questioned."
],
"near antonyms":[
"stifle",
"suppress"
],
"related":[
"air",
"discuss",
"give",
"look",
"share",
"sound",
"vent",
"ventilate",
"voice",
"blabber",
"bolt",
"blurt",
"get off",
"shoot",
"advertise",
"announce",
"blaze",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"post",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"publish",
"affirm",
"allege",
"assert",
"aver",
"avouch",
"avow",
"breathe",
"chirp",
"drawl",
"gasp",
"lip",
"mouth",
"murmur",
"purr",
"shout",
"splutter",
"spout",
"whisper",
"clothe",
"couch",
"formulate",
"formulize",
"phrase",
"put",
"word",
"comment",
"pipe up (with)",
"remark",
"rip (out)",
"snarl"
],
"synonyms":[
"articulate",
"bring out",
"enunciate",
"pass",
"say",
"speak",
"state",
"talk",
"tell",
"utter",
"verbalize",
"vocalize"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"put off":{
"to assign to a later time":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"never put off until tomorrow what you can do today"
],
"near antonyms":[
"act",
"deal (with)",
"decide (upon)",
"do",
"work (on)"
],
"related":[
"suspend",
"hesitate",
"pause",
"stay",
"detain",
"retard",
"slow",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"prolong",
"protract",
"stretch (out)",
"wait"
],
"synonyms":[
"defer",
"delay",
"hold off (on)",
"hold over",
"hold up",
"lay over",
"postpone",
"put over",
"remit",
"shelve"
]
},
"to cause to feel disgust":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"she was put off by his blatantly sexist attitude"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allure",
"attract",
"beguile",
"bewitch",
"captivate",
"charm",
"disarm",
"draw",
"enchant",
"entice",
"fascinate",
"lure",
"pull",
"seduce",
"tempt",
"delight",
"gratify",
"please",
"rejoice",
"tickle",
"enrapture",
"enthrall",
"enthral",
"entrance",
"appeal (to)",
"interest",
"intrigue"
],
"related":[
"displease",
"distress",
"appall",
"appal",
"disquiet",
"horrify",
"affront",
"insult",
"offend",
"outrage",
"shock"
],
"synonyms":[
"disgust",
"gross out",
"nauseate",
"repel",
"repulse",
"revolt",
"sicken",
"turn off"
]
},
"to rid oneself of (a garment)":{
"antonyms":[
"don",
"put on",
"slip (into)",
"throw (on)"
],
"examples":[
"put off your coat and stay awhile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"wear",
"apparel",
"array",
"attire",
"bedeck",
"clothe",
"dress",
"garb",
"rig",
"robe",
"suit"
],
"related":[
"husk",
"shed",
"kick (off)",
"disrobe",
"strip",
"undress"
],
"synonyms":[
"doff",
"douse",
"peel (off)",
"remove",
"shrug off",
"take off"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"put up":{
"to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"put up an elaborate scheme to defraud insurance companies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"counterplot",
"brew",
"concoct",
"cook (up)",
"devise",
"hatch",
"engineer",
"jockey",
"maneuver",
"manipulate",
"design",
"frame",
"lay out",
"map",
"plan",
"shape"
],
"synonyms":[
"collude",
"compass",
"connive",
"conspire",
"contrive",
"intrigue",
"machinate",
"plot",
"scheme"
]
},
"to fix in an upright position":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the builders put up the walls before starting on the roof"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolish",
"flatten",
"knock down",
"level",
"raze",
"tear down"
],
"related":[
"brace",
"buttress",
"prop (up)",
"shore (up)",
"support",
"boost",
"crane",
"elevate",
"heave",
"heft",
"heighten",
"hike",
"hoist",
"jack (up)",
"lift",
"perk (up)",
"pick up",
"up",
"uphold",
"uplift"
],
"synonyms":[
"erect",
"pitch",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up",
"upend",
"upraise"
]
},
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"antonyms":[
"demount",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"dismember",
"knock down",
"strike",
"take down",
"tear down"
],
"examples":[
"plans to put up a pavilion in the public gardens"
],
"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"
],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"assemble",
"build",
"confect",
"construct",
"erect",
"fabricate",
"make",
"make up",
"piece",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
]
},
"to offer for sale to the public":{
"antonyms":[
"buy",
"purchase"
],
"examples":[
"put their possessions up for auction"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"presell",
"wholesale",
"remarket",
"resell",
"hawk",
"peddle",
"barter",
"distribute",
"exchange",
"export",
"handle",
"trade",
"traffic (in)",
"advertise",
"ballyhoo",
"boost",
"plug",
"promote",
"tout",
"bargain",
"chaffer",
"dicker",
"haggle",
"horse-trade",
"palter",
"auction",
"provide",
"supply",
"carry",
"keep",
"stock"
],
"synonyms":[
"deal (in)",
"market",
"merchandise",
"merchandize",
"retail",
"sell",
"vend"
]
},
"to place somewhere for safekeeping or ready availability":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I need to clear out a space in the garage to put up my motorcycle for the winter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cellar",
"garage",
"hangar",
"house",
"warehouse",
"file",
"pack",
"shelve"
],
"synonyms":[
"keep",
"reposit",
"store",
"stow"
]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the university puts up students in a variety of buildings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eject",
"evict"
],
"related":[
"ensconce",
"home",
"roost",
"secure",
"shed",
"stable",
"tent",
"barrack",
"bed (down)"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodate",
"bestow",
"billet",
"bivouac",
"board",
"bunk",
"camp",
"chamber",
"domicile",
"encamp",
"harbor",
"house",
"lodge",
"quarter",
"roof",
"room",
"shelter",
"take in"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"put up a front":{
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Though she put up a front , I could tell her feelings were hurt."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"act",
"impersonate",
"masquerade",
"play",
"playact",
"pretend",
"pose",
"affect",
"assume",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"feign",
"profess",
"put on",
"sham",
"simulate",
"camouflage",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"mask",
"bluff",
"feint"
],
"synonyms":[
"dissemble",
"dissimulate",
"let on",
"make out"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"put-ons":{
"a display of emotion or behavior that is insincere or intended to deceive":{
"examples":[
"my bravery was all a put-on \u2014I was scared out of my wits"
],
"synonyms":[
"acts",
"airs",
"charades",
"disguises",
"facades",
"fa\u00e7ades",
"fronts",
"guises",
"masquerades",
"poses",
"pretenses",
"pretences",
"semblances",
"shows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impersonations",
"performances",
"portrayals",
"images",
"personae",
"personas",
"appearances",
"colors",
"glosses",
"camouflages",
"cloaks",
"affectations",
"deceits",
"deceptions",
"dissimulations",
"double-dealings",
"duplicities",
"fakeries",
"frauds",
"guiles",
"betrayals",
"double crosses",
"falsities",
"infidelities",
"perfidies",
"treacheries",
"treasons",
"excuses",
"pretexts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"candors",
"sincerities",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9s",
"naivetes",
"naivet\u00e9s"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a work that imitates and exaggerates another work for comic effect":{
"examples":[
"for a moment, I couldn't tell if the commercial was serious or a deadpan put-on of ads by other insurance companies"
],
"synonyms":[
"burlesques",
"caricatures",
"parodies",
"ribs",
"send-ups",
"spoofs",
"takeoffs",
"travesties"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lampoons",
"mockeries",
"satires",
"comedies",
"farces",
"humors",
"sketches",
"slapsticks",
"squibs",
"distortions",
"exaggerations",
"imitations",
"impersonations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"putrid":{
"having undergone organic breakdown":{
"examples":[
"the putrid remains of a dead raccoon on the side of the highway"
],
"synonyms":[
"addled",
"bad",
"corrupted",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"putrefied",
"rotten",
"spoiled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"curdled",
"fermented",
"off",
"rancid",
"rank",
"sour",
"soured",
"sourish",
"turned",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"fouled",
"impure",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"corroded",
"crumbled",
"degenerated",
"deteriorated",
"disintegrated",
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating",
"mildewy",
"moldering",
"moldy",
"putrefying",
"putrescent",
"rotting",
"gangrenous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fresh",
"good",
"sweet",
"preserved",
"pristine",
"uncontaminated",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"unspoiled",
"untainted",
"untouched"
],
"antonyms":[
"undecomposed"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"puts":{
"to arrange something in a certain spot or position":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"you can put this box next to the bookshelf"
],
"near antonyms":[
"relocates",
"removes",
"takes",
"banishes",
"dislodges",
"displaces",
"replaces",
"supersedes",
"supplants"
],
"related":[
"moves",
"rearranges",
"reorders",
"shifts",
"orients",
"establishes",
"locates",
"plants",
"settles",
"claps",
"flops",
"planks",
"plops",
"plumps",
"plunks",
"plonks",
"plunks down",
"slaps",
"ensconces",
"niches",
"assembles",
"collects",
"carries",
"berths",
"parks",
"affixes",
"anchors",
"locks",
"lodges",
"wedges",
"arrays",
"lays out",
"lines up",
"queues",
"ranks",
"sets down"
],
"synonyms":[
"deposes",
"deposits",
"disposes",
"emplaces",
"fixes",
"lays",
"places",
"positions",
"sets",
"sets up",
"situates",
"sticks"
]
},
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"put the words of his patriotic poem to the tune of a well-known drinking song"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusts"
],
"related":[
"readapts",
"readjusts",
"customizes",
"gears",
"matches",
"models",
"patterns",
"attunes",
"corrects",
"harmonizes",
"squares",
"tunes",
"establishes",
"roots",
"settles",
"acquaints",
"familiarizes",
"orientates",
"orients",
"equips",
"prepares",
"primes",
"rehearses",
"hardens",
"inures",
"seasons",
"toughens",
"alters",
"converts",
"makes over",
"modifies",
"recasts",
"reclaims",
"recycles",
"redesigns",
"redevelops",
"redoes",
"reengineers",
"refashions",
"refigures",
"refits",
"refocuses",
"reinvents",
"rejiggers",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"transforms",
"accustoms",
"habilitates",
"habituates",
"naturalizes",
"readies",
"trains",
"bends",
"fiddles (with)",
"fine-tunes",
"phases",
"registers",
"regulates",
"rigs"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimates",
"acclimatizes",
"accommodates",
"adapts",
"adjusts",
"conditions",
"conforms",
"doctors",
"edits",
"fashions",
"fits",
"shapes",
"suits",
"tailors"
]
},
"to convey in appropriate or telling terms":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"tried to think of a good way of putting the news"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"crafts",
"frames",
"hints",
"implies",
"insinuates",
"intimates",
"suggests",
"paraphrases",
"rephrases",
"restates",
"rewords",
"summarizes",
"translates",
"communicates",
"discloses",
"speaks",
"talks",
"tells",
"utters",
"verbalizes",
"vocalizes",
"describes",
"renders",
"writes up"
],
"synonyms":[
"articulates",
"clothes",
"couches",
"expresses",
"formulates",
"phrases",
"says",
"states",
"words"
]
},
"to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"put the time of the photograph at about noon"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calibrates",
"measures",
"scales",
"computes",
"works out"
],
"related":[
"concludes",
"deduces",
"extrapolates",
"gathers",
"infers",
"reasons",
"understands"
],
"synonyms":[
"calculates",
"calls",
"conjectures",
"estimates",
"figures",
"gauges",
"gages",
"guesses",
"judges",
"makes",
"places",
"reckons",
"supposes"
]
},
"to establish or apply as a charge or penalty":{
"antonyms":[
"remits"
],
"examples":[
"a proposal to put a special tax on luxuries"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abates",
"diminishes",
"lessens",
"forgives",
"releases",
"condones",
"disregards",
"excuses",
"glosses (over)",
"glozes (over)",
"ignores",
"pardons"
],
"related":[
"docks",
"excises",
"mulcts",
"penalizes",
"taxes",
"extorts",
"shakes down",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"bleeds",
"fleeces",
"gouges",
"milks",
"skins",
"squeezes",
"coerces",
"compels",
"forces",
"inflicts",
"wreaks",
"sets",
"reapplies",
"reimposes",
"relays"
],
"synonyms":[
"assesses",
"charges",
"exacts",
"fines",
"imposes",
"lays",
"levies"
]
},
"to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"deciding to go for broke, he put $1000 on a horse that had 20 to 1 odds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bids",
"offers",
"adventures",
"chances",
"hazards",
"speculates",
"ventures",
"endangers",
"imperils",
"jeopardizes"
],
"synonyms":[
"bets",
"gambles",
"goes",
"lays",
"plays",
"stakes",
"wagers"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"putting down":{
"to explain (something) as being the result of something else":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a fender bender that probably can be put down to the young driver's inexperience"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blaming",
"charging",
"fathering (on)",
"imputing (to)",
"pinning (on)",
"assigning",
"referring",
"associating",
"attaching",
"connecting",
"linking"
],
"synonyms":[
"accrediting",
"ascribing",
"attributing",
"chalking up",
"crediting",
"imputing",
"laying"
]
},
"to express scornfully one's low opinion of":{
"antonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"exalting",
"extolling",
"glorifying",
"lauding",
"magnifying",
"praising"
],
"examples":[
"he has the annoying habit of putting down others under the guise of offering constructive criticism"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approving",
"countenancing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"favoring",
"recommending",
"sanctioning",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"eulogizing"
],
"related":[
"discommending",
"abusing",
"scolding",
"disapproving (of)",
"disliking",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"denouncing",
"reprehending",
"reprobating",
"aspersing",
"defaming",
"maligning",
"ripping",
"slandering",
"slurring",
"traducing",
"vilifying",
"discrediting",
"disgracing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad-mouthing",
"belittling",
"crying down",
"decrying",
"denigrating",
"deprecating",
"depreciating",
"derogating",
"diminishing",
"discounting",
"dismissing",
"disparaging",
"dissing",
"kissing off",
"minimizing",
"playing down",
"poor-mouthing",
"running down",
"talking down",
"trashing",
"trash-talking",
"vilipending",
"writing off"
]
},
"to make a written note of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"we had the whole agreement put down on paper"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"chronicling",
"minuting",
"transcribing",
"enregistering",
"entering",
"inscribing",
"chalking (up)",
"notching",
"scoring"
],
"synonyms":[
"jotting (down)",
"logging",
"marking",
"noting",
"recording",
"registering",
"reporting",
"setting down",
"taking down",
"writing down"
]
},
"to put (someone or something) on a list":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"put her down as one of the chaperones for the field trip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deleting"
],
"related":[
"booking",
"carding",
"filing",
"noting",
"classifying",
"compiling",
"tabulating",
"tallying",
"rescheduling"
],
"synonyms":[
"cataloging",
"cataloguing",
"enrolling",
"entering",
"indexing",
"inscribing",
"listing",
"recording",
"registering",
"scheduling",
"slating"
]
},
"to put a stop to (something) by the use of force":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a tyrant who ruthlessly put down uprisings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"backing",
"helping",
"propping up",
"supporting",
"fomenting",
"inciting",
"instigating",
"provoking",
"stirring",
"whipping (up)",
"advancing",
"cultivating",
"encouraging",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"nourishing",
"nurturing",
"promoting"
],
"related":[
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"extinguishing",
"putting out",
"quenching",
"smothering",
"stifling",
"strangling",
"throttling",
"annihilating",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"desolating",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"nuking",
"rubbing out",
"ruining",
"smashing",
"wasting",
"wrecking",
"exterminating",
"obliterating",
"wiping out",
"conquering",
"dominating",
"overcoming",
"overpowering",
"overwhelming",
"subjugating",
"vanquishing"
],
"synonyms":[
"clamping down (on)",
"cracking down (on)",
"crushing",
"quashing",
"quelling",
"repressing",
"silencing",
"slapping down",
"snuffing (out)",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"subduing",
"suppressing"
]
},
"to take in as food":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the husky youngster seemed to put down her own weight in food at one sitting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"digesting",
"downing",
"mouthing (down)",
"swallowing",
"bolting",
"chowing (down on)",
"devouring",
"glutting (on)",
"gobbling (up or down)",
"gorging",
"gulping",
"scoffing",
"slopping",
"snarfing (down)",
"swilling",
"wolfing",
"chewing",
"gnawing (at or on)",
"gumming",
"lapping",
"licking",
"nibbling (on)",
"nursing",
"picking (at)",
"relishing",
"savoring",
"savouring",
"tasting",
"banqueting",
"dining",
"faring",
"feasting",
"gormandizing",
"pigging out",
"regaling",
"dispatching",
"polishing off",
"breakfasting",
"lunching",
"supping",
"munching",
"noshing",
"snacking"
],
"synonyms":[
"consuming",
"eating",
"ingesting",
"partaking (of)",
"putting away",
"tucking (away or in)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"putting out":{
"as in release , publication":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coming out",
"issuing",
"publication",
"publishing",
"release",
"manufacture",
"printing",
"production",
"syndication",
"broadcasting",
"circulation",
"dissemination",
"distribution",
"propagation",
"spread",
"transmission",
"advertising",
"announcement",
"annunciation",
"communication",
"declaration",
"enunciation",
"notification",
"proclamation",
"promotion",
"promulgation",
"propaganda",
"publicity",
"advent",
"appearance",
"arrival",
"debut",
"d\u00e9but",
"emergence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censorship",
"suppression"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring to bear especially forcefully or effectively":{
"examples":[
"despite putting out her best effort, she was unable to beat her longtime tennis rival"
],
"synonyms":[
"applying",
"exercising",
"exerting",
"plying",
"wielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"employing",
"using",
"utilizing",
"abusing",
"misapplying",
"misusing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to cease burning":{
"examples":[
"put out the campfire before leaving"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanketing",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"extinguishing",
"quenching",
"snuffing (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choking",
"smothering",
"suffocating",
"blowing out",
"rubbing out",
"snubbing (out)",
"stamping (out)",
"stubbing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"firing",
"igniting",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"kindling",
"lighting"
]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"my father was put out by all the street noise outside our house"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"burning (up)",
"chafing",
"eating",
"exasperating",
"frosting",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"griping",
"hacking (off)",
"irking",
"irritating",
"itching",
"narking",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"persecuting",
"piquing",
"rasping",
"riling",
"ruffling",
"spiting",
"vexing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassling",
"heckling",
"nagging",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"provoking",
"rousing",
"badgering",
"baiting",
"bullyragging",
"ballyragging",
"deviling",
"devilling",
"hagriding",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"pestering",
"plaguing",
"teasing",
"angering",
"antagonizing",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"rankling",
"roiling",
"agitating",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"exercising",
"freaking (out)",
"fretting",
"perturbing",
"undoing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"miffing",
"offending",
"outraging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"obliging",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"propitiating",
"delighting",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"satisfying",
"assuring",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"contenting",
"quieting",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause discomfort to or trouble for":{
"examples":[
"if it wouldn't put you out too much, would you mind giving me a ride to the airport?"
],
"synonyms":[
"discommoding",
"disobliging",
"disturbing",
"incommoding",
"inconveniencing",
"troubling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burdening",
"encumbering",
"saddling",
"weighing",
"fettering",
"hampering",
"hamstringing",
"handicapping",
"hindering",
"hobbling",
"holding back",
"holding up",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"interfering (with)",
"manacling",
"obstructing",
"shackling",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"tying up",
"tieing up",
"aggravating",
"angering",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"chafing",
"exasperating",
"galling",
"getting",
"irking",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"piquing",
"riling",
"vexing",
"grating",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"provoking",
"agitating",
"perturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"helping",
"easing",
"facilitating",
"smoothing",
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"disarming",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"delighting",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"satisfying",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"contenting"
],
"antonyms":[
"accommodating",
"favoring",
"obliging"
]
},
"to produce and release for distribution in printed form":{
"examples":[
"though most of their sales are now transacted through the Internet, the company still puts out a mail-order catalog"
],
"synonyms":[
"getting out",
"issuing",
"printing",
"publishing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copublishing",
"co-publishing",
"reissuing",
"reprinting",
"republishing",
"serializing",
"contributing",
"editing",
"syndicating",
"manufacturing",
"producing",
"distributing",
"marketing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censoring",
"suppressing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"puzzling (out)":{
"to find an answer for through reasoning":{
"examples":[
"I was able to puzzle out the riddle in a fairly short time"
],
"synonyms":[
"answering",
"breaking",
"cracking",
"doping (out)",
"figuring out",
"resolving",
"riddling (out)",
"solving",
"unraveling",
"unriddling",
"working",
"working out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concluding",
"deciding",
"deducing",
"gathering",
"inferring",
"judging",
"reasoning",
"clearing (up)",
"ironing out",
"straightening (out)",
"unscrambling",
"untangling",
"untying",
"untieing",
"assuming",
"conjecturing",
"divining",
"guessing",
"presuming",
"speculating",
"deciphering",
"decoding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"put":{
"to arrange something in a certain spot or position":{
"examples":[
"you can put this box next to the bookshelf"
],
"synonyms":[
"depose",
"deposit",
"dispose",
"emplace",
"fix",
"lay",
"place",
"position",
"set",
"set up",
"situate",
"stick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"move",
"rearrange",
"reorder",
"shift",
"orient",
"establish",
"locate",
"plant",
"settle",
"clap",
"flop",
"plank",
"plop",
"plump",
"plunk",
"plonk",
"plunk down",
"slap",
"ensconce",
"niche",
"assemble",
"collect",
"carry",
"berth",
"park",
"affix",
"anchor",
"lock",
"lodge",
"wedge",
"array",
"lay out",
"line up",
"queue",
"rank",
"set down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"relocate",
"remove",
"take",
"banish",
"dislodge",
"displace",
"replace",
"supersede",
"supplant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to convey in appropriate or telling terms":{
"examples":[
"tried to think of a good way of putting the news"
],
"synonyms":[
"articulate",
"clothe",
"couch",
"express",
"formulate",
"phrase",
"say",
"state",
"word"
],
"near synonyms":[
"craft",
"frame",
"hint",
"imply",
"insinuate",
"intimate",
"suggest",
"paraphrase",
"rephrase",
"restate",
"reword",
"summarize",
"translate",
"communicate",
"disclose",
"speak",
"talk",
"tell",
"utter",
"verbalize",
"vocalize",
"describe",
"render",
"write up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement":{
"examples":[
"put the time of the photograph at about noon"
],
"synonyms":[
"calculate",
"call",
"conjecture",
"estimate",
"figure",
"gauge",
"gage",
"guess",
"judge",
"make",
"place",
"reckon",
"suppose"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conclude",
"deduce",
"extrapolate",
"gather",
"infer",
"reason",
"understand"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calibrate",
"measure",
"scale",
"compute",
"work out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to establish or apply as a charge or penalty":{
"examples":[
"a proposal to put a special tax on luxuries"
],
"synonyms":[
"assess",
"charge",
"exact",
"fine",
"impose",
"lay",
"levy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dock",
"excise",
"mulct",
"penalize",
"tax",
"extort",
"shake down",
"wrest",
"wring",
"bleed",
"fleece",
"gouge",
"milk",
"skin",
"squeeze",
"coerce",
"compel",
"force",
"inflict",
"wreak",
"set",
"reapply",
"reimpose",
"relay"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abate",
"diminish",
"lessen",
"forgive",
"release",
"condone",
"disregard",
"excuse",
"gloss (over)",
"gloze (over)",
"ignore",
"pardon"
],
"antonyms":[
"remit"
]
},
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"examples":[
"put the words of his patriotic poem to the tune of a well-known drinking song"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimate",
"acclimatize",
"accommodate",
"adapt",
"adjust",
"condition",
"conform",
"doctor",
"edit",
"fashion",
"fit",
"shape",
"suit",
"tailor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readapt",
"readjust",
"customize",
"gear",
"match",
"model",
"pattern",
"attune",
"correct",
"harmonize",
"square",
"tune",
"establish",
"root",
"settle",
"acquaint",
"familiarize",
"orient",
"orientate",
"equip",
"prepare",
"prime",
"rehearse",
"harden",
"inure",
"season",
"toughen",
"alter",
"convert",
"make over",
"modify",
"recast",
"reclaim",
"recycle",
"redesign",
"redevelop",
"redo",
"reengineer",
"refashion",
"refigure",
"refit",
"refocus",
"reinvent",
"rejigger",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"transform",
"accustom",
"habilitate",
"habituate",
"naturalize",
"ready",
"train",
"bend",
"fiddle (with)",
"fine-tune",
"phase",
"register",
"regulate",
"rig"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjust"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event":{
"examples":[
"deciding to go for broke, he put $1000 on a horse that had 20 to 1 odds"
],
"synonyms":[
"bet",
"gamble",
"go",
"lay",
"play",
"stake",
"wager"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bid",
"offer",
"adventure",
"chance",
"hazard",
"speculate",
"venture",
"endanger",
"imperil",
"jeopardize"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purblind":{
"as in gravel-blind":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gravel-blind",
"blinded",
"blindfold",
"blindfolded",
"unsighted",
"blind",
"eyeless",
"sightless",
"stone-blind",
"visionless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sighted",
"observant",
"observing",
"seeing",
"clear-eyed",
"clear-sighted",
"gimlet-eyed",
"lynx-eyed",
"sharp-eyed",
"sharp-sighted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shortsighted , myopic":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"myopic",
"nearsighted",
"shortsighted",
"astigmatic"
],
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"farsighted",
"hypermetropic",
"hyperopic",
"presbyopic"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"publicity":{
"information released to the media that is designed to gain public attention or support for a person, business, or cause":{
"examples":[
"an endless flow of publicity for our charity event resulted in a great turnout"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhoo",
"hype",
"puffery"
],
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"ad",
"advertisement",
"commercial",
"message",
"plug",
"promotion",
"spot",
"word",
"banner",
"bill",
"billboard",
"placard",
"poster",
"sign",
"advertising",
"marketing",
"propaganda",
"pronouncement",
"publication",
"release",
"broadcast",
"bulletin",
"dispatch",
"newscast",
"report",
"story",
"ink",
"testimonial",
"write-up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"putrefied":{
"having undergone organic breakdown":{
"examples":[
"we had to throw out the putrefied tomatoes that had been sitting on the counter all week"
],
"synonyms":[
"addled",
"bad",
"corrupted",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"putrid",
"rotten",
"spoiled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"curdled",
"fermented",
"off",
"rancid",
"rank",
"sour",
"soured",
"sourish",
"turned",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"fouled",
"impure",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"corroded",
"crumbled",
"degenerated",
"deteriorated",
"disintegrated",
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating",
"mildewy",
"moldering",
"moldy",
"putrefying",
"putrescent",
"rotting",
"gangrenous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fresh",
"good",
"sweet",
"preserved",
"pristine",
"uncontaminated",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"unspoiled",
"untainted",
"untouched"
],
"antonyms":[
"undecomposed"
]
},
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"we traced the bad smell to a dead skunk putrefying under the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke down",
"corrupted",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"disintegrated",
"festered",
"fouled",
"molded",
"moldered",
"perished",
"rotted",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"soured",
"turned",
"turned off",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"addled",
"curdled",
"fermented",
"mortified",
"rusted",
"crumbled",
"declined",
"degenerated",
"descended",
"deteriorated",
"dilapidated",
"sank",
"sunk",
"withered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aged",
"developed",
"grew",
"matured",
"ripened",
"refreshed",
"renewed",
"restored",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"assembled",
"composed",
"integrated",
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"improved",
"meliorated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pumping":{
"to make short up-and-down movements":{
"examples":[
"the thighs of the bicyclists were pumping furiously as they neared the finish line"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbing",
"bobbling",
"jogging",
"jouncing",
"nodding",
"seesawing",
"wagging"
],
"related":[
"jerking",
"jiggling",
"shaking",
"wiggling",
"wobbling",
"wabbling",
"oscillating",
"rocking",
"swaying",
"swinging",
"undulating",
"dropping",
"ducking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put a series of questions to":{
"examples":[
"prying neighbors pumped the guileless child for information about the family's new pool"
],
"synonyms":[
"catechizing",
"examining",
"grilling",
"interrogating",
"querying",
"questioning",
"quizzing",
"sweating"
],
"related":[
"debriefing",
"cross-examining",
"cross-questioning",
"annoying",
"harassing",
"hounding",
"pestering",
"canvassing",
"canvasing",
"polling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"examples":[
"pumped water from the well"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleeding",
"drafting",
"draining",
"drawing (off)",
"siphoning",
"syphoning",
"tapping"
],
"related":[
"milking",
"sucking",
"clearing",
"emptying",
"evacuating",
"exhausting",
"vacating",
"vacuating",
"voiding",
"decanting",
"effusing",
"depleting",
"cleaning",
"flushing",
"purging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bathing",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"drenching",
"soaking",
"sousing",
"washing",
"watering",
"wetting",
"deluging",
"drowning",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"submerging",
"swamping"
],
"antonyms":[
"filling"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puerility":{
"as in goofiness , childishness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pulses":{
"a rhythmic expanding and contracting":{
"examples":[
"his resting pulse rate is much lower than that of most men his age"
],
"synonyms":[
"beatings",
"beats",
"palpitations",
"pulsations",
"throbs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fluctuations",
"oscillations",
"vibrations",
"quivers",
"trembles",
"tremors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner":{
"examples":[
"blood vessels pulsing in time with the heartbeat"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"palpitates",
"pit-a-pats",
"pitter-patters",
"pulsates",
"throbs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fluctuates",
"oscillates",
"vibrates",
"quivers",
"trembles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"puissant":{
"having great power or influence":{
"examples":[
"one of the nation's most respected and puissant advocates for the rights of minorities"
],
"synonyms":[
"heavy",
"heavy-duty",
"important",
"influential",
"mighty",
"potent",
"powerful",
"significant",
"strong"
],
"near synonyms":[
"high-level",
"senior",
"top",
"able",
"capable",
"competent",
"effective",
"efficient",
"authoritarian",
"autocratic",
"autocratical",
"despotic",
"dictatorial",
"magisterial",
"tyrannical",
"tyrannic",
"celebrated",
"distinguished",
"dominant",
"eminent",
"famed",
"famous",
"great",
"illustrious",
"noble",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"notorious",
"outstanding",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"prominent",
"renowned",
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"forceful",
"high-powered",
"robust",
"vigorous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"feeble",
"flimsy",
"frail",
"infirm",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unknown",
"incapable",
"incompetent",
"ineffective",
"inept",
"inexpert",
"unfit",
"unqualified",
"unskilled",
"unskillful"
],
"antonyms":[
"helpless",
"impotent",
"insignificant",
"little",
"powerless",
"unimportant",
"weak"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"purebloods":{
"as in thoroughbreds , purebreds":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"puffed (up)":{
"as in blew up , inflated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blew up",
"bulked",
"distended",
"inflated",
"accelerated",
"accumulated",
"appreciated",
"ballooned",
"boomed",
"built up",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"climbed",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"gained",
"increased",
"mounted",
"multiplied",
"mushroomed",
"proliferated",
"rolled up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"spread",
"swelled",
"waxed",
"jumped",
"rocketed",
"skyrocketed",
"surged",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"redoubled",
"crescendoed",
"crested",
"peaked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contracted",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"receded",
"waned",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"shrank",
"shrunk"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pushed off":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"let's push off while it's still early enough to beat the evening rush"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailed",
"bailed out",
"booked",
"bugged off",
"bugged out",
"buggered off",
"buzzed (off)",
"cleared off",
"cleared out",
"cut out",
"departed",
"dug out",
"exited",
"got",
"got off",
"moved",
"packed (up or off)",
"parted",
"peeled off",
"piked (out or off)",
"pulled out",
"pushed 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"
]
},
"putrefying":{
"as in rotting , decaying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"we traced the bad smell to a dead skunk putrefying under the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"corrupting",
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating",
"festering",
"fouling",
"moldering",
"molding",
"perishing",
"rotting",
"spoiling"
],
"related":[
"souring",
"turning",
"turning off",
"contaminating",
"defiling",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"addling",
"curdling",
"fermenting",
"mortifying",
"rusting",
"crumbling",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"descending",
"deteriorating",
"dilapidating",
"sinking",
"withering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aging",
"ageing",
"developing",
"growing",
"maturing",
"ripening",
"refreshing",
"renewing",
"restoring",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"assembling",
"composing",
"integrating",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"improving",
"meliorating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"purlieus":{
"an adjoining region or space":{
"examples":[
"we stopped at one of the several pubs in the purlieus of the stadium"
],
"synonyms":[
"backyard",
"environs",
"neighborhood",
"vicinage",
"vicinity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"environment",
"surround",
"surroundings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the districts adjacent to a city":{
"examples":[
"such gated communities are common among the purlieus of these Midwestern cities"
],
"synonyms":[
"environs",
"outskirts",
"suburbia"
],
"near synonyms":[
"country",
"countryside",
"exurbia"
],
"near antonyms":[
"core city",
"downtown",
"inner city",
"midtown"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"puzzle (out)":{
"to find an answer for through reasoning":{
"examples":[
"I was able to puzzle out the riddle in a fairly short time"
],
"synonyms":[
"answer",
"break",
"crack",
"dope (out)",
"figure out",
"resolve",
"riddle (out)",
"solve",
"unravel",
"unriddle",
"work",
"work out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conclude",
"decide",
"deduce",
"gather",
"infer",
"judge",
"reason",
"clear (up)",
"iron out",
"straighten (out)",
"unscramble",
"untangle",
"untie",
"assume",
"conjecture",
"divine",
"guess",
"presume",
"speculate",
"decipher",
"decode"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulsations":{
"a rhythmic expanding and contracting":{
"examples":[
"you should press against the artery in your wrist and count the pulsations to calculate your heart rate"
],
"synonyms":[
"beatings",
"beats",
"palpitations",
"pulses",
"throbs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fluctuations",
"oscillations",
"vibrations",
"quivers",
"trembles",
"tremors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pulverized":{
"as in refined , filtered":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"filtered",
"refined",
"smooth",
"superfine",
"ultrafine",
"dusty",
"fine",
"floury",
"powdery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarse",
"grainy",
"granular",
"granulated",
"rough",
"unfiltered",
"unrefined",
"gravelly",
"gritty",
"sandy",
"pebbly",
"rocky",
"stony",
"stoney",
"lumpy",
"mealy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in destroyed , ruined":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"ruinate",
"ruined",
"wrecked",
"collapsed",
"imploded",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"disintegrated",
"dynamited",
"mangled",
"mutilated",
"cracked",
"slivered",
"splintered",
"split",
"eradicated",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"obliterated",
"wiped out",
"blasted",
"detonated",
"exploded",
"breakable",
"brittle",
"delicate",
"fragile",
"frail",
"frangible",
"broken",
"busted",
"fractured",
"fragmented",
"shattered",
"smashed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unbroken",
"fixed",
"healed",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"repaired",
"infrangible",
"unbreakable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"buildings pulverized by a killer tornado"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilated",
"creamed",
"decimated",
"demolished",
"desolated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"did in",
"extinguished",
"nuked",
"pulled down",
"razed",
"rubbed out",
"ruined",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"tore down",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"vaporized",
"wasted",
"wracked",
"wrecked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beat",
"bested",
"clobbered",
"conquered",
"crushed",
"defeated",
"drubbed",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"routed",
"scotched",
"skunked",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"thrashed",
"trimmed",
"triumphed (over)",
"trounced",
"walloped",
"whipped",
"won (against)",
"blasted",
"blew up",
"broke",
"crippled",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"deteriorated",
"disfigured",
"disintegrated",
"dissolved",
"dynamited",
"harmed",
"impaired",
"injured",
"mangled",
"marred",
"mutilated",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"vitiated",
"eroded",
"scoured",
"swept (away)",
"washed out",
"wore (away)",
"dilapidated",
"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"gutted",
"took down",
"unbuilt",
"undid",
"unmade",
"blotted out",
"effaced",
"eradicated",
"expunged",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"liquidated",
"obliterated",
"removed",
"rooted (out)",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"wiped out",
"despoiled",
"havocked",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravaged",
"sacked",
"trampled",
"trashed",
"vandalized",
"assassinated",
"butchered",
"cut down",
"dispatched",
"executed",
"felled",
"killed",
"killed off",
"massacred",
"mowed (down)",
"murdered",
"slaughtered",
"slew",
"took out",
"zapped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctored",
"fixed",
"mended",
"patched",
"reconditioned",
"repaired",
"revamped",
"created",
"invented",
"assembled",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"formed",
"framed",
"made",
"manufactured",
"molded",
"produced",
"shaped",
"brought about",
"constituted",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"protected",
"saved",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"remodeled",
"renovated",
"restored"
],
"antonyms":[
"built",
"constructed",
"erected",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up"
]
},
"to reduce to fine particles":{
"examples":[
"pulverize the cement into dust for reuse"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomized",
"beat",
"brayed",
"comminuted",
"crushed",
"disintegrated",
"ground",
"milled",
"mulled",
"pounded",
"powdered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grated",
"kibbled",
"crumbled",
"crunched",
"broke",
"busted",
"bust",
"dashed",
"fractured",
"fragmented",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"splintered",
"micronized"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"puts the kibosh on":{
"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
"examples":[
"Remembered the time the police quickly put the kibosh on the wild party."
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"breaks off",
"breaks up",
"cans",
"ceases",
"cuts off",
"cuts out",
"desists (from)",
"discontinues",
"drops",
"ends",
"gives over",
"halts",
"knocks off",
"lays off",
"leaves off",
"packs (up or in)",
"quits",
"shuts off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"completes",
"concludes",
"finishes",
"closes (down)",
"deactivates",
"blockades",
"blocks",
"dams",
"delays",
"detains",
"hinders",
"holds",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"kiboshes",
"obstructs",
"stems",
"calls",
"suspends",
"arrests",
"brakes",
"checks",
"clamps down",
"reins (in)",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"stamps",
"stanches",
"staunches",
"stunts",
"suppresses",
"turns back",
"pauses",
"stays",
"suspends",
"abolishes",
"aborts",
"annuls",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"dissolves",
"kills",
"ruins",
"scuttles",
"snuffs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carries on",
"continues",
"follows through (with)",
"keeps up",
"runs on",
"advances",
"proceeds",
"progresses",
"actuates",
"drives",
"impels",
"propels",
"stirs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pump-fakes":{
"as in stutter-steps":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"stutter-steps",
"dodges",
"evades",
"sidesteps",
"slips",
"maneuvers (around)",
"dekes",
"fakes",
"fakes out",
"jukes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puritanical":{
"given to or marked by very conservative standards regarding personal behavior or morals":{
"examples":[
"some of the state laws concerning sexual behavior are vestiges of a more puritanical time and are rarely, if ever, enforced"
],
"synonyms":[
"bluenosed",
"nice-nelly",
"prim",
"prudish",
"straitlaced",
"straightlaced",
"Victorian"
],
"near synonyms":[
"priggish",
"staid",
"stuffy",
"genteel",
"proper",
"refined",
"decent",
"honest",
"moral",
"right",
"righteous",
"upright",
"virtuous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"liberated",
"permissive",
"bad",
"immoral",
"improper",
"indecent",
"lax",
"lecherous",
"lickerish",
"loose",
"prurient",
"wicked",
"skanky",
"slatternly",
"sleazy",
"sluttish",
"slutty",
"trampy",
"debauched",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"depraved",
"perverted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"put out":{
"subjected to and reacting with irritation":{
"examples":[
"he gets put out if anyone disturbs his dinner"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"bothered",
"exasperated",
"galled",
"irked",
"irritated",
"narked",
"peeved",
"scunnered",
"teed off",
"vexed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"displeased",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"perturbed",
"troubled",
"upset",
"angered",
"angry",
"indignant",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriated",
"irate",
"ireful",
"mad",
"outraged",
"rankled",
"riled",
"roiled",
"shirty",
"sore",
"steaming",
"bristly",
"cross",
"disapproving",
"huffy",
"piqued",
"resentful",
"bearish",
"bilious",
"cantankerous",
"choleric",
"churlish",
"crabby",
"cranky",
"dyspeptic",
"fretful",
"fussy",
"grouchy",
"grumpy",
"ill-humored",
"irascible",
"irritable",
"peevish",
"petulant",
"snappish",
"snuffy",
"testy",
"touchy",
"badgered",
"bedeviled",
"frustrated",
"haggled",
"harassed",
"harried",
"hassled",
"inconvenienced",
"persecuted",
"pestered",
"pinpricked",
"plagued",
"provoked",
"tested",
"tormented",
"tortured",
"tried"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delighted",
"pleased",
"content",
"happy",
"satisfied",
"calm",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"placid",
"serene",
"tranquil"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring to bear especially forcefully or effectively":{
"examples":[
"despite putting out her best effort, she was unable to beat her longtime tennis rival"
],
"synonyms":[
"apply",
"exercise",
"exert",
"ply",
"wield"
],
"near synonyms":[
"employ",
"use",
"utilize",
"abuse",
"misapply",
"misuse"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to cease burning":{
"examples":[
"put out the campfire before leaving"
],
"synonyms":[
"blanket",
"douse",
"dowse",
"extinguish",
"quench",
"snuff (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choke",
"smother",
"suffocate",
"blow out",
"rub out",
"snub (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"stub"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fire",
"ignite",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"kindle",
"light"
]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"my father was put out by all the street noise outside our house"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"bug",
"burn (up)",
"chafe",
"eat",
"exasperate",
"frost",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"gripe",
"hack (off)",
"irk",
"irritate",
"itch",
"nark",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"persecute",
"pique",
"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 cause discomfort to or trouble for":{
"examples":[
"if it wouldn't put you out too much, would you mind giving me a ride to the airport?"
],
"synonyms":[
"discommode",
"disoblige",
"disturb",
"incommode",
"inconvenience",
"trouble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burden",
"encumber",
"saddle",
"weigh",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"hamstring",
"handicap",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hold back",
"hold up",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"obstruct",
"shackle",
"tie up",
"trammel",
"aggravate",
"anger",
"annoy",
"bother",
"bug",
"chafe",
"exasperate",
"gall",
"get",
"irk",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"pique",
"rile",
"vex",
"grate",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"provoke",
"agitate",
"perturb",
"upset"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abet",
"aid",
"assist",
"help",
"ease",
"facilitate",
"smooth",
"appease",
"conciliate",
"disarm",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"satisfy",
"comfort",
"console",
"content"
],
"antonyms":[
"accommodate",
"favor",
"oblige"
]
},
"to produce and release for distribution in printed form":{
"examples":[
"though most of their sales are now transacted through the Internet, the company still puts out a mail-order catalog"
],
"synonyms":[
"get out",
"issue",
"print",
"publish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copublish",
"reissue",
"reprint",
"republish",
"serialize",
"contribute",
"edit",
"syndicate",
"manufacture",
"produce",
"distribute",
"market"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censor",
"suppress"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"putting by":{
"to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place":{
"examples":[
"have money put by for an emergency"
],
"synonyms":[
"caching",
"hoarding",
"laying away",
"laying by",
"laying in",
"laying up",
"salting away",
"squirreling (away)",
"squirrelling (away)",
"stashing",
"stockpiling",
"storing",
"stowing",
"treasuring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accumulating",
"acquiring",
"amassing",
"assembling",
"collecting",
"concentrating",
"garnering",
"gathering",
"picking up",
"rounding up",
"scraping (together)",
"heaping",
"piling",
"stacking",
"conserving",
"husbanding",
"preserving",
"banking",
"coffering",
"depositing",
"holding",
"keeping",
"reserving",
"retaining",
"saving",
"setting by",
"stocking",
"withholding",
"burying",
"concealing",
"ensconcing",
"secreting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casting",
"discarding",
"ditching",
"dumping",
"flinging (off or away)",
"jettisoning",
"throwing away",
"throwing out",
"unloading",
"consuming",
"squandering",
"using up",
"wasting",
"handing out",
"handing over",
"relinquishing",
"surrendering",
"blowing",
"dissipating",
"frittering (away)",
"lavishing",
"misspending",
"running through",
"spending",
"depleting",
"exhausting",
"expending",
"impoverishing",
"dispelling",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"scattering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puppy":{
"as in pup , puppy dog":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lapdog",
"pup",
"puppy dog",
"whelp",
"bitch",
"bandog",
"bird dog",
"coonhound",
"courser",
"gundog",
"hunter",
"sheepdog",
"sled dog",
"watchdog",
"wolf dog",
"wolfhound",
"cur",
"mongrel",
"mutt",
"guide dog",
"police dog",
"working dog",
"canine",
"dog",
"doggy",
"doggie",
"hound",
"pooch",
"tyke",
"tike"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"punch-out":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"you should take a course in anger management\u2014you can't go around punching out people"
],
"synonyms":[
"bash",
"baste",
"bat",
"batter",
"beat",
"belabor",
"belt",
"birch",
"bludgeon",
"buffet",
"bung up",
"club",
"curry",
"do",
"drub",
"fib",
"flog",
"hammer",
"hide",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lash",
"lather",
"lick",
"maul",
"mess (up)",
"paddle",
"pelt",
"pommel",
"pound",
"pummel",
"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":[]
},
"as in fistfight , slugfest":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blows",
"fistfight",
"fisticuffs",
"grapple",
"handgrips",
"punch-up",
"slugfest",
"affray",
"battle royal",
"brawl",
"broil",
"donnybrook",
"free-for-all",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"mix-up",
"ruckus",
"ruction",
"confrontation",
"duel",
"face-off",
"joust",
"pitched battle",
"rough-and-tumble",
"altercation",
"argle-bargle",
"argument",
"argy-bargy",
"contretemps",
"controversy",
"cross fire",
"disagreement",
"dispute",
"falling-out",
"kickup",
"misunderstanding",
"quarrel",
"row",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tangle",
"tiff",
"wrangle",
"battle",
"clash",
"combat",
"conflict",
"contest",
"dustup",
"fight",
"fracas",
"fray",
"hassle",
"scrap",
"scrimmage",
"scrum",
"scuffle",
"skirmish",
"struggle",
"tussle",
"catfight"
],
"near antonyms":[
"truce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"punishing":{
"as in punitive":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"punitive",
"advisory",
"counseling",
"counselling",
"didactic",
"moralistic",
"moralizing",
"admonishing",
"admonitory",
"cautionary",
"cautioning",
"exemplary",
"monitory",
"premonitory",
"warning"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to inflict a penalty on for a fault or crime":{
"examples":[
"the child was punished for breaking dishes on purpose",
"if caught, the thief will be severely punished"
],
"synonyms":[
"castigating",
"chastening",
"chastising",
"correcting",
"disciplining",
"penalizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assessing",
"charging",
"docking",
"fining",
"imposing",
"levying",
"mulcting",
"convicting",
"sentencing",
"condemning",
"damning",
"denouncing",
"criticizing",
"keelhauling",
"rebuking",
"reprimanding",
"reproving",
"wreaking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forfeiting",
"getting off",
"ransoming",
"releasing",
"commuting",
"reprieving",
"absolving",
"acquitting",
"exculpating",
"exonerating",
"vindicating"
],
"antonyms":[
"excusing",
"pardoning",
"sparing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pull away":{
"as in detach , disengage":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"detach",
"disengage",
"disentangle",
"flee",
"fly",
"flinch",
"recoil",
"shrink",
"chicken (out)",
"bow out",
"back down",
"backpedal",
"backtrack",
"climb down",
"abandon",
"depart",
"evacuate",
"go",
"leave",
"quit",
"vacate",
"back away",
"drop back",
"fall back",
"pull out",
"recede",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"brazen",
"breast",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"outbrave",
"advance"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pule":{
"to utter feeble plaintive cries":{
"examples":[
"a distressed baby puling in its crib"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleat",
"mewl",
"whimper"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fuss",
"sniffle",
"snivel",
"snuffle",
"whine",
"bawl",
"blub",
"blubber",
"cry",
"sob",
"weep",
"peep",
"squeak",
"yelp",
"mumble",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"groan",
"moan",
"sigh"
],
"near antonyms":[
"scream",
"screech",
"shriek",
"squeal",
"howl",
"squall",
"wail",
"yowl",
"call",
"caterwaul",
"squawk",
"bellow",
"roar"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purchaser":{
"as in buyer , vendee":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"buyer",
"correspondent",
"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"
]
},
"putrefaction":{
"the process by which dead organic matter separates into simpler substances":{
"examples":[
"clearing the refrigerator of what the previous tenant had left behind was like taking a course in the advanced putrefaction of leftovers"
],
"synonyms":[
"breakdown",
"corruption",
"decay",
"decomposition",
"festering",
"putrescence",
"rot",
"spoilage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crumbling",
"disintegration",
"dissolution",
"curdling",
"fermentation",
"moldering",
"souring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"growth",
"maturation",
"ripening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pull one's leg":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"He was just pulling your leg when he said he won the lottery."
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozle",
"beguile",
"bluff",
"buffalo",
"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",
"sucker",
"suck in",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pumped":{
"showing urgent desire or interest":{
"examples":[
"the whole city's so pumped for this championship that it's unbelievable"
],
"synonyms":[
"agog",
"antsy",
"anxious",
"ardent",
"athirst",
"avid",
"crazy",
"desirous",
"eager",
"enthused",
"enthusiastic",
"excited",
"geeked",
"great",
"greedy",
"gung ho",
"hepped up",
"hopped-up",
"hot",
"hungry",
"impatient",
"juiced",
"keen",
"nuts",
"raring",
"solicitous",
"stoked",
"thirsty",
"voracious",
"wild"
],
"near synonyms":[
"engaged",
"interested",
"happy",
"hung up",
"obsessed",
"ambitious",
"appetent",
"covetous",
"craving",
"hankering",
"longing",
"pining",
"breathless",
"restive",
"restless",
"amenable",
"disposed",
"game",
"glad",
"inclined",
"ready",
"unreluctant",
"willing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casual",
"incurious",
"insouciant",
"nonchalant",
"unconcerned",
"uninterested",
"aloof",
"detached",
"disinterested",
"impassive",
"stolid",
"halfhearted",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"languorous",
"lukewarm",
"spiritless",
"averse",
"disinclined",
"hesitant",
"loath",
"loth",
"loathe",
"reluctant",
"unwilling"
],
"antonyms":[
"apathetic",
"indifferent",
"uneager",
"unenthusiastic"
]
},
"to make short up-and-down movements":{
"examples":[
"the thighs of the bicyclists were pumping furiously as they neared the finish line"
],
"synonyms":[
"bobbed",
"bobbled",
"jogged",
"jounced",
"nodded",
"seesawed",
"wagged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jerked",
"jiggled",
"shook",
"wiggled",
"wobbled",
"wabbled",
"oscillated",
"rocked",
"swayed",
"swung",
"undulated",
"dropped",
"ducked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put a series of questions to":{
"examples":[
"prying neighbors pumped the guileless child for information about the family's new pool"
],
"synonyms":[
"catechized",
"examined",
"grilled",
"interrogated",
"queried",
"questioned",
"quizzed",
"sweat",
"sweated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debriefed",
"cross-examined",
"cross-questioned",
"annoyed",
"harassed",
"hounded",
"pestered",
"canvassed",
"canvased",
"polled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"examples":[
"pumped water from the well"
],
"synonyms":[
"bled",
"drafted",
"drained",
"drew (off)",
"siphoned",
"syphoned",
"tapped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"milked",
"sucked",
"cleared",
"emptied",
"evacuated",
"exhausted",
"vacated",
"vacuated",
"voided",
"decanted",
"effused",
"depleted",
"cleaned",
"flushed",
"purged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bathed",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"drenched",
"soaked",
"soused",
"washed",
"watered",
"wet",
"wetted",
"deluged",
"drowned",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"submerged",
"swamped"
],
"antonyms":[
"filled"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"purloined":{
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"the studio stepped up security, fearing that someone might attempt to purloin a copy of the script for the show's season finale"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriated",
"boosted",
"filched",
"heisted",
"hooked",
"lifted",
"misappropriated",
"nicked",
"nipped",
"pilfered",
"pinched",
"pocketed",
"ripped off",
"snitched",
"stole",
"swiped",
"thieved"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarized",
"knocked over",
"robbed",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"sacked",
"carjacked",
"hijacked",
"highjacked",
"picked",
"rifled",
"poached",
"rustled",
"shoplifted",
"collared",
"grabbed",
"grasped",
"nailed",
"seized",
"snatched",
"took",
"mooched",
"sponged",
"abducted",
"kidnapped",
"kidnaped",
"shanghaied",
"spirited"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bought",
"purchased",
"bestowed",
"contributed",
"donated",
"gave",
"handed over",
"presented"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pups":{
"as in puppies , whelps":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lapdogs",
"puppies",
"puppy dogs",
"whelps",
"bitches",
"bandogs",
"bird dogs",
"coonhounds",
"coursers",
"gundogs",
"hunters",
"sheepdogs",
"sled dogs",
"watchdogs",
"wolf dogs",
"wolfhounds",
"curs",
"mongrels",
"mutts",
"guide dogs",
"police dogs",
"working dogs",
"canines",
"doggies",
"dogs",
"hounds",
"pooches",
"tykes",
"tikes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in litters , kittens":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"calves",
"kids",
"kindles",
"kittens",
"litters",
"whelps",
"begets",
"fathers",
"generates",
"gets",
"sires",
"breeds",
"multiplies",
"propagates",
"reproduces",
"spawns",
"labors",
"bears",
"births",
"delivers",
"drops",
"has",
"mothers",
"produces"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aborts",
"loses",
"miscarries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"punctuates":{
"to indicate the importance of by centering attention on":{
"examples":[
"punctuated each and every word of his denial with a pound of his fist on the table"
],
"synonyms":[
"accents",
"accentuates",
"emphasizes",
"features",
"foregrounds",
"highlights",
"illuminates",
"plays up",
"points (up)",
"presses",
"stresses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"focuses",
"focusses",
"identifies",
"pinpoints",
"spotlights",
"advertises",
"boosts",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"publicizes",
"overplays"
],
"near antonyms":[
"tones (down)",
"underemphasizes",
"understates",
"belittles",
"discounts",
"disparages",
"minimizes"
],
"antonyms":[
"de-emphasizes",
"plays down"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"put across":{
"as in communicate , convey":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"communicate",
"convey",
"put over",
"chime in",
"offer",
"submit",
"sound off",
"speak out",
"speak up",
"describe",
"write",
"write up",
"broadcast",
"circulate",
"disseminate",
"publish",
"advertise",
"announce",
"declare",
"enounce",
"enunciate",
"proclaim",
"say",
"air",
"expound",
"express",
"give",
"look",
"raise",
"sound",
"state",
"vent",
"ventilate",
"voice"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stifle",
"suppress",
"censor",
"restrain",
"restrict"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puppets":{
"a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything":{
"examples":[
"gave her a puppet with strings for a gift"
],
"synonyms":[
"action figures",
"dollies",
"dolls",
"poppets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rag dolls",
"figures",
"figurines",
"handpuppets",
"marionettes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one that is or can be used to further the purposes of another":{
"examples":[
"accused the newspaper editor of being a puppet for the moneyed people of the town"
],
"synonyms":[
"cat's-paws",
"instruments",
"lay figures",
"pawns",
"tools"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chumps",
"dupes",
"foils",
"gulls",
"suckers",
"victims",
"minions",
"stooges",
"lap dogs",
"yes-men"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"puff adder":{
"as in diamondback rattlesnake , garter snake":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adder",
"anaconda",
"asp",
"black racer",
"blacksnake",
"blue racer",
"boa",
"bull snake",
"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",
"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"
]
},
"punisher":{
"one who inflicts punishment in return for an injury or offense":{
"examples":[
"a father who regrets the fact that he always ends up being the household's disciplinarian and resident punisher"
],
"synonyms":[
"avenger",
"castigator",
"chastiser",
"nemesis",
"scourge",
"vigilante"
],
"near synonyms":[
"revenger",
"redresser",
"righter",
"requiter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ransomer",
"redeemer",
"vindicator"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pusses":{
"the front part of the head":{
"examples":[
"the snowball smacked him right in the puss"
],
"synonyms":[
"countenances",
"faces",
"kissers",
"mugs",
"pans",
"visages"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appearances",
"aspects",
"features",
"lineaments",
"looks",
"miens",
"presences",
"expressions",
"physiognomies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a small domestic animal known for catching mice":{
"examples":[
"I don't want a purebred cat, just some playful puss in need of a good home"
],
"synonyms":[
"cats",
"felines",
"house cats",
"kitties",
"moggies",
"pussies",
"pussycats"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mousers",
"kits",
"kittens",
"alley cats",
"tabbies",
"gibs",
"tomcats"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pulling (up)":{
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"examples":[
"the jockey tried to pull up the apparently injured horse"
],
"synonyms":[
"arresting",
"bringing up",
"catching",
"checking",
"drawing up",
"fetching up",
"halting",
"holding up",
"stalling",
"staying",
"stilling",
"stopping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baffling",
"balking",
"blockading",
"blocking",
"bottlenecking",
"clogging",
"damming",
"detaining",
"hindering",
"holding",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"obstructing",
"snagging",
"stemming",
"concluding",
"cutting off",
"ending",
"terminating",
"calling",
"discontinuing",
"suspending",
"choking off",
"reining (in)",
"repressing",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stanching",
"staunching",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"turning back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carrying on",
"continuing",
"following through (with)",
"keeping (on)",
"keeping up",
"persisting",
"running on",
"advancing",
"faring",
"going along",
"marching",
"moving",
"proceeding",
"progressing",
"wending",
"actuating",
"budging",
"driving",
"goading",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"spurring",
"stirring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purchasers":{
"as in buyers , vendees":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"buyers",
"correspondents",
"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"
]
},
"puling":{
"to utter feeble plaintive cries":{
"examples":[
"a distressed baby puling in its crib"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleating",
"mewling",
"whimpering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fussing",
"sniffling",
"sniveling",
"snivelling",
"snuffling",
"whining",
"bawling",
"blubbering",
"blubbing",
"crying",
"sobbing",
"weeping",
"peeping",
"squeaking",
"yelping",
"mumbling",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"groaning",
"moaning",
"sighing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"screaming",
"screeching",
"shrieking",
"squealing",
"howling",
"squalling",
"wailing",
"yowling",
"calling",
"caterwauling",
"squawking",
"bellowing",
"roaring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puckers":{
"to pull the sides of (something, such as skin or cloth) together so that folds or wrinkles are formed":{
"examples":[
"puckered the fabric before adding stitches"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"corrugates",
"creases",
"crimps",
"folds",
"pleats",
"rucks",
"crinkles",
"crumples",
"rumples",
"scrunches",
"wrinkles",
"crisps",
"ripples",
"ruffles",
"contracts",
"furrows",
"knits",
"messes (up)",
"musses (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evens",
"irons",
"presses",
"straightens",
"unfolds",
"neatens",
"tidies",
"flattens",
"irons out",
"smoothens",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"uncrumples"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in layers , seams":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"corrugations",
"layers",
"loops",
"plaits",
"pleats",
"plies",
"seams",
"tucks",
"creases",
"crimps",
"crinkles",
"furrows",
"wrinkles",
"crow's-feet",
"crow's feet"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pupped":{
"as in littered , kittened":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"calved",
"kidded",
"kindled",
"kittened",
"littered",
"whelped",
"begot",
"begat",
"fathered",
"generated",
"got",
"sired",
"bred",
"multiplied",
"propagated",
"reproduced",
"spawned",
"labored",
"birthed",
"bore",
"delivered",
"dropped",
"had",
"mothered",
"produced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aborted",
"lost",
"miscarried"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pump up":{
"to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings of":{
"examples":[
"the crowd was pumped up by the band's rocking performance"
],
"synonyms":[
"charge",
"electrify",
"excite",
"exhilarate",
"galvanize",
"intoxicate",
"thrill",
"titillate",
"turn on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arouse",
"incite",
"inspire",
"provoke",
"stimulate",
"bewitch",
"captivate",
"charm",
"delight",
"enchant",
"enthrall",
"enthral",
"hypnotize",
"mesmerize",
"rivet",
"spellbind",
"interest",
"intrigue",
"tantalize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bore",
"jade",
"pall",
"tire",
"weary",
"deject",
"demoralize",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"dispirit"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"that pop diva is trying to pump up album sales with an extended publicity tour"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"add (to)",
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"boost",
"build up",
"compound",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"extend",
"hype",
"increase",
"multiply",
"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)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pureeing":{
"as in slicing , mashing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chipping",
"grating",
"grinding",
"kibbling",
"mashing",
"slicing",
"chopping",
"dicing",
"hashing",
"mincing",
"butchering",
"carving",
"dissecting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purple":{
"full of fine words and fancy expressions":{
"examples":[
"an overwritten novel with far too many purple patches"
],
"synonyms":[
"aureate",
"florid",
"flowery",
"grandiloquent",
"high-flown",
"high-sounding",
"highfalutin",
"hifalutin",
"magnific",
"ornate",
"rhetorical",
"rhetoric"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affected",
"bloated",
"fancy-pants",
"grandiose",
"inflated",
"pompous",
"pretentious",
"stilted",
"excessive",
"flattering",
"fulsome",
"boastful",
"bombastic",
"elevated",
"eloquent",
"lofty",
"bookish",
"inkhorn",
"learned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"prosaic",
"unpoetic",
"bald",
"direct",
"lean",
"matter-of-fact",
"plain",
"plainspoken",
"simple",
"spare",
"stark",
"straightforward",
"unadorned",
"natural",
"unaffected",
"unpretentious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pulls":{
"to cause to follow by applying steady force on":{
"examples":[
"a team of horses pulling a heavy wagon"
],
"synonyms":[
"drags",
"draws",
"hales",
"hauls",
"lugs",
"tows",
"tugs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attracts",
"heaves",
"jerks",
"yanks",
"carries",
"conveys",
"ferries",
"moves",
"transports"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shoves",
"thrusts"
],
"antonyms":[
"drives",
"propels",
"pushes"
]
},
"to draw out by force or with effort":{
"examples":[
"the dentist had to struggle to pull the tooth"
],
"synonyms":[
"corkscrews",
"extracts",
"pries",
"prizes",
"roots (out)",
"tears (out)",
"uproots",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"yanks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mines",
"plucks",
"removes",
"takes (out)",
"withdraws"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implants",
"inserts",
"installs",
"instills",
"crams",
"jams",
"rams",
"stuffs",
"wedges"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure":{
"examples":[
"lift the crate carefully, or you'll pull a muscle"
],
"synonyms":[
"racks",
"strains",
"stretches",
"wrenches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frays",
"taxes",
"weakens",
"damages",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"wounds",
"batters",
"bruises",
"tears",
"cripples",
"lames",
"mangles",
"mutilates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or an instance of applying force on something so that it moves in the direction of the force":{
"examples":[
"I gave the door such a pull that when it suddenly opened, I nearly fell backwards"
],
"synonyms":[
"draws",
"hauls",
"jerks",
"plucks",
"tugs",
"wrenches",
"yanks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drags",
"tows",
"hitches",
"twitches",
"grabs",
"snatches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heaves",
"shoves",
"thrusts"
],
"antonyms":[
"pushes"
]
},
"the power to direct the thinking or behavior of others usually indirectly":{
"examples":[
"their lawyer supposedly has a lot of pull with the administration in Washington"
],
"synonyms":[
"authorities",
"clouts",
"credits",
"hefts",
"influences",
"ins",
"juices",
"leverages",
"sways",
"weights"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterinfluences",
"counter-influences",
"commands",
"dominances",
"dominions",
"masteries",
"predominances",
"reigns",
"scepters",
"sovereignties",
"sovranties",
"supremacies",
"consequences",
"eminences",
"importances",
"moments",
"impacts",
"impresses",
"impressions",
"imprints",
"marks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impotences",
"impotencies",
"weaknesses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the more favorable condition or position in a competition":{
"examples":[
"a political candidate with all of the pull that comes with a vast fortune and famous surname"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantages",
"betters",
"bulges",
"catbird seats",
"drops",
"edges",
"high grounds",
"inside tracks",
"jumps",
"steads",
"upper hands",
"vantages",
"whip hands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allowances",
"head starts",
"leads",
"legs up",
"margins",
"odds",
"starts",
"ascendancies",
"ascendencies",
"commands",
"dominances",
"masteries",
"predominances",
"superiorities",
"supremacies",
"transcendences",
"transcendencies",
"precedences",
"preferences",
"prerogatives",
"privileges",
"seniorities",
"breaks",
"footholds",
"opportunities",
"benefits",
"blessings",
"boons",
"felicities",
"godsends",
"mannas",
"windfalls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detriments",
"strangleholds",
"disparities",
"imbalances",
"inequalities",
"disabilities",
"failings",
"impairments",
"shortcomings",
"bars",
"catches",
"checks",
"clogs",
"crimps",
"embarrassments",
"hindrances",
"hitches",
"hurdles",
"impediments",
"interferences",
"lets",
"manacles",
"obstacles",
"obstructions",
"rubs",
"shackles",
"stops",
"trammels",
"lurches",
"setbacks"
],
"antonyms":[
"disadvantages",
"drawbacks",
"handicaps",
"liabilities",
"minuses",
"penalties",
"strikes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"putting the kibosh on":{
"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"breaking off",
"breaking up",
"canning",
"ceasing",
"cutting off",
"cutting out",
"desisting (from)",
"discontinuing",
"dropping",
"ending",
"giving over",
"halting",
"knocking off",
"laying off",
"leaving off",
"packing (up or in)",
"quitting",
"shutting off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"completing",
"concluding",
"finishing",
"closing (down)",
"deactivating",
"blockading",
"blocking",
"damming",
"delaying",
"detaining",
"hindering",
"holding",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"kiboshing",
"obstructing",
"stemming",
"calling",
"suspending",
"arresting",
"braking",
"checking",
"clamping down",
"reining (in)",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stamping",
"stanching",
"staunching",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"turning back",
"pausing",
"staying",
"suspending",
"abolishing",
"aborting",
"annulling",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"dissolving",
"killing",
"ruining",
"scuttling",
"snuffing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carrying on",
"continuing",
"following through (with)",
"keeping up",
"running on",
"advancing",
"proceeding",
"progressing",
"actuating",
"driving",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"stirring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"puckered":{
"to pull the sides of (something, such as skin or cloth) together so that folds or wrinkles are formed":{
"examples":[
"puckered the fabric before adding stitches"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"corrugated",
"creased",
"crimped",
"folded",
"pleated",
"rucked",
"crinkled",
"crumpled",
"rumpled",
"scrunched",
"wrinkled",
"crisped",
"rippled",
"ruffled",
"contracted",
"furrowed",
"knit",
"knitted",
"messed (up)",
"mussed (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evened",
"ironed",
"pressed",
"straightened",
"unfolded",
"neatened",
"tidied",
"flattened",
"ironed out",
"smoothed",
"smoothened",
"uncrumpled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pursuer":{
"as in hunter , chaser":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chaser",
"hunter",
"carnivore",
"killer",
"murderer",
"predator"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chase",
"prey",
"quarry",
"game",
"kill",
"victim"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"putting on an act":{
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
"examples":[
"You don't need to put on an act just to impress us."
],
"synonyms":[
"dissembling",
"dissimulating",
"letting on",
"making out",
"pretending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acting",
"impersonating",
"masquerading",
"playacting",
"playing",
"posing",
"affecting",
"assuming",
"counterfeiting",
"faking",
"feigning",
"professing",
"putting on",
"shamming",
"simulating",
"camouflaging",
"concealing",
"disguising",
"masking",
"bluffing",
"feinting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"put in (for)":{
"to give a request or demand for":{
"examples":[
"several employees have already put in for vacation time during the last week of December"
],
"synonyms":[
"ask (for)",
"order",
"request",
"requisition"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commission",
"solicit",
"charter",
"hire",
"license",
"licence"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pusher":{
"as in smuggler , hustler":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"black marketer",
"black marketeer",
"bootlegger",
"fence",
"fencer",
"hustler",
"smuggler",
"trader",
"concessionaire",
"costermonger",
"dealer",
"merchandiser",
"merchant",
"seller",
"vendor",
"vender",
"hawker",
"huckster",
"peddler",
"pedlar"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buyer",
"purchaser",
"consumer",
"end user",
"user"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"puts one's finger on":{
"to find out or establish the identity of":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"distinguishes",
"fingers",
"identifies",
"IDs",
"pinpoints",
"singles (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diagnoses",
"determines",
"finds",
"locates",
"picks out",
"places",
"recognizes",
"spots",
"checks",
"examines",
"inspects",
"investigates",
"notices",
"observes",
"scrutinizes",
"betrays",
"discloses",
"discovers",
"reveals"
],
"near antonyms":[
"camouflages",
"conceals",
"disguises",
"hides",
"counterfeits",
"feigns",
"shams",
"simulates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"punctual":{
"done, carried out, or given without delay":{
"examples":[
"the punctual delivery of the daily mail"
],
"synonyms":[
"immediate",
"prompt",
"speedy",
"timely"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apt",
"quick",
"ready",
"swift",
"willing",
"opportune",
"seasonable",
"early"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delinquent",
"latish",
"overdue",
"behind",
"behindhand",
"delayed",
"detained",
"dilatory",
"laggard",
"slow"
],
"antonyms":[
"belated",
"late",
"tardy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pulped":{
"to cause to become a pulpy mass":{
"examples":[
"pulped three oranges to get their juice"
],
"synonyms":[
"crushed",
"mashed",
"squashed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pressed",
"squeezed",
"beat",
"pounded",
"powdered",
"pulverized"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pullback":{
"an act of moving away especially from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable":{
"examples":[
"the pullback was necessary so that the commanders could reorganize their units and reassess the situation"
],
"synonyms":[
"pullout",
"recession",
"retirement",
"retreat",
"withdrawal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rout",
"flinch",
"recoil",
"revulsion",
"shrinking",
"disengagement",
"disentanglement"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"advance",
"advancement"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pursue":{
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"the policeman doggedly pursued the pickpocket through the crowded subway station"
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dog",
"chase",
"course",
"dog",
"follow",
"hound",
"run",
"shadow",
"tag",
"tail",
"trace",
"track",
"trail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompany",
"chaperone",
"chaperon",
"escort",
"hunt",
"search (for)",
"seek",
"eye",
"observe",
"watch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"head"
],
"antonyms":[
"guide",
"lead",
"pilot"
]
},
"to go in search of":{
"examples":[
"urged the graduates to pursue personal fulfillment instead of financial success"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast about (for)",
"cast around (for)",
"chase (down)",
"forage (for)",
"hunt",
"look up",
"quest",
"search (for or out)",
"seek",
"shop (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ferret (out)",
"root (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hide",
"lose",
"ignore",
"neglect"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pushed on":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"the party was getting deadly dull, so it was time to push on"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailed",
"bailed out",
"booked",
"bugged off",
"bugged out",
"buggered off",
"buzzed (off)",
"cleared off",
"cleared out",
"cut out",
"departed",
"dug out",
"exited",
"got",
"got off",
"moved",
"packed (up or off)",
"parted",
"peeled off",
"piked (out or off)",
"pulled out",
"pushed off",
"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"
]
},
"pudginess":{
"the condition of having an excess of body fat":{
"examples":[
"started to notice a little pudginess around his middle"
],
"synonyms":[
"adiposity",
"chubbiness",
"corpulence",
"corpulency",
"embonpoint",
"fat",
"fatness",
"fattiness",
"fleshiness",
"grossness",
"obesity",
"plumpness",
"portliness",
"pursiness",
"rotundity",
"weight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bulkiness",
"heaviness",
"huskiness",
"stoutness",
"brawniness",
"burliness",
"endomorphy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fitness",
"trimness",
"gauntness",
"scrawniness",
"skinniness",
"weediness"
],
"antonyms":[
"leanness",
"reediness",
"slenderness",
"slimness",
"svelteness",
"thinness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pussy":{
"a small domestic animal known for catching mice":{
"examples":[
"fed his pussy only the finest fish for her supper"
],
"synonyms":[
"cat",
"feline",
"house cat",
"kitty",
"moggy",
"moggie",
"puss",
"pussycat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mouser",
"kit",
"kitten",
"alley cat",
"tabby",
"gib",
"tomcat"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pugilist":{
"one that engages in the sport of fighting with the fists":{
"examples":[
"a pugilist with the trademark of the boxing ring: a nose that showed signs of having been broken on more than one occasion"
],
"synonyms":[
"boxer",
"fighter",
"gladiator",
"prizefighter",
"pug"
],
"near synonyms":[
"palooka",
"slugger",
"stumblebum",
"bantamweight",
"cruiserweight",
"featherweight",
"flyweight",
"heavyweight",
"light heavyweight",
"lightweight",
"middleweight",
"superheavyweight",
"welterweight"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"puff":{
"a slight or gentle movement of air":{
"examples":[
"felt a puff of wind on his face"
],
"synonyms":[
"air",
"breath",
"breeze",
"waft",
"zephyr"
],
"near synonyms":[
"current",
"draft",
"whiff",
"sea breeze",
"blast",
"blow",
"flurry",
"gale",
"headwind",
"northeaster",
"norther",
"northwester",
"southeaster",
"southwester",
"tailwind",
"westerly",
"wind",
"squall",
"tempest",
"tornado",
"windstorm",
"airflow"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calm"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficulty":{
"examples":[
"he came running up the stairs puffing and wheezing"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"gasp",
"heave",
"hyperventilate",
"pant",
"wheeze"
],
"near synonyms":[
"choke",
"gag",
"gulp",
"huff",
"asphyxiate",
"smother",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"snore",
"snuffle",
"exhale",
"expire"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to praise too much":{
"examples":[
"a talk show host who can be counted on to puff up the celebrities who readily consent to be interviewed"
],
"synonyms":[
"adulate",
"belaud",
"blarney",
"butter up",
"flatter",
"hero-worship",
"honey",
"massage",
"overpraise",
"soft-soap",
"stroke"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blandish",
"cajole",
"coax",
"sweet-talk",
"wheedle",
"fawn",
"kowtow",
"suck (up to)",
"toady",
"idolize",
"worship",
"eulogize",
"extol",
"extoll",
"laud",
"praise",
"applaud",
"commend",
"compliment",
"congratulate",
"felicitate",
"drool",
"gush",
"slaver",
"slobber",
"endear",
"ingratiate",
"court",
"romance",
"woo"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"decry",
"depreciate",
"disparage",
"put down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"put-downs":{
"an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings":{
"examples":[
"new hires always have to deal with put-downs and practical jokes from the older employees"
],
"synonyms":[
"affronts",
"barbs",
"brickbats",
"cuts",
"darts",
"digs",
"dises",
"disses",
"epithets",
"girds",
"indignities",
"insults",
"names",
"offenses",
"offences",
"outrages",
"personalities",
"pokes",
"sarcasms",
"slaps",
"slights",
"slurs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catcalls",
"gibes",
"jibes",
"jeers",
"mocks",
"quips",
"sneers",
"taunts",
"abuses",
"invectives",
"vituperations",
"disapprovals",
"opprobriums",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"shames",
"attacks",
"criticisms",
"knocks",
"slams",
"swipes",
"torments",
"tortures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accolades",
"commendations",
"compliments",
"acclaim",
"applauses",
"praises",
"adulations",
"flatteries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant":{
"examples":[
"your never-ending put-down of my musical talents is really starting to annoy me"
],
"synonyms":[
"belittlements",
"denigrations",
"deprecations",
"depreciations",
"derogations",
"detractions",
"diminishments",
"disparagements"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersions",
"calumnies",
"defamations",
"libels",
"slanders",
"vilifications",
"derisions",
"mockeries",
"ridicules",
"abuses",
"invectives",
"vituperations",
"censures",
"condemnations",
"criticisms",
"denouncements",
"denunciations",
"de-emphases",
"minimizations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"praises",
"approbations",
"approvals",
"blessings",
"commendations",
"hypes",
"pufferies"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizements",
"ennoblements",
"exaltations",
"glorifications",
"magnifications"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"publishing":{
"as in publication , release":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coming out",
"issuing",
"publication",
"putting out",
"release",
"manufacture",
"printing",
"production",
"syndication",
"broadcasting",
"circulation",
"dissemination",
"distribution",
"propagation",
"spread",
"transmission",
"advertising",
"announcement",
"annunciation",
"communication",
"declaration",
"enunciation",
"notification",
"proclamation",
"promotion",
"promulgation",
"propaganda",
"publicity",
"advent",
"appearance",
"arrival",
"debut",
"d\u00e9but",
"emergence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censorship",
"suppression"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to produce and release for distribution in printed form":{
"examples":[
"our local animal shelter publishes a newsletter"
],
"synonyms":[
"getting out",
"issuing",
"printing",
"putting out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copublishing",
"co-publishing",
"reissuing",
"reprinting",
"republishing",
"serializing",
"contributing",
"editing",
"syndicating",
"manufacturing",
"producing",
"distributing",
"marketing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censoring",
"suppressing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"will publish the exam scores as soon as they are available"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertising",
"announcing",
"annunciating",
"blaring",
"blazing",
"blazoning",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"enunciating",
"flashing",
"giving out",
"heralding",
"placarding",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"promulgating",
"publicizing",
"releasing",
"sounding",
"trumpeting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barking",
"calling (off or out)",
"crying",
"billboarding",
"billing",
"bulletining",
"gazetting",
"knelling",
"ringing",
"tolling",
"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":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pub":{
"a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises":{
"examples":[
"coworkers enjoying the convivial atmosphere of the Irish pub"
],
"synonyms":[
"bar",
"barroom",
"caf\u00e9",
"cafe",
"cantina",
"dramshop",
"gin mill",
"grogshop",
"public house",
"saloon",
"taproom",
"tavern",
"watering hole",
"watering place"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alehouse",
"barrelhouse",
"bistro",
"bottle club",
"brewpub",
"cabaret",
"dive",
"joint",
"nightclub",
"roadhouse",
"speakeasy",
"sports bar",
"wineshop",
"package store"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"put forth":{
"to set before the mind for consideration":{
"examples":[
"They put forth a plan of action for the committee."
],
"synonyms":[
"advance",
"bounce",
"offer",
"pose",
"proffer",
"propose",
"propound",
"suggest",
"vote"
],
"near synonyms":[
"move",
"nominate",
"recommend",
"present",
"submit",
"tender",
"trot out",
"file",
"lay",
"lodge",
"arrange",
"calculate",
"chart",
"contrive",
"cover",
"frame",
"map",
"plan",
"plot",
"shape"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion)":{
"examples":[
"She put forth her thoughts during the meeting."
],
"synonyms":[
"air",
"expound",
"express",
"give",
"look",
"raise",
"sound",
"state",
"vent",
"ventilate",
"voice"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertise",
"announce",
"declare",
"enounce",
"enunciate",
"proclaim",
"say",
"broadcast",
"circulate",
"disseminate",
"publish",
"describe",
"write",
"write up",
"sound off",
"speak out",
"speak up",
"chime in",
"communicate",
"convey",
"put across",
"put over",
"offer",
"submit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censor",
"restrain",
"restrict"
],
"antonyms":[
"stifle",
"suppress"
]
},
"to state as a fact usually forcefully":{
"examples":[
"He put forth an explanation even though he didn't have any supporting evidence."
],
"synonyms":[
"affirm",
"allege",
"assert",
"aver",
"avouch",
"avow",
"claim",
"contend",
"declare",
"insist",
"maintain",
"profess",
"protest",
"purport",
"warrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"announce",
"broadcast",
"proclaim",
"argue",
"rationalize",
"reason",
"confirm",
"justify",
"vindicate",
"defend",
"persevere",
"support",
"uphold",
"reaffirm",
"reassert"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandon",
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"disown",
"negate",
"negative",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"challenge",
"dispute",
"question",
"confute",
"disprove",
"rebut",
"refute",
"contradict",
"counter"
],
"antonyms":[
"deny",
"gainsay"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"purgatives":{
"a substance used to induce or speed up the process of defecation":{
"examples":[
"In the past, purgatives were sometimes administered in cases of accidental poisoning."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cathartics",
"cures",
"drugs",
"medicaments",
"medications",
"medicinals",
"medicines",
"pharmaceuticals",
"physics",
"remedies",
"specifics",
"cure-alls",
"nostrums",
"panaceas",
"botanicals",
"patent medicines",
"prescription drugs",
"prescriptions",
"cordials",
"potions",
"tonics",
"miracle drugs",
"wonder drugs",
"caps",
"capsules",
"pills",
"tablets",
"syrups",
"sirups",
"tinctures",
"antibiotics",
"antiseptics",
"sera",
"serums"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"put aside":{
"as in dismantle , phase out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dismantle",
"mothball",
"phase out",
"deactivate",
"kill",
"shut off",
"turn off",
"flick (off)",
"arrest",
"brake",
"chock",
"cut off",
"draw up",
"halt",
"jam",
"stall",
"stick"
],
"near antonyms":[
"charge",
"electrify",
"energize",
"fire",
"fuel",
"generate",
"power",
"push",
"discharge",
"launch",
"release",
"switch",
"trip",
"reactivate",
"recharge",
"activate",
"actuate",
"crank (up)",
"drive",
"move",
"propel",
"run",
"set off",
"spark",
"start",
"touch off",
"trigger",
"turn on"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pugnacity":{
"an inclination to fight or quarrel":{
"examples":[
"the players need to temper their pugnacity with a little self-restraint\u2014their aggressive style of play too often results in penalties"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggression",
"aggressiveness",
"assaultiveness",
"bellicosity",
"belligerence",
"belligerency",
"combativeness",
"contentiousness",
"defiance",
"disputatiousness",
"feistiness",
"fight",
"militance",
"militancy",
"militantness",
"quarrelsomeness",
"scrappiness",
"truculence"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antagonism",
"fierceness",
"hostility",
"hyperaggressiveness",
"unfriendliness",
"imperialism",
"jingoism",
"militarism",
"acidity",
"biliousness",
"captiousness",
"crankiness",
"crossness",
"disagreeableness",
"fractiousness",
"fretfulness",
"grouchiness",
"grumpiness",
"huffiness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"irritableness",
"orneriness",
"peevishness",
"pettishness",
"petulance",
"querulousness",
"rudeness",
"surliness",
"testiness",
"waspishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antiaggression",
"anti-imperialism",
"antimilitarism",
"affability",
"amiability",
"amicability",
"benevolence",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"geniality",
"graciousness",
"pleasantness",
"sociability",
"gentleness",
"kindliness",
"mildness",
"amenability",
"complaisance",
"placability"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonaggression",
"pacifism"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"putter (around)":{
"to spend time in aimless activity":{
"examples":[
"I spent all weekend at home just puttering around"
],
"synonyms":[
"doodle",
"fiddle (around)",
"fool around",
"fribble",
"goof (around)",
"hang about",
"kick around",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"clown (around)",
"horse around",
"diddle (with)",
"tinker"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buckle (down)",
"knuckle down",
"set (to)",
"settle (down)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purr":{
"a monotonous sound like that of an insect in motion":{
"examples":[
"listened to the reassuring purr of the car engine"
],
"synonyms":[
"burr",
"buzz",
"chirr",
"churr",
"drone",
"hum",
"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":[]
},
"as in whisper , shout":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"breathe",
"chirp",
"drawl",
"gasp",
"lip",
"mouth",
"murmur",
"shout",
"splutter",
"spout",
"whisper",
"articulate",
"bring out",
"enunciate",
"pass",
"say",
"speak",
"state",
"talk",
"tell",
"utter",
"verbalize",
"vocalize",
"air",
"discuss",
"give",
"look",
"share",
"sound",
"vent",
"ventilate",
"voice",
"blabber",
"blurt",
"bolt",
"get off",
"shoot",
"advertise",
"announce",
"blaze",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"post",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"publish",
"affirm",
"allege",
"assert",
"aver",
"avouch",
"avow",
"clothe",
"couch",
"formulate",
"formulize",
"phrase",
"put",
"word",
"comment",
"pipe up (with)",
"remark",
"rip (out)",
"snarl"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"puts paid to":{
"to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point":{
"examples":[
"The final payment put paid to his debt obligations."
],
"synonyms":[
"closes",
"closes out",
"completes",
"concludes",
"ends",
"finishes",
"rounds (off or out)",
"terminates",
"winds up",
"wraps up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"climaxes",
"crowns",
"consummates",
"perfects",
"halts",
"stops",
"suspends"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"begins",
"commences",
"inaugurates",
"opens",
"starts"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"purified":{
"free from added matter":{
"examples":[
"purified water that was now safe to drink"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"fine",
"neat",
"plain",
"pure",
"refined",
"straight",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"undiluted",
"unmixed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clarified",
"filtered",
"clean",
"fresh",
"taintless",
"uncontaminated",
"uncorrupted",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"untainted",
"rendered",
"tried",
"concentrated",
"full-bodied",
"strong",
"uncombined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"befouled",
"besmirched",
"contaminated",
"corrupted",
"debased",
"defiled",
"fouled",
"polluted",
"soiled",
"spoiled",
"sullied",
"tainted",
"unclarified",
"amalgamated",
"blended",
"coalesced",
"combined",
"commingled",
"compounded",
"incorporated",
"intermingled",
"intermixed",
"merged",
"mingled",
"conjoined",
"fused",
"joined",
"linked",
"united",
"cheapened",
"doctored",
"watered-down"
],
"antonyms":[
"adulterated",
"alloyed",
"diluted",
"impure",
"mixed"
]
},
"to free from moral guilt or blemish especially ceremonially":{
"examples":[
"Catholics go to confession to be purified"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleansed",
"purged",
"sanctified"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amended",
"improved",
"refined",
"healed",
"regenerated",
"restored",
"elevated",
"ennobled",
"uplifted",
"absolved",
"acquitted",
"cleared",
"exonerated",
"vindicated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corrupted",
"debased",
"debauched",
"defiled",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"depraved",
"perverted",
"stained",
"warped",
"poisoned",
"profaned",
"prostituted",
"sullied",
"tarnished"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove usually visible impurities from":{
"examples":[
"purify the water by distillation"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarified",
"cleared",
"distilled",
"filtered",
"fined",
"garbled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"processed",
"rectified",
"refined",
"cleaned",
"cleansed",
"decontaminated",
"elutriated",
"purged",
"washed",
"extracted",
"leached",
"bolted",
"screened",
"sieved",
"sifted",
"disinfected",
"sanitized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clouded",
"dulled",
"muddied",
"contaminated",
"dirtied",
"soiled",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"begrimed",
"besmirched",
"fouled",
"sullied"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pulling round":{
"to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness":{
"examples":[
"after a week without any relapses, it became clear that she would pull round eventually"
],
"synonyms":[
"coming back",
"convalescing",
"gaining",
"healing",
"mending",
"rallying",
"recouping",
"recovering",
"recuperating",
"snapping back"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coming around",
"coming round",
"coming to",
"improving",
"picking up",
"reviving",
"cheering (up)",
"perking (up)",
"pulling through",
"surviving",
"recruiting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ailing",
"collapsing",
"coming down",
"sickening",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"deteriorating",
"fading",
"failing",
"languishing",
"sinking",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting",
"withering",
"worsening",
"regressing",
"relapsing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puna":{
"as in karoo":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"karoo",
"karroo",
"butte",
"dome",
"height",
"highland",
"upland",
"altiplano",
"mesa",
"plateau",
"table",
"tableland"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"punishments":{
"suffering, loss, or hardship imposed in response to a crime or offense":{
"examples":[
"he is serving five years in prison as punishment for aggravated assault"
],
"synonyms":[
"castigations",
"chastisements",
"comeuppances",
"corrections",
"deserts",
"disciplines",
"nemeses",
"penalties",
"wraths"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reprisals",
"retaliations",
"retributions",
"revenges",
"vengeances",
"assessments",
"charges",
"fines",
"mulcts",
"examples",
"sentences",
"confinements",
"imprisonments",
"incarcerations",
"condemnations",
"damnations",
"denouncements",
"censures",
"criticisms",
"rebukes",
"reprimands",
"reproofs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amnesties",
"indemnities",
"pardons",
"paroles",
"acquittals",
"exculpations",
"exonerations",
"vindications",
"exemptions",
"immunities",
"impunities",
"releases",
"commutations",
"reprieves",
"absolutions",
"remissions",
"remitments",
"condonations",
"disregards"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"punctually":{
"as in immediately , promptly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"immediately",
"instantly",
"presently",
"promptly",
"pronto",
"beforehand",
"early",
"inopportunely",
"precociously",
"prematurely",
"unseasonably",
"apropos",
"betimes",
"seasonably"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belatedly",
"late",
"tardily"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"purposely":{
"with full awareness of what one is doing":{
"examples":[
"the real estate agent purposely withheld information that would have discouraged us from buying the property"
],
"synonyms":[
"advisedly",
"consciously",
"deliberately",
"designedly",
"intentionally",
"knowingly",
"purposefully",
"purposively",
"willfully",
"wittingly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calculatedly",
"studiedly",
"voluntarily",
"willingly",
"premeditatedly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accidentally",
"incidentally",
"haphazardly",
"randomly",
"involuntarily",
"unwillingly",
"impulsively",
"instinctively",
"spontaneously"
],
"antonyms":[
"inadvertently",
"unconsciously",
"unintentionally",
"unknowingly",
"unwittingly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"puttering (around)":{
"to spend time in aimless activity":{
"examples":[
"I spent all weekend at home just puttering around"
],
"synonyms":[
"doodling",
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling around",
"fribbling",
"goofing (around)",
"hanging about",
"kicking around",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"trifling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"clowning (around)",
"horsing around",
"diddling (with)",
"tinkering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buckling (down)",
"knuckling down",
"setting (to)",
"settling (down)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purveyors":{
"a person or business that sells or provides something":{
"examples":[
"a purveyor of kitchen supplies",
"a software purveyor"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"distributors",
"providers",
"provisioners",
"suppliers",
"dealers",
"merchandisers",
"merchants",
"traders",
"tradesmen",
"traffickers",
"businessmen",
"enterprisers",
"entrepreneurs",
"buyers",
"marketers",
"purchasers",
"hawkers",
"hucksters",
"hustlers",
"peddlers",
"pedlars",
"retailers",
"sellers",
"shopkeepers",
"storekeepers",
"vendors",
"venders",
"engrossers",
"monopolists",
"jobbers",
"middlemen",
"wholesalers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pucks":{
"an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers":{
"examples":[
"dreamed that her garden was the secret meeting place of pucks and sprites"
],
"synonyms":[
"brownies",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"elves",
"faeries",
"fairies",
"fays",
"gnomes",
"goblins",
"gremlins",
"hobgoblins",
"kobolds",
"leprechauns",
"pixies",
"sprites",
"trolls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"little people",
"kelpies",
"nixies",
"changelings",
"imps",
"banshees",
"ghouls",
"hags",
"ogres"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"punctuated":{
"to indicate the importance of by centering attention on":{
"examples":[
"punctuated each and every word of his denial with a pound of his fist on the table"
],
"synonyms":[
"accented",
"accentuated",
"emphasized",
"featured",
"foregrounded",
"highlighted",
"illuminated",
"played up",
"pointed (up)",
"pressed",
"stressed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"focused",
"focussed",
"identified",
"pinpointed",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"advertised",
"boosted",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"publicized",
"overplayed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"toned (down)",
"underemphasized",
"understated",
"belittled",
"discounted",
"disparaged",
"minimized"
],
"antonyms":[
"de-emphasized",
"played down"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pushes on":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"the party was getting deadly dull, so it was time to push on"
],
"synonyms":[
"bails",
"bails out",
"books",
"buggers off",
"bugs off",
"bugs out",
"buzzes (off)",
"clears off",
"clears out",
"cuts out",
"departs",
"digs out",
"exits",
"gets",
"gets off",
"goes",
"goes off",
"moves",
"packs (up or off)",
"parts",
"peels off",
"pikes (out or off)",
"pulls out",
"pushes off",
"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"
]
},
"purpose":{
"something that one hopes or intends to accomplish":{
"examples":[
"the purpose of the research is to discover how the virus is transmitted"
],
"synonyms":[
"aim",
"ambition",
"aspiration",
"bourne",
"bourn",
"design",
"dream",
"end",
"goal",
"idea",
"ideal",
"intent",
"intention",
"mark",
"meaning",
"object",
"objective",
"plan",
"point",
"pretension",
"target",
"thing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grail",
"holy grail",
"plot",
"project",
"scheme",
"desire",
"hope",
"mind",
"wish",
"nirvana",
"destination",
"terminus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"means",
"method",
"way"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists":{
"examples":[
"still trying to discover her purpose in life"
],
"synonyms":[
"business",
"capacity",
"function",
"job",
"part",
"place",
"position",
"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":[]
},
"to have in mind as a purpose or goal":{
"examples":[
"I've been purposing to fix that thing for some time now"
],
"synonyms":[
"aim",
"allow",
"aspire",
"calculate",
"contemplate",
"design",
"go",
"intend",
"look",
"mean",
"meditate",
"plan",
"propose",
"purport"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dream",
"hope",
"wish",
"consider",
"debate",
"mull (over)",
"ponder",
"attempt",
"endeavor",
"strive",
"struggle",
"try",
"plot",
"scheme",
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"effect",
"execute",
"perform"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pulled one's leg":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"He was just pulling your leg when he said he won the lottery."
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozled",
"beguiled",
"bluffed",
"buffaloed",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pusillanimity":{
"a shameful lack of courage in the face of danger":{
"examples":[
"the pusillanimity shown by the press on this issue after the administration began applying pressure"
],
"synonyms":[
"cowardice",
"cowardliness",
"cravenness",
"dastardliness",
"gutlessness",
"poltroonery",
"spinelessness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diffidence",
"faintheartedness",
"fearfulness",
"timidity",
"timorousness",
"carefulness",
"cautiousness",
"wariness",
"bashfulness",
"shyness",
"feebleness",
"softness",
"weakness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"audacity",
"boldness",
"brazenness",
"backbone",
"fiber",
"fortitude",
"grit",
"gumption",
"mettle",
"pluck",
"spunk",
"determination",
"perseverance",
"resolution",
"endurance",
"stamina",
"tenacity"
],
"antonyms":[
"bravery",
"courage",
"courageousness",
"daring",
"dauntlessness",
"doughtiness",
"fearlessness",
"gallantry",
"greatheartedness",
"guts",
"hardihood",
"heart",
"heroism",
"intrepidity",
"intrepidness",
"nerve",
"stoutness",
"valiance",
"valor",
"virtue"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pushing off":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"let's push off while it's still early enough to beat the evening rush"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailing",
"bailing out",
"booking",
"buggering off",
"bugging off",
"bugging out",
"buzzing (off)",
"clearing off",
"clearing out",
"cutting out",
"departing",
"digging out",
"exiting",
"getting",
"getting off",
"going",
"going off",
"moving",
"packing (up or off)",
"parting",
"peeling off",
"piking (out or off)",
"pulling out",
"pushing 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"
]
},
"pushchairs":{
"a small four-wheeled vehicle designed for pushing a baby around in":{
"examples":[
"a fun festival that appeals to adults as well as tots in pushchairs"
],
"synonyms":[
"baby buggies",
"baby carriages",
"buggies",
"perambulators",
"prams",
"strollers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bassinets",
"cradles",
"cribs",
"carry-cots"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pugnoses":{
"as in pugs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pugs",
"beaks",
"conks",
"honkers",
"nebs",
"noses",
"nozzles",
"proboscises",
"proboscides",
"schnozzes",
"schnozzolas",
"schnozzles",
"smellers",
"snoots",
"snouts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"puzzled":{
"as in bewildered , bemused":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"startled",
"surprised",
"surprized",
"overwhelmed",
"staggered",
"stunned",
"stupefied",
"amazed",
"astonished",
"astounded",
"awed",
"awestruck",
"awestricken",
"dumbfounded",
"dumfounded",
"flabbergasted",
"marveling",
"marvelling",
"openmouthed",
"wondering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unimpressed",
"disinterested",
"incurious",
"indifferent",
"unconcerned",
"uninterested",
"dispassionate",
"emotionless",
"impassive",
"unemotional",
"bored",
"jaded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in critical , quizzical":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"critical",
"quizzical",
"paranoid",
"paranoidal",
"careful",
"cautious",
"guarded",
"gun-shy",
"leery",
"leary",
"wary",
"watchful",
"disbelieving",
"distrustful",
"doubting",
"incredulous",
"mistrustful",
"negativistic",
"questioning",
"show-me",
"skeptical",
"suspecting",
"suspicious",
"unbelieving",
"cynical",
"experienced",
"knowing",
"sophisticated",
"worldly",
"worldly-wise",
"curious",
"inquiring",
"inquisitive",
"nosy",
"nosey",
"snoopy",
"uncertain",
"unconvinced",
"undecided",
"undetermined",
"unsettled",
"unsure",
"hesitant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"credulous",
"gullible",
"gullable",
"trustful",
"trusting",
"uncritical",
"unquestioning",
"green",
"ingenuous",
"innocent",
"naive",
"na\u00efve",
"simple",
"simpleminded",
"unknowing",
"unsophisticated",
"unworldly",
"wide-eyed",
"certain",
"confident",
"positive",
"sure",
"callow",
"inexperienced",
"raw",
"childlike",
"idealistic",
"impractical",
"beguiled",
"deceived",
"duped",
"gulled",
"tricked",
"careless",
"heedless",
"unsuspecting",
"unsuspicious",
"unwary"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"it is the cause of the disease that puzzles doctors"
],
"synonyms":[
"addled",
"baffled",
"bamboozled",
"beat",
"befogged",
"befuddled",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"buffaloed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discombobulated",
"disoriented",
"flummoxed",
"foxed",
"fuddled",
"got",
"graveled",
"gravelled",
"mazed",
"muddied",
"muddled",
"mystified",
"perplexed",
"posed",
"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":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pulls down":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"a powerful storm pulled down the old fishing shack, which had been immortalized in countless paintings"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilates",
"creams",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"desolates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"does in",
"extinguishes",
"nukes",
"pulverizes",
"razes",
"rubs out",
"ruins",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"tears down",
"totals",
"vaporizes",
"wastes",
"wracks",
"wrecks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beats",
"bests",
"clobbers",
"conquers",
"crushes",
"defeats",
"drubs",
"licks",
"masters",
"overbears",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"routs",
"scotches",
"skunks",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"triumphs (over)",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"whips",
"wins (against)",
"blasts",
"blows up",
"breaks",
"cripples",
"damages",
"defaces",
"deteriorates",
"disfigures",
"disintegrates",
"dissolves",
"dynamites",
"harms",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mangles",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"erodes",
"scours",
"sweeps (away)",
"washes out",
"wears (away)",
"dilapidates",
"disassembles",
"dismantles",
"guts",
"takes down",
"unbuilds",
"undoes",
"unmakes",
"blots out",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"expunges",
"exterminates",
"extirpates",
"liquidates",
"obliterates",
"removes",
"roots (out)",
"snuffs (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"wipes out",
"despoils",
"havocs",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ravages",
"sacks",
"tramples",
"trashes",
"vandalizes",
"assassinates",
"butchers",
"cuts down",
"dispatches",
"executes",
"fells",
"kills",
"kills off",
"massacres",
"mows (down)",
"murders",
"slaughters",
"slays",
"takes out",
"zaps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctors",
"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"repairs",
"revamps",
"creates",
"invents",
"assembles",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forges",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"molds",
"produces",
"shapes",
"brings about",
"constitutes",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"rebuilds",
"reconstructs",
"remodels",
"renovates",
"restores"
],
"antonyms":[
"builds",
"constructs",
"erects",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up"
]
},
"to destroy (as a building) completely by knocking down or breaking to pieces":{
"examples":[
"an ugly billboard that was eventually pulled down"
],
"synonyms":[
"demolishes",
"levels",
"razes",
"tears down",
"unbuilds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blows up",
"dynamites",
"abolishes",
"annihilates",
"cracks up",
"crushes",
"dashes",
"decimates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"devours",
"dissolves",
"does in",
"eradicates",
"extirpates",
"finishes",
"flattens",
"obliterates",
"overturns",
"pulverizes",
"ravages",
"ruins",
"scourges",
"smashes",
"totals",
"unmakes",
"wastes",
"wipes out",
"wrecks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"builds",
"constructs",
"erects",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rebuilds",
"renews",
"renovates",
"restores",
"creates",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forges",
"forms",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"shapes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to receive as return for effort":{
"examples":[
"he's pulling down six figures at that job"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquires",
"attains",
"bags",
"brings in",
"captures",
"carries",
"comes by",
"draws",
"earns",
"gains",
"garners",
"gets",
"knocks down",
"lands",
"makes",
"obtains",
"procures",
"realizes",
"reaps",
"secures",
"wins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clears",
"grosses",
"nets",
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"notches (up)",
"scores",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"racks up",
"catches",
"picks up",
"annexes",
"occupies",
"takes over",
"reacquires",
"reattains",
"recaptures",
"regains",
"remakes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accords",
"gives",
"grants",
"pays",
"gives up",
"hands over",
"parts (with)",
"relinquishes",
"surrenders",
"yields"
],
"antonyms":[
"forfeits",
"loses"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pugnaciousness":{
"as in belligerence , disputatiousness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aggression",
"aggressiveness",
"bellicosity",
"belligerence",
"belligerency",
"combativeness",
"contentiousness",
"contrariness",
"disputatiousness",
"feistiness",
"fight",
"pugnacity",
"quarrelsomeness",
"scrappiness",
"truculence",
"truculency",
"cantankerousness",
"crustiness",
"curmudgeonliness",
"disagreeableness",
"dyspepsia",
"fretfulness",
"orneriness",
"sulkiness",
"surliness",
"fussiness",
"querulousness",
"rudeness",
"biliousness",
"choler",
"crankiness",
"crossness",
"crotchetiness",
"grouchiness",
"grumpiness",
"huffiness",
"irascibility",
"irascibleness",
"irritability",
"irritableness",
"peevishness",
"perverseness",
"perversity",
"pettishness",
"petulance",
"testiness",
"waspishness",
"oversensitiveness",
"sensitivity",
"supersensitivity",
"touchiness",
"animosity",
"antagonism",
"antipathy",
"fierceness",
"hostility",
"jaundice",
"rancor",
"unfriendliness",
"anger",
"exasperation",
"fury",
"indignation",
"rage",
"spleen",
"wrath",
"hot-bloodedness",
"passion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forbearance",
"long-suffering",
"patience",
"tolerance",
"understanding",
"affability",
"agreeableness",
"amenity",
"amicability",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"geniality",
"sociability",
"amiability",
"amiableness",
"good-humoredness",
"good-naturedness",
"good-temperedness",
"coolness",
"serenity",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"easygoingness",
"gentleness",
"kindliness",
"mildness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pulling out":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"the party's been fun, but it's time to pull out"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailing",
"bailing out",
"booking",
"buggering off",
"bugging off",
"bugging out",
"buzzing (off)",
"clearing off",
"clearing out",
"cutting out",
"departing",
"digging out",
"exiting",
"getting",
"getting off",
"going",
"going off",
"moving",
"packing (up or off)",
"parting",
"peeling off",
"piking (out or off)",
"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"
]
},
"to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)":{
"examples":[
"the aid workers have been advised to pull out of those regions to which the conflict has spread"
],
"synonyms":[
"backing away",
"dropping back",
"falling back",
"receding",
"retiring",
"retreating",
"withdrawing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fleeing",
"flying",
"flinching",
"recoiling",
"shrinking",
"chickening (out)",
"bowing out",
"backing down",
"backpedaling",
"backtracking",
"climbing down",
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"disentangling",
"pulling away",
"abandoning",
"departing",
"evacuating",
"going",
"leaving",
"quitting",
"vacating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"brazening",
"breasting",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"facing",
"outbraving"
],
"antonyms":[
"advancing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purse":{
"a container for carrying money and small personal items":{
"examples":[
"I left my purse at home, so I can't buy anything after all"
],
"synonyms":[
"bag",
"handbag",
"pocketbook"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clutch",
"clutch bag",
"minaudi\u00e8re",
"billfold",
"wallet",
"compact",
"vanity",
"poke",
"pouch",
"sack",
"shoulder bag"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"purport":{
"the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action":{
"examples":[
"was able to give the purport of the governor's speech in a few words"
],
"synonyms":[
"content",
"denotation",
"drift",
"import",
"intent",
"intention",
"meaning",
"sense",
"significance",
"signification"
],
"near synonyms":[
"connotation",
"clue",
"cue",
"hint",
"implication",
"indication",
"inkling",
"intimation",
"suggestion",
"message",
"tenor",
"theme",
"bottom",
"essence",
"essentiality",
"nature",
"soul",
"spirit",
"stuff",
"acceptance",
"acceptation",
"definition",
"burden",
"crux",
"gist",
"core",
"heart",
"kernel",
"marrow",
"nub",
"nucleus",
"pith",
"point",
"quick",
"matter",
"motif",
"motive",
"question",
"subject",
"topic"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have in mind as a purpose or goal":{
"examples":[
"do you purport to spend the rest of your life on that couch, or do you think you might get a job someday?"
],
"synonyms":[
"aim",
"allow",
"aspire",
"calculate",
"contemplate",
"design",
"go",
"intend",
"look",
"mean",
"meditate",
"plan",
"propose",
"purpose"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dream",
"hope",
"wish",
"consider",
"debate",
"mull (over)",
"ponder",
"attempt",
"endeavor",
"strive",
"struggle",
"try",
"plot",
"scheme",
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"effect",
"execute",
"perform"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to state as a fact usually forcefully":{
"examples":[
"he purports to be an expert in criminalistics"
],
"synonyms":[
"affirm",
"allege",
"assert",
"aver",
"avouch",
"avow",
"claim",
"contend",
"declare",
"insist",
"maintain",
"profess",
"protest",
"warrant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"announce",
"broadcast",
"proclaim",
"argue",
"rationalize",
"reason",
"confirm",
"justify",
"vindicate",
"defend",
"persevere",
"support",
"uphold",
"reaffirm",
"reassert"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandon",
"disavow",
"disclaim",
"disown",
"negate",
"negative",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"challenge",
"dispute",
"question",
"confute",
"disprove",
"rebut",
"refute",
"contradict",
"counter"
],
"antonyms":[
"deny",
"gainsay"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pushing on":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"the party was getting deadly dull, so it was time to push on"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailing",
"bailing out",
"booking",
"buggering off",
"bugging off",
"bugging out",
"buzzing (off)",
"clearing off",
"clearing out",
"cutting out",
"departing",
"digging out",
"exiting",
"getting",
"getting off",
"going",
"going off",
"moving",
"packing (up or off)",
"parting",
"peeling off",
"piking (out or off)",
"pulling out",
"pushing off",
"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"
]
},
"put forward":{
"to set before the mind for consideration":{
"examples":[
"She put forward some clever ideas during last week's meeting."
],
"synonyms":[
"advance",
"bounce",
"offer",
"propose",
"pose",
"proffer",
"propound",
"suggest",
"vote"
],
"near synonyms":[
"move",
"nominate",
"recommend",
"present",
"submit",
"tender",
"trot out",
"file",
"lay",
"lodge",
"arrange",
"calculate",
"chart",
"contrive",
"cover",
"frame",
"map",
"plan",
"plot",
"shape"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pumping up":{
"to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings of":{
"examples":[
"the crowd was pumped up by the band's rocking performance"
],
"synonyms":[
"charging",
"electrifying",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"galvanizing",
"intoxicating",
"thrilling",
"titillating",
"turning on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arousing",
"inciting",
"inspiring",
"provoking",
"stimulating",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"delighting",
"enchanting",
"enthralling",
"hypnotizing",
"mesmerizing",
"riveting",
"spellbinding",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"tantalizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boring",
"jading",
"palling",
"tiring",
"wearying",
"dejecting",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"that pop diva is trying to pump up album sales with an extended publicity tour"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"adding (to)",
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"boosting",
"building up",
"compounding",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"extending",
"hyping",
"increasing",
"multiplying",
"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"
]
},
"pudgy":{
"having an excess of body fat":{
"examples":[
"the short and pudgy toddler had transformed into a tall, strapping teenager"
],
"synonyms":[
"blubbery",
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"fleshy",
"full",
"gross",
"lardy",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"podgy",
"portly",
"replete",
"roly-poly",
"rotund",
"round",
"tubby"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"plumpish",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"hefty",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"squat",
"stubby",
"hippy",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"ample",
"buxom",
"corn-fed",
"ripe",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"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"
],
"antonyms":[
"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"puts out":{
"to bring to bear especially forcefully or effectively":{
"examples":[
"despite putting out her best effort, she was unable to beat her longtime tennis rival"
],
"synonyms":[
"applies",
"exercises",
"exerts",
"plies",
"wields"
],
"near synonyms":[
"employs",
"uses",
"utilizes",
"abuses",
"misapplies",
"misuses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to cease burning":{
"examples":[
"put out the campfire before leaving"
],
"synonyms":[
"blankets",
"douses",
"dowses",
"extinguishes",
"quenches",
"snuffs (out)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chokes",
"smothers",
"suffocates",
"blows out",
"rubs out",
"snubs (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"stubs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fires",
"ignites",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"kindles",
"lights"
]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"my father was put out by all the street noise outside our house"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"bothers",
"bugs",
"burns (up)",
"chafes",
"eats",
"exasperates",
"frosts",
"galls",
"gets",
"grates",
"gripes",
"hacks (off)",
"irks",
"irritates",
"itches",
"narks",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"persecutes",
"piques",
"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 cause discomfort to or trouble for":{
"examples":[
"if it wouldn't put you out too much, would you mind giving me a ride to the airport?"
],
"synonyms":[
"discommodes",
"disobliges",
"disturbs",
"incommodes",
"inconveniences",
"troubles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burdens",
"encumbers",
"saddles",
"weighs",
"fetters",
"hampers",
"hamstrings",
"handicaps",
"hinders",
"hobbles",
"holds back",
"holds up",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
"interferes (with)",
"manacles",
"obstructs",
"shackles",
"ties up",
"trammels",
"aggravates",
"angers",
"annoys",
"bothers",
"bugs",
"chafes",
"exasperates",
"galls",
"gets",
"irks",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"piques",
"riles",
"vexes",
"grates",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"provokes",
"agitates",
"perturbs",
"upsets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abets",
"aids",
"assists",
"helps",
"eases",
"facilitates",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"disarms",
"mollifies",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"delights",
"gladdens",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"satisfies",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"contents"
],
"antonyms":[
"accommodates",
"favors",
"obliges"
]
},
"to produce and release for distribution in printed form":{
"examples":[
"though most of their sales are now transacted through the Internet, the company still puts out a mail-order catalog"
],
"synonyms":[
"gets out",
"issues",
"prints",
"publishes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copublishes",
"reissues",
"reprints",
"republishes",
"serializes",
"contributes",
"edits",
"syndicates",
"manufactures",
"produces",
"distributes",
"markets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censors",
"suppresses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purported":{
"as in supposed , hypothetical":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"conjectural",
"hypothetical",
"supposed",
"suppositional",
"a priori",
"deducible",
"deductive",
"derivable",
"inferable",
"inferrible",
"inferential",
"reasoned",
"academic",
"academical",
"speculative",
"theoretical",
"theoretic",
"logical",
"rational"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nondeductive",
"inducible",
"inductive",
"absolute",
"categorical",
"categoric",
"definite",
"explicit",
"express",
"instinctive",
"intuitive",
"illogical",
"irrational"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to have in mind as a purpose or goal":{
"examples":[
"do you purport to spend the rest of your life on that couch, or do you think you might get a job someday?"
],
"synonyms":[
"aimed",
"allowed",
"aspired",
"calculated",
"contemplated",
"designed",
"intended",
"looked",
"meant",
"meditated",
"planned",
"proposed",
"purposed",
"went"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dreamed",
"dreamt",
"hoped",
"wished",
"considered",
"debated",
"mulled (over)",
"pondered",
"attempted",
"endeavored",
"strove",
"strived",
"struggled",
"tried",
"plotted",
"schemed",
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"effected",
"executed",
"performed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to state as a fact usually forcefully":{
"examples":[
"he purports to be an expert in criminalistics"
],
"synonyms":[
"affirmed",
"alleged",
"asserted",
"averred",
"avouched",
"avowed",
"claimed",
"contended",
"declared",
"insisted",
"maintained",
"professed",
"protested",
"warranted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"announced",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"proclaimed",
"argued",
"rationalized",
"reasoned",
"confirmed",
"justified",
"vindicated",
"defended",
"persevered",
"supported",
"upheld",
"reaffirmed",
"reasserted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandoned",
"disavowed",
"disclaimed",
"disowned",
"negated",
"negatived",
"rejected",
"repudiated",
"challenged",
"disputed",
"questioned",
"confuted",
"disproved",
"rebutted",
"refuted",
"contradicted",
"countered"
],
"antonyms":[
"denied",
"gainsaid"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"purposively":{
"with full awareness of what one is doing":{
"examples":[
"the Federal Reserve purposively controls the supply of money in order to keep a lid on inflation"
],
"synonyms":[
"advisedly",
"consciously",
"deliberately",
"designedly",
"intentionally",
"knowingly",
"purposefully",
"purposely",
"willfully",
"wittingly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calculatedly",
"studiedly",
"voluntarily",
"willingly",
"premeditatedly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accidentally",
"incidentally",
"haphazardly",
"randomly",
"involuntarily",
"unwillingly",
"impulsively",
"instinctively",
"spontaneously"
],
"antonyms":[
"inadvertently",
"unconsciously",
"unintentionally",
"unknowingly",
"unwittingly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"purificatory":{
"as in cathartic , purifying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cathartic",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"affecting",
"emotional",
"impactful",
"impressive",
"moving",
"poignant",
"stirring",
"touching",
"eloquent",
"expressive",
"meaningful",
"significant",
"demonstrative",
"excitable",
"feeling",
"passionate",
"responsive",
"sensitive",
"exciting",
"inspirational",
"provoking",
"rousing",
"stimulating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"repressive",
"unaffecting",
"unemotional",
"unimpressive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"puppet":{
"a small figure often of a human being used especially as a child's plaything":{
"examples":[
"gave her a puppet with strings for a gift"
],
"synonyms":[
"action figure",
"doll",
"dolly",
"poppet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rag doll",
"figure",
"figurine",
"handpuppet",
"marionette"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one that is or can be used to further the purposes of another":{
"examples":[
"accused the newspaper editor of being a puppet for the moneyed people of the town"
],
"synonyms":[
"cat's-paw",
"instrument",
"lay figure",
"pawn",
"tool"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chump",
"dupe",
"foil",
"gull",
"sucker",
"victim",
"minion",
"stooge",
"lap dog",
"yes-man"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"put together":{
"to combine (numbers) into a single sum":{
"examples":[
"He put together all their bills to figure out their monthly expenses."
],
"synonyms":[
"add",
"cast (up)",
"foot (up)",
"sum",
"summate",
"tot (up)",
"total",
"totalize",
"tote (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calculate",
"cipher",
"compute",
"figure",
"reckon",
"table",
"tabulate",
"tally",
"work out",
"divide",
"multiply",
"subtract",
"count",
"enumerate",
"number",
"tell",
"recompute",
"refigure"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"examples":[
"They put together an exact replica of the Empire State Building."
],
"synonyms":[
"assemble",
"build",
"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"
]
},
"to put (something) into proper and usually carefully worked out written form":{
"examples":[
"She put together a poem that she presented to the group on poetry night."
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"compose",
"craft",
"draft",
"draw up",
"formulate",
"frame",
"prepare"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"form",
"mold",
"sculpture",
"shape",
"couch",
"express",
"phrase",
"state",
"verbalize",
"word",
"author",
"indite",
"pen",
"write",
"conceive",
"concoct",
"devise",
"build",
"construct",
"make",
"assemble",
"compound",
"piece (together)",
"redraft",
"reformulate",
"reframe"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
"examples":[
"They put together a beautiful dress for the queen."
],
"synonyms":[
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"produce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assemble",
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"make up",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up",
"structure",
"throw up",
"craft",
"handcraft",
"hew",
"forge",
"mold",
"shape",
"cobble (together or up)",
"knock out",
"patch (together)",
"throw up",
"prefabricate",
"create",
"invent",
"mint",
"originate",
"establish",
"father",
"institute",
"organize",
"concoct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"design",
"devise",
"imagine",
"think (up)",
"conceive",
"envisage",
"picture",
"visualize",
"refashion",
"remake",
"remanufacture"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"take apart",
"break up",
"dismember",
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"eradicate",
"exterminate",
"extinguish",
"flatten",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"ruin",
"shatter",
"smash",
"wreck",
"blow up",
"explode"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"puckery":{
"as in astringent , hyperacid":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"astringent",
"hyperacid",
"pungent",
"sharp",
"tangy",
"zestful",
"zesty",
"zingy",
"dry",
"soured",
"unsweetened",
"acid",
"acidic",
"acidulous",
"sour",
"sourish",
"tart",
"tartish",
"vinegary"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sweet",
"bland",
"smooth",
"flat",
"flavorless",
"insipid",
"savorless",
"tasteless",
"zestless",
"dilute",
"thin",
"watery",
"weak"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"purees":{
"as in slices , mashes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chips",
"grates",
"grinds",
"kibbles",
"mashes",
"slices",
"chops",
"dices",
"hashes",
"minces",
"butchers",
"carves",
"dissects"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puked":{
"to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth":{
"examples":[
"the drunken reveler staggered out the door and promptly puked in the bushes"
],
"synonyms":[
"barfed",
"gagged",
"heaved",
"hove",
"hurled",
"retched",
"spewed",
"spit up",
"spat up",
"threw up",
"upchucked",
"vomited"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disgorged",
"regurgitated",
"ejected",
"expelled",
"nauseated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purchased":{
"to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for":{
"examples":[
"I need to purchase a new heavy coat"
],
"synonyms":[
"bought",
"copped",
"picked up",
"took"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquired",
"gained",
"garnered",
"got",
"obtained",
"procured",
"secured",
"won",
"financed",
"paid (for)",
"sprang (for)",
"sprung (for)",
"bartered (for)",
"dealt (for)",
"dickered (over)",
"exchanged (for)",
"haggled (for)",
"negotiated (about)",
"traded (for)",
"bargained (with)",
"chaffered (with)",
"horse-traded (with)",
"paltered (with)",
"bade",
"bid",
"offered",
"rebought",
"repurchased"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dealt (in)",
"marketed",
"merchandised",
"merchandized",
"retailed",
"sold",
"vended"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulling stakes":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"Once the job was done it was time to pull stakes ."
],
"synonyms":[
"bailing",
"bailing out",
"booking",
"buggering off",
"bugging off",
"bugging out",
"buzzing (off)",
"clearing off",
"clearing out",
"cutting out",
"departing",
"digging out",
"exiting",
"getting",
"getting off",
"going",
"going off",
"moving",
"packing (up or off)",
"parting",
"peeling off",
"piking (out or off)",
"pulling out",
"pushing off",
"pushing on",
"quitting",
"running along",
"sallying (forth)",
"scarpering",
"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":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pussyfooting":{
"to avoid giving a definite answer or position":{
"examples":[
"politicians who try to pussyfoot around hot-button issues"
],
"synonyms":[
"equivocating",
"fudging",
"hedging",
"tergiversating",
"waffling",
"weaseling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flip-flopping",
"yo-yoing",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"eschewing",
"evading",
"shaking",
"shirking",
"shunning",
"sidestepping",
"skirting",
"bypassing",
"circumventing",
"caviling",
"cavilling",
"quibbling",
"straddling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
"examples":[
"pussyfooting through the hallways in the middle of the night"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurking",
"mooching",
"mousing",
"shirking",
"skulking",
"sliding",
"slinking",
"slipping",
"snaking",
"sneaking",
"stealing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"edging",
"inching",
"worming",
"ghosting",
"padding",
"tiptoeing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulled stakes":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"Once the job was done it was time to pull stakes ."
],
"synonyms":[
"bailed",
"bailed out",
"booked",
"bugged off",
"bugged out",
"buggered off",
"buzzed (off)",
"cleared off",
"cleared out",
"cut out",
"departed",
"dug out",
"exited",
"got",
"got off",
"moved",
"packed (up or off)",
"parted",
"peeled off",
"piked (out or off)",
"pulled out",
"pushed off",
"pushed on",
"quit",
"quitted",
"ran along",
"sallied (forth)",
"scarpered",
"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":[
"phrase"
]
},
"purely":{
"with purity of thought and deed":{
"examples":[
"the devout girl vowed to live her life purely and in the service of God"
],
"synonyms":[
"chastely",
"innocently",
"modestly",
"morally",
"righteously",
"virtuously"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decently",
"decorously",
"properly",
"priggishly",
"primly",
"prudishly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indecently",
"obscenely",
"vulgarly",
"lasciviously",
"lewdly",
"lustfully"
],
"antonyms":[
"evilly",
"immorally",
"impurely",
"sinfully",
"wickedly"
]
},
"for nothing other than":{
"examples":[
"I fish purely for the fun of it\u2014I don't care if I end up with no fish to fry"
],
"synonyms":[
"alone",
"exclusively",
"just",
"only",
"simply",
"solely"
],
"near synonyms":[
"basically",
"by and large",
"chiefly",
"generally",
"largely",
"mainly",
"mostly",
"predominantly",
"primarily",
"principally",
"substantially"
],
"near antonyms":[
"additionally",
"also",
"besides",
"likewise"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"nothing more than":{
"examples":[
"her pleasantries were purely for show and masked her true feelings"
],
"synonyms":[
"but",
"just",
"merely",
"only",
"simply"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"pulpits":{
"a raised flat surface where a priest or minister stands when leading a worship service":{
"examples":[
"The pastor ascended the pulpit ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"altars",
"bimahs",
"bimas",
"footpaces",
"daises",
"platforms",
"podiums",
"podia",
"rostra",
"rostrums",
"stages",
"stands",
"tribunes",
"risers",
"scaffolds",
"balconies",
"galleries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"puffing (up)":{
"as in blowing up , inflating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blowing up",
"bulking",
"distending",
"inflating",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pureness":{
"as in innocence , purity":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chastity",
"innocence",
"perfection",
"purity",
"spotlessness",
"blamelessness",
"cleanness",
"correctness",
"decency",
"decorousness",
"propriety",
"rightness",
"seemliness",
"goodness",
"righteousness",
"virtuousness",
"honesty",
"honor",
"integrity",
"legitimacy",
"probity",
"rectitude",
"scrupulosity",
"scrupulousness",
"uprightness",
"good",
"right",
"morality",
"virtue"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corruption",
"debauchery",
"depravity",
"immorality",
"iniquitousness",
"iniquity",
"libertinage",
"libertinism",
"licentiousness",
"profligacy",
"sin",
"vice",
"bad",
"badness",
"blackness",
"evil",
"evildoing",
"ill",
"turpitude",
"villainy",
"wickedness",
"wrong",
"atrociousness",
"evilness",
"heinousness",
"sinfulness",
"unscrupulousness",
"viciousness",
"vileness",
"villainousness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"puts in (for)":{
"to give a request or demand for":{
"examples":[
"several employees have already put in for vacation time during the last week of December"
],
"synonyms":[
"asks (for)",
"orders",
"requests",
"requisitions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commissions",
"solicits",
"charters",
"hires",
"licenses",
"licences"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"putrefy":{
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"we traced the bad smell to a dead skunk putrefying under the house"
],
"synonyms":[
"break down",
"corrupt",
"decay",
"decompose",
"disintegrate",
"fester",
"foul",
"mold",
"molder",
"perish",
"rot",
"spoil"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sour",
"turn",
"turn off",
"contaminate",
"defile",
"pollute",
"taint",
"addle",
"curdle",
"ferment",
"mortify",
"rust",
"crumble",
"decline",
"degenerate",
"descend",
"deteriorate",
"dilapidate",
"sink",
"wither"
],
"near antonyms":[
"age",
"develop",
"grow",
"mature",
"ripen",
"refresh",
"renew",
"restore",
"cleanse",
"purify",
"assemble",
"compose",
"integrate",
"ameliorate",
"better",
"improve",
"meliorate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"publicized":{
"as in published , announced":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"advertised",
"aired",
"announced",
"broadcast",
"declared",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"heralded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"promulgated",
"published",
"spotlighted",
"nonclassified",
"unclassified",
"well-known",
"current",
"prevalent",
"rife",
"widespread",
"general",
"popular",
"communal",
"shared",
"open",
"public",
"reported",
"reputed",
"rumored"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confidential",
"private",
"privy",
"secret",
"classified",
"unadvertised",
"unannounced",
"undisclosed",
"clandestine",
"collusive",
"conspiratorial",
"covert",
"surreptitious",
"undercover",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"intimate",
"personal",
"concealed",
"repressed",
"reserved",
"silenced",
"stifled",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"recanted",
"retracted",
"revoked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to provide publicity for":{
"examples":[
"the movie studios widely publicized their summer blockbusters"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhooed",
"boosted",
"hyped",
"pitched",
"plugged",
"promoted",
"talked up",
"touted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertised",
"barked",
"merchandised",
"merchandized",
"sold",
"pushed",
"acclaimed",
"hailed",
"lauded",
"praised",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"plumped (for)",
"plunked (for)",
"plonked (for)",
"recommended",
"reviewed",
"announced",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"published"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"the city hasn't done a good job of publicizing the new regulations for its recycling operation"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertised",
"announced",
"annunciated",
"blared",
"blazed",
"blazoned",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"declared",
"enunciated",
"flashed",
"gave out",
"heralded",
"placarded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"promulgated",
"published",
"released",
"sounded",
"trumpeted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barked",
"called (off or out)",
"cried",
"billboarded",
"billed",
"bulletined",
"gazetted",
"knelled",
"rang",
"tolled",
"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":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pulsars":{
"as in supernovas , quasars":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"binary stars",
"brown dwarfs",
"brown dwarves",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"fixed stars",
"gassers",
"giant stars",
"lodestars",
"loadstars",
"neutron stars",
"novas",
"novae",
"quasars",
"red dwarfs",
"red giants",
"red stars",
"subdwarfs",
"superclusters",
"supergiants",
"supernovas",
"supernovae",
"variables",
"variable stars",
"white dwarfs",
"luminaries",
"spheres",
"suns",
"clusters",
"constellations",
"galaxies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"puritan":{
"a person who is greatly concerned with seemly behavior and morality especially regarding sexual matters":{
"examples":[
"some of the town's puritans still maintain that sex education has no place in the schools"
],
"synonyms":[
"bluenose",
"moralist",
"Mrs. Grundy",
"nice nelly",
"prude",
"wowser"
],
"near synonyms":[
"moralizer",
"goody-goody",
"Goody Two-shoes",
"fuddy-duddy",
"old maid",
"prig",
"spoilsport",
"stuffed shirt"
],
"near antonyms":[
"libertarian",
"libertine",
"misbehaver"
],
"antonyms":[
"immoralist"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"put-on":{
"to place on one's person":{
"examples":[
"I put on a coat and shoes to go outside"
],
"synonyms":[
"don",
"slip (on or into)",
"throw (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparel",
"array",
"attire",
"bedeck",
"bedizen",
"bundle up",
"caparison",
"clothe",
"doll up",
"dress",
"garb",
"rig",
"robe",
"suit",
"trick",
"uniform",
"overdress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disrobe",
"strip",
"undress"
],
"antonyms":[
"doff",
"remove",
"take off"
]
},
"to describe or express in too strong terms":{
"examples":[
"some critics are putting it on when they say it's the best comedy ever made"
],
"synonyms":[
"exaggerate",
"overdo",
"overdraw",
"overstate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"color",
"elaborate",
"embellish",
"embroider",
"magnify",
"pad",
"play up",
"stretch",
"fudge",
"hedge",
"melodramatize",
"overemphasize",
"overplay",
"sensationalize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"belittle",
"minimize",
"play down"
],
"antonyms":[
"understate"
]
},
"to present a false appearance of":{
"examples":[
"put on a show of anger just for fun"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"affect",
"assume",
"bluff",
"counterfeit",
"dissemble",
"fake",
"feign",
"pass (for)",
"pretend",
"profess",
"sham",
"simulate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dissimulate",
"impersonate",
"let on",
"masquerade",
"play",
"playact",
"pose",
"forge",
"imitate",
"camouflage",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"mask",
"feint",
"malinger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"lacking in natural or spontaneous quality":{
"examples":[
"a put-on goofy voice"
],
"synonyms":[
"affected",
"artificial",
"assumed",
"bogus",
"contrived",
"factitious",
"fake",
"false",
"feigned",
"forced",
"mechanical",
"mock",
"phony",
"phoney",
"plastic",
"pretended",
"pseudo",
"sham",
"simulated",
"spurious",
"strained",
"unnatural"
],
"near synonyms":[
"automatic",
"canned",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"hokey",
"labored",
"manufactured",
"pat",
"unauthentic",
"unreal",
"unrealistic",
"double-dealing",
"empty",
"facile",
"hollow",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"left-handed",
"mealy",
"mealymouthed",
"two-faced",
"unctuous",
"exaggerated",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"overacted",
"overdone",
"theatrical",
"theatric",
"cute",
"cutesy",
"genteel",
"goody-goody",
"mincing",
"overrefined",
"simpering",
"conventional",
"formal",
"impersonal",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"stylized",
"wooden",
"artful",
"calculated",
"conscious",
"cultivated",
"deliberate",
"premeditated",
"studied"
],
"near antonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"real",
"realistic",
"right",
"true",
"honest",
"ingenuous",
"sincere",
"unpretending",
"easy",
"effortless",
"smooth",
"extemporaneous",
"impromptu",
"impulsive",
"instinctive",
"unconscious",
"unprompted",
"unrehearsed",
"unstudied"
],
"antonyms":[
"artless",
"genuine",
"natural",
"spontaneous",
"unaffected",
"uncontrived",
"unfeigned",
"unforced"
]
},
"a display of emotion or behavior that is insincere or intended to deceive":{
"examples":[
"my bravery was all a put-on \u2014I was scared out of my wits"
],
"synonyms":[
"act",
"airs",
"charade",
"disguise",
"facade",
"fa\u00e7ade",
"front",
"guise",
"masquerade",
"playacting",
"pose",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"semblance",
"show"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impersonation",
"performance",
"portrayal",
"image",
"persona",
"appearance",
"color",
"gloss",
"camouflage",
"cloak",
"affectation",
"deceit",
"deception",
"dissembling",
"dissimulation",
"double-dealing",
"duplicity",
"fakery",
"fraud",
"guile",
"betrayal",
"double cross",
"faithlessness",
"falseness",
"falsity",
"infidelity",
"perfidy",
"treachery",
"treason",
"unfaithfulness",
"excuse",
"pretext"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bluntness",
"candidness",
"candor",
"directness",
"forthrightness",
"frankness",
"openheartedness",
"outspokenness",
"plainspokenness",
"sincerity",
"straightforwardness",
"artlessness",
"genuineness",
"na\u00efvet\u00e9",
"naivete",
"naivet\u00e9"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a work that imitates and exaggerates another work for comic effect":{
"examples":[
"for a moment, I couldn't tell if the commercial was serious or a deadpan put-on of ads by other insurance companies"
],
"synonyms":[
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"parody",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pub crawler":{
"as in nightclubber":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"nightclubber",
"nighthawk",
"night owl",
"night rider",
"nightwalker",
"noctambulist",
"sleepwalker"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"purview":{
"an area of influence, knowledge, or understanding":{
"examples":[
"He readily admitted that the topic was outside of his purview , and anything he said about it would be mere uninformed speculation.",
"As she rose within the company, her purview extended to many new departments."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"horizon",
"ambit",
"amplitude",
"breadth",
"compass",
"confines",
"dimension(s)",
"extent",
"range",
"reach",
"realm",
"scope",
"sweep",
"width",
"frontier",
"panorama",
"bailiwick",
"circle",
"demesne",
"department",
"discipline",
"domain",
"element",
"fief",
"fiefdom",
"field",
"province",
"region",
"specialty",
"sphere",
"terrain"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pussyfoots":{
"to avoid giving a definite answer or position":{
"examples":[
"politicians who try to pussyfoot around hot-button issues"
],
"synonyms":[
"equivocates",
"fudges",
"hedges",
"tergiversates",
"waffles",
"weasels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flip-flops",
"yo-yoes",
"dodges",
"ducks",
"eludes",
"eschews",
"evades",
"shakes",
"shirks",
"shuns",
"sidesteps",
"skirts",
"bypasses",
"circumvents",
"cavils",
"quibbles",
"straddles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
"examples":[
"pussyfooting through the hallways in the middle of the night"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurks",
"mooches",
"mouses",
"shirks",
"skulks",
"slides",
"slinks",
"slips",
"snakes",
"sneaks",
"steals"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"edges",
"inches",
"worms",
"ghosts",
"pads",
"tiptoes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puts through":{
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"the incoming university president is vowing to put through the sort of sweeping changes that will propel the school into the top tier academically"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"brings off",
"carries off",
"carries out",
"commits",
"compasses",
"does",
"executes",
"follows through (with)",
"fulfills",
"fulfils",
"makes",
"negotiates",
"performs",
"perpetrates",
"prosecutes",
"pulls off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brings about",
"effects",
"effectuates",
"implements",
"aces",
"nails",
"engages (in)",
"practices",
"practises",
"works (at)",
"reduplicates",
"reenacts",
"repeats",
"actualizes",
"attains",
"realizes",
"completes",
"ends",
"finishes",
"winds up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fails",
"skimps",
"slights",
"slurs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"put over":{
"to assign to a later time":{
"examples":[
"as a result of a medical emergency, our dream vacation had to be put over to the following year"
],
"synonyms":[
"defer",
"delay",
"hold off (on)",
"hold over",
"hold up",
"lay over",
"postpone",
"put off",
"remit",
"shelve"
],
"near synonyms":[
"suspend",
"hesitate",
"pause",
"stay",
"detain",
"retard",
"slow",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"prolong",
"protract",
"stretch (out)",
"wait"
],
"near antonyms":[
"act",
"deal (with)",
"decide (upon)",
"do",
"work (on)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"punt":{
"as in skiff , canoe":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bateau",
"ca\u00efque",
"canoe",
"catamaran",
"coracle",
"curragh",
"currach",
"dhow",
"dinghy",
"dink",
"dory",
"dugout",
"flatboat",
"garvey",
"gig",
"johnboat",
"kayak",
"outrigger",
"paddleboat",
"pinnace",
"piragua",
"pirogue",
"pontoon",
"pram",
"raft",
"rowboat",
"rowing boat",
"sampan",
"scow",
"scull",
"shallop",
"shell",
"skiff",
"surfboat",
"umiak",
"wherry",
"bottom",
"craft",
"vessel",
"watercraft",
"catboat",
"ketch",
"sailboat",
"schooner",
"yacht",
"cruiser",
"inboard",
"motorboat",
"outboard",
"powerboat",
"houseboat",
"riverboat",
"auxiliary",
"bumboat",
"cutter",
"jolly boat",
"launch",
"lifeboat",
"longboat",
"tender",
"yawl",
"barge",
"hoy",
"keel",
"keelboat",
"lighter",
"narrow boat",
"towboat",
"tug",
"tugboat",
"ferry",
"ferryboat",
"gondola",
"taxi",
"water taxi"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in pole":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pole",
"canoe",
"kayak",
"feather",
"pull",
"oar",
"paddle",
"row",
"scull"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"purloin":{
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"the studio stepped up security, fearing that someone might attempt to purloin a copy of the script for the show's season finale"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriate",
"boost",
"filch",
"heist",
"hook",
"lift",
"misappropriate",
"nick",
"nip",
"pilfer",
"pinch",
"pocket",
"rip off",
"snitch",
"steal",
"swipe",
"thieve"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarize",
"knock over",
"rob",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"sack",
"carjack",
"hijack",
"highjack",
"pick",
"rifle",
"poach",
"rustle",
"shoplift",
"collar",
"grab",
"grasp",
"nail",
"seize",
"snatch",
"take",
"mooch",
"sponge",
"abduct",
"kidnap",
"shanghai",
"spirit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buy",
"purchase",
"bestow",
"contribute",
"donate",
"give",
"hand over",
"present"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"punching bags":{
"as in pushovers , quitters":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pushovers",
"quitters",
"losers",
"failures",
"flops",
"washouts",
"underdogs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beaters",
"conquerors",
"masters",
"subduers",
"trimmers",
"vanquishers",
"victors",
"whippers",
"winners",
"champions",
"champs",
"finalists",
"placers",
"dominators",
"overdogs",
"rulers",
"subjugators",
"top dogs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"putatively":{
"to all outward appearances":{
"examples":[
"the lake's putatively pristine water is actually crawling with microorganisms that can wreak havoc with your gastrointestinal system"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparently",
"evidently",
"ostensibly",
"ostensively",
"presumably",
"seemingly",
"supposedly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"externally",
"outwardly",
"visibly",
"believably",
"credibly",
"assumably",
"likely",
"presumedly",
"probably",
"conceivably",
"maybe",
"mayhap",
"perchance",
"perhaps",
"possibly",
"professedly",
"supposably",
"allegedly",
"purportedly",
"reportedly",
"reputedly",
"clearly",
"distinctly",
"manifestly",
"obviously",
"plainly",
"self-evidently",
"assuredly",
"positively",
"surely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implausibly",
"impossibly",
"improbably",
"incredibly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"pukes":{
"to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth":{
"examples":[
"the drunken reveler staggered out the door and promptly puked in the bushes"
],
"synonyms":[
"barfs",
"gags",
"heaves",
"hurls",
"retches",
"spews",
"spits up",
"throws up",
"upchucks",
"vomits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disgorges",
"regurgitates",
"ejects",
"expels",
"nauseates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"publication":{
"a published work":{
"examples":[
"The university's linguistics department released a publication on the grammatical structure of American Sign Language."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"book",
"tome",
"volume",
"bulletin",
"diurnal",
"gazette",
"journal",
"mag",
"magazine",
"newspaper",
"organ",
"paper",
"periodical",
"rag",
"review",
"serial",
"zine",
"hardback",
"hardcover",
"paperback",
"paperbound",
"pocket book",
"pocket edition",
"softback",
"softcover",
"trade book",
"trade edition",
"folio",
"quarto",
"guidebook",
"handbook",
"how-to",
"instructions",
"manual",
"cyclopedia",
"cyclopaedia",
"dictionary",
"encyclopedia",
"monograph",
"primer",
"text",
"textbook",
"tract",
"treatise",
"novel",
"novelette",
"pulp",
"album",
"almanac",
"anthology",
"casebook",
"chapbook",
"comic book",
"omnibus",
"picture book",
"composition",
"number",
"opus",
"piece",
"work",
"collectanea",
"compendium",
"compilation",
"florilegium",
"miscellany",
"reader",
"brochure",
"circular",
"flyer",
"flier",
"folder",
"leaflet",
"pamphlet",
"dodger",
"flysheet",
"handbill",
"handout",
"throwaway",
"advertisement",
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"shopper",
"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",
"banner",
"bill",
"billboard",
"placard",
"poster",
"sign",
"pronouncement",
"release",
"ad",
"commercial",
"message",
"plug",
"promotion",
"spot",
"word",
"broadcast",
"dispatch",
"newscast",
"report",
"story",
"ink",
"testimonial",
"write-up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or process of producing something commercially and making it available to the public":{
"examples":[
"She's celebrating the publication of her first novel."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"coming out",
"issuing",
"publishing",
"putting out",
"release",
"printing",
"production",
"manufacture",
"syndication",
"broadcasting",
"circulation",
"dissemination",
"distribution",
"propagation",
"spread",
"transmission",
"advertising",
"announcement",
"annunciation",
"communication",
"declaration",
"enunciation",
"notification",
"proclamation",
"promotion",
"promulgation",
"propaganda",
"publicity",
"advent",
"appearance",
"arrival",
"debut",
"d\u00e9but",
"emergence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censorship",
"suppression"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pug":{
"one that engages in the sport of fighting with the fists":{
"examples":[
"a retired pug with battered ears and swollen knuckles"
],
"synonyms":[
"boxer",
"fighter",
"gladiator",
"prizefighter",
"pugilist"
],
"near synonyms":[
"palooka",
"slugger",
"stumblebum",
"bantamweight",
"cruiserweight",
"featherweight",
"flyweight",
"heavyweight",
"light heavyweight",
"lightweight",
"middleweight",
"superheavyweight",
"welterweight"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pulsates":{
"to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner":{
"examples":[
"the heart muscle pulsates regularly to pump blood"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"palpitates",
"pit-a-pats",
"pitter-patters",
"pulses",
"throbs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fluctuates",
"oscillates",
"vibrates",
"quivers",
"trembles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purgatories":{
"a temporary place or state in which the souls of people who die make amends for their sins":{
"examples":[
"It was a summer job that felt like purgatory to the teen."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blazes",
"infernos",
"netherworlds",
"shades",
"underworlds",
"abysses",
"pits",
"fire and brimstones",
"hellfires",
"Gehennas",
"hells",
"Pandemoniums",
"perditions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glories",
"happy hunting grounds",
"nirvanas",
"promised lands",
"Valhallas",
"blisses",
"elysian fields",
"Elysiums",
"Elysia",
"empyreans",
"heavens",
"kingdom comes",
"New Jerusalems",
"paradises",
"skies",
"Zions",
"Sions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a place or state of temporary suffering":{
"examples":[
"We found ourselves trapped in the purgatory of a rush-hour traffic jam."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"afflictions",
"calvaries",
"crosses",
"curses",
"ordeals",
"trials",
"tribulations",
"agonies",
"Gehennas",
"hells",
"horrors",
"miseries",
"murders",
"nightmares",
"torments",
"tortures",
"calamities",
"misfortunes",
"tragedies",
"galls",
"thorns",
"bummers",
"downers",
"drags"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delights",
"diversions",
"entertainments",
"fun",
"joys",
"pleasures",
"recreations",
"larks",
"picnics",
"riots",
"heavens",
"paradises"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"puppy love":{
"as in calf-love":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"calf-love",
"idyll",
"idyl",
"passion",
"entanglement",
"flirtation",
"attachment",
"infatuation",
"dalliance",
"hanky-panky",
"intrigue",
"liaison",
"affair",
"amour",
"fling",
"love",
"love affair",
"romance"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"puffs":{
"a slight or gentle movement of air":{
"examples":[
"felt a puff of wind on his face"
],
"synonyms":[
"airs",
"breaths",
"breezes",
"wafts",
"zephyrs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"currents",
"drafts",
"whiffs",
"sea breezes",
"blasts",
"blows",
"flurries",
"gales",
"headwinds",
"northeasters",
"northers",
"northwesters",
"southeasters",
"southwesters",
"tailwinds",
"westerlies",
"winds",
"squalls",
"tempests",
"tornadoes",
"tornados",
"windstorms",
"airflows"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to breathe hard, quickly, or with difficulty":{
"examples":[
"he came running up the stairs puffing and wheezing"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows",
"gasps",
"heaves",
"hyperventilates",
"pants",
"wheezes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chokes",
"gags",
"gulps",
"huffs",
"asphyxiates",
"smothers",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"snores",
"snuffles",
"exhales",
"expires"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to praise too much":{
"examples":[
"a talk show host who can be counted on to puff up the celebrities who readily consent to be interviewed"
],
"synonyms":[
"adulates",
"belauds",
"blarneys",
"butters up",
"flatters",
"hero-worships",
"honeys",
"massages",
"overpraises",
"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":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pulls up":{
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"examples":[
"the jockey tried to pull up the apparently injured horse"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrests",
"brings up",
"catches",
"checks",
"draws up",
"fetches up",
"halts",
"holds up",
"stalls",
"stays",
"stills",
"stops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baffles",
"balks",
"blockades",
"blocks",
"bottlenecks",
"clogs",
"dams",
"detains",
"hinders",
"holds",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"obstructs",
"snags",
"stems",
"concludes",
"cuts off",
"ends",
"terminates",
"calls",
"discontinues",
"suspends",
"chokes off",
"reins (in)",
"represses",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"stanches",
"staunches",
"stunts",
"suppresses",
"turns back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carries on",
"continues",
"follows through (with)",
"keeps (on)",
"keeps up",
"persists",
"runs on",
"advances",
"fares",
"goes along",
"marches",
"moves",
"proceeds",
"progresses",
"wends",
"actuates",
"budges",
"drives",
"goads",
"impels",
"propels",
"pushes",
"spurs",
"stirs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puppy dogs":{
"as in puppies , pups":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lapdogs",
"puppies",
"pups",
"whelps",
"bitches",
"bandogs",
"bird dogs",
"coonhounds",
"coursers",
"gundogs",
"hunters",
"sheepdogs",
"sled dogs",
"watchdogs",
"wolf dogs",
"wolfhounds",
"curs",
"mongrels",
"mutts",
"guide dogs",
"police dogs",
"working dogs",
"canines",
"doggies",
"dogs",
"hounds",
"pooches",
"tykes",
"tikes"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"push bicycles":{
"a two-wheeled vehicle that is propelled by the use of pedals and steered through the use of handlebars":{
"examples":[
"the vicar riding his sturdy push-bike used to be a common sight around the village"
],
"synonyms":[
"bicycles",
"bikes",
"cycles",
"two-wheelers",
"velocipedes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mountain bikes",
"tandem bicycles",
"ten-speeds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pulchritudinous":{
"as in hot , seductive":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"desirable",
"dishy",
"dollish",
"foxy",
"hot",
"luscious",
"nubile",
"seductive",
"sexy",
"toothsome",
"aesthetic",
"esthetic",
"aesthetical",
"esthetical",
"attractive",
"beauteous",
"beautiful",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"comely",
"cute",
"drop-dead",
"fair",
"fetching",
"good",
"good-looking",
"goodly",
"gorgeous",
"handsome",
"knockout",
"likely",
"lovely",
"lovesome",
"pretty",
"ravishing",
"seemly",
"sightly",
"stunning",
"taking",
"well-favored",
"alluring",
"appealing",
"charming",
"cunning",
"delightful",
"engaging",
"fascinating",
"glamorous",
"glamourous",
"prepossessing",
"elegant",
"exquisite",
"glorious",
"Junoesque",
"magnificent",
"resplendent",
"splendid",
"statuesque",
"sublime",
"superb",
"flawless",
"perfect",
"radiant",
"dainty",
"delicate",
"personable",
"pleasant",
"presentable",
"chocolate-box",
"prettyish",
"hunky",
"studly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unappealing",
"unappetizing",
"unimposing",
"unpleasant",
"unprepossessing",
"frumpish",
"frumpy",
"unbecoming",
"unshapely",
"grotesque",
"hideous",
"homely",
"ill-favored",
"plain",
"ugly",
"unaesthetic",
"unattractive",
"unbeautiful",
"uncomely",
"uncute",
"unhandsome",
"unlovely",
"unpleasing",
"unpretty",
"unsightly",
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"bad",
"disagreeable",
"disgusting",
"dreadful",
"foul",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"horrible",
"loathsome",
"nasty",
"nauseating",
"objectionable",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"shocking",
"sickening",
"terrible",
"vile"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pushers":{
"as in smugglers , hustlers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"black marketers",
"black marketeers",
"bootleggers",
"fencers",
"fences",
"hustlers",
"smugglers",
"traders",
"concessionaires",
"costermongers",
"dealers",
"merchandisers",
"merchants",
"sellers",
"vendors",
"venders",
"hawkers",
"hucksters",
"peddlers",
"pedlars"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buyers",
"purchasers",
"consumers",
"end users",
"users"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"purchases":{
"to get possession of (something) by giving money in exchange for":{
"examples":[
"I need to purchase a new heavy coat"
],
"synonyms":[
"buys",
"cops",
"picks up",
"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":[]
},
"as in leverages , anchorages":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"anchorages",
"leverages",
"clasps",
"clenches",
"grapples",
"grasps",
"grips",
"handgrips",
"handholds",
"holds",
"grabs",
"seizures",
"footholds",
"footings",
"toeholds",
"clinches",
"embraces",
"hugs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"releases",
"relinquishments"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in sales , deals":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deals",
"sales",
"trades",
"transactions",
"garage sales",
"jumble sales",
"rummage sales",
"tag sales",
"yard sales",
"bargains",
"buys",
"steals",
"clearances",
"closeouts",
"fire sales",
"auctions",
"silent auctions",
"haggles",
"negotiations",
"fairs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pulled in":{
"to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)":{
"examples":[
"a company that cannot manage to pull in costs will not be in business for very long"
],
"synonyms":[
"bridled",
"checked",
"constrained",
"contained",
"controlled",
"curbed",
"governed",
"held",
"inhibited",
"kept",
"measured",
"regulated",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"ruled",
"tamed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottled (up)",
"choked (back)",
"held back",
"minced",
"muffled",
"pocketed",
"repressed",
"sank",
"sunk",
"smothered",
"squelched",
"stifled",
"strangled",
"suppressed",
"swallowed",
"arrested",
"interrupted",
"stopped",
"blocked",
"hampered",
"handcuffed",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed",
"gagged",
"muzzled",
"silenced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"liberated",
"loosed",
"loosened",
"unleashed",
"aired",
"expressed",
"took out",
"vented"
],
"antonyms":[
"lost"
]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"he was pulled in after a random traffic stop turned up drugs in his car"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehended",
"arrested",
"busted",
"bust",
"collared",
"nabbed",
"nailed",
"nicked",
"picked up",
"pinched",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puts away":{
"to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea":{
"examples":[
"the naval authorities put away the body yesterday"
],
"synonyms":[
"buries",
"entombs",
"hearses",
"inhumes",
"inters",
"lays",
"tombs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"immures",
"inurns",
"enshrines",
"conceals",
"covers",
"ensconces",
"hides",
"obscures",
"shades",
"shields",
"cloaks",
"curtains",
"enshrouds",
"shrouds",
"reburies",
"reinters",
"coffins"
],
"near antonyms":[
"burns",
"cremates",
"bares",
"discloses",
"discovers",
"displays",
"exhibits",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"shows",
"uncoffins"
],
"antonyms":[
"disinters",
"exhumes",
"unearths"
]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"after a hit man had put away her husband, she'd be free to marry her lover"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinates",
"bumps off",
"croaks",
"dispatches",
"does in",
"executes",
"gets",
"ices",
"knocks off",
"liquidates",
"murders",
"neutralizes",
"offs",
"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":[]
},
"to take in as food":{
"examples":[
"can easily put away an entire bowl of popcorn at a single sitting"
],
"synonyms":[
"consumes",
"eats",
"ingests",
"partakes (of)",
"puts down",
"tucks (away or in)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"digests",
"downs",
"mouths (down)",
"swallows",
"bolts",
"chows (down on)",
"devours",
"gluts (on)",
"gobbles (up or down)",
"gorges",
"gulps",
"scoffs",
"slops",
"snarfs (down)",
"swills",
"wolfs",
"chews",
"gnaws (at or on)",
"gums",
"laps",
"licks",
"nibbles (on)",
"nurses",
"picks (at)",
"relishes",
"savors",
"savours",
"tastes",
"banquets",
"dines",
"fares",
"feasts",
"gormandizes",
"pigs out",
"regales",
"dispatches",
"polishes off",
"breakfasts",
"lunches",
"sups",
"munches",
"noshes",
"snacks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puzzled (out)":{
"to find an answer for through reasoning":{
"examples":[
"I was able to puzzle out the riddle in a fairly short time"
],
"synonyms":[
"answered",
"broke",
"cracked",
"doped (out)",
"figured out",
"resolved",
"riddled (out)",
"solved",
"unraveled",
"unriddled",
"worked",
"wrought",
"worked out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concluded",
"decided",
"deduced",
"gathered",
"inferred",
"judged",
"reasoned",
"cleared (up)",
"ironed out",
"straightened (out)",
"unscrambled",
"untangled",
"untied",
"assumed",
"conjectured",
"divined",
"guessed",
"presumed",
"speculated",
"deciphered",
"decoded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"public defender":{
"as in trial lawyer , criminal lawyer":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"criminal lawyer",
"mouthpiece",
"trial lawyer",
"district attorney",
"prosecuting attorney",
"prosecutor",
"solicitor",
"solicitor",
"cocounsel",
"jurist",
"advocate",
"attorney",
"attorney-at-law",
"counsel",
"counselor",
"counsellor",
"counselor-at-law",
"lawyer",
"legal eagle",
"lawgiver",
"lawmaker",
"legislator",
"solon",
"ambulance chaser",
"pettifogger",
"Philadelphia lawyer",
"shyster"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"punished":{
"to inflict a penalty on for a fault or crime":{
"examples":[
"the child was punished for breaking dishes on purpose",
"if caught, the thief will be severely punished"
],
"synonyms":[
"castigated",
"chastened",
"chastised",
"corrected",
"disciplined",
"penalized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assessed",
"charged",
"docked",
"fined",
"imposed",
"levied",
"mulcted",
"convicted",
"sentenced",
"condemned",
"damned",
"denounced",
"criticized",
"keelhauled",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproved",
"wreaked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forfeited",
"got off",
"ransomed",
"released",
"commuted",
"reprieved",
"absolved",
"acquitted",
"exculpated",
"exonerated",
"vindicated"
],
"antonyms":[
"excused",
"pardoned",
"spared"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pull off":{
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"the rebel forces pulled off a surprisingly successful offensive against the better equipped government troops"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"bring off",
"carry off",
"carry out",
"commit",
"compass",
"do",
"execute",
"follow through (with)",
"fulfill",
"fulfil",
"make",
"negotiate",
"perform",
"perpetrate",
"prosecute",
"put through"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bring about",
"effect",
"effectuate",
"implement",
"ace",
"nail",
"engage (in)",
"practice",
"practise",
"work (at)",
"reduplicate",
"reenact",
"repeat",
"actualize",
"attain",
"realize",
"complete",
"end",
"finish",
"wind up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fail",
"skimp",
"slight",
"slur"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puts in":{
"to put or set into the ground to grow":{
"examples":[
"put in a crop of winter wheat"
],
"synonyms":[
"drills",
"plants",
"seeds",
"sows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beds",
"replants",
"transplants",
"broadcasts",
"scatters",
"pots",
"overseeds",
"reseeds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gathers",
"harvests",
"reaps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pufferies":{
"information released to the media that is designed to gain public attention or support for a person, business, or cause":{
"examples":[
"the newspaper's local stories are often thinly disguised puffery for area businesses"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhoo",
"hype",
"publicity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ad",
"advertisement",
"commercial",
"message",
"plug",
"promotion",
"spot",
"word",
"banner",
"bill",
"billboard",
"placard",
"poster",
"sign",
"advertising",
"marketing",
"propaganda",
"pronouncement",
"publication",
"release",
"broadcast",
"bulletin",
"dispatch",
"newscast",
"report",
"story",
"ink",
"testimonial",
"write-up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"put in":{
"to put or set into the ground to grow":{
"examples":[
"put in a crop of winter wheat"
],
"synonyms":[
"drill",
"plant",
"seed",
"sow"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bed",
"replant",
"transplant",
"broadcast",
"scatter",
"pot",
"overseed",
"reseed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gather",
"harvest",
"reap"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulling away":{
"as in detaching , disengaging":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"disentangling",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"flinching",
"recoiling",
"shrinking",
"chickening (out)",
"bowing out",
"backing down",
"backpedaling",
"backtracking",
"climbing down",
"abandoning",
"departing",
"evacuating",
"going",
"leaving",
"quitting",
"vacating",
"backing away",
"dropping back",
"falling back",
"pulling out",
"receding",
"retiring",
"retreating",
"withdrawing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"brazening",
"breasting",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"facing",
"outbraving",
"advancing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purebreds":{
"as in thoroughbreds , purebloods":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"full-bloods",
"purebloods",
"thoroughbreds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crossbreds",
"crossbreeds",
"crosses",
"hybrids",
"intercrosses",
"mongrels",
"mules",
"outcrosses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"putting/placing (someone) on a pedestal":{
"to treat or regard (someone) as extraordinarily good, successful, important, etc.":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aggrandizing",
"canonizing",
"deifying",
"elevating",
"exalting",
"apotheosizing",
"lionizing",
"dignifying",
"ennobling",
"enshrining",
"enskying",
"enthroning",
"glorifying",
"magnifying",
"idealizing",
"romanticizing",
"adoring",
"reverencing",
"revering",
"venerating",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"admiring",
"loving",
"regarding",
"respecting",
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"boasting",
"celebrating",
"cheering",
"citing",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"congratulating",
"decorating",
"eulogizing",
"extolling",
"feting",
"f\u00eating",
"hailing",
"honoring",
"lauding",
"praising",
"saluting",
"touting",
"acknowledging",
"recognizing",
"highlighting",
"playing up",
"spotlighting",
"advancing",
"boosting",
"lifting",
"promoting",
"raising",
"upgrading",
"uplifting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"knocking (someone) off his/her pedestal",
"abasing",
"chastening",
"cheapening",
"debasing",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"discrediting",
"disgracing",
"dishonoring",
"fouling",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"lowering",
"shaming",
"sinking",
"smirching",
"taking down",
"abashing",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"discountenancing",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"flustering",
"mortifying",
"nonplussing",
"nonplusing",
"rattling",
"belittling",
"castigating",
"criticizing",
"crying down",
"decrying",
"depreciating",
"detracting",
"diminishing",
"discounting",
"disparaging",
"minimizing",
"putting down",
"ridiculing",
"writing off",
"bad-mouthing",
"defaming",
"defiling",
"libeling",
"libelling",
"maligning",
"slandering",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"damning",
"denouncing",
"execrating",
"reprehending",
"reprobating",
"blaspheming",
"desecrating",
"profaning",
"violating",
"disrespecting",
"offending",
"outraging",
"piquing",
"scorning",
"slighting",
"slurring",
"smearing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"putting away":{
"to place (a dead body) in the earth, a tomb, or the sea":{
"examples":[
"the naval authorities put away the body yesterday"
],
"synonyms":[
"burying",
"entombing",
"hearsing",
"inhuming",
"interring",
"laying",
"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 to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"after a hit man had put away her husband, she'd be free to marry her lover"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinating",
"bumping off",
"croaking",
"dispatching",
"doing in",
"executing",
"getting",
"icing",
"knocking off",
"liquidating",
"murdering",
"neutralizing",
"offing",
"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"
],
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"animating",
"raising",
"restoring",
"resurrecting",
"resuscitating",
"reviving"
],
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},
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"examples":[
"can easily put away an entire bowl of popcorn at a single sitting"
],
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"consuming",
"eating",
"ingesting",
"partaking (of)",
"putting down",
"tucking (away or in)"
],
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"digesting",
"downing",
"mouthing (down)",
"swallowing",
"bolting",
"chowing (down on)",
"devouring",
"glutting (on)",
"gobbling (up or down)",
"gorging",
"gulping",
"scoffing",
"slopping",
"snarfing (down)",
"swilling",
"wolfing",
"chewing",
"gnawing (at or on)",
"gumming",
"lapping",
"licking",
"nibbling (on)",
"nursing",
"picking (at)",
"relishing",
"savoring",
"savouring",
"tasting",
"banqueting",
"dining",
"faring",
"feasting",
"gormandizing",
"pigging out",
"regaling",
"dispatching",
"polishing off",
"breakfasting",
"lunching",
"supping",
"munching",
"noshing",
"snacking"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"putting in":{
"to put or set into the ground to grow":{
"examples":[
"put in a crop of winter wheat"
],
"synonyms":[
"drilling",
"planting",
"seeding",
"sowing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bedding",
"replanting",
"transplanting",
"broadcasting",
"scattering",
"potting",
"overseeding",
"reseeding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gathering",
"harvesting",
"reaping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puffy":{
"as in fluffy , downy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"downy",
"fluffy",
"nappy",
"furry",
"fuzzy",
"hairy",
"rough",
"shaggy",
"woolly",
"wooly",
"hairlike"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pussycats":{
"a small domestic animal known for catching mice":{
"examples":[
"oh, look at the cute little pussycat , kids"
],
"synonyms":[
"cats",
"felines",
"house cats",
"kitties",
"moggies",
"pusses",
"pussies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mousers",
"kits",
"kittens",
"alley cats",
"tabbies",
"gibs",
"tomcats"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"puffs (up)":{
"as in blows up , inflates":{
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"near synonyms":[
"blows up",
"bulks",
"distends",
"inflates",
"accelerates",
"accumulates",
"appreciates",
"balloons",
"booms",
"builds up",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"climbs",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"gains",
"increases",
"mounts",
"multiplies",
"mushrooms",
"proliferates",
"rises",
"rolls up",
"snowballs",
"spreads",
"swells",
"waxes",
"jumps",
"rockets",
"skyrockets",
"surges",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"redoubles",
"crescendoes",
"crests",
"peaks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contracts",
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"recedes",
"wanes",
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"shrinks"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulp":{
"to cause to become a pulpy mass":{
"examples":[
"pulped three oranges to get their juice"
],
"synonyms":[
"crush",
"mash",
"squash"
],
"near synonyms":[
"press",
"squeeze",
"beat",
"pound",
"powder",
"pulverize"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in novel , novelette":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"novel",
"novelette",
"monograph",
"primer",
"text",
"textbook",
"tract",
"treatise",
"album",
"almanac",
"anthology",
"casebook",
"chapbook",
"omnibus",
"picture book",
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"cyclopedia",
"cyclopaedia",
"dictionary",
"encyclopedia",
"guidebook",
"handbook",
"how-to",
"manual",
"folio",
"quarto",
"hardback",
"hardcover",
"paper",
"paperback",
"paperbound",
"pocket book",
"pocket edition",
"softback",
"softcover",
"trade book",
"trade edition",
"book",
"tome",
"volume"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"puppy loves":{
"as in calf-loves":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"calf-loves",
"idylls",
"idyls",
"passions",
"entanglements",
"flirtations",
"attachments",
"infatuations",
"dalliances",
"hanky-pankies",
"intrigues",
"liaisons",
"affairs",
"amours",
"flings",
"love affairs",
"loves",
"romances"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"put through":{
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"the incoming university president is vowing to put through the sort of sweeping changes that will propel the school into the top tier academically"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"bring off",
"carry off",
"carry out",
"commit",
"compass",
"do",
"execute",
"follow through (with)",
"fulfill",
"fulfil",
"make",
"negotiate",
"perform",
"perpetrate",
"prosecute",
"pull off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bring about",
"effect",
"effectuate",
"implement",
"ace",
"nail",
"engage (in)",
"practice",
"practise",
"work (at)",
"reduplicate",
"reenact",
"repeat",
"actualize",
"attain",
"realize",
"complete",
"end",
"finish",
"wind up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fail",
"skimp",
"slight",
"slur"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pundits":{
"a person of deep wisdom or learning":{
"examples":[
"a moral question that has puzzled the pundits throughout the ages"
],
"synonyms":[
"sages",
"savants",
"scholars"
],
"near synonyms":[
"seers",
"wise men",
"polyhistors",
"polymaths",
"Renaissance men",
"brains",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"highbrows",
"intellects",
"intellectuals",
"thinkers",
"whizzes",
"wizards",
"gurus",
"mahatmas",
"pandits",
"swamis",
"yogis",
"yogins",
"rabbis",
"masters",
"mentors",
"teachers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blockheads",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"dolts",
"donkeys",
"dopes",
"dumbbells",
"dummies",
"dunces",
"fatheads",
"fools",
"goons",
"half-wits",
"idiots",
"ignoramuses",
"ignorami",
"imbeciles",
"jackasses",
"know-nothings",
"morons",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"nitwits",
"numskulls",
"numbskulls",
"pinheads",
"simpletons",
"stocks",
"turkeys"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who makes or expresses a judgment on the quality of offerings in some field of endeavor":{
"examples":[
"the new mini laptop has gotten a thumbs-up from industry pundits"
],
"synonyms":[
"critics",
"reviewers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"analysts",
"annotators",
"columnists",
"commentators",
"observers",
"appraisers",
"evaluators",
"judges",
"referees"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"purportedly":{
"as in allegedly , reportedly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"allegedly",
"reportedly",
"reputedly",
"apparently",
"evidently",
"ostensibly",
"ostensively",
"presumably",
"putatively",
"seemingly",
"supposedly",
"externally",
"outwardly",
"visibly",
"believably",
"credibly",
"assumably",
"likely",
"presumedly",
"probably",
"conceivably",
"maybe",
"mayhap",
"perchance",
"perhaps",
"possibly",
"professedly",
"supposably",
"clearly",
"distinctly",
"manifestly",
"obviously",
"plainly",
"self-evidently",
"assuredly",
"positively",
"surely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implausibly",
"impossibly",
"improbably",
"incredibly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"pummelling":{
"as in pounding , thrashing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bashing",
"battering",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pounding",
"thrashing",
"blow",
"buffet",
"hit",
"knock",
"punch",
"rap",
"slap",
"thump",
"contact",
"encounter",
"meeting",
"touch",
"bump",
"collision",
"concussion",
"crash",
"impact",
"impingement",
"jar",
"jolt",
"jounce",
"kick",
"shock",
"slam",
"smash",
"strike",
"wallop"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"pummeled the mugger with her fists until help arrived"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashing",
"basting",
"battering",
"batting",
"beating",
"belaboring",
"belting",
"birching",
"bludgeoning",
"buffeting",
"bunging up",
"clubbing",
"currying",
"doing",
"drubbing",
"fibbing",
"flogging",
"hammering",
"hiding",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"lashing",
"lathering",
"licking",
"mauling",
"messing (up)",
"paddling",
"pelting",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pounding",
"punching out",
"roughing (up)",
"slating",
"slogging",
"switching",
"tanning",
"thrashing",
"threshing",
"thumping",
"tromping",
"walloping",
"whaling",
"whipping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping",
"working over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"boxing",
"busting",
"chopping",
"clobbering",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"cuffing",
"descending (on or upon)",
"hitting",
"jumping (on)",
"knocking",
"lamming",
"laying on",
"pasting",
"pouncing (on or upon)",
"punching",
"raiding",
"rushing",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"smacking",
"smashing",
"socking",
"spanking",
"storming",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thwacking",
"whacking",
"whamming",
"whomping",
"blackjacking",
"caning",
"cowhiding",
"flagellating",
"fustigating",
"horsewhipping",
"leathering",
"pistol-whipping",
"rawhiding",
"scourging",
"strapping",
"goring",
"lacerating",
"wounding",
"maiming",
"mangling",
"mutilating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"purify":{
"to free from moral guilt or blemish especially ceremonially":{
"examples":[
"Catholics go to confession to be purified"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleanse",
"purge",
"sanctify"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amend",
"improve",
"refine",
"heal",
"regenerate",
"restore",
"elevate",
"ennoble",
"uplift",
"absolve",
"acquit",
"clear",
"exonerate",
"vindicate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corrupt",
"debase",
"debauch",
"defile",
"degrade",
"demean",
"deprave",
"pervert",
"stain",
"warp",
"poison",
"profane",
"prostitute",
"sully",
"tarnish"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove usually visible impurities from":{
"examples":[
"purify the water by distillation"
],
"synonyms":[
"clarify",
"clear",
"distill",
"distil",
"filter",
"fine",
"garble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"process",
"rectify",
"refine",
"clean",
"cleanse",
"decontaminate",
"elutriate",
"purge",
"wash",
"extract",
"leach",
"bolt",
"screen",
"sieve",
"sift",
"disinfect",
"sanitize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cloud",
"dull",
"muddy",
"contaminate",
"dirty",
"soil",
"defile",
"pollute",
"taint",
"begrime",
"besmirch",
"foul",
"sully"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"putting about":{
"as in coming about , turning back":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"about-facing",
"backing",
"coming about",
"coming round",
"cutting",
"inclining",
"reversing",
"swerving",
"tacking",
"turning back",
"veering",
"wheeling",
"yawing",
"facing",
"orienting",
"steering",
"beelining",
"lighting out",
"putting",
"putting out",
"setting off",
"setting out",
"striking",
"taking off",
"aiming",
"bending",
"directing",
"pointing",
"turning",
"bearing",
"heading",
"making"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pull the wool over one's eyes":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozle",
"beguile",
"bluff",
"buffalo",
"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",
"sucker",
"suck in",
"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"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"punctuating":{
"to indicate the importance of by centering attention on":{
"examples":[
"punctuated each and every word of his denial with a pound of his fist on the table"
],
"synonyms":[
"accenting",
"accentuating",
"emphasizing",
"featuring",
"foregrounding",
"highlighting",
"illuminating",
"playing up",
"pointing (up)",
"pressing",
"stressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"focusing",
"focussing",
"identifying",
"pinpointing",
"spotlighting",
"advertising",
"boosting",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"publicizing",
"overplaying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"toning (down)",
"underemphasizing",
"understating",
"belittling",
"discounting",
"disparaging",
"minimizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"de-emphasizing",
"playing down"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"putting forth":{
"to set before the mind for consideration":{
"examples":[
"They put forth a plan of action for the committee."
],
"synonyms":[
"advancing",
"bouncing",
"offering",
"posing",
"proffering",
"proposing",
"propounding",
"suggesting",
"voting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"moving",
"nominating",
"recommending",
"presenting",
"submitting",
"tendering",
"trotting out",
"filing",
"laying",
"lodging",
"arranging",
"calculating",
"charting",
"contriving",
"covering",
"framing",
"mapping",
"planning",
"plotting",
"shaping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make known (as an idea, emotion, or opinion)":{
"examples":[
"She put forth her thoughts during the meeting."
],
"synonyms":[
"airing",
"expounding",
"expressing",
"giving",
"looking",
"raising",
"sounding",
"stating",
"ventilating",
"venting",
"voicing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"advertising",
"announcing",
"declaring",
"enouncing",
"enunciating",
"proclaiming",
"saying",
"broadcasting",
"circulating",
"disseminating",
"publishing",
"describing",
"writing",
"writing up",
"sounding off",
"speaking out",
"speaking up",
"chiming in",
"communicating",
"conveying",
"putting across",
"putting over",
"offering",
"submitting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censoring",
"restraining",
"restricting"
],
"antonyms":[
"stifling",
"suppressing"
]
},
"to state as a fact usually forcefully":{
"examples":[
"He put forth an explanation even though he didn't have any supporting evidence."
],
"synonyms":[
"affirming",
"alleging",
"asserting",
"averring",
"avouching",
"avowing",
"claiming",
"contending",
"declaring",
"insisting",
"maintaining",
"professing",
"protesting",
"purporting",
"warranting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"announcing",
"broadcasting",
"proclaiming",
"arguing",
"rationalizing",
"reasoning",
"confirming",
"justifying",
"vindicating",
"defending",
"persevering",
"supporting",
"upholding",
"reaffirming",
"reasserting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandoning",
"disavowing",
"disclaiming",
"disowning",
"negating",
"negativing",
"rejecting",
"repudiating",
"challenging",
"disputing",
"questioning",
"confuting",
"disproving",
"rebutting",
"refuting",
"contradicting",
"countering"
],
"antonyms":[
"denying",
"gainsaying"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"publicities":{
"information released to the media that is designed to gain public attention or support for a person, business, or cause":{
"examples":[
"an endless flow of publicity for our charity event resulted in a great turnout"
],
"synonyms":[
"ballyhoo",
"hype",
"puffery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ad",
"advertisement",
"commercial",
"message",
"plug",
"promotion",
"spot",
"word",
"banner",
"bill",
"billboard",
"placard",
"poster",
"sign",
"advertising",
"marketing",
"propaganda",
"pronouncement",
"publication",
"release",
"broadcast",
"bulletin",
"dispatch",
"newscast",
"report",
"story",
"ink",
"testimonial",
"write-up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"putrescent":{
"as in rotting , decaying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating",
"mildewy",
"moldering",
"moldy",
"putrefying",
"rotting",
"corroded",
"crumbled",
"degenerated",
"deteriorated",
"disintegrated",
"gangrenous",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"fouled",
"impure",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"curdled",
"fermented",
"off",
"rancid",
"rank",
"sour",
"soured",
"sourish",
"turned",
"addled",
"bad",
"corrupted",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"putrefied",
"putrid",
"rotten",
"spoiled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undecomposed",
"fresh",
"good",
"sweet",
"preserved",
"pristine",
"uncontaminated",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"unspoiled",
"untainted",
"untouched"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pure-blood":{
"as in thoroughbred , purebred":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"full-blood",
"purebred",
"thoroughbred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cross",
"crossbred",
"crossbreed",
"hybrid",
"intercross",
"mongrel",
"mule",
"outcross"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"purloining":{
"as in shoplifting , pilfering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"filching",
"pilferage",
"pilfering",
"shoplifting",
"petit larceny",
"petty larceny",
"abduction",
"carjacking",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"shanghaiing",
"embezzlement",
"embezzling",
"graft",
"misapplication",
"misappropriation",
"peculation",
"despoilment",
"despoliation",
"looting",
"pillage",
"plundering",
"rapine",
"spoliation",
"burglary",
"housebreaking",
"poaching",
"rustling",
"larceny",
"robbery",
"stealing",
"theft",
"thievery",
"black marketeering",
"smuggling",
"banditry",
"piracy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"the studio stepped up security, fearing that someone might attempt to purloin a copy of the script for the show's season finale"
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriating",
"boosting",
"filching",
"heisting",
"hooking",
"lifting",
"misappropriating",
"nicking",
"nipping",
"pilfering",
"pinching",
"pocketing",
"ripping off",
"snitching",
"stealing",
"swiping",
"thieving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarizing",
"knocking over",
"robbing",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"sacking",
"carjacking",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"picking",
"rifling",
"poaching",
"rustling",
"shoplifting",
"collaring",
"grabbing",
"grasping",
"nailing",
"seizing",
"snatching",
"taking",
"mooching",
"sponging",
"abducting",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"shanghaiing",
"spiriting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buying",
"purchasing",
"bestowing",
"contributing",
"donating",
"giving",
"handing over",
"presenting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"puts across":{
"as in communicates , conveys":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"communicates",
"conveys",
"puts over",
"chimes in",
"offers",
"submits",
"sounds off",
"speaks out",
"speaks up",
"describes",
"writes",
"writes up",
"broadcasts",
"circulates",
"disseminates",
"publishes",
"advertises",
"announces",
"declares",
"enounces",
"enunciates",
"proclaims",
"says",
"airs",
"expounds",
"expresses",
"gives",
"looks",
"raises",
"sounds",
"states",
"ventilates",
"vents",
"voices"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stifles",
"suppresses",
"censors",
"restrains",
"restricts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purging":{
"to free from moral guilt or blemish especially ceremonially":{
"examples":[
"a day on which the faithful are expected to purge themselves of their sins through prayer and fasting"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"sanctifying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amending",
"improving",
"refining",
"healing",
"regenerating",
"restoring",
"elevating",
"ennobling",
"uplifting",
"absolving",
"acquitting",
"clearing",
"exonerating",
"vindicating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corrupting",
"debasing",
"debauching",
"defiling",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"depraving",
"perverting",
"staining",
"warping",
"poisoning",
"profaning",
"prostituting",
"sullying",
"tarnishing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"putrescence":{
"the process by which dead organic matter separates into simpler substances":{
"examples":[
"in the far corner of the walk-in refrigerator was a crate of cucumbers in an advanced stage of putrescence"
],
"synonyms":[
"breakdown",
"corruption",
"decay",
"decomposition",
"festering",
"putrefaction",
"rot",
"spoilage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crumbling",
"disintegration",
"dissolution",
"curdling",
"fermentation",
"moldering",
"souring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"growth",
"maturation",
"ripening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"published":{
"as in announced , publicized":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"advertised",
"aired",
"announced",
"broadcast",
"declared",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"heralded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"spotlighted",
"nonclassified",
"unclassified",
"well-known",
"current",
"prevalent",
"rife",
"widespread",
"general",
"popular",
"communal",
"shared",
"open",
"public",
"reported",
"reputed",
"rumored"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confidential",
"private",
"privy",
"secret",
"classified",
"unadvertised",
"unannounced",
"undisclosed",
"clandestine",
"collusive",
"conspiratorial",
"covert",
"surreptitious",
"undercover",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"intimate",
"personal",
"concealed",
"repressed",
"reserved",
"silenced",
"stifled",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"recanted",
"retracted",
"revoked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to produce and release for distribution in printed form":{
"examples":[
"our local animal shelter publishes a newsletter"
],
"synonyms":[
"got out",
"issued",
"printed",
"put out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copublished",
"co-published",
"reissued",
"reprinted",
"republished",
"serialized",
"contributed",
"edited",
"syndicated",
"manufactured",
"produced",
"distributed",
"marketed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censored",
"suppressed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"will publish the exam scores as soon as they are available"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertised",
"announced",
"annunciated",
"blared",
"blazed",
"blazoned",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"declared",
"enunciated",
"flashed",
"gave out",
"heralded",
"placarded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"released",
"sounded",
"trumpeted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barked",
"called (off or out)",
"cried",
"billboarded",
"billed",
"bulletined",
"gazetted",
"knelled",
"rang",
"tolled",
"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":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pungency":{
"a harsh or sharp quality":{
"examples":[
"the pungency of the vinegar gives the salad dressing the kick that it needs"
],
"synonyms":[
"acerbity",
"acidity",
"acidness",
"acridity",
"acridness",
"acrimoniousness",
"acrimony",
"acuteness",
"asperity",
"bite",
"bitterness",
"edge",
"harshness",
"keenness",
"poignance",
"poignancy",
"roughness",
"sharpness",
"tartness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ginger",
"punch",
"spice",
"tang",
"raucousness",
"severeness",
"severity",
"shrillness",
"virulence",
"vitriol",
"cattiness",
"maliciousness",
"pointedness",
"thorniness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gentleness",
"kindliness"
],
"antonyms":[
"mildness",
"softness"
]
},
"the quality or state of being stimulating to the mind or senses":{
"examples":[
"theatergoers have long delighted in the pungency and wit of the play's dialogue"
],
"synonyms":[
"nip",
"piquancy",
"spice",
"tang",
"zest",
"zing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"raciness",
"spiciness",
"fieriness",
"hotness",
"acuteness",
"keenness",
"sharpness",
"provocativeness",
"excitement",
"invigoration",
"stimulant",
"stimulation",
"stimulus",
"thrill",
"bitterness",
"mordancy",
"trenchancy",
"flavor",
"redolence",
"savor",
"savour",
"savoriness",
"tastiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flatness",
"tastelessness",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"insipidity",
"monotonousness",
"monotony",
"platitude",
"predictability",
"sameness",
"tediousness",
"blandness",
"thinness",
"weakness"
],
"antonyms":[
"insipidity"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pupils":{
"one who attends a school":{
"examples":[
"generally there are 20 pupils in each class"
],
"synonyms":[
"scholars",
"students"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readers",
"studiers",
"day students",
"preppies",
"schoolboys",
"schoolchildren",
"schoolgirls",
"schoolfellows",
"schoolmates",
"coeds",
"collegians",
"postgraduates",
"undergraduates",
"high schoolers",
"kindergartners",
"kindergarteners",
"middlers",
"middle schoolers",
"freshmen",
"juniors",
"seniors",
"sophomores",
"underclassmen",
"undergrads",
"upperclassmen",
"exchange students"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one who follows the opinions or teachings of another":{
"examples":[
"to pupils of the philosopher Henry David Thoreau, the shores of Walden Pond are hallowed ground"
],
"synonyms":[
"acolytes",
"adherents",
"converts",
"disciples",
"epigones",
"followers",
"liege men",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"votaries",
"votarists"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apostles",
"missionaries",
"proselytizers",
"soldiers",
"faithfuls",
"loyalists",
"advocates",
"backers",
"champions",
"supporters",
"prot\u00e9g\u00e9s",
"scholars",
"students",
"ideologists",
"ideologues",
"idealogues",
"sectarians",
"admirers",
"cultists",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fans",
"idolaters",
"idolators",
"worshippers",
"worshipers",
"zealots",
"apparatchiks",
"apparatchiki",
"camp followers",
"flunkies",
"flunkeys",
"hangers-on",
"henchmen",
"lackeys",
"lickspittles",
"minions",
"myrmidons",
"satellites",
"stooges",
"sycophants",
"toadies",
"yes-men"
],
"near antonyms":[
"apostates",
"defectors",
"renegades",
"traitors",
"turncoats"
],
"antonyms":[
"coryphaei",
"leaders"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"put-down":{
"an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings":{
"examples":[
"new hires always have to deal with put-downs and practical jokes from the older employees"
],
"synonyms":[
"affront",
"barb",
"brickbat",
"cut",
"dart",
"dig",
"dis",
"diss",
"epithet",
"gird",
"indignity",
"insult",
"name",
"offense",
"offence",
"outrage",
"personality",
"poke",
"sarcasm",
"slap",
"slight",
"slur"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catcall",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"jeer",
"mock",
"quip",
"sneer",
"taunt",
"abuse",
"invective",
"vituperation",
"disapproval",
"opprobrium",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"shame",
"attack",
"criticism",
"knock",
"slam",
"swipe",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accolade",
"commendation",
"compliment",
"acclaim",
"applause",
"praise",
"adulation",
"flattery"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant":{
"examples":[
"your never-ending put-down of my musical talents is really starting to annoy me"
],
"synonyms":[
"belittlement",
"denigration",
"deprecation",
"depreciation",
"derogation",
"detraction",
"diminishment",
"disparagement"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersion",
"backbiting",
"calumny",
"defamation",
"libel",
"slander",
"vilification",
"derision",
"mockery",
"ridicule",
"abuse",
"invective",
"vituperation",
"censure",
"condemnation",
"criticism",
"denouncement",
"denunciation",
"de-emphasis",
"minimization",
"soft-pedaling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"praise",
"approbation",
"approval",
"blessing",
"commendation",
"hype",
"puffery"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizement",
"ennoblement",
"exaltation",
"glorification",
"magnification"
]
},
"to express scornfully one's low opinion of":{
"examples":[
"he has the annoying habit of putting down others under the guise of offering constructive criticism"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"cry down",
"decry",
"denigrate",
"deprecate",
"depreciate",
"derogate",
"diminish",
"dis",
"diss",
"discount",
"dismiss",
"disparage",
"kiss off",
"minimize",
"play down",
"poor-mouth",
"run down",
"talk down",
"trash",
"trash-talk",
"vilipend",
"write off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discommend",
"abuse",
"scold",
"disapprove (of)",
"dislike",
"censure",
"condemn",
"criticize",
"denounce",
"reprehend",
"reprobate",
"asperse",
"defame",
"malign",
"rip",
"slander",
"slur",
"traduce",
"vilify",
"discredit",
"disgrace"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approve",
"countenance",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"favor",
"recommend",
"sanction",
"commend",
"compliment",
"eulogize"
],
"antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"exalt",
"extol",
"extoll",
"glorify",
"laud",
"magnify",
"praise"
]
},
"to make a written note of":{
"examples":[
"we had the whole agreement put down on paper"
],
"synonyms":[
"jot (down)",
"log",
"mark",
"note",
"record",
"register",
"report",
"set down",
"take down",
"write down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chronicle",
"minute",
"transcribe",
"enregister",
"enter",
"inscribe",
"chalk (up)",
"notch",
"score"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put (someone or something) on a list":{
"examples":[
"put her down as one of the chaperones for the field trip"
],
"synonyms":[
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"enroll",
"enrol",
"enter",
"index",
"inscribe",
"list",
"record",
"register",
"schedule",
"slate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"book",
"card",
"file",
"note",
"classify",
"compile",
"tabulate",
"tally",
"reschedule"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delete"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put a stop to (something) by the use of force":{
"examples":[
"a tyrant who ruthlessly put down uprisings"
],
"synonyms":[
"clamp down (on)",
"crack down (on)",
"crush",
"quash",
"quell",
"repress",
"silence",
"slap down",
"snuff (out)",
"squash",
"squelch",
"subdue",
"suppress"
],
"near synonyms":[
"douse",
"dowse",
"extinguish",
"put out",
"quench",
"smother",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"throttle",
"annihilate",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"nuke",
"rub out",
"ruin",
"smash",
"waste",
"wreck",
"exterminate",
"obliterate",
"wipe out",
"conquer",
"dominate",
"overcome",
"overpower",
"overwhelm",
"subjugate",
"vanquish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abet",
"aid",
"assist",
"back",
"help",
"prop up",
"support",
"foment",
"incite",
"instigate",
"provoke",
"stir",
"whip (up)",
"advance",
"cultivate",
"encourage",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"promote"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to explain (something) as being the result of something else":{
"examples":[
"a fender bender that probably can be put down to the young driver's inexperience"
],
"synonyms":[
"accredit",
"ascribe",
"attribute",
"chalk up",
"credit",
"impute",
"lay"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blame",
"charge",
"father (on)",
"impute (to)",
"pin (on)",
"assign",
"refer",
"associate",
"attach",
"connect",
"link"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take in as food":{
"examples":[
"the husky youngster seemed to put down her own weight in food at one sitting"
],
"synonyms":[
"consume",
"eat",
"ingest",
"partake (of)",
"put away",
"tuck (away or in)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"digest",
"down",
"mouth (down)",
"swallow",
"bolt",
"chow (down on)",
"devour",
"glut (on)",
"gobble (up or down)",
"gorge",
"gulp",
"scoff",
"slop",
"snarf (down)",
"swill",
"wolf",
"chew",
"gnaw (at or on)",
"gum",
"lap",
"lick",
"nibble (on)",
"nurse",
"pick (at)",
"relish",
"savor",
"savour",
"taste",
"banquet",
"dine",
"fare",
"feast",
"gormandize",
"pig out",
"regale",
"dispatch",
"polish off",
"breakfast",
"lunch",
"sup",
"munch",
"nosh",
"snack"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"puncture":{
"a mark or small hole made by a pointed instrument":{
"examples":[
"a leak caused by several small punctures in the rubber gasket"
],
"synonyms":[
"perforation",
"pinhole",
"pinprick",
"prick",
"punch",
"stab"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gouge",
"groove",
"hollow",
"break",
"cut",
"gash",
"incision",
"laceration",
"notch",
"rent",
"rip",
"rupture",
"slash",
"slit",
"tear"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a hole or series of holes in":{
"examples":[
"a nail punctured the tire"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"drill",
"hole",
"perforate",
"pierce",
"punch",
"riddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broach",
"tap",
"poke",
"prick",
"prickle",
"penetrate",
"burrow (into)",
"excavate",
"gouge",
"groove",
"hollow",
"break",
"cut",
"gash",
"notch",
"rend",
"rupture",
"slash",
"slit",
"split"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fill",
"patch",
"plug",
"seal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"I could never puncture my own skin with a hypodermic needle"
],
"synonyms":[
"gore",
"harpoon",
"impale",
"jab",
"lance",
"peck",
"pick",
"pierce",
"pink",
"run through",
"skewer",
"spear",
"spike",
"spit",
"stab",
"stick",
"transfix",
"transpierce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindle",
"perforate",
"riddle",
"bayonet",
"dirk",
"gimlet",
"pike",
"poniard",
"prong",
"quill",
"pinprick",
"poke",
"prick",
"punch",
"thrust",
"cut",
"knife",
"slice"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"puts up a front":{
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
"examples":[
"Though she put up a front , I could tell her feelings were hurt."
],
"synonyms":[
"dissembles",
"dissimulates",
"lets on",
"makes out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acts",
"impersonates",
"masquerades",
"playacts",
"plays",
"poses",
"pretends",
"affects",
"assumes",
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"feigns",
"professes",
"puts on",
"shams",
"simulates",
"camouflages",
"conceals",
"disguises",
"masks",
"bluffs",
"feints"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pull":{
"to cause to follow by applying steady force on":{
"examples":[
"a team of horses pulling a heavy wagon"
],
"synonyms":[
"drag",
"draw",
"hale",
"haul",
"lug",
"tow",
"tug"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attract",
"heave",
"jerk",
"yank",
"carry",
"convey",
"ferry",
"move",
"transport"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shove",
"thrust"
],
"antonyms":[
"drive",
"propel",
"push"
]
},
"to draw out by force or with effort":{
"examples":[
"the dentist had to struggle to pull the tooth"
],
"synonyms":[
"corkscrew",
"extract",
"prize",
"pry",
"root (out)",
"tear (out)",
"uproot",
"wrest",
"wring",
"yank"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mine",
"pluck",
"remove",
"take (out)",
"withdraw"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implant",
"insert",
"install",
"instill",
"cram",
"jam",
"ram",
"stuff",
"wedge"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure":{
"examples":[
"lift the crate carefully, or you'll pull a muscle"
],
"synonyms":[
"rack",
"strain",
"stretch",
"wrench"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fray",
"tax",
"weaken",
"damage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"wound",
"batter",
"bruise",
"tear",
"cripple",
"lame",
"mangle",
"mutilate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or an instance of applying force on something so that it moves in the direction of the force":{
"examples":[
"I gave the door such a pull that when it suddenly opened, I nearly fell backwards"
],
"synonyms":[
"draw",
"haul",
"jerk",
"pluck",
"tug",
"wrench",
"yank"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drag",
"tow",
"hitch",
"twitch",
"grab",
"snatch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heave",
"shove",
"thrust"
],
"antonyms":[
"push"
]
},
"the power to direct the thinking or behavior of others usually indirectly":{
"examples":[
"their lawyer supposedly has a lot of pull with the administration in Washington"
],
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"authority",
"clout",
"credit",
"heft",
"in",
"influence",
"juice",
"leverage",
"sway",
"weight"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterinfluence",
"command",
"dominance",
"dominion",
"mastery",
"predominance",
"reign",
"scepter",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"supremacy",
"consequence",
"eminence",
"importance",
"moment",
"impact",
"impress",
"impression",
"imprint",
"mark"
],
"near antonyms":[
"helplessness",
"impotence",
"impotency",
"powerlessness",
"weakness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the more favorable condition or position in a competition":{
"examples":[
"a political candidate with all of the pull that comes with a vast fortune and famous surname"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantage",
"better",
"bulge",
"catbird seat",
"drop",
"edge",
"high ground",
"inside track",
"jump",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pumps up":{
"to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings of":{
"examples":[
"the crowd was pumped up by the band's rocking performance"
],
"synonyms":[
"charges",
"electrifies",
"excites",
"exhilarates",
"galvanizes",
"intoxicates",
"thrills",
"titillates",
"turns on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arouses",
"incites",
"inspires",
"provokes",
"stimulates",
"bewitches",
"captivates",
"charms",
"delights",
"enchants",
"enthralls",
"enthrals",
"hypnotizes",
"mesmerizes",
"rivets",
"spellbinds",
"interests",
"intrigues",
"tantalizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bores",
"jades",
"palls",
"tires",
"wearies",
"dejects",
"demoralizes",
"discourages",
"disheartens",
"dispirits"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"that pop diva is trying to pump up album sales with an extended publicity tour"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerates",
"adds (to)",
"aggrandizes",
"amplifies",
"augments",
"boosts",
"builds up",
"compounds",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"extends",
"hypes",
"increases",
"multiplies",
"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"
]
},
"pungles (up)":{
"as in puts up , pays":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"extends",
"forks (over, out, or up)",
"offers",
"pays",
"proffers",
"puts up",
"tenders",
"administers",
"dishes out",
"dispenses",
"doles out",
"hands out",
"imparts",
"issues",
"metes (out)",
"sacrifices",
"aids",
"assists",
"benefits",
"helps",
"lavishes",
"regales",
"affords",
"comps",
"furnishes",
"provides",
"awards",
"confers",
"endows",
"endues",
"indues",
"renders",
"chips in",
"kicks in",
"pitches in",
"throws in",
"bestows",
"contributes",
"donates",
"gives",
"gives away",
"presents",
"volunteers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"holds",
"keeps",
"pockets",
"retains",
"withholds",
"preserves",
"saves",
"advances",
"lends",
"loans",
"sells"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulls one's leg":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"He was just pulling your leg when he said he won the lottery."
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozles",
"beguiles",
"bluffs",
"buffaloes",
"burns",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"purling":{
"as in swirling , eddying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"eddying",
"swirling",
"bubbling",
"dribbling",
"guggling",
"gurgling",
"lapping",
"plashing",
"rippling",
"splashing",
"trickling",
"washing",
"swashing",
"swishing",
"swooshing",
"whishing",
"dripping",
"dropping",
"gushing",
"jetting",
"rushing",
"spewing",
"spouting",
"spurting",
"squirting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pouring",
"rolling",
"streaming",
"running"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pussies":{
"a small domestic animal known for catching mice":{
"examples":[
"fed his pussy only the finest fish for her supper"
],
"synonyms":[
"cats",
"felines",
"house cats",
"kitties",
"moggies",
"pusses",
"pussycats"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mousers",
"kits",
"kittens",
"alley cats",
"tabbies",
"gibs",
"tomcats"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"putting":{
"to arrange something in a certain spot or position":{
"examples":[
"you can put this box next to the bookshelf"
],
"synonyms":[
"deposing",
"depositing",
"disposing",
"emplacing",
"fixing",
"laying",
"placing",
"positioning",
"setting",
"setting up",
"situating",
"sticking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"moving",
"rearranging",
"reordering",
"shifting",
"orienting",
"establishing",
"locating",
"planting",
"settling",
"clapping",
"flopping",
"planking",
"plopping",
"plumping",
"plunking",
"plonking",
"plunking down",
"plonking down",
"slapping",
"ensconcing",
"niching",
"assembling",
"collecting",
"carrying",
"berthing",
"parking",
"affixing",
"anchoring",
"locking",
"lodging",
"wedging",
"arraying",
"laying out",
"lining up",
"queuing",
"queueing",
"ranking",
"setting down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"relocating",
"removing",
"taking",
"banishing",
"dislodging",
"displacing",
"replacing",
"superseding",
"supplanting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to convey in appropriate or telling terms":{
"examples":[
"tried to think of a good way of putting the news"
],
"synonyms":[
"articulating",
"clothing",
"couching",
"expressing",
"formulating",
"phrasing",
"saying",
"stating",
"wording"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crafting",
"framing",
"hinting",
"implying",
"insinuating",
"intimating",
"suggesting",
"paraphrasing",
"rephrasing",
"restating",
"rewording",
"summarizing",
"translating",
"communicating",
"disclosing",
"speaking",
"talking",
"telling",
"uttering",
"verbalizing",
"vocalizing",
"describing",
"rendering",
"writing up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to decide the size, amount, number, or distance of (something) without actual measurement":{
"examples":[
"put the time of the photograph at about noon"
],
"synonyms":[
"calculating",
"calling",
"conjecturing",
"estimating",
"figuring",
"gauging",
"gaging",
"guessing",
"judging",
"making",
"placing",
"reckoning",
"supposing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concluding",
"deducing",
"extrapolating",
"gathering",
"inferring",
"reasoning",
"understanding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calibrating",
"measuring",
"scaling",
"computing",
"working out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to establish or apply as a charge or penalty":{
"examples":[
"a proposal to put a special tax on luxuries"
],
"synonyms":[
"assessing",
"charging",
"exacting",
"fining",
"imposing",
"laying",
"levying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"docking",
"excising",
"mulcting",
"penalizing",
"taxing",
"extorting",
"shaking down",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"bleeding",
"fleecing",
"gouging",
"milking",
"skinning",
"squeezing",
"coercing",
"compelling",
"forcing",
"inflicting",
"wreaking",
"setting",
"reapplying",
"reimposing",
"relaying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abating",
"diminishing",
"lessening",
"forgiving",
"releasing",
"condoning",
"disregarding",
"excusing",
"glossing (over)",
"glozing (over)",
"ignoring",
"pardoning"
],
"antonyms":[
"remitting"
]
},
"to change (something) so as to make it suitable for a new use or situation":{
"examples":[
"put the words of his patriotic poem to the tune of a well-known drinking song"
],
"synonyms":[
"acclimating",
"acclimatizing",
"accommodating",
"adapting",
"adjusting",
"conditioning",
"conforming",
"doctoring",
"editing",
"fashioning",
"fitting",
"shaping",
"suiting",
"tailoring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"readapting",
"readjusting",
"customizing",
"gearing",
"matching",
"modeling",
"modelling",
"patterning",
"attuning",
"correcting",
"harmonizing",
"squaring",
"tuning",
"establishing",
"rooting",
"settling",
"acquainting",
"familiarizing",
"orientating",
"orienting",
"equipping",
"preparing",
"priming",
"rehearsing",
"hardening",
"inuring",
"seasoning",
"toughening",
"altering",
"converting",
"making over",
"modifying",
"recasting",
"reclaiming",
"recycling",
"redesigning",
"redeveloping",
"redoing",
"reengineering",
"refashioning",
"refiguring",
"refitting",
"refocusing",
"reinventing",
"rejiggering",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"transforming",
"accustoming",
"habilitating",
"habituating",
"naturalizing",
"readying",
"training",
"bending",
"fiddling (with)",
"fine-tuning",
"phasing",
"registering",
"regulating",
"rigging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to risk (something) on the outcome of an uncertain event":{
"examples":[
"deciding to go for broke, he put $1000 on a horse that had 20 to 1 odds"
],
"synonyms":[
"betting",
"gambling",
"going",
"laying",
"playing",
"staking",
"wagering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bidding",
"offering",
"adventuring",
"chancing",
"hazarding",
"speculating",
"venturing",
"endangering",
"imperiling",
"imperilling",
"jeopardizing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pungling (up)":{
"as in putting up , paying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"extending",
"forking (over, out, or up)",
"offering",
"paying",
"proffering",
"putting up",
"tendering",
"administering",
"dishing out",
"dispensing",
"doling out",
"handing out",
"imparting",
"issuing",
"meting (out)",
"sacrificing",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"benefiting",
"benefitting",
"helping",
"lavishing",
"regaling",
"affording",
"comping",
"furnishing",
"providing",
"awarding",
"conferring",
"endowing",
"enduing",
"induing",
"rendering",
"chipping in",
"kicking in",
"pitching in",
"throwing in",
"bestowing",
"contributing",
"donating",
"giving",
"giving away",
"presenting",
"volunteering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"holding",
"keeping",
"pocketing",
"retaining",
"withholding",
"preserving",
"saving",
"advancing",
"lending",
"loaning",
"selling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puzzlements":{
"a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"her explanation did little to relieve his puzzlement"
],
"synonyms":[
"bafflements",
"bamboozlements",
"befuddlements",
"bemusements",
"bewilderments",
"confusions",
"discombobulations",
"distractions",
"fogs",
"head-scratchings",
"mazes",
"muddles",
"mystifications",
"perplexities",
"tangles",
"whirls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abashments",
"discomfitures",
"disconcertments",
"embarrassments",
"mortifications",
"agitations",
"chagrins",
"discomforts",
"dismays",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbances",
"perturbations",
"upsets",
"bothers",
"commotions",
"dithers",
"flurries",
"flusters",
"fusses",
"stews",
"turmoils"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assurances",
"certainties",
"certitudes",
"confidences",
"convictions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something hard to understand or explain":{
"examples":[
"the whole situation remains a puzzlement to everyone who was there"
],
"synonyms":[
"closed books",
"conundrums",
"enigmas",
"head-scratchers",
"mysteries",
"mystifications",
"puzzles",
"riddles",
"secrets",
"whys"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brainteasers",
"cases",
"challenges",
"knots",
"matters",
"perplexities",
"posers",
"problems",
"stumpers",
"troubles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"putting across":{
"as in communicating , conveying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"communicating",
"conveying",
"putting over",
"chiming in",
"offering",
"submitting",
"sounding off",
"speaking out",
"speaking up",
"describing",
"writing",
"writing up",
"broadcasting",
"circulating",
"disseminating",
"publishing",
"advertising",
"announcing",
"declaring",
"enouncing",
"enunciating",
"proclaiming",
"saying",
"airing",
"expounding",
"expressing",
"giving",
"looking",
"raising",
"sounding",
"stating",
"ventilating",
"venting",
"voicing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stifling",
"suppressing",
"censoring",
"restraining",
"restricting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"punishers":{
"one who inflicts punishment in return for an injury or offense":{
"examples":[
"a father who regrets the fact that he always ends up being the household's disciplinarian and resident punisher"
],
"synonyms":[
"avengers",
"castigators",
"chastisers",
"nemeses",
"scourges",
"vigilantes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"revengers",
"redressers",
"righters",
"requiters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ransomers",
"redeemers",
"vindicators"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"punches out":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"you should take a course in anger management\u2014you can't go around punching out people"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashes",
"bastes",
"bats",
"batters",
"beats",
"belabors",
"belts",
"birches",
"bludgeons",
"buffets",
"bungs up",
"clubs",
"curries",
"does",
"drubs",
"fibs",
"flogs",
"hammers",
"hides",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"lashes",
"lathers",
"licks",
"mauls",
"messes (up)",
"paddles",
"pelts",
"pommels",
"pounds",
"pummels",
"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"
]
},
"punched":{
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"after the man had punched the bartender for eighty-sixing him, bouncers stepped in and restrained him until the police could arrive"
],
"synonyms":[
"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",
"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 make a hole or series of holes in":{
"examples":[
"punch a ticket"
],
"synonyms":[
"bored",
"drilled",
"holed",
"perforated",
"pierced",
"punctured",
"riddled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broached",
"tapped",
"poked",
"pricked",
"prickled",
"penetrated",
"burrowed (into)",
"excavated",
"gouged",
"grooved",
"hollowed",
"broke",
"cut",
"gashed",
"notched",
"rent",
"rended",
"ruptured",
"slashed",
"slit",
"split"
],
"near antonyms":[
"filled",
"patched",
"plugged",
"sealed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to urge, push, or force onward":{
"examples":[
"cowboys punching cattle"
],
"synonyms":[
"drove",
"herded",
"ran",
"run"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shepherded",
"wrangled",
"egged",
"exhorted",
"flogged",
"goaded",
"hounded",
"pressed",
"pricked",
"prodded",
"prompted",
"scourged",
"spurred",
"whipped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puts together":{
"to combine (numbers) into a single sum":{
"examples":[
"He put together all their bills to figure out their monthly expenses."
],
"synonyms":[
"adds",
"casts (up)",
"foots (up)",
"summates",
"sums",
"totalizes",
"totals",
"totes (up)",
"tots (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calculates",
"ciphers",
"computes",
"figures",
"reckons",
"tables",
"tabulates",
"tallies",
"works out",
"divides",
"multiplies",
"subtracts",
"counts",
"enumerates",
"numbers",
"tells",
"recomputes",
"refigures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"examples":[
"They put together an exact replica of the Empire State Building."
],
"synonyms":[
"assembles",
"builds",
"confects",
"constructs",
"erects",
"fabricates",
"makes",
"makes up",
"pieces",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carpenters",
"fashions",
"forges",
"frames",
"hammers",
"handcrafts",
"manufactures",
"molds",
"produces",
"shapes",
"prefabricates",
"begins",
"coins",
"creates",
"generates",
"inaugurates",
"initiates",
"innovates",
"invents",
"originates",
"constitutes",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"conceives",
"concocts",
"contrives",
"cooks (up)",
"designs",
"devises",
"imagines",
"thinks (up)",
"reassembles",
"rebuilds",
"reconstructs",
"redevelops",
"reedifies",
"retrofits",
"jerry-builds",
"rigs (up)",
"throws up",
"combines",
"unites"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"flattens",
"levels",
"pulls down",
"pulverizes",
"razes",
"ruinates",
"ruins",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"wrecks",
"blows up",
"explodes",
"detaches",
"disengages",
"disconnects",
"disjoins",
"disunites",
"divides",
"separates"
],
"antonyms":[
"demounts",
"disassembles",
"dismantles",
"dismembers",
"knocks down",
"strikes",
"takes down",
"tears down"
]
},
"to put (something) into proper and usually carefully worked out written form":{
"examples":[
"She put together a poem that she presented to the group on poetry night."
],
"synonyms":[
"casts",
"composes",
"crafts",
"drafts",
"draws up",
"formulates",
"frames",
"prepares"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forms",
"molds",
"sculptures",
"shapes",
"couches",
"expresses",
"phrases",
"states",
"verbalizes",
"words",
"authors",
"indites",
"pens",
"writes",
"conceives",
"concocts",
"devises",
"builds",
"constructs",
"makes",
"assembles",
"compounds",
"pieces (together)",
"redrafts",
"reformulates",
"reframes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials":{
"examples":[
"They put together a beautiful dress for the queen."
],
"synonyms":[
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"produces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assembles",
"builds",
"constructs",
"erects",
"makes up",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up",
"structures",
"throws up",
"crafts",
"handcrafts",
"hews",
"forges",
"molds",
"shapes",
"cobbles (together or up)",
"knocks out",
"patches (together)",
"throws up",
"prefabricates",
"creates",
"invents",
"mints",
"originates",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"concocts",
"contrives",
"cooks (up)",
"designs",
"devises",
"imagines",
"thinks (up)",
"conceives",
"envisages",
"pictures",
"visualizes",
"refashions",
"remakes",
"remanufactures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disassembles",
"dismantles",
"takes apart",
"breaks up",
"dismembers",
"abolishes",
"annihilates",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"eradicates",
"exterminates",
"extinguishes",
"flattens",
"pulverizes",
"razes",
"ruins",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"wrecks",
"blows up",
"explodes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pull in":{
"to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)":{
"examples":[
"a company that cannot manage to pull in costs will not be in business for very long"
],
"synonyms":[
"bridle",
"check",
"constrain",
"contain",
"control",
"curb",
"govern",
"hold",
"inhibit",
"keep",
"measure",
"regulate",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"rule",
"tame"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottle (up)",
"choke (back)",
"hold back",
"mince",
"muffle",
"pocket",
"repress",
"sink",
"smother",
"squelch",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"suppress",
"swallow",
"arrest",
"interrupt",
"stop",
"block",
"hamper",
"handcuff",
"hinder",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"gag",
"muzzle",
"silence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"unleash",
"air",
"express",
"take out",
"vent"
],
"antonyms":[
"lose"
]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"he was pulled in after a random traffic stop turned up drugs in his car"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehend",
"arrest",
"bust",
"collar",
"nab",
"nail",
"nick",
"pick up",
"pinch",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"putting up with":{
"to fail to prevent (some behavior on someone's part) especially from neglect or indifference":{
"examples":[
"We were forced to put up with Felicia's bad attitude for the duration of the group project."
],
"synonyms":[
"allowing",
"letting",
"permitting",
"suffering",
"tolerating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brushing (aside or off)",
"condoning",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"overlooking",
"shrugging off",
"winking (at)",
"excusing",
"forgiving",
"pardoning",
"brooking",
"catering (to)",
"giving in (to)",
"humoring",
"indulging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forbidding",
"prohibiting",
"curbing",
"deterring",
"discouraging",
"frustrating",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"interfering (with)"
],
"antonyms":[
"barring",
"blocking",
"constraining",
"preventing"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pulling up":{
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"examples":[
"the jockey tried to pull up the apparently injured horse"
],
"synonyms":[
"arresting",
"bringing up",
"catching",
"checking",
"drawing up",
"fetching up",
"halting",
"holding up",
"stalling",
"staying",
"stilling",
"stopping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baffling",
"balking",
"blockading",
"blocking",
"bottlenecking",
"clogging",
"damming",
"detaining",
"hindering",
"holding",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"obstructing",
"snagging",
"stemming",
"concluding",
"cutting off",
"ending",
"terminating",
"calling",
"discontinuing",
"suspending",
"choking off",
"reining (in)",
"repressing",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stanching",
"staunching",
"stunting",
"suppressing",
"turning back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carrying on",
"continuing",
"following through (with)",
"keeping (on)",
"keeping up",
"persisting",
"running on",
"advancing",
"faring",
"going along",
"marching",
"moving",
"proceeding",
"progressing",
"wending",
"actuating",
"budging",
"driving",
"goading",
"impelling",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"spurring",
"stirring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purple passages":{
"as in longueurs , loci classici":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"loci classici",
"longueurs",
"citations",
"quotations",
"contexts",
"clips",
"snippets",
"sound bites",
"samples",
"selections",
"excerpts",
"extracts",
"passages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pulling a face":{
"to distort one's face":{
"examples":[
"The boy pulled a face to make the other students laugh."
],
"synonyms":[
"grimacing",
"mouthing",
"mugging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pouting",
"contorting",
"deforming",
"twisting",
"warping",
"frowning",
"glaring",
"glooming",
"glowering",
"lowering",
"louring",
"scowling",
"gaping",
"gazing",
"ogling",
"staring",
"growling",
"snarling",
"sneering",
"simpering",
"smirking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beaming",
"grinning",
"smiling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pull (up)":{
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"examples":[
"the jockey tried to pull up the apparently injured horse"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrest",
"bring up",
"catch",
"check",
"draw up",
"fetch up",
"halt",
"hold up",
"stall",
"stay",
"still",
"stop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baffle",
"balk",
"block",
"blockade",
"bottleneck",
"clog",
"dam",
"detain",
"hinder",
"hold",
"hold back",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"snag",
"stem",
"conclude",
"cut off",
"end",
"terminate",
"call",
"discontinue",
"suspend",
"choke off",
"rein (in)",
"repress",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stanch",
"staunch",
"stunt",
"suppress",
"turn back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carry on",
"continue",
"follow through (with)",
"keep (on)",
"keep up",
"persist",
"run on",
"advance",
"fare",
"go along",
"march",
"move",
"proceed",
"progress",
"wend",
"actuate",
"budge",
"drive",
"goad",
"impel",
"propel",
"push",
"spur",
"stir"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pureblood":{
"as in thoroughbred , purebred":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"full-blood",
"purebred",
"thoroughbred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cross",
"crossbred",
"crossbreed",
"hybrid",
"intercross",
"mongrel",
"mule",
"outcross"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"publics":{
"human beings in general":{
"examples":[
"a lecture open to the public"
],
"synonyms":[
"folks",
"humanities",
"humankinds",
"people",
"species",
"worlds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"communities",
"societies",
"crowds",
"masses",
"mobs",
"populaces",
"proletariats",
"rabblements",
"rabbles",
"riffraffs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the body of the community as contrasted with the elite":{
"examples":[
"the highbrows have always disdained his novels, but the public just eats them up"
],
"synonyms":[
"commoners",
"commons",
"crowds",
"herds",
"hoi polloi",
"masses",
"millions",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"people",
"plebeians",
"plebes",
"populaces",
"rank and files"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cattle",
"proletariats",
"rabblements",
"rabbles",
"ragtag and bobtails",
"riffraffs",
"routs",
"scums",
"tag, rag, and bobtails",
"tagrag and bobtails",
"trash",
"unwasheds",
"bourgeoisies",
"middle classes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gentilities",
"gentlefolks",
"gentries",
"haute mondes",
"nobilities",
"patriciates",
"peerages",
"qualities",
"royalties",
"societies"
],
"antonyms":[
"A-lists",
"aristocracies",
"best",
"choices",
"corps d'elite",
"creams",
"elect",
"elites",
"fat",
"flowers",
"picks",
"pinks",
"prides",
"upper crusts"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"putting paid to":{
"to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point":{
"examples":[
"The final payment put paid to his debt obligations."
],
"synonyms":[
"closing",
"closing out",
"completing",
"concluding",
"ending",
"finishing",
"rounding (off or out)",
"terminating",
"winding up",
"wrapping up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"climaxing",
"crowning",
"consummating",
"perfecting",
"halting",
"stopping",
"suspending"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"beginning",
"commencing",
"inaugurating",
"opening",
"starting"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"punches":{
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"after the man had punched the bartender for eighty-sixing him, bouncers stepped in and restrained him until the police could arrive"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"bludgeons",
"bobs",
"bonks",
"bops",
"boxes",
"busts",
"claps",
"clips",
"clobbers",
"clocks",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"hammers",
"hits",
"knocks",
"nails",
"pastes",
"pounds",
"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 make a hole or series of holes in":{
"examples":[
"punch a ticket"
],
"synonyms":[
"bores",
"drills",
"holes",
"perforates",
"pierces",
"punctures",
"riddles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broaches",
"taps",
"pokes",
"prickles",
"pricks",
"penetrates",
"burrows (into)",
"excavates",
"gouges",
"grooves",
"hollows",
"breaks",
"cuts",
"gashes",
"notches",
"rends",
"ruptures",
"slashes",
"slits",
"splits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fills",
"patches",
"plugs",
"seals"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to urge, push, or force onward":{
"examples":[
"cowboys punching cattle"
],
"synonyms":[
"drives",
"herds",
"runs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shepherds",
"wrangles",
"eggs",
"exhorts",
"flogs",
"goads",
"hounds",
"presses",
"pricks",
"prods",
"prompts",
"scourges",
"spurs",
"whips"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"the poor palooka wasn't able to land a single punch on his opponent"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"beats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"blows",
"bops",
"boxes",
"buffets",
"busts",
"chops",
"claps",
"clips",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cuffs",
"dabs",
"douses",
"fillips",
"hacks",
"haymakers",
"hits",
"hooks",
"knocks",
"larrups",
"lashes",
"licks",
"pelts",
"picks",
"plumps",
"pokes",
"pounds",
"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 mark or small hole made by a pointed instrument":{
"examples":[
"old computers used to get information by reading the punches on a series of cards"
],
"synonyms":[
"perforations",
"pinholes",
"pinpricks",
"pricks",
"punctures",
"stabs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gouges",
"grooves",
"hollows",
"breaks",
"cuts",
"gashes",
"incisions",
"lacerations",
"notches",
"rents",
"rips",
"ruptures",
"slashes",
"slits",
"tears"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"purge":{
"to free from moral guilt or blemish especially ceremonially":{
"examples":[
"a day on which the faithful are expected to purge themselves of their sins through prayer and fasting"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleanse",
"purify",
"sanctify"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amend",
"improve",
"refine",
"heal",
"regenerate",
"restore",
"elevate",
"ennoble",
"uplift",
"absolve",
"acquit",
"clear",
"exonerate",
"vindicate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corrupt",
"debase",
"debauch",
"defile",
"degrade",
"demean",
"deprave",
"pervert",
"stain",
"warp",
"poison",
"profane",
"prostitute",
"sully",
"tarnish"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pupping":{
"as in littering , kittening":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"calving",
"kidding",
"kindling",
"kittening",
"littering",
"whelping",
"begetting",
"fathering",
"generating",
"getting",
"siring",
"breeding",
"multiplying",
"propagating",
"reproducing",
"spawning",
"laboring",
"bearing",
"birthing",
"delivering",
"dropping",
"having",
"mothering",
"producing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aborting",
"losing",
"miscarrying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"punched out":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"you should take a course in anger management\u2014you can't go around punching out people"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashed",
"basted",
"batted",
"battered",
"beat",
"belabored",
"belted",
"birched",
"bludgeoned",
"buffeted",
"bunged up",
"clubbed",
"curried",
"did",
"drubbed",
"fibbed",
"flogged",
"hammered",
"hided",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"lashed",
"lathered",
"licked",
"mauled",
"messed (up)",
"paddled",
"pelted",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pounded",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"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"
]
},
"purrs":{
"a monotonous sound like that of an insect in motion":{
"examples":[
"listened to the reassuring purr of the car engine"
],
"synonyms":[
"burrs",
"buzzes",
"chirrs",
"churrs",
"drones",
"hums",
"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":[]
},
"as in whispers , shouts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"breathes",
"chirps",
"drawls",
"gasps",
"lips",
"mouths",
"murmurs",
"shouts",
"splutters",
"spouts",
"whispers",
"articulates",
"brings out",
"enunciates",
"passes",
"says",
"speaks",
"states",
"talks",
"tells",
"utters",
"verbalizes",
"vocalizes",
"airs",
"discusses",
"gives",
"looks",
"shares",
"sounds",
"ventilates",
"vents",
"voices",
"blabbers",
"blurts",
"bolts",
"gets off",
"shoots",
"advertises",
"announces",
"blazes",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"affirms",
"alleges",
"asserts",
"avers",
"avouches",
"avows",
"clothes",
"couches",
"formulates",
"formulizes",
"phrases",
"puts",
"words",
"comments",
"pipes up (with)",
"remarks",
"rips (out)",
"snarls"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pungled (up)":{
"as in put up , paid":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"extended",
"forked (over, out, or up)",
"offered",
"paid",
"proffered",
"put up",
"tendered",
"administered",
"dished out",
"dispensed",
"doled out",
"handed out",
"imparted",
"issued",
"meted (out)",
"sacrificed",
"aided",
"assisted",
"benefited",
"benefitted",
"helped",
"lavished",
"regaled",
"afforded",
"comped",
"furnished",
"provided",
"awarded",
"conferred",
"endowed",
"endued",
"indued",
"rendered",
"chipped in",
"kicked in",
"pitched in",
"threw in",
"bestowed",
"contributed",
"donated",
"gave",
"gave away",
"presented",
"volunteered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"held",
"kept",
"pocketed",
"retained",
"withheld",
"preserved",
"saved",
"advanced",
"lent",
"loaned",
"sold"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purist":{
"a person who has very strong ideas about what is correct or acceptable and who usually opposes changes to traditional methods and practices":{
"examples":[
"a new style of play that offended the sport's purists",
"a language purist who is always looking to correct the speech of others"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"doctrinaire",
"fanatic",
"stickler",
"bigot",
"dogmatist",
"dogmatizer",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"sectarian",
"jingoist",
"nationalist",
"chauvinist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"freethinker",
"latitudinarian",
"liberal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"puking":{
"to discharge the contents of the stomach through the mouth":{
"examples":[
"the drunken reveler staggered out the door and promptly puked in the bushes"
],
"synonyms":[
"barfing",
"gagging",
"heaving",
"hurling",
"retching",
"spewing",
"spitting up",
"throwing up",
"upchucking",
"vomiting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"disgorging",
"regurgitating",
"ejecting",
"expelling",
"nauseating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pupae":{
"as in larvae , nymphs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"larvae",
"larvas",
"naiads",
"naiades",
"nymphs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pulchritude":{
"as in sexiness , desirability":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"desirability",
"desirableness",
"foxiness",
"lusciousness",
"nubility",
"seductiveness",
"sex appeal",
"sexiness",
"shapeliness",
"aesthetics",
"esthetics",
"attractiveness",
"beauteousness",
"beautifulness",
"beauty",
"comeliness",
"cuteness",
"fairness",
"gorgeousness",
"handsomeness",
"looks",
"loveliness",
"prettiness",
"sightliness",
"allure",
"appeal",
"attraction",
"fascination",
"glamour",
"glamor",
"charm",
"delightfulness",
"elegance",
"exquisiteness",
"gloriousness",
"radiance",
"radiancy",
"resplendence",
"resplendency",
"splendidness",
"splendiferousness",
"sublimeness",
"sublimity",
"superbness",
"flawlessness",
"perfection",
"daintiness",
"delicacy",
"flamboyance",
"flashiness",
"glossiness",
"showiness",
"slickness",
"splashiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disagreeableness",
"dreadfulness",
"foulness",
"ghastliness",
"horribleness",
"loathsomeness",
"nastiness",
"offensiveness",
"repellency",
"repulsiveness",
"terribleness",
"vileness",
"blemish",
"flaw",
"imperfection",
"grotesqueness",
"hideousness",
"homeliness",
"plainness",
"ugliness",
"unattractiveness",
"unbecomingness",
"unloveliness",
"unsightliness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pulling the wool over one's eyes":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozling",
"beguiling",
"bluffing",
"buffaloing",
"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"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"purposing":{
"to have in mind as a purpose or goal":{
"examples":[
"I've been purposing to fix that thing for some time now"
],
"synonyms":[
"aiming",
"allowing",
"aspiring",
"calculating",
"contemplating",
"designing",
"going",
"intending",
"looking",
"meaning",
"meditating",
"planning",
"proposing",
"purporting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dreaming",
"hoping",
"wishing",
"considering",
"debating",
"mulling (over)",
"pondering",
"attempting",
"endeavoring",
"striving",
"struggling",
"trying",
"plotting",
"scheming",
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"effecting",
"executing",
"performing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pustules":{
"a small, inflamed swelling of the skin":{
"examples":[
"smallpox's characteristic pustules typically resulted in permanent scarring for survivors of the dreaded disease"
],
"synonyms":[
"boils",
"festers",
"hickeys",
"papules",
"pimples",
"pocks",
"whelks",
"zits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackheads",
"blisters",
"milia",
"whiteheads",
"bumps",
"lumps",
"protuberances",
"sores",
"warts",
"weals",
"welts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"publish":{
"to produce and release for distribution in printed form":{
"examples":[
"our local animal shelter publishes a newsletter"
],
"synonyms":[
"get out",
"issue",
"print",
"put out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copublish",
"reissue",
"reprint",
"republish",
"serialize",
"contribute",
"edit",
"syndicate",
"manufacture",
"produce",
"distribute",
"market"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censor",
"suppress"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"will publish the exam scores as soon as they are available"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertise",
"announce",
"annunciate",
"blare",
"blaze",
"blazon",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"enunciate",
"flash",
"give out",
"herald",
"placard",
"post",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"publicize",
"release",
"sound",
"trumpet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bark",
"call (off or out)",
"cry",
"bill",
"billboard",
"bulletin",
"gazette",
"knell",
"ring",
"toll",
"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":[
"verb"
]
},
"purloiners":{
"one who steals":{
"examples":[
"she demanded that the pusillanimous purloiner of her chocolates step forward"
],
"synonyms":[
"larcenists",
"pinchers",
"robbers",
"stealers",
"thieves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglars",
"cat burglars",
"cracksmen",
"housebreakers",
"picklocks",
"safecrackers",
"embezzlers",
"grafters",
"kleptomaniacs",
"kleptos",
"sneak thiefs",
"cutpurses",
"dips",
"pickpockets",
"pilferers",
"shoplifters",
"abductors",
"carjackers",
"hijackers",
"kidnappers",
"kidnapers",
"skyjackers",
"despoilers",
"looters",
"pillagers",
"plunderers",
"ransackers",
"ravishers",
"poachers",
"rustlers",
"smugglers",
"bandits",
"footpads",
"highwaymen",
"pirates",
"muggers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"public school":{
"as in high school , middle school":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"common school",
"elementary school",
"grammar school",
"high school",
"junior high school",
"kindergarten",
"middle school",
"primary school",
"secondary school",
"senior high school",
"trade school",
"training school",
"academe",
"academy",
"school",
"seminary",
"boarding school",
"prep",
"preparatory school",
"prep school",
"charter school",
"magnet school",
"minischool",
"madrassa",
"madrasa",
"madrassah",
"madrasah",
"Sunday school",
"yeshiva",
"yeshivah"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pulls (up)":{
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"examples":[
"the jockey tried to pull up the apparently injured horse"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrests",
"brings up",
"catches",
"checks",
"draws up",
"fetches up",
"halts",
"holds up",
"stalls",
"stays",
"stills",
"stops"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baffles",
"balks",
"blockades",
"blocks",
"bottlenecks",
"clogs",
"dams",
"detains",
"hinders",
"holds",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"obstructs",
"snags",
"stems",
"concludes",
"cuts off",
"ends",
"terminates",
"calls",
"discontinues",
"suspends",
"chokes off",
"reins (in)",
"represses",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"stanches",
"staunches",
"stunts",
"suppresses",
"turns back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carries on",
"continues",
"follows through (with)",
"keeps (on)",
"keeps up",
"persists",
"runs on",
"advances",
"fares",
"goes along",
"marches",
"moves",
"proceeds",
"progresses",
"wends",
"actuates",
"budges",
"drives",
"goads",
"impels",
"propels",
"pushes",
"spurs",
"stirs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"put up with":{
"to fail to prevent (some behavior on someone's part) especially from neglect or indifference":{
"examples":[
"We were forced to put up with Felicia's bad attitude for the duration of the group project."
],
"synonyms":[
"allow",
"let",
"permit",
"suffer",
"tolerate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brush (aside or off)",
"condone",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"overlook",
"shrug off",
"wink (at)",
"excuse",
"forgive",
"pardon",
"brook",
"cater (to)",
"give in (to)",
"humor",
"indulge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"forbid",
"prohibit",
"curb",
"deter",
"discourage",
"frustrate",
"hold back",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"interfere (with)"
],
"antonyms":[
"bar",
"block",
"constrain",
"prevent"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"purporting":{
"to have in mind as a purpose or goal":{
"examples":[
"do you purport to spend the rest of your life on that couch, or do you think you might get a job someday?"
],
"synonyms":[
"aiming",
"allowing",
"aspiring",
"calculating",
"contemplating",
"designing",
"going",
"intending",
"looking",
"meaning",
"meditating",
"planning",
"proposing",
"purposing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dreaming",
"hoping",
"wishing",
"considering",
"debating",
"mulling (over)",
"pondering",
"attempting",
"endeavoring",
"striving",
"struggling",
"trying",
"plotting",
"scheming",
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"effecting",
"executing",
"performing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to state as a fact usually forcefully":{
"examples":[
"he purports to be an expert in criminalistics"
],
"synonyms":[
"affirming",
"alleging",
"asserting",
"averring",
"avouching",
"avowing",
"claiming",
"contending",
"declaring",
"insisting",
"maintaining",
"professing",
"protesting",
"warranting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"announcing",
"broadcasting",
"proclaiming",
"arguing",
"rationalizing",
"reasoning",
"confirming",
"justifying",
"vindicating",
"defending",
"persevering",
"supporting",
"upholding",
"reaffirming",
"reasserting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abandoning",
"disavowing",
"disclaiming",
"disowning",
"negating",
"negativing",
"rejecting",
"repudiating",
"challenging",
"disputing",
"questioning",
"confuting",
"disproving",
"rebutting",
"refuting",
"contradicting",
"countering"
],
"antonyms":[
"denying",
"gainsaying"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulverizes":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"buildings pulverized by a killer tornado"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilates",
"creams",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"desolates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"does in",
"extinguishes",
"nukes",
"pulls down",
"razes",
"rubs out",
"ruins",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"tears down",
"totals",
"vaporizes",
"wastes",
"wracks",
"wrecks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beats",
"bests",
"clobbers",
"conquers",
"crushes",
"defeats",
"drubs",
"licks",
"masters",
"overbears",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"routs",
"scotches",
"skunks",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"triumphs (over)",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"whips",
"wins (against)",
"blasts",
"blows up",
"breaks",
"cripples",
"damages",
"defaces",
"deteriorates",
"disfigures",
"disintegrates",
"dissolves",
"dynamites",
"harms",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mangles",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"erodes",
"scours",
"sweeps (away)",
"washes out",
"wears (away)",
"dilapidates",
"disassembles",
"dismantles",
"guts",
"takes down",
"unbuilds",
"undoes",
"unmakes",
"blots out",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"expunges",
"exterminates",
"extirpates",
"liquidates",
"obliterates",
"removes",
"roots (out)",
"snuffs (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"wipes out",
"despoils",
"havocs",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ravages",
"sacks",
"tramples",
"trashes",
"vandalizes",
"assassinates",
"butchers",
"cuts down",
"dispatches",
"executes",
"fells",
"kills",
"kills off",
"massacres",
"mows (down)",
"murders",
"slaughters",
"slays",
"takes out",
"zaps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctors",
"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"repairs",
"revamps",
"creates",
"invents",
"assembles",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forges",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"molds",
"produces",
"shapes",
"brings about",
"constitutes",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"rebuilds",
"reconstructs",
"remodels",
"renovates",
"restores"
],
"antonyms":[
"builds",
"constructs",
"erects",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up"
]
},
"to reduce to fine particles":{
"examples":[
"pulverize the cement into dust for reuse"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomizes",
"beats",
"brays",
"comminutes",
"crushes",
"disintegrates",
"grinds",
"mills",
"mulls",
"pounds",
"powders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grates",
"kibbles",
"crumbles",
"crunches",
"breaks",
"busts",
"dashes",
"fractures",
"fragments",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"splinters",
"micronizes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puts up":{
"to fix in an upright position":{
"examples":[
"the builders put up the walls before starting on the roof"
],
"synonyms":[
"erects",
"pitches",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up",
"upends",
"upraises"
],
"near synonyms":[
"braces",
"buttresses",
"props (up)",
"shores (up)",
"supports",
"boosts",
"cranes",
"elevates",
"heaves",
"hefts",
"heightens",
"hikes",
"hoists",
"jacks (up)",
"lifts",
"perks (up)",
"picks up",
"upholds",
"uplifts",
"ups"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolishes",
"flattens",
"knocks down",
"levels",
"razes",
"tears down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"examples":[
"plans to put up a pavilion in the public gardens"
],
"synonyms":[
"assembles",
"builds",
"confects",
"constructs",
"erects",
"fabricates",
"makes",
"makes up",
"pieces",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carpenters",
"fashions",
"forges",
"frames",
"hammers",
"handcrafts",
"manufactures",
"molds",
"produces",
"shapes",
"prefabricates",
"begins",
"coins",
"creates",
"generates",
"inaugurates",
"initiates",
"innovates",
"invents",
"originates",
"constitutes",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"conceives",
"concocts",
"contrives",
"cooks (up)",
"designs",
"devises",
"imagines",
"thinks (up)",
"reassembles",
"rebuilds",
"reconstructs",
"redevelops",
"reedifies",
"retrofits",
"jerry-builds",
"rigs (up)",
"throws up",
"combines",
"unites"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"flattens",
"levels",
"pulls down",
"pulverizes",
"razes",
"ruinates",
"ruins",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"wrecks",
"blows up",
"explodes",
"detaches",
"disengages",
"disconnects",
"disjoins",
"disunites",
"divides",
"separates"
],
"antonyms":[
"demounts",
"disassembles",
"dismantles",
"dismembers",
"knocks down",
"strikes",
"takes down",
"tears down"
]
},
"to offer for sale to the public":{
"examples":[
"put their possessions up for auction"
],
"synonyms":[
"deals (in)",
"markets",
"merchandises",
"merchandizes",
"retails",
"sells",
"vends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"presells",
"wholesales",
"remarkets",
"resells",
"hawks",
"peddles",
"barters",
"distributes",
"exchanges",
"exports",
"handles",
"trades",
"traffics (in)",
"advertises",
"ballyhoos",
"boosts",
"plugs",
"promotes",
"touts",
"bargains",
"chaffers",
"dickers",
"haggles",
"horse-trades",
"palters",
"auctions",
"provides",
"supplies",
"carries",
"keeps",
"stocks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"buys",
"purchases"
]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"examples":[
"the university puts up students in a variety of buildings"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodates",
"bestows",
"billets",
"bivouacs",
"boards",
"bunks",
"camps",
"chambers",
"domiciles",
"encamps",
"harbors",
"houses",
"lodges",
"quarters",
"roofs",
"rooms",
"shelters",
"takes in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconces",
"homes",
"roosts",
"secures",
"sheds",
"stables",
"tents",
"barracks",
"beds (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejects",
"evicts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends":{
"examples":[
"put up an elaborate scheme to defraud insurance companies"
],
"synonyms":[
"colludes",
"compasses",
"connives",
"conspires",
"contrives",
"intrigues",
"machinates",
"plots",
"schemes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterplots",
"brews",
"concocts",
"cooks (up)",
"devises",
"hatches",
"engineers",
"jockeys",
"maneuvers",
"manipulates",
"designs",
"frames",
"lays out",
"maps",
"plans",
"shapes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to place somewhere for safekeeping or ready availability":{
"examples":[
"I need to clear out a space in the garage to put up my motorcycle for the winter"
],
"synonyms":[
"keeps",
"reposits",
"stores",
"stows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cellars",
"garages",
"hangars",
"houses",
"warehouses",
"files",
"packs",
"shelves"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"push button":{
"as in button , switch":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"button",
"dial",
"key",
"knob",
"lever",
"selector",
"switch",
"actuator",
"control",
"controller",
"regulator"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pulling":{
"to cause to follow by applying steady force on":{
"examples":[
"a team of horses pulling a heavy wagon"
],
"synonyms":[
"dragging",
"drawing",
"haling",
"hauling",
"lugging",
"towing",
"tugging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attracting",
"heaving",
"jerking",
"yanking",
"carrying",
"conveying",
"ferrying",
"moving",
"transporting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shoving",
"thrusting"
],
"antonyms":[
"driving",
"propelling",
"pushing"
]
},
"to draw out by force or with effort":{
"examples":[
"the dentist had to struggle to pull the tooth"
],
"synonyms":[
"corkscrewing",
"extracting",
"prizing",
"prying",
"rooting (out)",
"tearing (out)",
"uprooting",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"yanking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mining",
"plucking",
"removing",
"taking (out)",
"withdrawing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implanting",
"inserting",
"installing",
"instilling",
"cramming",
"jamming",
"ramming",
"stuffing",
"wedging"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure":{
"examples":[
"lift the crate carefully, or you'll pull a muscle"
],
"synonyms":[
"racking",
"straining",
"stretching",
"wrenching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fraying",
"taxing",
"weakening",
"damaging",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"wounding",
"battering",
"bruising",
"tearing",
"crippling",
"laming",
"mangling",
"mutilating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pukka":{
"being exactly as appears or as claimed":{
"examples":[
"wondering whether the old-looking ivory box was pukka \u2014or just something recently manufactured in China"
],
"synonyms":[
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"certifiable",
"certified",
"dinkum",
"echt",
"genuine",
"honest",
"real",
"right",
"sure-enough",
"true"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actual",
"historical",
"original",
"lawful",
"legal",
"legitimate",
"identifiable",
"recognizable",
"verifiable",
"proven",
"substantiated",
"validated",
"verified",
"incontestable",
"incontrovertible",
"indisputable",
"indubitable",
"irrefutable",
"undeniable",
"undoubted",
"unmistakable",
"unquestionable",
"veritable",
"very",
"accurate",
"correct",
"proper",
"pure",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artificial",
"factitious",
"imitation",
"man-made",
"simulated",
"synthetic",
"unnatural",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"manufactured",
"deceptive",
"delusive",
"delusory",
"misleading"
],
"antonyms":[
"bogus",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"false",
"mock",
"phony",
"phoney",
"pseudo",
"sham",
"spurious",
"suppositious",
"supposititious",
"unauthentic",
"unreal"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"putterers":{
"a person who regularly or occasionally engages in an activity as a pastime rather than as a profession":{
"examples":[
"her husband is an inveterate putterer , and their garage is full of half-finished projects he has worked on over the years"
],
"synonyms":[
"amateurs",
"dabblers",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti",
"hobbyists",
"laymen",
"nonexperts",
"nonprofessionals",
"potterers",
"tinkerers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"all-rounders",
"generalists",
"general practitioners",
"jacks-of-all-trades",
"aficionados",
"afficionados",
"buffs",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fans"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"authorities",
"experts",
"professionals",
"pros",
"specialists"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pulled together":{
"to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members":{
"examples":[
"The two groups pulled together in difficult times."
],
"synonyms":[
"allied",
"associated",
"banded (together)",
"clubbed",
"coalesced",
"cohered",
"confederated",
"conjoined",
"cooperated",
"federated",
"leagued",
"united"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caballed",
"collaborated",
"ganged up",
"hung together",
"teamed (up)",
"incorporated",
"organized",
"unionized",
"affiliated",
"amalgamated",
"combined",
"conglomerated",
"consolidated",
"converged",
"grouped",
"joined",
"merged",
"knotted",
"linked",
"tied",
"wedded",
"wed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"disengaged",
"dissolved",
"disunited",
"divorced",
"parted",
"segregated",
"separated",
"severed",
"split",
"sundered",
"alienated",
"estranged",
"fell out"
],
"antonyms":[
"broke up",
"disbanded"
]
},
"to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{
"examples":[
"The whole team pulled together to get the job done."
],
"synonyms":[
"banded (together)",
"collaborated",
"concerted",
"concurred",
"conjoined",
"conspired",
"cooperated",
"joined",
"leagued",
"teamed (up)",
"united"
],
"near synonyms":[
"connived",
"affiliated",
"allied",
"associated",
"combined",
"confederated",
"hung together",
"interfaced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pucker":{
"to pull the sides of (something, such as skin or cloth) together so that folds or wrinkles are formed":{
"examples":[
"puckered the fabric before adding stitches"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"corrugate",
"crease",
"crimp",
"fold",
"pleat",
"ruck",
"crinkle",
"crumple",
"rumple",
"scrunch",
"wrinkle",
"crisp",
"ripple",
"ruffle",
"contract",
"furrow",
"knit",
"mess (up)",
"muss (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"even",
"iron",
"press",
"straighten",
"unfold",
"neaten",
"tidy",
"flatten",
"iron out",
"smooth",
"smoothen",
"uncrumple"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in layer , seam":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"corrugation",
"layer",
"loop",
"plait",
"pleat",
"ply",
"seam",
"tuck",
"crease",
"crimp",
"crinkle",
"furrow",
"wrinkle",
"crow's-foot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"publishings":{
"as in releases , publications":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"publications",
"releases",
"manufactures",
"printings",
"productions",
"syndications",
"circulations",
"disseminations",
"distributions",
"propagations",
"spreads",
"transmissions",
"advertisings",
"announcements",
"annunciations",
"communications",
"declarations",
"enunciations",
"notifications",
"proclamations",
"promotions",
"promulgations",
"propagandas",
"publicities",
"advents",
"appearances",
"arrivals",
"debuts",
"d\u00e9buts",
"emergences"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censorships",
"suppressions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pussyfooted":{
"to avoid giving a definite answer or position":{
"examples":[
"politicians who try to pussyfoot around hot-button issues"
],
"synonyms":[
"equivocated",
"fudged",
"hedged",
"tergiversated",
"waffled",
"weaseled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flip-flopped",
"yo-yoed",
"dodged",
"ducked",
"eluded",
"eschewed",
"evaded",
"shirked",
"shook",
"shunned",
"sidestepped",
"skirted",
"bypassed",
"circumvented",
"caviled",
"cavilled",
"quibbled",
"straddled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
"examples":[
"pussyfooting through the hallways in the middle of the night"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurked",
"mooched",
"moused",
"shirked",
"skulked",
"slid",
"slipped",
"slunk",
"slinked",
"snaked",
"sneaked",
"snuck",
"stole"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"edged",
"inched",
"wormed",
"ghosted",
"padded",
"tiptoed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puts/places (someone) on a pedestal":{
"to treat or regard (someone) as extraordinarily good, successful, important, etc.":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aggrandizes",
"canonizes",
"deifies",
"elevates",
"exalts",
"apotheosizes",
"lionizes",
"dignifies",
"ennobles",
"enshrines",
"enskies",
"enthrones",
"glorifies",
"magnifies",
"idealizes",
"romanticizes",
"adores",
"reverences",
"reveres",
"venerates",
"worships",
"admires",
"loves",
"regards",
"respects",
"acclaims",
"applauds",
"boasts",
"celebrates",
"cheers",
"cites",
"commends",
"compliments",
"congratulates",
"decorates",
"eulogizes",
"extols",
"extolls",
"fetes",
"f\u00eates",
"hails",
"honors",
"lauds",
"praises",
"salutes",
"touts",
"acknowledges",
"recognizes",
"highlights",
"plays up",
"spotlights",
"advances",
"boosts",
"lifts",
"promotes",
"raises",
"upgrades",
"uplifts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"knocks (someone) off his/her pedestal",
"abases",
"chastens",
"cheapens",
"debases",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"discredits",
"disgraces",
"dishonors",
"fouls",
"humbles",
"humiliates",
"lowers",
"shames",
"sinks",
"smirches",
"takes down",
"abashes",
"confounds",
"confuses",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"discountenances",
"embarrasses",
"fazes",
"flusters",
"mortifies",
"nonpluses",
"nonplusses",
"rattles",
"belittles",
"castigates",
"cries down",
"criticizes",
"decries",
"depreciates",
"detracts",
"diminishes",
"discounts",
"disparages",
"minimizes",
"puts down",
"ridicules",
"writes off",
"bad-mouths",
"defames",
"defiles",
"libels",
"maligns",
"slanders",
"affronts",
"insults",
"censures",
"condemns",
"damns",
"denounces",
"execrates",
"reprehends",
"reprobates",
"blasphemes",
"desecrates",
"profanes",
"violates",
"disrespects",
"offends",
"outrages",
"piques",
"scorns",
"slights",
"slurs",
"smears"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"pulled a face":{
"to distort one's face":{
"examples":[
"The boy pulled a face to make the other students laugh."
],
"synonyms":[
"grimaced",
"mouthed",
"mugged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pouted",
"contorted",
"deformed",
"twisted",
"warped",
"frowned",
"glared",
"gloomed",
"glowered",
"lowered",
"loured",
"scowled",
"gaped",
"gazed",
"ogled",
"stared",
"growled",
"snarled",
"sneered",
"simpered",
"smirked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beamed",
"grinned",
"smiled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"puddles":{
"a small often deep body of water":{
"examples":[
"splashing in the puddles on the way home from the bus stop"
],
"synonyms":[
"billabongs",
"meres",
"pools",
"stanks",
"wells"
],
"near synonyms":[
"basins",
"holes",
"sinkholes",
"swimming pools",
"lakes",
"ponds",
"water holes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pushcart":{
"as in truck , wheelbarrow":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barrow",
"hand truck",
"tram",
"truck",
"wheelbarrow",
"cart",
"wagon",
"wain",
"dray",
"jolt-wagon",
"oxcart",
"spring wagon",
"wagonette"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"putting up":{
"to fix in an upright position":{
"examples":[
"the builders put up the walls before starting on the roof"
],
"synonyms":[
"erecting",
"pitching",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up",
"upending",
"upraising"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bracing",
"buttressing",
"propping (up)",
"shoring (up)",
"supporting",
"boosting",
"craning",
"elevating",
"heaving",
"hefting",
"heightening",
"hiking",
"hoisting",
"jacking (up)",
"lifting",
"perking (up)",
"picking up",
"upholding",
"uplifting",
"upping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolishing",
"flattening",
"knocking down",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"razing",
"tearing down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form by putting together parts or materials":{
"examples":[
"plans to put up a pavilion in the public gardens"
],
"synonyms":[
"assembling",
"building",
"confecting",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"fabricating",
"making",
"making up",
"piecing",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carpentering",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"framing",
"hammering",
"handcrafting",
"manufacturing",
"molding",
"producing",
"shaping",
"prefabricating",
"beginning",
"coining",
"creating",
"generating",
"inaugurating",
"initiating",
"innovating",
"inventing",
"originating",
"constituting",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"founding",
"instituting",
"organizing",
"conceiving",
"concocting",
"contriving",
"cooking (up)",
"designing",
"devising",
"imagining",
"thinking (up)",
"reassembling",
"rebuilding",
"reconstructing",
"redeveloping",
"reedifying",
"retrofitting",
"jerry-building",
"rigging (up)",
"throwing up",
"combining",
"uniting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"flattening",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"pulling down",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"ruinating",
"ruining",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"wrecking",
"blowing up",
"exploding",
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"disconnecting",
"disjoining",
"disuniting",
"dividing",
"separating"
],
"antonyms":[
"demounting",
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"dismembering",
"knocking down",
"striking",
"taking down",
"tearing down"
]
},
"to offer for sale to the public":{
"examples":[
"put their possessions up for auction"
],
"synonyms":[
"dealing (in)",
"marketing",
"merchandising",
"merchandizing",
"retailing",
"selling",
"vending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preselling",
"wholesaling",
"remarketing",
"reselling",
"hawking",
"peddling",
"bartering",
"distributing",
"exchanging",
"exporting",
"handling",
"trading",
"trafficking (in)",
"advertising",
"ballyhooing",
"boosting",
"plugging",
"promoting",
"touting",
"bargaining",
"chaffering",
"dickering",
"haggling",
"horse-trading",
"paltering",
"auctioning",
"providing",
"supplying",
"carrying",
"keeping",
"stocking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"buying",
"purchasing"
]
},
"to provide with living quarters or shelter":{
"examples":[
"the university puts up students in a variety of buildings"
],
"synonyms":[
"accommodating",
"bestowing",
"billeting",
"bivouacking",
"boarding",
"bunking",
"camping",
"chambering",
"domiciling",
"encamping",
"harboring",
"housing",
"lodging",
"quartering",
"roofing",
"rooming",
"sheltering",
"taking in"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ensconcing",
"homing",
"roosting",
"securing",
"shedding",
"stabling",
"tenting",
"barracking",
"bedding (down)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ejecting",
"evicting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to engage in a secret plan to accomplish evil or unlawful ends":{
"examples":[
"put up an elaborate scheme to defraud insurance companies"
],
"synonyms":[
"colluding",
"compassing",
"conniving",
"conspiring",
"contriving",
"intriguing",
"machinating",
"plotting",
"scheming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterplotting",
"brewing",
"concocting",
"cooking (up)",
"devising",
"hatching",
"engineering",
"jockeying",
"maneuvering",
"manipulating",
"designing",
"framing",
"laying out",
"mapping",
"planning",
"shaping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to place somewhere for safekeeping or ready availability":{
"examples":[
"I need to clear out a space in the garage to put up my motorcycle for the winter"
],
"synonyms":[
"keeping",
"repositing",
"storing",
"stowing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cellaring",
"garaging",
"hangaring",
"housing",
"warehousing",
"filing",
"packing",
"shelving"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pursuances":{
"the doing of an action":{
"examples":[
"until recently he has been fully engaged in pursuance of his duties as governor"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplishments",
"achievements",
"commissions",
"discharges",
"enactments",
"executions",
"fulfillments",
"fulfilments",
"implementations",
"performances",
"perpetrations",
"prosecutions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dispatches",
"expeditions",
"administrations",
"directions",
"handlings",
"managements",
"applications",
"operations",
"practices",
"practises"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonfulfillments",
"nonperformances"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pubs":{
"a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises":{
"examples":[
"coworkers enjoying the convivial atmosphere of the Irish pub"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrooms",
"bars",
"caf\u00e9s",
"cafes",
"cantinas",
"dramshops",
"gin mills",
"grogshops",
"public houses",
"saloons",
"taprooms",
"taverns",
"watering holes",
"watering places"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alehouses",
"barrelhouses",
"bistros",
"bottle clubs",
"brewpubs",
"cabarets",
"dives",
"joints",
"nightclubs",
"roadhouses",
"speakeasies",
"sports bars",
"wineshops",
"package stores"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pulsation":{
"a rhythmic expanding and contracting":{
"examples":[
"you should press against the artery in your wrist and count the pulsations to calculate your heart rate"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"beating",
"palpitation",
"pulse",
"throb"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fluctuation",
"oscillation",
"vibration",
"quiver",
"tremble",
"tremor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"purposeful":{
"fully committed to achieving a goal":{
"examples":[
"a soft-spoken but purposeful criminal investigator"
],
"synonyms":[
"bent (on or upon)",
"bound",
"decisive",
"determined",
"do-or-die",
"firm",
"hell-bent (on or upon)",
"intent",
"out",
"resolute",
"resolved",
"set",
"single-minded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bitter",
"vehement",
"certain",
"cocksure",
"confident",
"positive",
"sure",
"earnest",
"serious",
"steady",
"unfaltering",
"unhesitating",
"unswerving",
"unwavering",
"adamant",
"adamantine",
"dogged",
"hard",
"hardened",
"hardheaded",
"headstrong",
"immovable",
"implacable",
"inflexible",
"mulish",
"obdurate",
"persistent",
"pertinacious",
"perverse",
"pigheaded",
"rigid",
"self-willed",
"stubborn",
"tenacious",
"unbending",
"uncompromising",
"unrelenting",
"unyielding",
"willful",
"wilful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distrustful",
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"mistrustful",
"skeptical",
"suspicious",
"uncertain",
"unconvinced",
"undecided",
"unsettled",
"unsure",
"disinclined",
"indisposed",
"loath",
"loth",
"loathe",
"reluctant"
],
"antonyms":[
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"indecisive",
"irresolute",
"undetermined",
"unresolved",
"vacillating",
"wavering",
"weak-kneed"
]
},
"made, given, or done with full awareness of what one is doing":{
"examples":[
"there's a difference between a purposeful lie and an accidental untruth"
],
"synonyms":[
"conscious",
"deliberate",
"intended",
"intentional",
"knowing",
"purposive",
"set",
"voluntary",
"willed",
"willful",
"wilful",
"witting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"designed",
"planned",
"advised",
"calculated",
"considered",
"measured",
"reasoned",
"studied",
"thoughtful",
"weighed",
"premeditated",
"premeditative",
"prepense",
"discretionary",
"elective",
"optional",
"volunteer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inadvertent",
"unwitting",
"accidental",
"chance",
"haphazard",
"hit-or-miss",
"incidental",
"random",
"aimless",
"desultory",
"purposeless",
"abrupt",
"impetuous",
"sudden",
"coerced",
"forced",
"involuntary",
"compulsory",
"mandatory",
"necessary",
"nonelective",
"obligatory",
"ordered",
"required",
"casual",
"extemporaneous",
"impromptu",
"impulsive",
"instinctive",
"spontaneous",
"unforced",
"unpremeditated"
],
"antonyms":[
"nondeliberate",
"nonpurposive",
"unintentional"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pulled up":{
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"examples":[
"the jockey tried to pull up the apparently injured horse"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrested",
"brought up",
"caught",
"checked",
"drew up",
"fetched up",
"halted",
"held up",
"stalled",
"stayed",
"stilled",
"stopped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"baffled",
"balked",
"blockaded",
"blocked",
"bottlenecked",
"clogged",
"dammed",
"detained",
"held",
"held back",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed",
"snagged",
"stemmed",
"concluded",
"cut off",
"ended",
"terminated",
"called",
"discontinued",
"suspended",
"choked off",
"reined (in)",
"repressed",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"stanched",
"staunched",
"stunted",
"suppressed",
"turned back"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carried on",
"continued",
"followed through (with)",
"kept (on)",
"kept up",
"persisted",
"ran on",
"advanced",
"fared",
"marched",
"moved",
"proceeded",
"progressed",
"wended",
"went along",
"actuated",
"budged",
"drove",
"goaded",
"impelled",
"propelled",
"pushed",
"spurred",
"stirred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"putting through":{
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"the incoming university president is vowing to put through the sort of sweeping changes that will propel the school into the top tier academically"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"bringing off",
"carrying off",
"carrying out",
"committing",
"compassing",
"doing",
"executing",
"following through (with)",
"fulfilling",
"making",
"negotiating",
"performing",
"perpetrating",
"prosecuting",
"pulling off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bringing about",
"effecting",
"effectuating",
"implementing",
"acing",
"nailing",
"engaging (in)",
"practicing",
"practising",
"working (at)",
"reduplicating",
"reenacting",
"repeating",
"actualizing",
"attaining",
"realizing",
"completing",
"ending",
"finishing",
"winding up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"failing",
"skimping",
"slighting",
"slurring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pullers":{
"as in oars , sailors":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"gobs",
"hearties",
"jacks",
"jack-tars",
"mariners",
"navigators",
"sailors",
"salts",
"sea dogs",
"seafarers",
"seamen",
"shipmen",
"swabs",
"tars",
"oars",
"oarsmen",
"rowers",
"scullers",
"coxswains",
"crewmen",
"bowmen",
"oarswomen",
"kayakers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pushes off":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"let's push off while it's still early enough to beat the evening rush"
],
"synonyms":[
"bails",
"bails out",
"books",
"buggers off",
"bugs off",
"bugs out",
"buzzes (off)",
"clears off",
"clears out",
"cuts out",
"departs",
"digs out",
"exits",
"gets",
"gets off",
"goes",
"goes off",
"moves",
"packs (up or off)",
"parts",
"peels off",
"pikes (out or off)",
"pulls out",
"pushes 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"
]
},
"put down":{
"an act or expression showing scorn and usually intended to hurt another's feelings":{
"examples":[
"new hires always have to deal with put-downs and practical jokes from the older employees"
],
"synonyms":[
"affront",
"barb",
"brickbat",
"cut",
"dart",
"dig",
"dis",
"diss",
"epithet",
"gird",
"indignity",
"insult",
"name",
"offense",
"offence",
"outrage",
"personality",
"poke",
"sarcasm",
"slap",
"slight",
"slur"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catcall",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"jeer",
"mock",
"quip",
"sneer",
"taunt",
"abuse",
"invective",
"vituperation",
"disapproval",
"opprobrium",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"shame",
"attack",
"criticism",
"knock",
"slam",
"swipe",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accolade",
"commendation",
"compliment",
"acclaim",
"applause",
"praise",
"adulation",
"flattery"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act of making a person or a thing seem little or unimportant":{
"examples":[
"your never-ending put-down of my musical talents is really starting to annoy me"
],
"synonyms":[
"belittlement",
"denigration",
"deprecation",
"depreciation",
"derogation",
"detraction",
"diminishment",
"disparagement"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersion",
"backbiting",
"calumny",
"defamation",
"libel",
"slander",
"vilification",
"derision",
"mockery",
"ridicule",
"abuse",
"invective",
"vituperation",
"censure",
"condemnation",
"criticism",
"denouncement",
"denunciation",
"de-emphasis",
"minimization",
"soft-pedaling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"praise",
"approbation",
"approval",
"blessing",
"commendation",
"hype",
"puffery"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizement",
"ennoblement",
"exaltation",
"glorification",
"magnification"
]
},
"to express scornfully one's low opinion of":{
"examples":[
"he has the annoying habit of putting down others under the guise of offering constructive criticism"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"cry down",
"decry",
"denigrate",
"deprecate",
"depreciate",
"derogate",
"diminish",
"dis",
"diss",
"discount",
"dismiss",
"disparage",
"kiss off",
"minimize",
"play down",
"poor-mouth",
"run down",
"talk down",
"trash",
"trash-talk",
"vilipend",
"write off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discommend",
"abuse",
"scold",
"disapprove (of)",
"dislike",
"censure",
"condemn",
"criticize",
"denounce",
"reprehend",
"reprobate",
"asperse",
"defame",
"malign",
"rip",
"slander",
"slur",
"traduce",
"vilify",
"discredit",
"disgrace"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approve",
"countenance",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"favor",
"recommend",
"sanction",
"commend",
"compliment",
"eulogize"
],
"antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"exalt",
"extol",
"extoll",
"glorify",
"laud",
"magnify",
"praise"
]
},
"to make a written note of":{
"examples":[
"we had the whole agreement put down on paper"
],
"synonyms":[
"jot (down)",
"log",
"mark",
"note",
"record",
"register",
"report",
"set down",
"take down",
"write down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chronicle",
"minute",
"transcribe",
"enregister",
"enter",
"inscribe",
"chalk (up)",
"notch",
"score"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put (someone or something) on a list":{
"examples":[
"put her down as one of the chaperones for the field trip"
],
"synonyms":[
"catalog",
"catalogue",
"enroll",
"enrol",
"enter",
"index",
"inscribe",
"list",
"record",
"register",
"schedule",
"slate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"book",
"card",
"file",
"note",
"classify",
"compile",
"tabulate",
"tally",
"reschedule"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delete"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put a stop to (something) by the use of force":{
"examples":[
"a tyrant who ruthlessly put down uprisings"
],
"synonyms":[
"clamp down (on)",
"crack down (on)",
"crush",
"quash",
"quell",
"repress",
"silence",
"slap down",
"snuff (out)",
"squash",
"squelch",
"subdue",
"suppress"
],
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"douse",
"dowse",
"extinguish",
"put out",
"quench",
"smother",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"throttle",
"annihilate",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"nuke",
"rub out",
"ruin",
"smash",
"waste",
"wreck",
"exterminate",
"obliterate",
"wipe out",
"conquer",
"dominate",
"overcome",
"overpower",
"overwhelm",
"subjugate",
"vanquish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abet",
"aid",
"assist",
"back",
"help",
"prop up",
"support",
"foment",
"incite",
"instigate",
"provoke",
"stir",
"whip (up)",
"advance",
"cultivate",
"encourage",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"promote"
],
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},
"to explain (something) as being the result of something else":{
"examples":[
"a fender bender that probably can be put down to the young driver's inexperience"
],
"synonyms":[
"accredit",
"ascribe",
"attribute",
"chalk up",
"credit",
"impute",
"lay"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blame",
"charge",
"father (on)",
"impute (to)",
"pin (on)",
"assign",
"refer",
"associate",
"attach",
"connect",
"link"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take in as food":{
"examples":[
"the husky youngster seemed to put down her own weight in food at one sitting"
],
"synonyms":[
"consume",
"eat",
"ingest",
"partake (of)",
"put away",
"tuck (away or in)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"digest",
"down",
"mouth (down)",
"swallow",
"bolt",
"chow (down on)",
"devour",
"glut (on)",
"gobble (up or down)",
"gorge",
"gulp",
"scoff",
"slop",
"snarf (down)",
"swill",
"wolf",
"chew",
"gnaw (at or on)",
"gum",
"lap",
"lick",
"nibble (on)",
"nurse",
"pick (at)",
"relish",
"savor",
"savour",
"taste",
"banquet",
"dine",
"fare",
"feast",
"gormandize",
"pig out",
"regale",
"dispatch",
"polish off",
"breakfast",
"lunch",
"sup",
"munch",
"nosh",
"snack"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"public":{
"not known by only a select few":{
"examples":[
"the mayor's plans to retire have been public knowledge for some time"
],
"synonyms":[
"open"
],
"near synonyms":[
"general",
"popular",
"nonclassified",
"unclassified",
"well-known",
"advertised",
"aired",
"announced",
"broadcast",
"declared",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"heralded",
"posted",
"proclaimed",
"promulgated",
"publicized",
"published",
"spotlighted",
"current",
"prevalent",
"rife",
"widespread",
"communal",
"shared",
"reported",
"reputed",
"rumored"
],
"near antonyms":[
"classified",
"unadvertised",
"unannounced",
"undisclosed",
"clandestine",
"collusive",
"conspiratorial",
"covert",
"surreptitious",
"undercover",
"underhand",
"underhanded",
"intimate",
"personal",
"concealed",
"repressed",
"reserved",
"silenced",
"stifled",
"suppressed",
"withheld",
"recanted",
"retracted",
"revoked"
],
"antonyms":[
"confidential",
"private",
"privy",
"secret"
]
},
"freely available for use or participation by all":{
"examples":[
"a public swimming pool"
],
"synonyms":[
"free-for-all",
"open",
"unrestricted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collective",
"common",
"communal",
"shared",
"accessible",
"available",
"free",
"unregulated",
"unreserved"
],
"near antonyms":[
"limited",
"inaccessible",
"unavailable"
],
"antonyms":[
"closed",
"exclusive",
"off-limits",
"private",
"restricted"
]
},
"of or relating to a nation":{
"examples":[
"a trade agreement in the public interest"
],
"synonyms":[
"civil",
"national"
],
"near synonyms":[
"civic",
"federal",
"municipal",
"government",
"governmental",
"domestic",
"internal",
"intestine",
"democratic",
"republican",
"nationwide"
],
"near antonyms":[
"global",
"international",
"alien",
"external",
"foreign"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonnational"
]
},
"held by or applicable to a majority of the people":{
"examples":[
"public sentiment was against the war"
],
"synonyms":[
"common",
"general",
"majority",
"overall",
"popular",
"prevailing",
"received",
"ruling",
"vulgar"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unanimous",
"universal",
"pop",
"everyday",
"familiar",
"household",
"usual",
"well-known",
"contemporary",
"current",
"present",
"dominant",
"predominant",
"preponderant",
"characteristic",
"typical",
"pandemic",
"pervasive",
"prevalent",
"rife",
"widespread",
"communal",
"shared"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rare",
"strange",
"unknown",
"unusual",
"distinctive",
"especial",
"idiosyncratic",
"peculiar",
"special",
"unique",
"individual",
"separate",
"singular",
"nonpublic",
"personal",
"private"
],
"antonyms":[
"uncommon",
"unpopular"
]
},
"used or done by a number of people as a group":{
"examples":[
"public transportation"
],
"synonyms":[
"collaborative",
"collective",
"combined",
"common",
"communal",
"concerted",
"conjoint",
"conjunct",
"cooperative",
"joint",
"multiple",
"mutual",
"pooled",
"shared",
"united"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bilateral",
"consensual",
"reciprocal",
"symbiotic",
"synergic",
"synergistic",
"two-way",
"mass",
"popular",
"general",
"generic",
"universal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"personal",
"private",
"independent",
"separate",
"several",
"esoteric",
"particular",
"special",
"specialized"
],
"antonyms":[
"exclusive",
"individual",
"one-man",
"one-sided",
"one-way",
"single",
"sole",
"solitary",
"unilateral"
]
},
"human beings in general":{
"examples":[
"a lecture open to the public"
],
"synonyms":[
"folks",
"humanity",
"humankind",
"people",
"species",
"world"
],
"near synonyms":[
"community",
"society",
"crowd",
"masses",
"mob",
"populace",
"proletariat",
"rabble",
"rabblement",
"riffraff"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the body of the community as contrasted with the elite":{
"examples":[
"the highbrows have always disdained his novels, but the public just eats them up"
],
"synonyms":[
"commoners",
"commons",
"crowd",
"herd",
"hoi polloi",
"mass",
"millions",
"mob",
"multitude",
"people",
"plebeians",
"plebs",
"populace",
"rank and file"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cattle",
"proletariat",
"rabble",
"rabblement",
"ragtag and bobtail",
"riffraff",
"rout",
"scum",
"tag, rag, and bobtail",
"tagrag and bobtail",
"trash",
"unwashed",
"bourgeoisie",
"middle class"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gentility",
"gentlefolk",
"gentlefolks",
"gentry",
"haute monde",
"nobility",
"patriciate",
"peerage",
"quality",
"royalty",
"society"
],
"antonyms":[
"A-list",
"aristocracy",
"best",
"choice",
"corps d'elite",
"cream",
"elect",
"elite",
"fat",
"flower",
"pick",
"pink",
"pride",
"upper crust"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"pulsar":{
"as in supernova , quasar":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"binary star",
"brown dwarf",
"dwarf",
"fixed star",
"gasser",
"giant star",
"lodestar",
"loadstar",
"neutron star",
"nova",
"quasar",
"red dwarf",
"red giant",
"red star",
"subdwarf",
"supercluster",
"supergiant",
"supernova",
"variable",
"variable star",
"white dwarf",
"luminary",
"sphere",
"sun",
"cluster",
"constellation",
"galaxy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"punching":{
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"after the man had punched the bartender for eighty-sixing him, bouncers stepped in and restrained him until the police could arrive"
],
"synonyms":[
"banging",
"bashing",
"batting",
"belting",
"biffing",
"bludgeoning",
"bobbing",
"bonking",
"bopping",
"boxing",
"busting",
"clapping",
"clipping",
"clobbering",
"clocking",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"hammering",
"hitting",
"knocking",
"nailing",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"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 make a hole or series of holes in":{
"examples":[
"punch a ticket"
],
"synonyms":[
"boring",
"drilling",
"holing",
"perforating",
"piercing",
"puncturing",
"riddling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broaching",
"tapping",
"poking",
"pricking",
"prickling",
"penetrating",
"burrowing (into)",
"excavating",
"gouging",
"grooving",
"hollowing",
"breaking",
"cutting",
"gashing",
"notching",
"rending",
"rupturing",
"slashing",
"slitting",
"splitting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"filling",
"patching",
"plugging",
"sealing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to urge, push, or force onward":{
"examples":[
"cowboys punching cattle"
],
"synonyms":[
"driving",
"herding",
"running"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shepherding",
"wrangling",
"egging",
"exhorting",
"flogging",
"goading",
"hounding",
"pressing",
"pricking",
"prodding",
"prompting",
"scourging",
"spurring",
"whipping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulled":{
"to cause to follow by applying steady force on":{
"examples":[
"a team of horses pulling a heavy wagon"
],
"synonyms":[
"dragged",
"drew",
"haled",
"hauled",
"lugged",
"towed",
"tugged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attracted",
"heaved",
"hove",
"jerked",
"yanked",
"carried",
"conveyed",
"ferried",
"moved",
"transported"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shoved",
"thrust"
],
"antonyms":[
"drove",
"propelled",
"pushed"
]
},
"to draw out by force or with effort":{
"examples":[
"the dentist had to struggle to pull the tooth"
],
"synonyms":[
"corkscrewed",
"extracted",
"pried",
"prized",
"rooted (out)",
"tore (out)",
"uprooted",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"yanked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mined",
"plucked",
"removed",
"took (out)",
"withdrew"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implanted",
"inserted",
"installed",
"instilled",
"crammed",
"jammed",
"rammed",
"stuffed",
"wedged"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to injure by overuse, misuse, or pressure":{
"examples":[
"lift the crate carefully, or you'll pull a muscle"
],
"synonyms":[
"racked",
"strained",
"stretched",
"wrenched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frayed",
"taxed",
"weakened",
"damaged",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"wounded",
"battered",
"bruised",
"tore",
"crippled",
"lamed",
"mangled",
"mutilated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"put the kibosh on":{
"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
"examples":[
"Remembered the time the police quickly put the kibosh on the wild party."
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"break off",
"break up",
"can",
"cease",
"cut off",
"cut out",
"desist (from)",
"discontinue",
"drop",
"end",
"give over",
"halt",
"knock off",
"lay off",
"leave off",
"pack (up or in)",
"quit",
"shut off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"complete",
"conclude",
"finish",
"close (down)",
"deactivate",
"block",
"blockade",
"dam",
"delay",
"detain",
"hinder",
"hold",
"hold back",
"impede",
"kibosh",
"obstruct",
"stem",
"call",
"suspend",
"arrest",
"brake",
"check",
"clamp down",
"rein (in)",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stamp",
"stanch",
"staunch",
"stunt",
"suppress",
"turn back",
"pause",
"stay",
"suspend",
"abolish",
"abort",
"annul",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"dissolve",
"kill",
"ruin",
"scuttle",
"snuff"
],
"near antonyms":[
"carry on",
"continue",
"follow through (with)",
"keep up",
"run on",
"advance",
"proceed",
"progress",
"actuate",
"drive",
"impel",
"propel",
"stir"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"puts (something) straight":{
"to make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"cleans (up)",
"picks up",
"tidies (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"housecleans",
"housekeeps",
"cleans (off)",
"cleans (up)",
"neatens",
"polices (up)",
"straightens (up)",
"turns out",
"unclutters",
"arranges",
"orders"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clutters",
"disarranges",
"messes (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"purges":{
"to free from moral guilt or blemish especially ceremonially":{
"examples":[
"a day on which the faithful are expected to purge themselves of their sins through prayer and fasting"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleanses",
"purifies",
"sanctifies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amends",
"improves",
"refines",
"heals",
"regenerates",
"restores",
"elevates",
"ennobles",
"uplifts",
"absolves",
"acquits",
"clears",
"exonerates",
"vindicates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corrupts",
"debases",
"debauches",
"defiles",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"depraves",
"perverts",
"stains",
"warps",
"poisons",
"profanes",
"prostitutes",
"sullies",
"tarnishes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pullout":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"the party's been fun, but it's time to pull out"
],
"synonyms":[
"bail",
"bail out",
"begone",
"book",
"bug off",
"bug out",
"bugger off",
"buzz (off)",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"dig out",
"exit",
"get",
"get off",
"go",
"go off",
"move",
"pack (up or off)",
"part",
"peel off",
"pike (out or off)",
"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"
]
},
"to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)":{
"examples":[
"the aid workers have been advised to pull out of those regions to which the conflict has spread"
],
"synonyms":[
"back away",
"drop back",
"fall back",
"recede",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flee",
"fly",
"flinch",
"recoil",
"shrink",
"chicken (out)",
"bow out",
"back down",
"backpedal",
"backtrack",
"climb down",
"detach",
"disengage",
"disentangle",
"pull away",
"abandon",
"depart",
"evacuate",
"go",
"leave",
"quit",
"vacate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"brazen",
"breast",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"outbrave"
],
"antonyms":[
"advance"
]
},
"an act of moving away especially from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable":{
"examples":[
"the civil unrest has led the company to initiate a pullout of its operations in the region"
],
"synonyms":[
"pullback",
"recession",
"retirement",
"retreat",
"withdrawal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rout",
"flinch",
"recoil",
"revulsion",
"shrinking",
"disengagement",
"disentanglement"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"advance",
"advancement"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pullbacks":{
"an act of moving away especially from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable":{
"examples":[
"the pullback was necessary so that the commanders could reorganize their units and reassess the situation"
],
"synonyms":[
"pullouts",
"recessions",
"retirements",
"retreats",
"withdrawals"
],
"near synonyms":[
"routs",
"flinches",
"recoils",
"revulsions",
"disengagements",
"disentanglements"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"advancements",
"advances"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"purgatory":{
"a temporary place or state in which the souls of people who die make amends for their sins":{
"examples":[
"It was a summer job that felt like purgatory to the teen."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blazes",
"inferno",
"hades",
"netherworld",
"shades",
"Tartarus",
"underworld",
"Sheol",
"abyss",
"pit",
"fire and brimstone",
"hellfire",
"Gehenna",
"hell",
"Pandemonium",
"perdition",
"Tophet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glory",
"happy hunting ground",
"nirvana",
"promised land",
"Valhalla",
"bliss",
"elysian fields",
"Elysium",
"empyrean",
"heaven",
"kingdom come",
"New Jerusalem",
"paradise",
"sky",
"Zion",
"Sion"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a place or state of temporary suffering":{
"examples":[
"We found ourselves trapped in the purgatory of a rush-hour traffic jam."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"affliction",
"calvary",
"cross",
"curse",
"ordeal",
"trial",
"tribulation",
"agony",
"Gehenna",
"hell",
"horror",
"misery",
"murder",
"nightmare",
"torment",
"torture",
"calamity",
"misfortune",
"tragedy",
"gall",
"thorn",
"bummer",
"downer",
"drag"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delight",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"fun",
"joy",
"pleasure",
"recreation",
"lark",
"picnic",
"riot",
"heaven",
"paradise"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"publishes":{
"to produce and release for distribution in printed form":{
"examples":[
"our local animal shelter publishes a newsletter"
],
"synonyms":[
"gets out",
"issues",
"prints",
"puts out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"copublishes",
"reissues",
"reprints",
"republishes",
"serializes",
"contributes",
"edits",
"syndicates",
"manufactures",
"produces",
"distributes",
"markets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"censors",
"suppresses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make known openly or publicly":{
"examples":[
"will publish the exam scores as soon as they are available"
],
"synonyms":[
"advertises",
"announces",
"annunciates",
"blares",
"blazes",
"blazons",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"enunciates",
"flashes",
"gives out",
"heralds",
"placards",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"releases",
"sounds",
"trumpets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barks",
"calls (off or out)",
"cries",
"billboards",
"bills",
"bulletins",
"gazettes",
"knells",
"rings",
"tolls",
"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"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purposes":{
"something that one hopes or intends to accomplish":{
"examples":[
"the purpose of the research is to discover how the virus is transmitted"
],
"synonyms":[
"aims",
"ambitions",
"aspirations",
"bournes",
"bourns",
"designs",
"dreams",
"ends",
"goals",
"ideals",
"ideas",
"intentions",
"intents",
"marks",
"meanings",
"objectives",
"objects",
"plans",
"points",
"pretensions",
"targets",
"things"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grails",
"holy grails",
"plots",
"projects",
"schemes",
"desires",
"hopes",
"minds",
"wishes",
"nirvanas",
"destinations",
"termini",
"terminuses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"means",
"methods",
"ways"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists":{
"examples":[
"still trying to discover her purpose in life"
],
"synonyms":[
"businesses",
"capacities",
"functions",
"jobs",
"parts",
"places",
"positions",
"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":[]
},
"to have in mind as a purpose or goal":{
"examples":[
"I've been purposing to fix that thing for some time now"
],
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"aims",
"allows",
"aspires",
"calculates",
"contemplates",
"designs",
"goes",
"intends",
"looks",
"means",
"meditates",
"plans",
"proposes",
"purports"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dreams",
"hopes",
"wishes",
"considers",
"debates",
"mulls (over)",
"ponders",
"attempts",
"endeavors",
"strives",
"struggles",
"tries",
"plots",
"schemes",
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"effects",
"executes",
"performs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"put paid to":{
"to bring (an event) to a natural or appropriate stopping point":{
"examples":[
"The final payment put paid to his debt obligations."
],
"synonyms":[
"close",
"close out",
"complete",
"conclude",
"end",
"finish",
"round (off or out)",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wrap up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"climax",
"crown",
"consummate",
"perfect",
"halt",
"stop",
"suspend"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"begin",
"commence",
"inaugurate",
"open",
"start"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"puncturing":{
"to make a hole or series of holes in":{
"examples":[
"a nail punctured the tire"
],
"synonyms":[
"boring",
"drilling",
"holing",
"perforating",
"piercing",
"punching",
"riddling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broaching",
"tapping",
"poking",
"pricking",
"prickling",
"penetrating",
"burrowing (into)",
"excavating",
"gouging",
"grooving",
"hollowing",
"breaking",
"cutting",
"gashing",
"notching",
"rending",
"rupturing",
"slashing",
"slitting",
"splitting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"filling",
"patching",
"plugging",
"sealing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"I could never puncture my own skin with a hypodermic needle"
],
"synonyms":[
"goring",
"harpooning",
"impaling",
"jabbing",
"lancing",
"pecking",
"picking",
"piercing",
"pinking",
"running through",
"skewering",
"spearing",
"spiking",
"spitting",
"stabbing",
"sticking",
"transfixing",
"transpiercing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindling",
"perforating",
"riddling",
"bayoneting",
"bayonetting",
"dirking",
"gimleting",
"piking",
"poniarding",
"pronging",
"quilling",
"pinpricking",
"poking",
"pricking",
"punching",
"thrusting",
"cutting",
"knifing",
"slicing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pump-faked":{
"as in stutter-stepped":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"stutter-stepped",
"dodged",
"evaded",
"sidestepped",
"slipped",
"maneuvered (around)",
"deked",
"faked",
"faked out",
"juked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"put on an act":{
"to take on a false or deceptive appearance":{
"examples":[
"You don't need to put on an act just to impress us."
],
"synonyms":[
"dissemble",
"dissimulate",
"let on",
"make out",
"pretend"
],
"near synonyms":[
"act",
"impersonate",
"masquerade",
"play",
"playact",
"pose",
"affect",
"assume",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"feign",
"profess",
"put on",
"sham",
"simulate",
"camouflage",
"conceal",
"disguise",
"mask",
"bluff",
"feint"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pulps":{
"to cause to become a pulpy mass":{
"examples":[
"pulped three oranges to get their juice"
],
"synonyms":[
"crushes",
"mashes",
"squashes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"presses",
"squeezes",
"beats",
"pounds",
"powders",
"pulverizes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in novels , novelettes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"novelettes",
"novels",
"monographs",
"primers",
"textbooks",
"texts",
"tracts",
"treatises",
"albums",
"almanacs",
"anthologies",
"casebooks",
"chapbooks",
"omnibuses",
"picture books",
"catalogs",
"catalogues",
"cyclopedias",
"cyclopaedias",
"dictionaries",
"encyclopedias",
"guidebooks",
"handbooks",
"how-tos",
"manuals",
"folios",
"quartos",
"hardbacks",
"hardcovers",
"paperbacks",
"paperbounds",
"papers",
"pocket books",
"pocket editions",
"softbacks",
"softcovers",
"trade books",
"trade editions",
"books",
"tomes",
"volumes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pumped up":{
"to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings of":{
"examples":[
"the crowd was pumped up by the band's rocking performance"
],
"synonyms":[
"charged",
"electrified",
"excited",
"exhilarated",
"galvanized",
"intoxicated",
"thrilled",
"titillated",
"turned on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aroused",
"incited",
"inspired",
"provoked",
"stimulated",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"delighted",
"enchanted",
"enthralled",
"hypnotized",
"mesmerized",
"riveted",
"spellbound",
"interested",
"intrigued",
"tantalized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bored",
"jaded",
"palled",
"tired",
"wearied",
"dejected",
"demoralized",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make greater in size, amount, or number":{
"examples":[
"that pop diva is trying to pump up album sales with an extended publicity tour"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"added (to)",
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"boosted",
"built up",
"compounded",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"extended",
"hyped",
"increased",
"multiplied",
"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":[
"verb"
]
},
"punas":{
"as in karoos":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"karoos",
"karroos",
"buttes",
"domes",
"heights",
"highlands",
"uplands",
"altiplanos",
"mesas",
"plateaus",
"plateaux",
"tablelands",
"tables"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"putting to sleep":{
"to make weary and restless by being dull or monotonous":{
"examples":[
"The students were quickly put to sleep by the professor's lecture."
],
"synonyms":[
"boring",
"jading",
"tiring",
"wearying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"palling",
"burning out",
"doing in",
"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"fagging",
"fatiguing",
"tuckering (out)",
"washing out",
"wearing",
"wearing out",
"debilitating",
"disabling",
"enfeebling",
"dejecting",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activating",
"animating",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"galvanizing",
"invigorating",
"stimulating",
"strengthening",
"vitalizing",
"amusing",
"entertaining",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"hypnotizing",
"mesmerizing",
"monopolizing",
"preoccupying",
"busying",
"immersing",
"involving",
"occupying",
"pumping up",
"rallying",
"rousing",
"stirring"
],
"antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"busying",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"enthralling",
"fascinating",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pusillanimous":{
"having or showing a shameful lack of courage":{
"examples":[
"pusillanimous politicians who vote according to whichever way the political wind is blowing"
],
"synonyms":[
"chicken",
"chicken-livered",
"chickenhearted",
"cowardly",
"craven",
"dastardly",
"gutless",
"lily-livered",
"milk-livered",
"poltroon",
"recreant",
"spineless",
"unheroic",
"yellow"
],
"near synonyms":[
"diffident",
"fainthearted",
"fearful",
"timid",
"timorous",
"afraid",
"frightened",
"scared",
"careful",
"cautious",
"wary",
"bashful",
"coy",
"shy",
"feeble",
"soft",
"unmanly",
"weak"
],
"near antonyms":[
"audacious",
"bold",
"brazen",
"cheeky",
"nervy",
"plucky",
"spirited",
"spunky",
"determined",
"resolute"
],
"antonyms":[
"brave",
"courageous",
"daring",
"dauntless",
"doughty",
"fearless",
"gallant",
"greathearted",
"gutsy",
"hardy",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"intrepid",
"lionhearted",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"stouthearted",
"valiant",
"valorous"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"put/placed (someone) on a pedestal":{
"to treat or regard (someone) as extraordinarily good, successful, important, etc.":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aggrandized",
"canonized",
"deified",
"elevated",
"exalted",
"apotheosized",
"lionized",
"dignified",
"ennobled",
"enshrined",
"enskied",
"enthroned",
"glorified",
"magnified",
"idealized",
"romanticized",
"adored",
"revered",
"reverenced",
"venerated",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"admired",
"loved",
"regarded",
"respected",
"acclaimed",
"applauded",
"boasted",
"celebrated",
"cheered",
"cited",
"commended",
"complimented",
"congratulated",
"decorated",
"eulogized",
"extolled",
"feted",
"f\u00eated",
"hailed",
"honored",
"lauded",
"praised",
"saluted",
"touted",
"acknowledged",
"recognized",
"highlighted",
"played up",
"spotlighted",
"spotlit",
"advanced",
"boosted",
"lifted",
"promoted",
"raised",
"upgraded",
"uplifted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"knocked (someone) off his/her pedestal",
"abased",
"chastened",
"cheapened",
"debased",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"discredited",
"disgraced",
"dishonored",
"fouled",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"lowered",
"sank",
"sunk",
"shamed",
"smirched",
"took down",
"abashed",
"confounded",
"confused",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"mortified",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"rattled",
"belittled",
"castigated",
"cried down",
"criticized",
"decried",
"depreciated",
"detracted",
"diminished",
"discounted",
"disparaged",
"minimized",
"put down",
"ridiculed",
"wrote off",
"bad-mouthed",
"defamed",
"defiled",
"libeled",
"libelled",
"maligned",
"slandered",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"censured",
"condemned",
"damned",
"denounced",
"execrated",
"reprehended",
"reprobated",
"blasphemed",
"desecrated",
"profaned",
"violated",
"disrespected",
"offended",
"outraged",
"piqued",
"scorned",
"slighted",
"slurred",
"smeared"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"pulled through":{
"as in recovered , rallied":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rallied",
"recovered",
"came around",
"came round",
"came to",
"revived",
"awakened",
"awoke",
"awaked",
"woke up",
"waked up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blacked out",
"fainted",
"passed out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in was , held up":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abided",
"abode",
"continued",
"endured",
"held on",
"held out",
"held up",
"hung on",
"lasted",
"led",
"persisted",
"stood",
"stuck out",
"withstood",
"breathed",
"existed",
"lived",
"subsisted",
"was",
"rode (out)",
"survived",
"weathered",
"outlasted",
"outlived",
"wore out",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve"
],
"near antonyms":[
"croaked",
"deceased",
"departed",
"died",
"expired",
"passed (on)",
"passed away",
"perished",
"succumbed",
"disappeared",
"evaporated",
"faded",
"vanished",
"ceased",
"ended",
"stopped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"put to it":{
"faced with difficulty or uncertainty about what to say, think, or do":{
"examples":[
"She was put to it to hand over the keys to her new car."
],
"synonyms":[
"baffled",
"confounded",
"hard-pressed",
"hard put",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"perplexed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bewildered",
"confused",
"disconcerted",
"fazed",
"embarrassed",
"flustered",
"put out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undaunted",
"unfazed",
"composed",
"untroubled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pulsated":{
"to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner":{
"examples":[
"the heart muscle pulsates regularly to pump blood"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"palpitated",
"pit-a-patted",
"pitter-pattered",
"pulsed",
"throbbed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fluctuated",
"oscillated",
"vibrated",
"quivered",
"trembled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pull a face":{
"to distort one's face":{
"examples":[
"The boy pulled a face to make the other students laugh."
],
"synonyms":[
"grimace",
"mouth",
"mug"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pout",
"contort",
"deform",
"twist",
"warp",
"frown",
"glare",
"gloom",
"glower",
"lower",
"lour",
"scowl",
"gape",
"gaze",
"ogle",
"stare",
"growl",
"snarl",
"sneer",
"simper",
"smirk"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beam",
"grin",
"smile"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pull together":{
"to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members":{
"examples":[
"The two groups pulled together in difficult times."
],
"synonyms":[
"ally",
"associate",
"band (together)",
"club",
"coalesce",
"cohere",
"confederate",
"conjoin",
"cooperate",
"federate",
"league",
"unite"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cabal",
"collaborate",
"gang up",
"hang together",
"team (up)",
"incorporate",
"organize",
"unionize",
"affiliate",
"amalgamate",
"combine",
"conglomerate",
"consolidate",
"converge",
"group",
"join",
"merge",
"knot",
"link",
"tie",
"wed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detach",
"disengage",
"dissolve",
"disunite",
"divorce",
"part",
"segregate",
"separate",
"sever",
"split",
"sunder",
"alienate",
"estrange",
"fall out"
],
"antonyms":[
"break up",
"disband"
]
},
"to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{
"examples":[
"The whole team pulled together to get the job done."
],
"synonyms":[
"band (together)",
"collaborate",
"concert",
"concur",
"conjoin",
"conspire",
"cooperate",
"join",
"league",
"team (up)",
"unite"
],
"near synonyms":[
"connive",
"affiliate",
"ally",
"associate",
"combine",
"confederate",
"hang together",
"interface"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"punch":{
"to deliver a blow to (someone or something) usually in a strong vigorous manner":{
"examples":[
"after the man had punched the bartender for eighty-sixing him, bouncers stepped in and restrained him until the police could arrive"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"belt",
"biff",
"bludgeon",
"bob",
"bonk",
"bop",
"box",
"bust",
"clap",
"clip",
"clobber",
"clock",
"clout",
"crack",
"hammer",
"hit",
"knock",
"nail",
"paste",
"pound",
"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 make a hole or series of holes in":{
"examples":[
"punch a ticket"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"drill",
"hole",
"perforate",
"pierce",
"puncture",
"riddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broach",
"tap",
"poke",
"prick",
"prickle",
"penetrate",
"burrow (into)",
"excavate",
"gouge",
"groove",
"hollow",
"break",
"cut",
"gash",
"notch",
"rend",
"rupture",
"slash",
"slit",
"split"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fill",
"patch",
"plug",
"seal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to urge, push, or force onward":{
"examples":[
"cowboys punching cattle"
],
"synonyms":[
"drive",
"herd",
"run"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shepherd",
"wrangle",
"egg",
"exhort",
"flog",
"goad",
"hound",
"press",
"prick",
"prod",
"prompt",
"scourge",
"spur",
"whip"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the quality of an utterance that provokes interest and produces an effect":{
"examples":[
"the real punch of the speech came in its closing lines"
],
"synonyms":[
"cogency",
"effectiveness",
"force",
"forcefulness",
"impact",
"point"
],
"near synonyms":[
"payoff",
"importance",
"significance",
"appeal",
"attraction",
"charm",
"fascination"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"active strength of body or mind":{
"examples":[
"we're going to need a candidate with real punch if voters are ever going to get excited about this election"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"bounce",
"brio",
"dash",
"drive",
"dynamism",
"energy",
"esprit",
"gas",
"get-up-and-go",
"ginger",
"go",
"gusto",
"hardihood",
"juice",
"life",
"moxie",
"oomph",
"pep",
"sap",
"snap",
"starch",
"verve",
"vigor",
"vim",
"vinegar",
"vitality",
"zing",
"zip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animal spirits",
"animation",
"briskness",
"jauntiness",
"liveliness",
"snappiness",
"spirit",
"spiritedness",
"sprightliness",
"spunk",
"spunkiness",
"vibrance",
"vibrancy",
"vivaciousness",
"vivacity",
"ardor",
"\u00e9lan",
"fervor",
"fire",
"passion",
"zeal",
"main",
"metal",
"mettle",
"might",
"muscle",
"potency",
"power",
"puissance",
"stamina",
"strength",
"brawniness",
"fitness",
"hardiness",
"huskiness",
"sturdiness",
"virility",
"health",
"healthiness",
"soundness",
"verdure",
"wellness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"indolence",
"laziness",
"debilitation",
"debility",
"delicacy",
"disablement",
"enfeeblement",
"faintness",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"frailty",
"impotence",
"impotency",
"infirmity",
"powerlessness",
"puniness",
"slightness",
"softness",
"tenderness",
"weakness",
"enervation",
"exhaustion",
"inanition",
"prostration"
],
"antonyms":[
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"sluggishness",
"torpidity"
]
},
"a hard strike with a part of the body or an instrument":{
"examples":[
"the poor palooka wasn't able to land a single punch on his opponent"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"beat",
"belt",
"biff",
"blow",
"bop",
"box",
"buffet",
"bust",
"chop",
"clap",
"clip",
"clout",
"crack",
"cuff",
"dab",
"douse",
"fillip",
"hack",
"haymaker",
"hit",
"hook",
"knock",
"larrup",
"lash",
"lick",
"pelt",
"pick",
"plump",
"poke",
"pound",
"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 mark or small hole made by a pointed instrument":{
"examples":[
"old computers used to get information by reading the punches on a series of cards"
],
"synonyms":[
"perforation",
"pinhole",
"pinprick",
"prick",
"puncture",
"stab"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gouge",
"groove",
"hollow",
"break",
"cut",
"gash",
"incision",
"laceration",
"notch",
"rent",
"rip",
"rupture",
"slash",
"slit",
"tear"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"pulls round":{
"to become healthy and strong again after illness or weakness":{
"examples":[
"after a week without any relapses, it became clear that she would pull round eventually"
],
"synonyms":[
"comes back",
"convalesces",
"gains",
"heals",
"mends",
"rallies",
"recoups",
"recovers",
"recuperates",
"snaps back"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comes around",
"comes round",
"comes to",
"improves",
"picks up",
"revives",
"cheers (up)",
"perks (up)",
"pulls through",
"survives",
"recruits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ails",
"collapses",
"comes down",
"sickens",
"declines",
"degenerates",
"deteriorates",
"fades",
"fails",
"languishes",
"sinks",
"wastes (away)",
"weakens",
"wilts",
"withers",
"worsens",
"regresses",
"relapses"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puts forward":{
"to set before the mind for consideration":{
"examples":[
"She put forward some clever ideas during last week's meeting."
],
"synonyms":[
"advances",
"bounces",
"offers",
"poses",
"proffers",
"proposes",
"propounds",
"suggests",
"votes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"moves",
"nominates",
"recommends",
"presents",
"submits",
"tenders",
"trots out",
"files",
"lays",
"lodges",
"arranges",
"calculates",
"charts",
"contrives",
"covers",
"frames",
"maps",
"plans",
"plots",
"shapes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"pungent":{
"having a powerfully stimulating odor or flavor":{
"examples":[
"a pungent chili that is not for those with timid taste buds"
],
"synonyms":[
"nippy",
"sharp",
"strong",
"tangy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acid",
"acidic",
"acrid",
"bitter",
"harsh",
"gingery",
"hot",
"peppery",
"piquant",
"spicy",
"tart",
"zesty",
"zingy",
"putrid",
"rancid",
"rank",
"skunky",
"acute",
"keen",
"animating",
"energizing",
"exciting",
"galvanizing",
"invigorating",
"provocative",
"appetizing",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"palatable",
"toothsome",
"flavorful",
"savory",
"savoury",
"tasty",
"aromatic",
"redolent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aged",
"mellow",
"ripe",
"gentle",
"soft",
"flat",
"flavorless",
"insipid",
"savorless",
"tasteless",
"zestless",
"dilute",
"thin",
"watery",
"weak"
],
"antonyms":[
"bland",
"mild",
"smooth"
]
},
"marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings":{
"examples":[
"a pungent put-down that she will not soon forget"
],
"synonyms":[
"acerb",
"acerbic",
"acid",
"acidic",
"acidulous",
"acrid",
"barbed",
"biting",
"caustic",
"corrosive",
"cutting",
"mordant",
"sarcastic",
"sardonic",
"satiric",
"satirical",
"scalding",
"scathing",
"sharp",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"smart-mouthed",
"snarky",
"tart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brisk",
"cross",
"sharp-tongued",
"sour",
"sourish",
"spiky",
"spikey",
"tartish",
"incisive",
"keen",
"poignant",
"trenchant",
"cynical",
"dry",
"ironic",
"ironical",
"wry",
"facetious",
"flippant",
"tongue-in-cheek",
"acrimonious",
"bitter",
"resentful",
"vitriolic",
"harsh",
"rough",
"severe",
"stringent",
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"concise",
"crisp",
"curt",
"gruff",
"pithy",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"succinct",
"terse",
"backhanded",
"insincere"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amusing",
"droll",
"merry",
"playful",
"sportive",
"waggish",
"gentle",
"mild",
"bland",
"good-humored",
"good-natured",
"diplomatic",
"polite",
"smooth",
"suave",
"urbane",
"affable",
"cordial",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"sociable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"sharp and pleasantly stimulating to the mind or senses":{
"examples":[
"a newspaper columnist known for his pungent observations on everyday life"
],
"synonyms":[
"pert",
"piquant",
"poignant",
"salty",
"savory",
"savoury",
"zesty",
"zingy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"racy",
"spicy",
"fiery",
"gingery",
"hot",
"peppery",
"vinegary",
"acute",
"keen",
"biting",
"bitter",
"cutting",
"mordant",
"trenchant",
"animating",
"energizing",
"enlightening",
"exciting",
"galvanizing",
"invigorating",
"piquing",
"provocative",
"provoking",
"ambrosial",
"appetizing",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"luscious",
"palatable",
"scrumptious",
"toothsome",
"flavorful",
"savorous",
"tasty",
"absorbing",
"arresting",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"enthralling",
"fascinating",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"riveting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flat",
"flavorless",
"savorless",
"tasteless",
"arid",
"banal",
"barren",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"dry",
"dull",
"flat",
"humdrum",
"leaden",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"predictable",
"stale",
"stodgy",
"tedious",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"wearying",
"bland",
"dilute",
"thin",
"watery",
"weak"
],
"antonyms":[
"insipid",
"zestless"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"puts aside":{
"as in dismantles , phases out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dismantles",
"mothballs",
"phases out",
"deactivates",
"kills",
"shuts off",
"turns off",
"flicks (off)",
"arrests",
"brakes",
"chocks",
"cuts off",
"draws up",
"halts",
"jams",
"stalls",
"sticks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"charges",
"electrifies",
"energizes",
"fires",
"fuels",
"generates",
"powers",
"pushes",
"discharges",
"launches",
"releases",
"switches",
"trips",
"reactivates",
"recharges",
"activates",
"actuates",
"cranks (up)",
"drives",
"moves",
"propels",
"runs",
"sets off",
"sparks",
"starts",
"touches off",
"triggers",
"turns on"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulled the wool over one's eyes":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozled",
"beguiled",
"bluffed",
"buffaloed",
"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"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"purveyor":{
"a person or business that sells or provides something":{
"examples":[
"a purveyor of kitchen supplies",
"a software purveyor"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"distributor",
"provider",
"provisioner",
"supplier",
"dealer",
"merchandiser",
"merchant",
"trader",
"tradesman",
"trafficker",
"businessman",
"enterpriser",
"entrepreneur",
"buyer",
"marketer",
"purchaser",
"hawker",
"huckster",
"hustler",
"peddler",
"pedlar",
"retailer",
"seller",
"shopkeeper",
"storekeeper",
"vendor",
"vender",
"engrosser",
"monopolist",
"jobber",
"middleman",
"wholesaler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"punctilious":{
"marked by or showing careful attention to set forms and details":{
"examples":[
"old-money aristocrats with a punctilious sense of propriety"
],
"synonyms":[
"ceremonious",
"correct",
"decorous",
"formal",
"nice",
"proper",
"starchy",
"stiff",
"stiff-necked",
"stilted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sober",
"solemn",
"stately",
"chivalrous",
"courtly",
"gallant",
"genteel",
"polished",
"refined",
"civil",
"courteous",
"polite",
"red-carpet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"improper",
"indecorous",
"unmannerly",
"discourteous",
"impolite",
"rude"
],
"antonyms":[
"casual",
"easygoing",
"informal",
"laid-back",
"unceremonious"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pursuits":{
"an activity outside of one's regular occupation that is engaged in primarily for pleasure":{
"examples":[
"a workaholic with few pursuits outside of the office"
],
"synonyms":[
"avocations",
"hobbies",
"hobbyhorses",
"recreations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amusements",
"distractions",
"diversions",
"entertainments",
"pastimes",
"relaxations",
"sports"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pummelled":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"pummeled the mugger with her fists until help arrived"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashed",
"basted",
"batted",
"battered",
"beat",
"belabored",
"belted",
"birched",
"bludgeoned",
"buffeted",
"bunged up",
"clubbed",
"curried",
"did",
"drubbed",
"fibbed",
"flogged",
"hammered",
"hided",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"lashed",
"lathered",
"licked",
"mauled",
"messed (up)",
"paddled",
"pelted",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pounded",
"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"
]
},
"pureed":{
"as in sliced , mashed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chipped",
"grated",
"ground",
"kibbled",
"mashed",
"sliced",
"chopped",
"diced",
"hashed",
"minced",
"butchered",
"carved",
"dissected"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulling together":{
"to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members":{
"examples":[
"The two groups pulled together in difficult times."
],
"synonyms":[
"allying",
"associating",
"banding (together)",
"clubbing",
"coalescing",
"cohering",
"confederating",
"conjoining",
"cooperating",
"federating",
"leaguing",
"uniting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caballing",
"collaborating",
"ganging up",
"hanging together",
"teaming (up)",
"incorporating",
"organizing",
"unionizing",
"affiliating",
"amalgamating",
"combining",
"conglomerating",
"consolidating",
"converging",
"grouping",
"joining",
"merging",
"knotting",
"linking",
"tying",
"tieing",
"wedding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"dissolving",
"disuniting",
"divorcing",
"parting",
"segregating",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering",
"alienating",
"estranging",
"falling out"
],
"antonyms":[
"breaking up",
"disbanding"
]
},
"to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end":{
"examples":[
"The whole team pulled together to get the job done."
],
"synonyms":[
"banding (together)",
"collaborating",
"concerting",
"concurring",
"conjoining",
"conspiring",
"cooperating",
"joining",
"leaguing",
"teaming (up)",
"uniting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conniving",
"affiliating",
"allying",
"associating",
"combining",
"confederating",
"hanging together",
"interfacing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"putting aside":{
"as in dismantling , phasing out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dismantling",
"mothballing",
"phasing out",
"deactivating",
"killing",
"shutting off",
"turning off",
"flicking (off)",
"arresting",
"braking",
"chocking",
"cutting off",
"drawing up",
"halting",
"jamming",
"stalling",
"sticking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"charging",
"electrifying",
"energizing",
"firing",
"fueling",
"fuelling",
"generating",
"powering",
"pushing",
"discharging",
"launching",
"releasing",
"switching",
"tripping",
"reactivating",
"recharging",
"activating",
"actuating",
"cranking (up)",
"driving",
"moving",
"propelling",
"running",
"setting off",
"sparking",
"starting",
"touching off",
"triggering",
"turning on"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulls stakes":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"Once the job was done it was time to pull stakes ."
],
"synonyms":[
"bails",
"bails out",
"books",
"buggers off",
"bugs off",
"bugs out",
"buzzes (off)",
"clears off",
"clears out",
"cuts out",
"departs",
"digs out",
"exits",
"gets",
"gets off",
"goes",
"goes off",
"moves",
"packs (up or off)",
"parts",
"peels off",
"pikes (out or off)",
"pulls out",
"pushes off",
"pushes on",
"quits",
"runs along",
"sallies (forth)",
"scarpers",
"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":[
"phrase"
]
},
"puts over":{
"to assign to a later time":{
"examples":[
"as a result of a medical emergency, our dream vacation had to be put over to the following year"
],
"synonyms":[
"defers",
"delays",
"holds off (on)",
"holds over",
"holds up",
"lays over",
"postpones",
"puts off",
"remits",
"shelves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"suspends",
"hesitates",
"pauses",
"stays",
"detains",
"retards",
"slows",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"prolongs",
"protracts",
"stretches (out)",
"waits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acts",
"deals (with)",
"decides (upon)",
"does",
"works (on)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puck":{
"an imaginary being usually having a small human form and magical powers":{
"examples":[
"dreamed that her garden was the secret meeting place of pucks and sprites"
],
"synonyms":[
"brownie",
"dwarf",
"elf",
"faerie",
"faery",
"fairy",
"fay",
"gnome",
"goblin",
"gremlin",
"hobgoblin",
"kobold",
"leprechaun",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"sprite",
"troll"
],
"near synonyms":[
"little people",
"kelpie",
"nixie",
"changeling",
"imp",
"banshee",
"ghoul",
"hag",
"ogre"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pulsing":{
"to expand and contract in a rhythmic manner":{
"examples":[
"blood vessels pulsing in time with the heartbeat"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"palpitating",
"pit-a-patting",
"pitter-pattering",
"pulsating",
"throbbing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fluctuating",
"oscillating",
"vibrating",
"quivering",
"trembling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pussyfoot":{
"to avoid giving a definite answer or position":{
"examples":[
"politicians who try to pussyfoot around hot-button issues"
],
"synonyms":[
"equivocate",
"fudge",
"hedge",
"tergiversate",
"waffle",
"weasel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flip-flop",
"yo-yo",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"eschew",
"evade",
"shake",
"shirk",
"shun",
"sidestep",
"skirt",
"bypass",
"circumvent",
"cavil",
"quibble",
"straddle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move about in a sly or secret manner":{
"examples":[
"pussyfooting through the hallways in the middle of the night"
],
"synonyms":[
"lurk",
"mooch",
"mouse",
"shirk",
"skulk",
"slide",
"slink",
"slip",
"snake",
"sneak",
"steal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"edge",
"inch",
"worm",
"ghost",
"pad",
"tiptoe"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulls through":{
"as in recovers , rallies":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rallies",
"recovers",
"comes around",
"comes round",
"comes to",
"revives",
"awakens",
"awakes",
"wakes up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blacks out",
"faints",
"passes out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in is , holds up":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abides",
"continues",
"endures",
"hangs on",
"holds on",
"holds out",
"holds up",
"lasts",
"leads",
"persists",
"stands",
"sticks out",
"withstands",
"breathes",
"exists",
"is",
"lives",
"subsists",
"rides (out)",
"survives",
"weathers",
"outlasts",
"outlives",
"wears out",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"croaks",
"deceases",
"departs",
"dies",
"expires",
"passes (on)",
"passes away",
"perishes",
"succumbs",
"disappears",
"evaporates",
"fades",
"vanishes",
"ceases",
"ends",
"stops"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulls away":{
"as in detaches , disengages":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"detaches",
"disengages",
"disentangles",
"flees",
"flies",
"flinches",
"recoils",
"shrinks",
"chickens (out)",
"bows out",
"backpedals",
"backs down",
"backtracks",
"climbs down",
"abandons",
"departs",
"evacuates",
"goes",
"leaves",
"quits",
"vacates",
"backs away",
"drops back",
"falls back",
"pulls out",
"recedes",
"retires",
"retreats",
"withdraws"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beards",
"braves",
"brazens",
"breasts",
"confronts",
"dares",
"defies",
"faces",
"outbraves",
"advances"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulled off":{
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"the rebel forces pulled off a surprisingly successful offensive against the better equipped government troops"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"brought off",
"carried off",
"carried out",
"committed",
"compassed",
"did",
"executed",
"followed through (with)",
"fulfilled",
"made",
"negotiated",
"performed",
"perpetrated",
"prosecuted",
"put through"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brought about",
"effected",
"effectuated",
"implemented",
"aced",
"nailed",
"engaged (in)",
"practiced",
"practised",
"worked (at)",
"reduplicated",
"reenacted",
"repeated",
"actualized",
"attained",
"realized",
"completed",
"ended",
"finished",
"wound up",
"winded up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"failed",
"skimped",
"slighted",
"slurred"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puts off":{
"to assign to a later time":{
"examples":[
"never put off until tomorrow what you can do today"
],
"synonyms":[
"defers",
"delays",
"holds off (on)",
"holds over",
"holds up",
"lays over",
"postpones",
"puts over",
"remits",
"shelves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"suspends",
"hesitates",
"pauses",
"stays",
"detains",
"retards",
"slows",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"prolongs",
"protracts",
"stretches (out)",
"waits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acts",
"deals (with)",
"decides (upon)",
"does",
"works (on)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to rid oneself of (a garment)":{
"examples":[
"put off your coat and stay awhile"
],
"synonyms":[
"doffs",
"douses",
"peels (off)",
"removes",
"shrugs off",
"takes off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"husks",
"sheds",
"kicks (off)",
"disrobes",
"strips",
"undresses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"wears",
"apparels",
"arrays",
"attires",
"bedecks",
"clothes",
"dresses",
"garbs",
"rigs",
"robes",
"suits"
],
"antonyms":[
"dons",
"puts on",
"slips (into)",
"throws (on)"
]
},
"to cause to feel disgust":{
"examples":[
"she was put off by his blatantly sexist attitude"
],
"synonyms":[
"disgusts",
"grosses out",
"nauseates",
"repels",
"repulses",
"revolts",
"sickens",
"turns off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"displeases",
"distresses",
"appalls",
"appals",
"disquiets",
"horrifies",
"affronts",
"insults",
"offends",
"outrages",
"shocks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allures",
"attracts",
"beguiles",
"bewitches",
"captivates",
"charms",
"disarms",
"draws",
"enchants",
"entices",
"fascinates",
"lures",
"pulls",
"seduces",
"tempts",
"delights",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"rejoices",
"tickles",
"enraptures",
"enthralls",
"enthrals",
"entrances",
"appeals (to)",
"interests",
"intrigues"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pulls in":{
"to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)":{
"examples":[
"a company that cannot manage to pull in costs will not be in business for very long"
],
"synonyms":[
"bridles",
"checks",
"constrains",
"contains",
"controls",
"curbs",
"governs",
"holds",
"inhibits",
"keeps",
"measures",
"regulates",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"rules",
"tames"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottles (up)",
"chokes (back)",
"holds back",
"minces",
"muffles",
"pockets",
"represses",
"sinks",
"smothers",
"squelches",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"suppresses",
"swallows",
"arrests",
"interrupts",
"stops",
"blocks",
"hampers",
"handcuffs",
"hinders",
"impedes",
"obstructs",
"gags",
"muzzles",
"silences"
],
"near antonyms":[
"liberates",
"loosens",
"looses",
"unleashes",
"airs",
"expresses",
"takes out",
"vents"
],
"antonyms":[
"loses"
]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"he was pulled in after a random traffic stop turned up drugs in his car"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehends",
"arrests",
"busts",
"collars",
"nabs",
"nails",
"nicks",
"picks up",
"pinches",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"push bicycle":{
"a two-wheeled vehicle that is propelled by the use of pedals and steered through the use of handlebars":{
"examples":[
"the vicar riding his sturdy push-bike used to be a common sight around the village"
],
"synonyms":[
"bicycle",
"bike",
"cycle",
"two-wheeler",
"velocipede"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mountain bike",
"tandem bicycle",
"ten-speed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"putting over":{
"to assign to a later time":{
"examples":[
"as a result of a medical emergency, our dream vacation had to be put over to the following year"
],
"synonyms":[
"deferring",
"delaying",
"holding off (on)",
"holding over",
"holding up",
"laying over",
"postponing",
"putting off",
"remitting",
"shelving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"suspending",
"hesitating",
"pausing",
"staying",
"detaining",
"retarding",
"slowing",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"prolonging",
"protracting",
"stretching (out)",
"waiting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acting",
"dealing (with)",
"deciding (upon)",
"doing",
"working (on)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pushovers":{
"a person without strength of character":{
"examples":[
"pushovers who are afraid to discipline their little spoiled brat"
],
"synonyms":[
"doormats",
"jellyfish",
"namby-pambies",
"reeds",
"weaklings",
"wimps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cowards",
"mice",
"milquetoasts",
"nebbishes",
"nervous Nellies",
"pussies",
"wusses",
"wussies",
"sheep"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mensches"
],
"antonyms":[
"stalwarts"
]
},
"one who is easily deceived or cheated":{
"examples":[
"scam artists mistakenly thinking that these farm families would be pushovers"
],
"synonyms":[
"chumps",
"dupes",
"gulls",
"mugs",
"patsies",
"pigeons",
"saps",
"soft touches",
"suckers",
"tools"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cat's-paws",
"marks",
"targets",
"victims",
"schlemiels",
"shlemiels",
"butts",
"derisions",
"laughingstocks",
"mockeries",
"mocks",
"boobies",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"fools",
"geese",
"half-wits",
"jackasses",
"lunatics",
"monkeys",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"nitwits",
"simpletons",
"simps",
"turkeys",
"yo-yos",
"losers",
"blockheads",
"dolts",
"dopes",
"dumbbells",
"dummies",
"dunces",
"idiots",
"imbeciles",
"morons",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schlumps",
"schnooks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheaters",
"cheats",
"confidence men",
"cozeners",
"defrauders",
"dodgers",
"hoaxers",
"sharks",
"sharpers",
"slickers",
"swindlers",
"tricksters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that is easy to do":{
"examples":[
"though the mountain is not especially high, the climb is very arduous and is definitely not a pushover"
],
"synonyms":[
"breezes",
"cakes",
"cakewalks",
"child's play",
"cinches",
"cream puffs",
"duck soup",
"kid stuff",
"picnics",
"roses",
"snaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"no-brainers",
"sitting ducks",
"gimmes",
"laughers",
"walkaways"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brainteasers",
"posers",
"stumpers",
"toughies",
"bothers",
"nuisances",
"troubles"
],
"antonyms":[
"bears",
"beasts",
"chores",
"headaches",
"horror shows",
"killers",
"labors",
"murders",
"pains",
"sticky wickets",
"stinkers"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"push-bike":{
"a two-wheeled vehicle that is propelled by the use of pedals and steered through the use of handlebars":{
"examples":[
"the vicar riding his sturdy push-bike used to be a common sight around the village"
],
"synonyms":[
"bicycle",
"bike",
"cycle",
"two-wheeler",
"velocipede"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mountain bike",
"tandem bicycle",
"ten-speed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"purged":{
"to free from moral guilt or blemish especially ceremonially":{
"examples":[
"a day on which the faithful are expected to purge themselves of their sins through prayer and fasting"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleansed",
"purified",
"sanctified"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amended",
"improved",
"refined",
"healed",
"regenerated",
"restored",
"elevated",
"ennobled",
"uplifted",
"absolved",
"acquitted",
"cleared",
"exonerated",
"vindicated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"corrupted",
"debased",
"debauched",
"defiled",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"depraved",
"perverted",
"stained",
"warped",
"poisoned",
"profaned",
"prostituted",
"sullied",
"tarnished"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puckering":{
"to pull the sides of (something, such as skin or cloth) together so that folds or wrinkles are formed":{
"examples":[
"puckered the fabric before adding stitches"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"corrugating",
"creasing",
"crimping",
"folding",
"pleating",
"rucking",
"crinkling",
"crumpling",
"rumpling",
"scrunching",
"wrinkling",
"crisping",
"rippling",
"ruffling",
"contracting",
"furrowing",
"knitting",
"messing (up)",
"mussing (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evening",
"ironing",
"pressing",
"straightening",
"unfolding",
"neatening",
"tidying",
"flattening",
"ironing out",
"smoothening",
"smoothing",
"uncrumpling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purposefully":{
"with full awareness of what one is doing":{
"examples":[
"he purposefully chose the more difficult route to the mountain summit"
],
"synonyms":[
"advisedly",
"consciously",
"deliberately",
"designedly",
"intentionally",
"knowingly",
"purposely",
"purposively",
"willfully",
"wittingly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calculatedly",
"studiedly",
"voluntarily",
"willingly",
"premeditatedly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accidentally",
"incidentally",
"haphazardly",
"randomly",
"involuntarily",
"unwillingly",
"impulsively",
"instinctively",
"spontaneously"
],
"antonyms":[
"inadvertently",
"unconsciously",
"unintentionally",
"unknowingly",
"unwittingly"
]
},
"with great effort or determination":{
"examples":[
"strode purposefully into the boss's office, determined to ask for a raise"
],
"synonyms":[
"amain",
"arduously",
"assiduously",
"determinedly",
"diligently",
"doggedly",
"hard",
"hardly",
"industriously",
"intensely",
"intensively",
"intently",
"laboriously",
"mightily",
"resolutely",
"sedulously",
"slavishly",
"strenuously"
],
"near synonyms":[
"actively",
"animatedly",
"briskly",
"busily",
"dynamically",
"energetically",
"feverishly",
"spiritedly",
"vehemently",
"vigorously",
"zealously",
"continuously",
"ploddingly",
"steadfastly",
"steadily",
"unabatedly",
"unrelentingly",
"unremittingly",
"ardently",
"attentively",
"conscientiously",
"earnestly",
"exhaustively",
"meticulously",
"painstakingly",
"seriously",
"thoroughly",
"indefatigably",
"tirelessly",
"unflaggingly",
"untiringly",
"wearilessly",
"obstinately",
"stubbornly",
"willfully"
],
"near antonyms":[
"casually",
"desultorily",
"halfheartedly",
"indolently",
"lackadaisically",
"languidly",
"lazily",
"listlessly",
"shiftlessly",
"sluggishly",
"spiritlessly",
"tiredly",
"wearily"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"purification":{
"the act or fact of freeing from sin or moral guilt":{
"examples":[
"some people must undergo a ritual purification after certain activities"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleansing",
"sanctification"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rebirth",
"regeneration",
"restoration",
"grace",
"redemption",
"salvation",
"absolution",
"forgiveness",
"remission",
"acquittal",
"clearance",
"clearing",
"exoneration",
"vindication",
"atonement",
"expiation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blasphemy",
"defilement",
"desecration",
"profanation",
"violation",
"corruption",
"debasement",
"perversion",
"contamination",
"pollution",
"sullying",
"tarnishing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pupas":{
"as in larvae , nymphs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"larvae",
"larvas",
"naiads",
"naiades",
"nymphs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pursues":{
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"the policeman doggedly pursued the pickpocket through the crowded subway station"
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dogs",
"chases",
"courses",
"dogs",
"follows",
"hounds",
"runs",
"shadows",
"tags",
"tails",
"traces",
"tracks",
"trails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompanies",
"chaperones",
"chaperons",
"escorts",
"hunts",
"searches (for)",
"seeks",
"eyes",
"observes",
"watches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heads"
],
"antonyms":[
"guides",
"leads",
"pilots"
]
},
"to go in search of":{
"examples":[
"urged the graduates to pursue personal fulfillment instead of financial success"
],
"synonyms":[
"casts about (for)",
"casts around (for)",
"chases (down)",
"forages (for)",
"hunts",
"looks up",
"quests",
"searches (for or out)",
"seeks",
"shops (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ferrets (out)",
"roots (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hides",
"loses",
"ignores",
"neglects"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pull through":{
"as in recover , rally":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rally",
"recover",
"come around",
"come round",
"come to",
"revive",
"awake",
"awaken",
"wake up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"black out",
"faint",
"pass out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in be , hold up":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abide",
"continue",
"endure",
"hang on",
"hold on",
"hold out",
"hold up",
"last",
"lead",
"persist",
"stand",
"stick out",
"withstand",
"be",
"breathe",
"exist",
"live",
"subsist",
"ride (out)",
"survive",
"weather",
"outlast",
"outlive",
"wear out",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"croak",
"decease",
"depart",
"die",
"expire",
"pass (on)",
"pass away",
"perish",
"succumb",
"disappear",
"evaporate",
"fade",
"vanish",
"cease",
"end",
"stop"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"putters (around)":{
"to spend time in aimless activity":{
"examples":[
"I spent all weekend at home just puttering around"
],
"synonyms":[
"doodles",
"fiddles (around)",
"fools around",
"fribbles",
"goofs (around)",
"hangs about",
"kicks around",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"trifles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"loafs",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"clowns (around)",
"horses around",
"diddles (with)",
"tinkers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buckles (down)",
"knuckles down",
"sets (to)",
"settles (down)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puddled":{
"as in murky , muddied":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"inky",
"muddied",
"muddled",
"murky",
"sludgy",
"dingy",
"filmy",
"hazy",
"scummy",
"unfiltered",
"opaque",
"cloudy",
"muddy",
"riley",
"roiled",
"turbid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear",
"crystal clear",
"crystalline",
"clarified",
"filtered",
"purified",
"colorless",
"transparent",
"uncolored"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pushes around":{
"as in makes , forces":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bludgeons",
"coerces",
"compels",
"constrains",
"dragoons",
"forces",
"makes",
"obliges",
"presses",
"pressures",
"badgers",
"harasses",
"hounds",
"demoralizes",
"psychs (out)",
"unmans",
"unnerves",
"menaces",
"terrorizes",
"threatens",
"discomposes",
"disconcerts",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"disturbs",
"perturbs",
"upsets",
"affrights",
"alarms",
"alarums",
"frightens",
"horrifies",
"scares",
"shocks",
"spooks",
"startles",
"terrifies",
"blusters",
"trash-talks",
"blackjacks",
"bogarts",
"browbeats",
"bulldozes",
"bullies",
"bullyrags",
"ballyrags",
"cows",
"hectors",
"intimidates",
"strong-arms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"steels",
"convinces",
"persuades"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"put/place (someone) on a pedestal":{
"to treat or regard (someone) as extraordinarily good, successful, important, etc.":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aggrandize",
"canonize",
"deify",
"elevate",
"exalt",
"apotheosize",
"lionize",
"dignify",
"ennoble",
"enshrine",
"ensky",
"enthrone",
"glorify",
"magnify",
"idealize",
"romanticize",
"adore",
"revere",
"reverence",
"venerate",
"worship",
"admire",
"love",
"regard",
"respect",
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"boast",
"celebrate",
"cheer",
"cite",
"commend",
"compliment",
"congratulate",
"decorate",
"eulogize",
"extol",
"extoll",
"fete",
"f\u00eate",
"hail",
"honor",
"laud",
"praise",
"salute",
"tout",
"acknowledge",
"recognize",
"highlight",
"play up",
"spotlight",
"advance",
"boost",
"lift",
"promote",
"raise",
"upgrade",
"uplift"
],
"near antonyms":[
"knock (someone) off his/her pedestal",
"abase",
"chasten",
"cheapen",
"debase",
"degrade",
"demean",
"discredit",
"disgrace",
"dishonor",
"foul",
"humble",
"humiliate",
"lower",
"shame",
"sink",
"smirch",
"take down",
"abash",
"confound",
"confuse",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"discountenance",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"fluster",
"mortify",
"nonplus",
"rattle",
"belittle",
"castigate",
"criticize",
"cry down",
"decry",
"depreciate",
"detract",
"diminish",
"discount",
"disparage",
"minimize",
"put down",
"ridicule",
"write off",
"bad-mouth",
"defame",
"defile",
"libel",
"malign",
"slander",
"affront",
"insult",
"censure",
"condemn",
"damn",
"denounce",
"execrate",
"reprehend",
"reprobate",
"blaspheme",
"desecrate",
"profane",
"violate",
"disrespect",
"offend",
"outrage",
"pique",
"scorn",
"slight",
"slur",
"smear"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"pulls off":{
"to carry through (as a process) to completion":{
"examples":[
"the rebel forces pulled off a surprisingly successful offensive against the better equipped government troops"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"brings off",
"carries off",
"carries out",
"commits",
"compasses",
"does",
"executes",
"follows through (with)",
"fulfills",
"fulfils",
"makes",
"negotiates",
"performs",
"perpetrates",
"prosecutes",
"puts through"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brings about",
"effects",
"effectuates",
"implements",
"aces",
"nails",
"engages (in)",
"practices",
"practises",
"works (at)",
"reduplicates",
"reenacts",
"repeats",
"actualizes",
"attains",
"realizes",
"completes",
"ends",
"finishes",
"winds up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fails",
"skimps",
"slights",
"slurs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"punctiliously":{
"as in carefully , meticulously":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"carefully",
"formally",
"gingerly",
"meticulously",
"orderly",
"methodically",
"systematically",
"deliberately",
"intentionally",
"purposefully",
"purposely"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aimlessly",
"anyhow",
"anyway",
"anywise",
"desultorily",
"erratically",
"haphazard",
"haphazardly",
"helter-skelter",
"hit or miss",
"irregularly",
"randomly",
"willy-nilly",
"arbitrarily",
"capriciously",
"carelessly",
"casually",
"indiscriminately",
"informally",
"offhand",
"offhandedly",
"promiscuously",
"whimsically",
"accidentally",
"fortuitously",
"inadvertently",
"unconsciously",
"unintentionally",
"unwittingly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"puts about":{
"as in comes about , turns back":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"about-faces",
"backs",
"comes about",
"comes round",
"cuts",
"inclines",
"reverses",
"swerves",
"tacks",
"turns back",
"veers",
"wheels",
"yaws",
"faces",
"orients",
"steers",
"beelines",
"lights out",
"puts",
"puts out",
"sets off",
"sets out",
"strikes",
"takes off",
"aims",
"bends",
"directs",
"points",
"turns",
"bears",
"heads",
"makes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puts down":{
"to express scornfully one's low opinion of":{
"examples":[
"he has the annoying habit of putting down others under the guise of offering constructive criticism"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad-mouths",
"belittles",
"cries down",
"decries",
"denigrates",
"deprecates",
"depreciates",
"derogates",
"diminishes",
"discounts",
"dismisses",
"disparages",
"disses",
"kisses off",
"minimizes",
"plays down",
"poor-mouths",
"runs down",
"talks down",
"trashes",
"trash-talks",
"vilipends",
"writes off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discommends",
"abuses",
"scolds",
"disapproves (of)",
"dislikes",
"censures",
"condemns",
"criticizes",
"denounces",
"reprehends",
"reprobates",
"asperses",
"defames",
"maligns",
"rips",
"slanders",
"slurs",
"traduces",
"vilifies",
"discredits",
"disgraces"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approves",
"countenances",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"favors",
"recommends",
"sanctions",
"commends",
"compliments",
"eulogizes"
],
"antonyms":[
"acclaims",
"applauds",
"exalts",
"extols",
"extolls",
"glorifies",
"lauds",
"magnifies",
"praises"
]
},
"to make a written note of":{
"examples":[
"we had the whole agreement put down on paper"
],
"synonyms":[
"jots (down)",
"logs",
"marks",
"notes",
"records",
"registers",
"reports",
"sets down",
"takes down",
"writes down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chronicles",
"minutes",
"transcribes",
"enregisters",
"enters",
"inscribes",
"chalks (up)",
"notches",
"scores"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put (someone or something) on a list":{
"examples":[
"put her down as one of the chaperones for the field trip"
],
"synonyms":[
"catalogs",
"catalogues",
"enrolls",
"enrols",
"enters",
"indexes",
"inscribes",
"lists",
"records",
"registers",
"schedules",
"slates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"books",
"cards",
"files",
"notes",
"classifies",
"compiles",
"tabulates",
"tallies",
"reschedules"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deletes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put a stop to (something) by the use of force":{
"examples":[
"a tyrant who ruthlessly put down uprisings"
],
"synonyms":[
"clamps down (on)",
"cracks down (on)",
"crushes",
"quashes",
"quells",
"represses",
"silences",
"slaps down",
"snuffs (out)",
"squashes",
"squelches",
"subdues",
"suppresses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"douses",
"dowses",
"extinguishes",
"puts out",
"quenches",
"smothers",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"throttles",
"annihilates",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"desolates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"nukes",
"rubs out",
"ruins",
"smashes",
"wastes",
"wrecks",
"exterminates",
"obliterates",
"wipes out",
"conquers",
"dominates",
"overcomes",
"overpowers",
"overwhelms",
"subjugates",
"vanquishes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abets",
"aids",
"assists",
"backs",
"helps",
"props up",
"supports",
"foments",
"incites",
"instigates",
"provokes",
"stirs",
"whips (up)",
"advances",
"cultivates",
"encourages",
"forwards",
"fosters",
"furthers",
"nourishes",
"nurtures",
"promotes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to explain (something) as being the result of something else":{
"examples":[
"a fender bender that probably can be put down to the young driver's inexperience"
],
"synonyms":[
"accredits",
"ascribes",
"attributes",
"chalks up",
"credits",
"imputes",
"lays"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blames",
"charges",
"fathers (on)",
"imputes (to)",
"pins (on)",
"assigns",
"refers",
"associates",
"attaches",
"connects",
"links"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take in as food":{
"examples":[
"the husky youngster seemed to put down her own weight in food at one sitting"
],
"synonyms":[
"consumes",
"eats",
"ingests",
"partakes (of)",
"puts away",
"tucks (away or in)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"digests",
"downs",
"mouths (down)",
"swallows",
"bolts",
"chows (down on)",
"devours",
"gluts (on)",
"gobbles (up or down)",
"gorges",
"gulps",
"scoffs",
"slops",
"snarfs (down)",
"swills",
"wolfs",
"chews",
"gnaws (at or on)",
"gums",
"laps",
"licks",
"nibbles (on)",
"nurses",
"picks (at)",
"relishes",
"savors",
"savours",
"tastes",
"banquets",
"dines",
"fares",
"feasts",
"gormandizes",
"pigs out",
"regales",
"dispatches",
"polishes off",
"breakfasts",
"lunches",
"sups",
"munches",
"noshes",
"snacks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purloiner":{
"one who steals":{
"examples":[
"she demanded that the pusillanimous purloiner of her chocolates step forward"
],
"synonyms":[
"larcenist",
"pincher",
"robber",
"stealer",
"thief"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglar",
"cat burglar",
"cracksman",
"housebreaker",
"picklock",
"safecracker",
"embezzler",
"grafter",
"klepto",
"kleptomaniac",
"sneak thief",
"cutpurse",
"dip",
"pickpocket",
"pilferer",
"shoplifter",
"abductor",
"carjacker",
"hijacker",
"kidnapper",
"kidnaper",
"skyjacker",
"despoiler",
"looter",
"pillager",
"plunderer",
"ransacker",
"ravisher",
"poacher",
"rustler",
"smuggler",
"bandit",
"footpad",
"highwayman",
"pirate",
"mugger"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"puff adders":{
"as in diamondback rattlesnakes , garter snakes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"adders",
"anacondas",
"asps",
"black racers",
"blacksnakes",
"blue racers",
"boas",
"bull snakes",
"bushmasters",
"chicken snakes",
"cobras",
"constrictors",
"copperheads",
"coral snakes",
"cottonmouth moccasins",
"diamondback rattlesnakes",
"fer-de-lance",
"garter snakes",
"gopher snakes",
"green snakes",
"hognose snakes",
"horned vipers",
"indigo snakes",
"king cobras",
"king snakes",
"kraits",
"mambas",
"milk snakes",
"moccasins",
"pine snakes",
"pit vipers",
"pythons",
"racers",
"rat snakes",
"rattlesnakes",
"sea serpents",
"sea snakes",
"sidewinders",
"taipans",
"water moccasins",
"water snakes",
"worm snakes",
"serpents",
"snakes",
"vipers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"purring":{
"as in whispering , shouting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"breathing",
"chirping",
"drawling",
"gasping",
"lipping",
"mouthing",
"murmuring",
"shouting",
"spluttering",
"spouting",
"whispering",
"articulating",
"bringing out",
"enunciating",
"passing",
"saying",
"speaking",
"stating",
"talking",
"telling",
"uttering",
"verbalizing",
"vocalizing",
"airing",
"discussing",
"giving",
"looking",
"sharing",
"sounding",
"ventilating",
"venting",
"voicing",
"blabbering",
"blurting",
"bolting",
"getting off",
"shooting",
"advertising",
"announcing",
"blazing",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"promulgating",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"affirming",
"alleging",
"asserting",
"averring",
"avouching",
"avowing",
"clothing",
"couching",
"formulating",
"formulizing",
"phrasing",
"putting",
"wording",
"commenting",
"piping up (with)",
"remarking",
"ripping (out)",
"snarling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"pullouts":{
"an act of moving away especially from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable":{
"examples":[
"the civil unrest has led the company to initiate a pullout of its operations in the region"
],
"synonyms":[
"pullbacks",
"recessions",
"retirements",
"retreats",
"withdrawals"
],
"near synonyms":[
"routs",
"flinches",
"recoils",
"revulsions",
"disengagements",
"disentanglements"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"advancements",
"advances"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"punctiliousness":{
"as in responsibility , irreproachability":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dutifulness",
"irreproachability",
"irreproachableness",
"responsibility",
"alertness",
"mindfulness",
"vigilance",
"watchfulness",
"bother",
"effort",
"painstaking",
"trouble",
"advertence",
"advertency",
"attention",
"concentration",
"focus",
"observance",
"observation",
"exactness",
"particularity",
"precision",
"care",
"carefulness",
"closeness",
"conscientiousness",
"heed",
"heedfulness",
"meticulosity",
"meticulousness",
"pains",
"scrupulousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heedlessness",
"inattentiveness",
"negligence",
"inadvertence",
"inadvertency",
"inattention",
"inobservance"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pulpy":{
"full of juice":{
"examples":[
"good, ripe peaches will be pulpy and not mealy"
],
"synonyms":[
"fleshy",
"juicy",
"succulent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sappy",
"watery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehydrated",
"desiccated",
"dry",
"sere",
"sear",
"shriveled",
"shrivelled",
"withered"
],
"antonyms":[
"juiceless",
"sapless"
]
},
"giving easily to the touch":{
"examples":[
"the pulpy flesh of ripe fruit"
],
"synonyms":[
"flabby",
"mushy",
"soft",
"spongy",
"squashy",
"squishy",
"squooshy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doughy",
"fleshy",
"droopy",
"flaccid",
"floppy",
"lank",
"limp",
"slack",
"yielding",
"bendable",
"compressible",
"crushable",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"kneadable",
"malleable",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"resilient",
"supple",
"willowy",
"workable",
"airy",
"light"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inelastic",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"tense",
"unbending",
"unyielding",
"resistant",
"sound",
"strong",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"case-hardened",
"crush-proof",
"hardened",
"indurated",
"stiffened",
"tempered",
"compacted",
"compressed",
"condensed",
"adamantine",
"rock",
"rocklike",
"sturdy",
"substantial"
],
"antonyms":[
"firm",
"hard",
"solid"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"push-bikes":{
"a two-wheeled vehicle that is propelled by the use of pedals and steered through the use of handlebars":{
"examples":[
"the vicar riding his sturdy push-bike used to be a common sight around the village"
],
"synonyms":[
"bicycles",
"bikes",
"cycles",
"two-wheelers",
"velocipedes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mountain bikes",
"tandem bicycles",
"ten-speeds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"public house":{
"a place that provides rooms and usually a public dining room for overnight guests":{
"examples":[
"took lodging at a public house that had recently been completely renovated"
],
"synonyms":[
"auberge",
"caravansary",
"caravanserai",
"hospice",
"hostel",
"hostelry",
"hotel",
"inn",
"lodge",
"tavern"
],
"near synonyms":[
"B and B",
"bed-and-breakfast",
"guesthouse",
"apartment hotel",
"accommodations",
"lodgings",
"rest",
"court",
"motel",
"motor court",
"motor inn",
"motor lodge",
"resort",
"spa",
"tourist court",
"youth hostel",
"camp",
"campground",
"bunkhouse",
"dorm",
"dormitory",
"boardinghouse",
"lodging house",
"rooming house",
"doss-house",
"fleabag",
"flophouse"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises":{
"examples":[
"visited a public house in London that has been welcoming customers since the time of Charles Dickens"
],
"synonyms":[
"bar",
"barroom",
"caf\u00e9",
"cafe",
"cantina",
"dramshop",
"gin mill",
"grogshop",
"pub",
"saloon",
"taproom",
"tavern",
"watering hole",
"watering place"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alehouse",
"barrelhouse",
"bistro",
"bottle club",
"brewpub",
"cabaret",
"dive",
"joint",
"nightclub",
"roadhouse",
"speakeasy",
"sports bar",
"wineshop",
"package store"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"publicly":{
"as in openly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"openly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backstage",
"confidentially",
"in camera",
"intimately",
"privately",
"secretly",
"\u00e0 deux",
"t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate",
"inwardly",
"sotto voce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"putterer":{
"a person who regularly or occasionally engages in an activity as a pastime rather than as a profession":{
"examples":[
"her husband is an inveterate putterer , and their garage is full of half-finished projects he has worked on over the years"
],
"synonyms":[
"amateur",
"dabbler",
"dilettante",
"hobbyist",
"layman",
"nonexpert",
"nonprofessional",
"potterer",
"tinkerer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"all-rounder",
"generalist",
"general practitioner",
"jack-of-all-trades",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"authority",
"expert",
"pro",
"professional",
"specialist"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pupa":{
"as in larva , nymph":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"larva",
"naiad",
"nymph"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"pummeled":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"pummeled the mugger with her fists until help arrived"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashed",
"basted",
"batted",
"battered",
"beat",
"belabored",
"belted",
"birched",
"bludgeoned",
"buffeted",
"bunged up",
"clubbed",
"curried",
"did",
"drubbed",
"fibbed",
"flogged",
"hammered",
"hided",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"lashed",
"lathered",
"licked",
"mauled",
"messed (up)",
"paddled",
"pelted",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pounded",
"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"
]
},
"pur\u00e9e":{
"as in slice , mash":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chip",
"grate",
"grind",
"kibble",
"mash",
"slice",
"chop",
"dice",
"hash",
"mince",
"butcher",
"carve",
"dissect"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"puss":{
"the front part of the head":{
"examples":[
"the snowball smacked him right in the puss"
],
"synonyms":[
"countenance",
"face",
"kisser",
"mug",
"pan",
"visage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"appearance",
"aspect",
"features",
"lineaments",
"looks",
"mien",
"presence",
"expression",
"physiognomy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a small domestic animal known for catching mice":{
"examples":[
"I don't want a purebred cat, just some playful puss in need of a good home"
],
"synonyms":[
"cat",
"feline",
"house cat",
"kitty",
"moggy",
"moggie",
"pussy",
"pussycat"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mouser",
"kit",
"kitten",
"alley cat",
"tabby",
"gib",
"tomcat"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"purposeless":{
"having or seeming to have no purpose or reason":{
"examples":[
"I have to go to another purposeless meeting tonight.",
"purposeless suffering"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"aimless",
"haphazard",
"empty",
"inane",
"meaningless",
"pointless",
"senseless",
"useless",
"frivolous",
"inconsequential",
"inconsiderable",
"insignificant",
"little",
"minor",
"negligible",
"slight",
"trifling",
"trivial",
"unimportant",
"absurd",
"asinine",
"mindless",
"nonsensical",
"preposterous",
"silly",
"irrational",
"unreasonable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"eloquent",
"expressive",
"pregnant",
"revealing",
"suggestive",
"telling",
"logical",
"rational",
"reasonable",
"valid",
"consequential",
"eventful",
"important",
"key",
"major",
"momentous",
"substantial",
"weighty",
"meaningful",
"significant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pulverizing":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"buildings pulverized by a killer tornado"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilating",
"creaming",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"desolating",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"doing in",
"extinguishing",
"nuking",
"pulling down",
"razing",
"rubbing out",
"ruining",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"tearing down",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"vaporizing",
"wasting",
"wracking",
"wrecking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beating",
"besting",
"clobbering",
"conquering",
"crushing",
"defeating",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"routing",
"scotching",
"skunking",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"triumphing (over)",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"whipping",
"winning (against)",
"blasting",
"blowing up",
"breaking",
"crippling",
"damaging",
"defacing",
"deteriorating",
"disfiguring",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"dynamiting",
"harming",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"mangling",
"marring",
"mutilating",
"spoiling",
"vitiating",
"eroding",
"scouring",
"sweeping (away)",
"washing out",
"wearing (away)",
"dilapidating",
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"gutting",
"taking down",
"unbuilding",
"undoing",
"unmaking",
"blotting out",
"effacing",
"eradicating",
"expunging",
"exterminating",
"extirpating",
"liquidating",
"obliterating",
"removing",
"rooting (out)",
"snuffing (out)",
"stamping (out)",
"wiping out",
"despoiling",
"havocking",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"ravaging",
"sacking",
"trampling",
"trashing",
"vandalizing",
"assassinating",
"butchering",
"cutting down",
"dispatching",
"executing",
"felling",
"killing",
"killing off",
"massacring",
"mowing (down)",
"murdering",
"slaughtering",
"slaying",
"taking out",
"zapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"mending",
"patching",
"reconditioning",
"repairing",
"revamping",
"creating",
"inventing",
"assembling",
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"forming",
"framing",
"making",
"manufacturing",
"molding",
"producing",
"shaping",
"bringing about",
"constituting",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"founding",
"instituting",
"organizing",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"rebuilding",
"reconstructing",
"remodeling",
"renovating",
"restoring"
],
"antonyms":[
"building",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up"
]
},
"to reduce to fine particles":{
"examples":[
"pulverize the cement into dust for reuse"
],
"synonyms":[
"atomizing",
"beating",
"braying",
"comminuting",
"crushing",
"disintegrating",
"grinding",
"milling",
"mulling",
"pounding",
"powdering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grating",
"kibbling",
"crumbling",
"crunching",
"breaking",
"busting",
"dashing",
"fracturing",
"fragmenting",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"splintering",
"micronizing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"punching bag":{
"as in pushover , quitter":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pushover",
"quitter",
"loser",
"failure",
"flop",
"washout",
"underdog"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beater",
"conqueror",
"master",
"subduer",
"trimmer",
"vanquisher",
"victor",
"whipper",
"winner",
"champ",
"champion",
"finalist",
"placer",
"dominator",
"overdog",
"ruler",
"subjugator",
"top dog"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"put by":{
"to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place":{
"examples":[
"have money put by for an emergency"
],
"synonyms":[
"cache",
"hoard",
"lay away",
"lay by",
"lay in",
"lay up",
"salt away",
"squirrel (away)",
"stash",
"stockpile",
"store",
"stow",
"treasure"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accumulate",
"acquire",
"amass",
"assemble",
"collect",
"concentrate",
"garner",
"gather",
"pick up",
"round up",
"scrape (together)",
"heap",
"pile",
"stack",
"conserve",
"husband",
"preserve",
"bank",
"coffer",
"deposit",
"hold",
"keep",
"reserve",
"retain",
"save",
"set by",
"stock",
"withhold",
"bury",
"conceal",
"ensconce",
"secrete"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cast",
"discard",
"ditch",
"dump",
"fling (off or away)",
"jettison",
"throw away",
"throw out",
"unload",
"consume",
"squander",
"use up",
"waste",
"hand out",
"hand over",
"relinquish",
"surrender",
"blow",
"dissipate",
"fritter (away)",
"lavish",
"misspend",
"run through",
"spend",
"deplete",
"exhaust",
"expend",
"impoverish",
"dispel",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"scatter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"purifier":{
"as in disinfectant , solvent":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"disinfectant",
"solvent",
"cleaner",
"cleanser",
"detergent",
"soap",
"scrub",
"shampoo"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"puzzling":{
"as in mysterious , incomprehensible":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hieroglyphic",
"hieroglyphical",
"incomprehensible",
"indecipherable",
"indiscernible",
"inexplicable",
"mysterious",
"obfuscatory",
"blear",
"bleary",
"blurry",
"dim",
"faint",
"foggy",
"fuzzy",
"gauzy",
"hazy",
"indefinite",
"indistinct",
"indistinguishable",
"misty",
"murky",
"nebulous",
"obscure",
"opaque",
"pale",
"shadowy",
"unclear",
"undefined",
"undetermined",
"vague",
"dark",
"dusky",
"gloomy",
"impalpable",
"inappreciable",
"intangible",
"invisible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bright",
"distinct",
"evident",
"obvious",
"plain",
"certain",
"firm",
"strong",
"sure",
"clear",
"definite",
"pellucid"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in shocking , baffling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"baffling",
"bewildering",
"confounding",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"shocking",
"bizarre",
"curious",
"eerie",
"eery",
"far-out",
"funny",
"grotesque",
"kinky",
"outlandish",
"out-of-the-way",
"outrageous",
"outr\u00e9",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"queerish",
"quirky",
"remarkable",
"screwy",
"strange",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"wild",
"aberrant",
"atypical",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"flaky",
"freak",
"freakish",
"idiosyncratic",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"prodigious",
"rare",
"singular",
"uncommon",
"unique",
"unnatural",
"unusual",
"unwonted",
"magical",
"miraculous",
"phenomenal",
"preternatural",
"superhuman",
"supernatural",
"supernormal",
"transcendent",
"transcendental",
"uncanny",
"unearthly",
"unconventional",
"uncustomary",
"unorthodox",
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"noticeable",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"salient",
"striking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"average",
"commonplace",
"everyday",
"garden",
"ordinary",
"prosaic",
"routine",
"run-of-the-mill",
"typical",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual",
"workaday",
"expected",
"familiar",
"predictable",
"common",
"customary",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"regular",
"wonted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to throw into a state of mental uncertainty":{
"examples":[
"it is the cause of the disease that puzzles doctors"
],
"synonyms":[
"addling",
"baffling",
"bamboozling",
"beating",
"befogging",
"befuddling",
"bemusing",
"bewildering",
"buffaloing",
"confounding",
"confusing",
"discombobulating",
"disorienting",
"flummoxing",
"foxing",
"fuddling",
"getting",
"graveling",
"gravelling",
"mazing",
"muddling",
"muddying",
"mystifying",
"perplexing",
"posing",
"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":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"pub crawlers":{
"as in nightclubbers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"nightclubbers",
"nighthawks",
"night owls",
"night riders",
"nightwalkers",
"noctambulists",
"sleepwalkers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"public houses":{
"a place that provides rooms and usually a public dining room for overnight guests":{
"examples":[
"took lodging at a public house that had recently been completely renovated"
],
"synonyms":[
"auberges",
"caravansaries",
"caravanserais",
"caravanserai",
"hospices",
"hostelries",
"hostels",
"hotels",
"inns",
"lodges",
"taverns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"B and Bs",
"bed-and-breakfasts",
"guesthouses",
"apartment hotels",
"accommodations",
"lodgings",
"rests",
"courts",
"motels",
"motor courts",
"motor inns",
"motor lodges",
"resorts",
"spas",
"tourist courts",
"youth hostels",
"campgrounds",
"camps",
"bunkhouses",
"dormitories",
"dorms",
"boardinghouses",
"lodging houses",
"rooming houses",
"doss-houses",
"fleabags",
"flophouses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises":{
"examples":[
"visited a public house in London that has been welcoming customers since the time of Charles Dickens"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrooms",
"bars",
"caf\u00e9s",
"cafes",
"cantinas",
"dramshops",
"gin mills",
"grogshops",
"pubs",
"saloons",
"taprooms",
"taverns",
"watering holes",
"watering places"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alehouses",
"barrelhouses",
"bistros",
"bottle clubs",
"brewpubs",
"cabarets",
"dives",
"joints",
"nightclubs",
"roadhouses",
"speakeasies",
"sports bars",
"wineshops",
"package stores"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"purviews":{
"an area of influence, knowledge, or understanding":{
"examples":[
"He readily admitted that the topic was outside of his purview , and anything he said about it would be mere uninformed speculation.",
"As she rose within the company, her purview extended to many new departments."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"horizons",
"ambits",
"amplitudes",
"breadths",
"compasses",
"confines",
"dimensions",
"extents",
"ranges",
"reaches",
"realms",
"scopes",
"sweeps",
"widths",
"frontiers",
"panoramas",
"bailiwicks",
"circles",
"demesnes",
"departments",
"disciplines",
"domains",
"elements",
"fiefdoms",
"fiefs",
"fields",
"provinces",
"regions",
"specialties",
"spheres",
"terrains"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"purchasable":{
"open to improper influence and especially bribery":{
"examples":[
"purchasable members of the state legislature whose votes could be bought, and at surprisingly cheap prices"
],
"synonyms":[
"bribable",
"corruptible",
"dirty",
"venal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"temptable",
"hack",
"mercenary",
"crooked",
"cutthroat",
"dishonest",
"Machiavellian",
"unethical",
"unmoral",
"unprincipled",
"unscrupulous",
"corrupt",
"corrupted",
"debased",
"debauched",
"defiled",
"degenerate",
"degraded",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"dissipated",
"dissolute",
"perverse",
"perverted",
"reprobate",
"sleazy",
"vitiated",
"warped",
"bad",
"evil",
"immoral",
"iniquitous",
"nefarious",
"sinful",
"vicious",
"wicked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ethical",
"honest",
"principled",
"scrupulous",
"good",
"moral",
"righteous",
"upright",
"virtuous"
],
"antonyms":[
"incorruptible"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"pur\u00e9eing":{
"as in slicing , mashing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chipping",
"grating",
"grinding",
"kibbling",
"mashing",
"slicing",
"chopping",
"dicing",
"hashing",
"mincing",
"butchering",
"carving",
"dissecting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}
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