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{
"drafts":{
"a mass or quantity of something taken up and carried, conveyed, or transported":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the draft of an average-sized oil tanker"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"consignments",
"boatloads",
"carloads",
"shiploads",
"trainloads",
"truckloads",
"wagonloads",
"ballasts",
"deadweights",
"overloads",
"surcharges",
"bales",
"bundles",
"packages",
"packets",
"packs",
"parcels",
"shipments",
"manifests",
"bodies",
"bulks",
"masses"
],
"synonyms":[
"burdens",
"cargoes",
"cargos",
"freights",
"hauls",
"ladings",
"loadings",
"loads",
"payloads",
"weights"
]
},
"noticeable movement of air in a particular direction":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"do you feel a draft from beneath the door?"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"blasts",
"blows",
"flurries",
"gales",
"gusts",
"headwinds",
"squalls",
"tailwinds",
"tempests",
"tornadoes",
"tornados",
"windstorms",
"breaths",
"breezes",
"puffs",
"wafts",
"zephyrs"
],
"synonyms":[
"currents",
"winds"
]
},
"the portion of a serving of a beverage that is swallowed at one time":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"took a long draft of the beer before putting his mug down"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"drams",
"drops"
],
"synonyms":[
"belts",
"drags",
"drinks",
"gulps",
"nips",
"quaffs",
"shots",
"sips",
"slugs",
"snorts",
"sups",
"swallows",
"swigs",
"swills"
]
},
"to pick especially for required military service":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"my grandfather was drafted to fight in a war that he opposed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharges",
"musters out"
],
"related":[
"impresses",
"presses",
"enlists",
"enrolls",
"enrols",
"recruits",
"calls up",
"signs up",
"volunteers"
],
"synonyms":[
"conscribes",
"conscripts",
"levies"
]
},
"to put (something) into proper and usually carefully worked out written form":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"draft a letter to the local newspaper giving your views on the problem"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"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"
],
"synonyms":[
"casts",
"composes",
"crafts",
"draws up",
"formulates",
"frames",
"prepares"
]
},
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"antonyms":[
"fills"
],
"examples":[
"remember to draft the water from the pool so that we can close it up for the winter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bathes",
"douses",
"dowses",
"drenches",
"soaks",
"souses",
"washes",
"waters",
"wets",
"deluges",
"drowns",
"floods",
"inundates",
"overflows",
"submerges",
"swamps"
],
"related":[
"milks",
"sucks",
"clears",
"empties",
"evacuates",
"exhausts",
"vacates",
"vacuates",
"voids",
"decants",
"effuses",
"depletes",
"cleans",
"flushes",
"purges"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleeds",
"drains",
"draws (off)",
"pumps",
"siphons",
"syphons",
"taps"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drag":{
"to cause to follow by applying steady force on":{
"examples":[
"the deliveryman dragged the barrels over against the wall"
],
"synonyms":[
"draw",
"hale",
"haul",
"lug",
"pull",
"tow",
"tug"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attract",
"heave",
"jerk",
"yank",
"carry",
"convey",
"ferry",
"move",
"transport"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shove",
"thrust"
],
"antonyms":[
"drive",
"propel",
"push"
]
},
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"one of the climbers was beginning to drag"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"delay",
"diddle",
"dillydally",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"lollygag",
"lallygag",
"mope",
"poke",
"shilly-shally",
"tarry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddle (around)",
"fool around",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"amble",
"ease",
"inch",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stagger",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)",
"filibuster",
"procrastinate",
"stall",
"temporize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowl",
"breeze",
"dart",
"hump",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"scramble",
"stampede",
"gallop",
"jog",
"run",
"sprint",
"trot",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"speed (up)",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake"
],
"antonyms":[
"barrel",
"bolt",
"career",
"course",
"dash",
"fly",
"hasten",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hurry",
"race",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"scoot",
"scud",
"scurry",
"speed",
"tear",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip"
]
},
"to move slowly":{
"examples":[
"the play dragged and seemed to take forever to get to its predictable conclusion"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creak (along)",
"creep",
"inch",
"limp",
"nose",
"ooze",
"plod",
"poke",
"slouch",
"snail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lumber",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"tramp",
"trudge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"float",
"glide",
"sail",
"hurry",
"tear"
],
"antonyms":[
"fly",
"race",
"speed",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip"
]
},
"someone or something boring":{
"examples":[
"that lecture was such a drag that half of the audience fell asleep"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"drip",
"droner",
"dullsville",
"nudnik",
"nudnick",
"snooze",
"snoozer",
"yawn",
"yawner"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bummer",
"downer",
"bromide",
"pill"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blast",
"gas",
"kick",
"rush",
"upper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"examples":[
"the main drag in town"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterial",
"artery",
"avenue",
"boulevard",
"carriageway",
"drive",
"expressway",
"freeway",
"high road",
"highway",
"pass",
"pike",
"road",
"roadway",
"route",
"row",
"street",
"thoroughfare",
"thruway",
"trace",
"turnpike",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causeway",
"autobahn",
"autoroute",
"autostrada",
"dual carriageway",
"interstate",
"motorway",
"superhighway",
"beltway",
"bypass",
"parkway",
"ring road",
"corniche",
"switchback",
"through street",
"high street",
"Main Street",
"backstreet",
"branch",
"bystreet",
"byway",
"crossroad",
"secondary road",
"shunpike",
"side road",
"side street",
"alley",
"alleyway",
"circle",
"lane",
"laneway",
"mews",
"place",
"close",
"cul-de-sac",
"dead end",
"corridor",
"track",
"trail"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that makes movement or progress difficult":{
"examples":[
"the drag of stagnating wages on bringing the economy out of the recession"
],
"synonyms":[
"balk",
"bar",
"block",
"chain",
"clog",
"cramp",
"crimp",
"deterrent",
"embarrassment",
"encumbrance",
"fetter",
"handicap",
"hindrance",
"holdback",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"shackles",
"stop",
"stumbling block",
"trammel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catch",
"hitch",
"rub",
"snag",
"barrier",
"blockade",
"blockage",
"brick wall",
"stone wall",
"arrest",
"bit",
"brake",
"check",
"constraint",
"curb",
"hobble",
"rein",
"restraint",
"embargo",
"stoppage",
"delay",
"holdup",
"stall",
"burden",
"cumber",
"load",
"danger",
"hazard",
"peril",
"reef",
"adversity",
"difficulty",
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"hardship"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catalyst",
"goad",
"impetus",
"incentive",
"spur",
"stimulant",
"stimulus",
"advantage",
"break",
"edge",
"aid",
"assistance",
"benefit",
"boost",
"handmaiden",
"handmaid",
"help"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the portion of a serving of a beverage that is swallowed at one time":{
"examples":[
"took a deep drag of tequila before speaking his piece"
],
"synonyms":[
"belt",
"draft",
"drink",
"gulp",
"nip",
"quaff",
"shot",
"sip",
"slug",
"snort",
"sup",
"swallow",
"swig",
"swill"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dram",
"drop"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who spoils the pleasure of others":{
"examples":[
"the teenager was mortified to be seen in public with such drags \u2014her parents"
],
"synonyms":[
"grinch",
"killjoy",
"party pooper",
"spoilsport",
"wet blanket"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fuddy-duddy",
"goody-goody",
"Goody Two-shoes",
"old maid",
"stick-in-the-mud",
"defeatist",
"Jeremiah",
"knocker",
"pessimist",
"complainer",
"crab",
"cynic",
"grouch",
"grump",
"sorehead",
"sourpuss",
"whiner",
"bore",
"downer",
"drip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cutup",
"jester",
"live wire",
"carouser",
"celebrant",
"celebrator",
"merrymaker",
"rejoicer",
"reveler",
"reveller",
"roisterer",
"libertine",
"playboy",
"playgirl",
"rake"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"clothing chosen as appropriate for a specific situation":{
"examples":[
"they attended the Renaissance fair in medieval drag"
],
"synonyms":[
"costume",
"dress",
"garb",
"getup",
"guise",
"outfit",
"togs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparel",
"attire",
"clothes",
"duds",
"habiliment(s)",
"raiment",
"fashion",
"mode",
"style",
"array",
"caparison",
"vestments"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drag one's feet":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"I think she's dragging her feet on the project because she thinks it's not worth the effort."
],
"synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"delay",
"diddle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"lollygag",
"lallygag",
"mope",
"poke",
"shilly-shally",
"tarry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddle (around)",
"fool around",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"amble",
"ease",
"inch",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stagger",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)",
"filibuster",
"procrastinate",
"stall",
"temporize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowl",
"breeze",
"dart",
"hump",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"scramble",
"stampede",
"gallop",
"jog",
"run",
"sprint",
"trot",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"speed (up)",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake"
],
"antonyms":[
"barrel",
"bolt",
"career",
"course",
"dash",
"fly",
"hasten",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hurry",
"race",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"scoot",
"scud",
"scurry",
"speed",
"tear",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"drag one's heels":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"I think she's dragging her feet on the project because she thinks it's not worth the effort."
],
"synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"delay",
"diddle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"lollygag",
"lallygag",
"mope",
"poke",
"shilly-shally",
"tarry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddle (around)",
"fool around",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"amble",
"ease",
"inch",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stagger",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)",
"filibuster",
"procrastinate",
"stall",
"temporize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowl",
"breeze",
"dart",
"hump",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"scramble",
"stampede",
"gallop",
"jog",
"run",
"sprint",
"trot",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"speed (up)",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake"
],
"antonyms":[
"barrel",
"bolt",
"career",
"course",
"dash",
"fly",
"hasten",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hurry",
"race",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"scoot",
"scud",
"scurry",
"speed",
"tear",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"dragged":{
"to cause to follow by applying steady force on":{
"examples":[
"the deliveryman dragged the barrels over against the wall"
],
"synonyms":[
"drew",
"haled",
"hauled",
"lugged",
"pulled",
"towed",
"tugged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attracted",
"heaved",
"hove",
"jerked",
"yanked",
"carried",
"conveyed",
"ferried",
"moved",
"transported"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shoved",
"thrust"
],
"antonyms":[
"drove",
"propelled",
"pushed"
]
},
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"one of the climbers was beginning to drag"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"delayed",
"diddled",
"dillydallied",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"lollygagged",
"lallygagged",
"moped",
"poked",
"shilly-shallied",
"tarried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled around",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"loafed",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"ambled",
"eased",
"inched",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"staggered",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)",
"filibustered",
"procrastinated",
"stalled",
"temporized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowled",
"breezed",
"darted",
"humped",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"scrambled",
"stampeded",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"ran",
"run",
"sprinted",
"trotted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"sped (up)",
"speeded (up)",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"bolted",
"careered",
"coursed",
"dashed",
"flew",
"hastened",
"hotfooted (it)",
"hurried",
"raced",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"scooted",
"scudded",
"scurried",
"sped",
"speeded",
"tore",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"whizzed",
"zipped"
]
},
"to move slowly":{
"examples":[
"the play dragged and seemed to take forever to get to its predictable conclusion"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawled",
"creaked (along)",
"crept",
"inched",
"limped",
"nosed",
"oozed",
"plodded",
"poked",
"slouched",
"snailed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lumbered",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"tramped",
"trudged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floated",
"glided",
"sailed",
"hurried",
"tore"
],
"antonyms":[
"flew",
"raced",
"sped",
"speeded",
"whizzed",
"zipped"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dragged one's heels":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"I think she's dragging her feet on the project because she thinks it's not worth the effort."
],
"synonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"delayed",
"diddled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"lollygagged",
"lallygagged",
"moped",
"poked",
"shilly-shallied",
"tarried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled around",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"loafed",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"ambled",
"eased",
"inched",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"staggered",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)",
"filibustered",
"procrastinated",
"stalled",
"temporized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowled",
"breezed",
"darted",
"humped",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"scrambled",
"stampeded",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"ran",
"run",
"sprinted",
"trotted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"sped (up)",
"speeded (up)",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"bolted",
"careered",
"coursed",
"dashed",
"flew",
"hastened",
"hotfooted (it)",
"hurried",
"raced",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"scooted",
"scudded",
"scurried",
"sped",
"speeded",
"tore",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"whizzed",
"zipped"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"draggled":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"not clean":{
"antonyms":[
"clean",
"cleanly",
"immaculate",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"ultraclean",
"unsoiled",
"unstained",
"unsullied"
],
"examples":[
"the poor draggled teddy bear had clearly seen better days"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear",
"limpid",
"pure",
"cleaned",
"cleansed",
"combed",
"groomed",
"neat",
"ordered",
"orderly",
"tidy",
"bleached",
"purified",
"whitened",
"bright",
"flawless",
"perfect",
"shiny",
"sparkling",
"unspotted",
"untouched",
"taintless",
"unblemished",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"untainted",
"virgin",
"wholesome"
],
"related":[
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"germy",
"impure",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"insanitary",
"uncleaned",
"unsanitary",
"unsterile",
"unsterilized",
"unwashed",
"greasy",
"gunky",
"chaotic",
"cluttered",
"confused",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"jumbled",
"littered",
"messed",
"messy",
"muddled",
"mussed",
"mussy",
"rumpled",
"scruffy",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"raunchy",
"scuzzy",
"shabby",
"skanky",
"sleazy",
"squalid",
"collied",
"crocked",
"fuliginous",
"sooty"
],
"synonyms":[
"bedraggled",
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"bemired",
"besmirched",
"black",
"blackened",
"cruddy",
"dingy",
"dirty",
"dusty",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grimy",
"grotty",
"grubby",
"grungy",
"mucky",
"muddy",
"nasty",
"smudged",
"smutty",
"soiled",
"sordid",
"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"uncleanly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"dragooning":{
"to cause (a person) to give in to pressure":{
"examples":[
"she was dragooned into agreeing to the fraudulent scheme"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacking",
"coercing",
"compelling",
"constraining",
"driving",
"forcing",
"impelling",
"impressing",
"making",
"muscling",
"obligating",
"obliging",
"pressing",
"pressuring",
"sandbagging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"browbeating",
"bulldozing",
"bullying",
"cowing",
"hectoring",
"intimidating",
"blackmailing",
"high-pressuring",
"menacing",
"shaming",
"terrorizing",
"threatening",
"dragging",
"badgering",
"harassing",
"hounding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allowing",
"letting",
"permitting",
"arguing",
"convincing",
"inducing",
"moving",
"persuading",
"prevailing (on or upon)",
"satisfying",
"talking (into)",
"winning (over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drained (away)":{
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"as the city lost population, its political influence drained away"
],
"synonyms":[
"abated",
"declined",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"died (away or down or out)",
"diminished",
"dropped (off)",
"dwindled",
"eased",
"ebbed",
"fell",
"fell away",
"lessened",
"let up",
"lowered",
"moderated",
"palled",
"phased down",
"ratcheted (down)",
"racheted (down)",
"receded",
"relented",
"remitted",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"subsided",
"tapered",
"tapered off",
"waned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"evaporated",
"faded (away)",
"frittered (away)",
"gave out",
"melted (away)",
"petered (out)",
"tailed (off)",
"vanished",
"slackened",
"slowed (down)",
"alleviated",
"relaxed",
"flagged",
"sank",
"sunk",
"weakened",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"deflated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeared",
"emerged",
"showed up",
"blew up",
"distended",
"elongated",
"lengthened"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"grew",
"increased",
"intensified",
"mounted",
"mushroomed",
"picked up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"soared",
"swelled",
"waxed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"draining":{
"as in exhausting , fatiguing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"fatiguing",
"wearing",
"palling",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"longsome",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"tepid",
"unexceptional",
"unsurprising",
"vapid",
"blank",
"earthbound",
"gray",
"grey",
"inanimate",
"pallid",
"pedantic",
"sterile",
"suspenseless",
"undramatic",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"unimaginative",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"cumbersome",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"poky",
"pokey",
"aseptic",
"barren",
"blah",
"dullish",
"pleasureless",
"prosaic",
"prosy",
"soggy",
"spiritless"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting",
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"sensational",
"spectacular",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"animating",
"breathtaking",
"electrifying",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"galvanizing",
"hair-raising",
"inspiring",
"invigorating",
"rip-roaring",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"thrilling",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"attractive",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"enthralling",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"mesmerizing",
"spellbinding",
"suspenseful",
"arresting",
"provocative",
"tantalizing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"examples":[
"we drained the water from the tank before cleaning it"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleeding",
"drafting",
"drawing (off)",
"pumping",
"siphoning",
"syphoning",
"tapping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
]
},
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"virtually drained the country's natural resources"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbing",
"burning",
"consuming",
"depleting",
"devouring",
"drawing down",
"exhausting",
"expending",
"playing out",
"spending",
"using up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reducing",
"eating",
"using",
"bankrupting",
"cleaning (out)",
"impoverishing",
"crippling",
"debilitating",
"disabling",
"enfeebling",
"sapping",
"undermining",
"weakening",
"drying up",
"emptying",
"blowing",
"dissipating",
"frittering (away)",
"guzzling",
"lavishing",
"misspending",
"running through",
"squandering",
"throwing away",
"wasting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augmenting",
"enlarging",
"increasing",
"bolstering",
"enforcing",
"fortifying",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"strengthening",
"rebuilding",
"repairing",
"restoring",
"reviving",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"saving"
],
"antonyms":[
"renewing",
"replacing"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"the long hike drained us"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"burning out",
"busting",
"doing in",
"doing up",
"exhausting",
"fagging",
"fatiguing",
"frazzling",
"harassing",
"killing",
"knocking out",
"outwearing",
"tiring",
"tuckering (out)",
"washing out",
"wearing",
"wearing out",
"wearying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitating",
"enervating",
"enfeebling",
"sapping",
"wasting",
"weakening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activating",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"rejuvenating",
"strengthening",
"vitalizing",
"relaxing",
"resting",
"unwinding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"drainpipes":{
"a pipe or channel for carrying off water from a roof":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"our drainpipe is always getting clogged with leaves"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"drains",
"flumes",
"sluices",
"conduits",
"ducts",
"aqueducts"
],
"synonyms":[
"eaves troughs",
"gutters",
"rainspouts",
"spouts",
"troughs",
"waterspouts"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dram":{
"a very small amount":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"allow me to offer a dram of advice"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"deal",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"oodles",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plenty",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"stack",
"wad",
"wealth",
"volume",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"chunk",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab"
],
"related":[
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"minim",
"minimum",
"modicum",
"semblance",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"vestige",
"whit",
"atom",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"morsel",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"patch",
"scrap",
"dash",
"drop",
"pinch",
"part",
"portion",
"section",
"bite",
"nibble",
"taste",
"handful",
"scattering",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dose",
"shot",
"chip",
"flake",
"fragment",
"shard",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"smithereens",
"splinter",
"tatter",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smack",
"smell",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"soup\u00e7on",
"spark",
"spatter",
"speck",
"splash",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dramaturgical":{
"as in actorly , actressy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"actorish",
"actorly",
"actressy",
"ham",
"hammy",
"affected",
"emotional",
"emotionalistic",
"sensational",
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"exciting",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"spectacular",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"dramatic",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"operatic",
"stagy",
"stagey",
"theatrical",
"theatric",
"overdramatic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undramatic",
"matter-of-fact",
"monotonous",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"stale",
"unexceptional"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"draped":{
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"the town hall was draped in bunting for the annual Fourth of July festivities"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorned",
"arrayed",
"beautified",
"bedecked",
"bedizened",
"blazoned",
"caparisoned",
"decked",
"decorated",
"did",
"did up",
"dolled up",
"dressed",
"embellished",
"emblazed",
"embossed",
"enriched",
"fancied up",
"fancified",
"festooned",
"garnished",
"glitzed (up)",
"graced",
"gussied up",
"ornamented",
"prettied (up)",
"trimmed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessorized",
"dressed up",
"trapped",
"tricked (out)",
"brightened",
"freshened",
"smartened",
"spruced (up)",
"bossed",
"chased",
"braided",
"embroidered",
"feathered",
"figured",
"filigreed",
"filleted",
"flounced",
"frilled",
"fringed",
"furbelowed",
"garlanded",
"hung",
"hanged",
"laced",
"ribboned",
"swagged",
"wreathed",
"appliqu\u00e9d",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"painted",
"diamonded",
"gemmed",
"impearled",
"jeweled",
"jewelled",
"pearled",
"redecorated",
"redid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplified",
"streamlined",
"bared",
"denuded",
"dismantled",
"displayed",
"divested",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"uncovered",
"uglified"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemished",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"marred",
"scarred",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drawing (off)":{
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"antonyms":[
"filling"
],
"examples":[
"drew off the fat from the top of the drippings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bathing",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"drenching",
"soaking",
"sousing",
"washing",
"watering",
"wetting",
"deluging",
"drowning",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"submerging",
"swamping"
],
"related":[
"milking",
"sucking",
"clearing",
"emptying",
"evacuating",
"exhausting",
"vacating",
"vacuating",
"voiding",
"decanting",
"effusing",
"depleting",
"cleaning",
"flushing",
"purging"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleeding",
"drafting",
"draining",
"pumping",
"siphoning",
"syphoning",
"tapping"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"draws (off)":{
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"examples":[
"drew off the fat from the top of the drippings"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleeds",
"drafts",
"drains",
"pumps",
"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"
]
},
"draws in":{
"as in persuades , ropes (in)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"inveigles",
"persuades",
"ropes (in)",
"snows",
"allures",
"baits",
"beguiles",
"betrays",
"decoys",
"entices",
"leads on",
"lures",
"seduces",
"solicits",
"tempts",
"catches",
"enmeshes",
"immeshes",
"ensnares",
"entraps",
"meshes",
"snares",
"tangles",
"traps",
"bewitches",
"captivates",
"charms",
"enchants",
"fascinates",
"magnetizes",
"wiles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alerts",
"cautions",
"forewarns",
"wards (off)",
"warns",
"drives (away or off)",
"repulses",
"turns away"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"draws out":{
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"the actor refused to draw out the interview any further"
],
"synonyms":[
"drags (out)",
"elongates",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"outstretches",
"prolongs",
"protracts",
"stretches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplifies",
"enlarges",
"expands",
"increases",
"attenuates",
"thins"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"lessens",
"reduces",
"thickens"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviates",
"abridges",
"curtails",
"cuts",
"cuts back",
"shortens"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dreamlike":{
"seeming to exist in a dream; like a dream":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"Her photographs have a dreamlike quality."
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"dreams":{
"a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality":{
"examples":[
"his invention is only a dream right now, but someday it might be a reality"
],
"synonyms":[
"chimeras",
"conceits",
"daydreams",
"delusions",
"fancies",
"fantasies",
"phantasies",
"figments",
"hallucinations",
"illusions",
"nonentities",
"phantasms",
"fantasms",
"pipe dreams",
"unrealities",
"visions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ignes fatui",
"mirages",
"will-o'-the-wisps",
"brainchildren",
"ideas",
"concoctions",
"fables",
"fabrications",
"fictions",
"inventions",
"visualizations",
"cloud-cuckoo-lands",
"cloudlands",
"Shangri-las",
"utopias",
"daymares",
"nightmares"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actualities",
"facts",
"realities"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that one hopes or intends to accomplish":{
"examples":[
"my dream is to open my own restaurant"
],
"synonyms":[
"aims",
"ambitions",
"aspirations",
"bournes",
"bourns",
"designs",
"ends",
"goals",
"ideals",
"ideas",
"intentions",
"intents",
"marks",
"meanings",
"objectives",
"objects",
"plans",
"points",
"pretensions",
"purposes",
"targets",
"things"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grails",
"holy grails",
"plots",
"projects",
"schemes",
"desires",
"hopes",
"minds",
"wishes",
"nirvanas",
"destinations",
"termini",
"terminuses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"means",
"methods",
"ways"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something very good of its kind":{
"examples":[
"the Alaskan cruise exceeded their wildest expectations\u2014it was a dream of a vacation"
],
"synonyms":[
"beauties",
"beauts",
"bee's knees",
"corkers",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"daisies",
"dandies",
"dillies",
"doozies",
"doozers",
"honeys",
"hot stuff",
"humdingers",
"hummers",
"jim-dandies",
"knockouts",
"lollapaloozas",
"lulus",
"nifties",
"peaches",
"pippins",
"pips",
"rippers",
"ripsnorters",
"snorters",
"sockdolagers",
"sockdologers",
"standouts",
"sweethearts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"marvels",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons",
"prodigies",
"sensations",
"wonders",
"catches",
"crown jewels",
"diamonds",
"gems",
"imperials",
"jewels",
"pearls",
"plums",
"treasures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"busts",
"disappointments",
"duds",
"failures",
"flops",
"lemons",
"letdowns",
"losers",
"stinkers",
"turkeys"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"I dreamed that I was living on that proverbial desert island in the South Pacific"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceits",
"conceives",
"conjures (up)",
"envisages",
"envisions",
"fancies",
"fantasies",
"fantasizes",
"features",
"ideates",
"images",
"imagines",
"pictures",
"sees",
"visions",
"visualizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydreams",
"stargazes",
"hallucinates",
"re-creates",
"reflects",
"relives",
"reminisces",
"contemplates",
"meditates",
"muses",
"ponders",
"ruminates",
"concocts",
"fabricates",
"invents",
"makes up",
"manufactures",
"plans",
"projects",
"foresees",
"prefigures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dredge":{
"to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I've been dredging my memory bank, and I simply can't remember her name"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hide",
"abandon",
"lose",
"ignore",
"neglect"
],
"related":[
"frisk",
"pat down",
"shake down",
"audit",
"check (out)",
"examine",
"inspect",
"investigate",
"review",
"scan",
"scrutinize",
"survey",
"ascertain",
"descry",
"detect",
"determine",
"discover",
"ferret (out)",
"find",
"find out",
"get",
"hit (on or upon)",
"learn",
"locate",
"run down",
"scare up",
"track (down)",
"grub (about)",
"poke (around)",
"explore",
"probe",
"prospect",
"skirmish",
"snoop",
"browse",
"glance (over)",
"look over",
"peruse",
"study"
],
"synonyms":[
"comb",
"dig (through)",
"hunt (through)",
"rake",
"ransack",
"rifle",
"rummage",
"scour",
"search",
"sort (through)",
"troll"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dregs":{
"matter that settles to the bottom of a body of liquid":{
"examples":[
"poured the dregs into the sink"
],
"synonyms":[
"deposit",
"deposition",
"grounds",
"precipitate",
"sediment",
"settlings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lees",
"ooze",
"silt",
"sludge",
"dross",
"slag",
"waste"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"drek":{
"discarded or useless material":{
"examples":[
"he poured the dreck she called soup down the drain"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaff",
"deadwood",
"debris",
"dross",
"dust",
"effluvium",
"effluvia",
"garbage",
"junk",
"litter",
"offal",
"offscouring",
"raffle",
"refuse",
"riffraff",
"rubbish",
"scrap",
"spilth",
"trash",
"truck",
"waste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crud",
"sewage",
"slop",
"swill",
"wash",
"detritus",
"remains",
"rubble",
"ruins",
"dump",
"scrap heap",
"lumber",
"odds and ends",
"trumpery",
"flotsam",
"jetsam",
"wreckage",
"castoff",
"cull",
"discard",
"hand-me-down",
"reject",
"throwaway",
"nothing",
"straw",
"two bits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catch",
"gem",
"goody",
"goodie",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"plum",
"prize",
"treasure",
"treasure trove",
"trove",
"valuable",
"booty",
"find",
"salvage"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"that which is of low quality or worth":{
"examples":[
"can you believe that the gallery owner dares to call that dreck \"art\"?"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheese",
"crapola",
"junk",
"muck",
"rubbish",
"sleaze",
"slop",
"slush",
"trash",
"tripe"
],
"near synonyms":[
"camp",
"kitsch",
"claptrap",
"humbug",
"nonsense",
"bomb",
"clinker",
"clunker",
"dud",
"lemon",
"stinker",
"turkey",
"mess",
"muddle",
"shambles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drenching":{
"to make wet":{
"examples":[
"we were drenched by the sudden rainstorm"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathing",
"bedraggling",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"drowning",
"soaking",
"soddening",
"sopping",
"sousing",
"washing",
"watering",
"waterlogging",
"water-soaking",
"wetting",
"wetting down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersing",
"bedewing",
"dampening",
"damping",
"drizzling",
"humidifying",
"hydrating",
"misting",
"moistening",
"moisturizing",
"showering",
"sprinkling",
"deluging",
"flooding",
"hosing (down)",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"submerging",
"swamping",
"splashing",
"impregnating",
"saturating",
"steeping",
"flushing",
"irrigating",
"laving",
"rinsing",
"sloshing",
"sluicing",
"dipping",
"ducking",
"dunking",
"rehydrating",
"rewashing",
"rewetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewatering",
"evaporating",
"freeze-drying",
"drip-drying",
"wringing",
"dehumidifying"
],
"antonyms":[
"dehydrating",
"desiccating",
"drying",
"parching",
"scorching",
"searing"
]
},
"to wet thoroughly with liquid":{
"examples":[
"when using the carpet shampooer, wet but do not drench the carpet"
],
"synonyms":[
"drowning",
"impregnating",
"macerating",
"saturating",
"soaking",
"soddening",
"sopping",
"sousing",
"steeping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"waterlogging",
"water-soaking",
"marinating",
"seething",
"presoaking",
"dipping",
"immersing",
"inundating",
"submerging",
"swamping",
"bathing",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"hydrating",
"swilling",
"washing",
"watering",
"infiltrating",
"penetrating",
"permeating",
"dampening",
"damping",
"humidifying",
"moistening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehydrating",
"desiccating",
"drying",
"parching",
"searing",
"draining",
"emptying",
"voiding",
"dehumidifying"
],
"antonyms":[
"wringing (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dressed down":{
"as in casual , everyday":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"casual",
"everyday",
"informal",
"workaday",
"shabby",
"sloppy",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"d\u00e9gag\u00e9",
"relaxed",
"sporty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dressy",
"formal",
"noncasual",
"best",
"Sunday",
"dressed up",
"chic",
"elegant",
"fashionable",
"smart",
"stylish",
"neat",
"tidy",
"trim",
"semiformal"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings":{
"examples":[
"dressed down for boorish behavior at the dance"
],
"synonyms":[
"basted",
"bawled out",
"berated",
"called down",
"castigated",
"chastised",
"chewed out",
"flayed",
"hammered",
"jawed",
"keelhauled",
"lambasted",
"lectured",
"ragged",
"railed (at or against)",
"ranted (at)",
"rated",
"reamed (out)",
"rebuked",
"reprimanded",
"reproached",
"scolded",
"scored",
"tongue-lashed",
"upbraided"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admonished",
"chid",
"chided",
"remonstrated (with)",
"reproved",
"abused",
"assailed",
"attacked",
"bad-mouthed",
"blamed",
"blasted",
"censured",
"condemned",
"criticized",
"crucified",
"denounced",
"dissed",
"excoriated",
"faulted",
"harangued",
"knocked",
"laced (into)",
"lashed",
"panned",
"reprehended",
"reviled",
"scourged",
"slammed",
"vituperated",
"belittled",
"disparaged",
"mocked",
"put down",
"ridiculed",
"scoffed",
"scorned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approved",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"sanctioned",
"extolled",
"lauded",
"praised"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"dressing-downs":{
"as in tongue-lashings , scoldings":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"businesses",
"devils",
"lashes",
"lectures",
"lessons",
"raps",
"scoldings",
"talking-tos",
"tongue-lashings",
"admonishments",
"admonitions",
"castigations",
"chastisements",
"damnations",
"punishments",
"remonstrances",
"belittlements",
"criticisms",
"deprecations",
"depreciations",
"disparagements",
"pans",
"censures",
"comminations",
"condemnations",
"denunciations",
"excoriations",
"objurgations",
"rebukes",
"reprimands",
"reproaches",
"reproofs",
"riot acts",
"strictures"
],
"near antonyms":[
"citations",
"commendations",
"endorsements",
"indorsements",
"acclamations",
"honors",
"tributes",
"encomiums",
"encomia",
"eulogies",
"panegyrics",
"plaudits",
"praises",
"approvals",
"blessings",
"sanctions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drew on":{
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the general's imprudent remarks drew on a public rebuke by the secretary of defense"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impeded",
"limited",
"restricted",
"clamped down (on)",
"cracked down (on)",
"crushed",
"dampened",
"put down",
"quashed",
"quelled",
"repressed",
"smothered",
"squashed",
"squelched",
"stifled",
"subdued",
"suppressed",
"arrested",
"checked",
"controlled",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"retarded",
"canned",
"killed",
"snuffed (out)",
"stilled",
"abolished",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"extinguished",
"liquidated",
"quenched"
],
"related":[
"conduced (to)",
"contributed (to)",
"decided",
"determined",
"began",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"inaugurated",
"initiated",
"innovated",
"instituted",
"introduced",
"launched",
"pioneered",
"set",
"set up",
"started",
"advanced",
"cultivated",
"developed",
"encouraged",
"forwarded",
"fostered",
"furthered",
"nourished",
"nurtured",
"promoted",
"enacted",
"rendered",
"turned out"
],
"synonyms":[
"begot",
"begat",
"bred",
"brought",
"brought about",
"brought on",
"catalyzed",
"caused",
"created",
"did",
"effected",
"effectuated",
"engendered",
"generated",
"induced",
"invoked",
"made",
"occasioned",
"produced",
"prompted",
"resulted (in)",
"spawned",
"translated (into)",
"worked",
"wrought",
"yielded"
]
},
"to come near or nearer":{
"antonyms":[
"backed (up or away)",
"receded",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
],
"examples":[
"night draws on , so we should hurry home"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleared out",
"departed",
"exited",
"left",
"lit",
"lighted out",
"pulled out",
"quit",
"quitted",
"ran away",
"removed",
"shoved (off)",
"took off",
"walked out",
"went"
],
"related":[
"arrived",
"attained",
"came",
"gained",
"hit",
"landed",
"made",
"reached",
"showed up",
"turned up",
"waltzed (up)",
"crept up",
"sneaked up",
"snuck up",
"adjoined",
"bordered",
"touched",
"verged"
],
"synonyms":[
"approached",
"bellied up",
"came up",
"closed",
"closed in",
"neared",
"nighed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dribbles":{
"a very small piece":{
"examples":[
"news about the remote earthquake was coming in dribbles"
],
"synonyms":[
"atoms",
"bits",
"crumbs",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"grains",
"granules",
"molecules",
"morsels",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"nuggets",
"particles",
"patches",
"scraps",
"scruples",
"snippets",
"snips",
"specks",
"tittles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aces",
"dabs",
"dashes",
"driblets",
"drops",
"fractions",
"haets",
"halfpence",
"halfpennies",
"ha'pennies",
"iotas",
"jots",
"kennings",
"licks",
"minims",
"mites",
"modicums",
"nutshells",
"ounces",
"pinches",
"shreds",
"smatters",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"spots",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"tastes",
"touches",
"traces",
"whispers",
"whits",
"bites",
"mouthfuls",
"nibbles",
"tidbits",
"titbits",
"fragments",
"parts",
"portions",
"sections",
"chips",
"flakes",
"shards",
"shivers",
"slivers",
"splinters",
"clippings",
"parings",
"shavings",
"smithereens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chunks",
"gobs",
"hunks",
"lumps",
"slabs",
"abundances",
"barrels",
"buckets",
"bushels",
"deals",
"heaps",
"loads",
"masses",
"mountains",
"pecks",
"piles",
"pots",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"scads",
"stacks",
"volumes",
"wads",
"wealths"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fall or let fall in or as if in drops":{
"examples":[
"water dribbling over the lip of the fountain"
],
"synonyms":[
"distills",
"distils",
"drips",
"drops",
"trickles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drizzles",
"sprinkles",
"flows",
"pours",
"rolls",
"runs",
"streams",
"cascades",
"gutters",
"riffles",
"ripples",
"bleeds",
"exudes",
"oozes",
"seeps",
"weeps",
"discharges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gushes",
"spouts",
"spurts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to flow in a broken irregular stream":{
"examples":[
"rainwater dribbling along the partially clogged gutter"
],
"synonyms":[
"bubbles",
"guggles",
"gurgles",
"laps",
"plashes",
"ripples",
"splashes",
"trickles",
"washes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eddies",
"purls",
"swirls",
"swashes",
"swishes",
"swooshes",
"whishes",
"drips",
"drops",
"gushes",
"jets",
"rushes",
"spews",
"spouts",
"spurts",
"squirts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"runs"
],
"antonyms":[
"pours",
"rolls",
"streams"
]
},
"to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth":{
"examples":[
"picnickers dribbling in eager anticipation of the hamburgers on the grill"
],
"synonyms":[
"drivels",
"drools",
"salivates",
"slavers",
"slobbers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"waters",
"expectorates",
"spits",
"foams",
"froths",
"splutters",
"sputters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dried":{
"to lose liveliness, force, or freshness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his creative talents were just drying on the vine in that small, provincial town"
],
"near antonyms":[
"freshened",
"revived",
"bloomed",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve",
"developed",
"grew",
"increased",
"waxed",
"crested",
"peaked",
"surged"
],
"related":[
"mummified",
"shriveled",
"shrivelled",
"wizened",
"declined",
"faded",
"waned",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened"
],
"synonyms":[
"wilted",
"withered"
]
},
"to make dry":{
"antonyms":[
"hydrated",
"washed",
"watered",
"wet",
"wetted"
],
"examples":[
"the wind quickly dried their clothes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bathed",
"deluged",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"drenched",
"drowned",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"saturated",
"soaked",
"sopped",
"soused",
"waterlogged",
"damped",
"dampened",
"humidified",
"moistened",
"rehydrated",
"dipped",
"dunked",
"submerged",
"swamped"
],
"related":[
"dehumidified",
"drained",
"evaporated",
"mummified",
"shriveled",
"shrivelled",
"withered",
"wizened",
"air-dried",
"baked"
],
"synonyms":[
"dehydrated",
"desiccated",
"parched",
"scorched",
"seared"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drift":{
"to move or proceed smoothly and readily":{
"examples":[
"casual conversation drifting from one topic to another"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowl",
"breeze",
"brush",
"coast",
"cruise",
"flow",
"glide",
"roll",
"sail",
"skim",
"slide",
"slip",
"stream",
"sweep",
"whisk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fly",
"race",
"rush",
"speed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"limp",
"lumber",
"plod",
"stumble",
"trudge",
"shamble",
"shuffle",
"stamp",
"stomp",
"stump",
"tramp",
"labor",
"toil"
],
"antonyms":[
"flounder",
"struggle"
]
},
"to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air":{
"examples":[
"the boat drifted along on the current"
],
"synonyms":[
"float",
"glide",
"hang",
"hover",
"poise",
"ride",
"sail",
"swim",
"waft"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bob",
"dangle",
"suspend",
"buoy",
"balloon",
"raft"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dive",
"lunge",
"plunge",
"dip",
"immerse",
"submerge",
"submerse"
],
"antonyms":[
"settle",
"sink"
]
},
"to move about from place to place aimlessly":{
"examples":[
"spent several years drifting from town to town, picking up odd jobs whenever he needed cash"
],
"synonyms":[
"bat",
"cruise",
"float",
"gad (about)",
"gallivant",
"galavant",
"kick around",
"knock (about)",
"maunder",
"meander",
"mooch",
"ramble",
"range",
"roam",
"rove",
"traipse",
"wander"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amble",
"saunter",
"stroll",
"dawdle",
"mope",
"gypsy",
"hobo",
"tramp",
"vagabond",
"mill (about or around)",
"straggle",
"stray"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow)":{
"examples":[
"deep drifts of snow blocked our driveway"
],
"synonyms":[
"bank",
"bar",
"mound"
],
"near synonyms":[
"snowbank",
"snowdrift",
"embankment",
"sandbar",
"heap",
"hill",
"mass",
"mountain",
"stack",
"tuft"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a prevailing or general movement or inclination":{
"examples":[
"the steady drift of the population away from large cities"
],
"synonyms":[
"current",
"direction",
"leaning",
"run",
"tendency",
"tide",
"trend",
"wind"
],
"near synonyms":[
"curve",
"downside",
"shift",
"swing",
"turn",
"turnabout",
"upside",
"custom",
"habit",
"propensity",
"tenor",
"way",
"countercurrent",
"countertrend",
"undercurrent",
"undertow"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action":{
"examples":[
"you should expect a visit from the stork, if you get my drift"
],
"synonyms":[
"content",
"denotation",
"import",
"intent",
"intention",
"meaning",
"purport",
"sense",
"significance",
"signification"
],
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"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"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drifters":{
"a person who roams about without a fixed route or destination":{
"examples":[
"the drifter just packed up and moved on to the next dead-end job"
],
"synonyms":[
"gadabouts",
"gypsies",
"knockabouts",
"maunderers",
"nomads",
"ramblers",
"roamers",
"rovers",
"strollers",
"vagabonds",
"wanderers",
"wayfarers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"laggards",
"stragglers",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"sojourners",
"bums",
"hoboes",
"hobos",
"tramps",
"passengers",
"sightseers",
"travelers",
"travellers",
"migrants",
"transients",
"vagrants",
"amblers",
"saunterers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"homebodies",
"denizens",
"dwellers",
"habitants",
"inhabitants",
"residents",
"settlers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drifting":{
"as in hanging , hovering":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in rambling , meandering":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to move about from place to place aimlessly":{
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"examples":[
"spent several years drifting from town to town, picking up odd jobs whenever he needed cash"
],
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"related":[
"ambling",
"sauntering",
"strolling",
"dawdling",
"moping",
"gypsying",
"hoboing",
"tramping",
"vagabonding",
"milling (about or around)",
"straggling",
"straying"
],
"synonyms":[
"batting",
"cruising",
"floating",
"gadding (about)",
"gallivanting",
"galavanting",
"kicking around",
"knocking (about)",
"maundering",
"meandering",
"mooching",
"rambling",
"ranging",
"roaming",
"roving",
"traipsing",
"wandering"
]
},
"to move or proceed smoothly and readily":{
"antonyms":[
"floundering",
"struggling"
],
"examples":[
"casual conversation drifting from one topic to another"
],
"near antonyms":[
"limping",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"stumbling",
"trudging",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"stamping",
"stomping",
"stumping",
"tramping",
"laboring",
"toiling"
],
"related":[
"flying",
"racing",
"rushing",
"speeding"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowling",
"breezing",
"brushing",
"coasting",
"cruising",
"flowing",
"gliding",
"rolling",
"sailing",
"skimming",
"sliding",
"slipping",
"streaming",
"sweeping",
"whisking"
]
},
"to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air":{
"antonyms":[
"settling",
"sinking"
],
"examples":[
"the boat drifted along on the current"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diving",
"lunging",
"plunging",
"dipping",
"immersing",
"submerging",
"submersing"
],
"related":[
"bobbing",
"dangling",
"suspending",
"buoying",
"ballooning",
"rafting"
],
"synonyms":[
"floating",
"gliding",
"hanging",
"hovering",
"poising",
"riding",
"sailing",
"swimming",
"wafting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"drill":{
"an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity":{
"examples":[
"shuttling the kids between extracurricular activities is all part of the suburban drill"
],
"synonyms":[
"grind",
"groove",
"lockstep",
"pattern",
"rote",
"routine",
"rut",
"treadmill"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daily dozen",
"regimen",
"housekeeping",
"custom",
"fashion",
"habit",
"practice",
"practise",
"trick",
"wont",
"approach",
"manner",
"method",
"procedure",
"strategy",
"style",
"tack",
"technique",
"way",
"design",
"plan",
"program",
"scheme",
"convention",
"policy",
"tradition"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something done over and over in order to develop skill":{
"examples":[
"doing vocabulary drills all afternoon in preparation for the test"
],
"synonyms":[
"exercise",
"practice",
"practise",
"routine",
"training",
"workout"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assignment",
"homework",
"lesson",
"brushup",
"refresher",
"review"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a hole or series of holes in":{
"examples":[
"the nerve-jangling sound when a dentist drills a tooth"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"hole",
"perforate",
"pierce",
"punch",
"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 strike with a missile from a gun":{
"examples":[
"drilled the target from 100 yards away"
],
"synonyms":[
"gun",
"plug",
"pop",
"shoot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blow away",
"bring down",
"drop",
"pick off",
"shoot down",
"blaze",
"pepper",
"potshot",
"snipe (at)",
"blast (at)",
"fire (at)",
"pistol",
"shotgun",
"machine-gun",
"tommy-gun",
"croak",
"destroy",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"fell",
"ice",
"kill",
"slay",
"annihilate",
"blot out",
"butcher",
"decimate",
"massacre",
"slaughter",
"wipe out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put or set into the ground to grow":{
"examples":[
"he drills soybeans in the same rows with corn"
],
"synonyms":[
"plant",
"put in",
"seed",
"sow"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bed",
"replant",
"transplant",
"broadcast",
"scatter",
"pot",
"overseed",
"reseed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gather",
"harvest",
"reap"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drillers":{
"as in drillmasters":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"drillmasters",
"instructors",
"teachers",
"tutors",
"advisers",
"advisors",
"ciceroni",
"counselors",
"counsellors",
"guides",
"mentors",
"handlers",
"managers",
"coaches",
"trainers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drink (in)":{
"to receive or accept gladly or readily":{
"examples":[
"the studio audience for the infomercial seemed to drink in \u2014a little too readily\u2014every word of the host's spiel"
],
"synonyms":[
"eat (up)",
"embrace",
"lap (up)",
"welcome"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopt",
"espouse",
"take up",
"greet",
"hail",
"enjoy",
"like",
"prefer",
"cherry-pick",
"choose",
"cull",
"decide (on)",
"elect",
"handpick",
"name",
"opt (for)",
"pick",
"select",
"single (out)",
"take"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balk (at)",
"decline",
"pass up",
"refuse",
"reject",
"spurn",
"throw over",
"turn down",
"demur (to)",
"object (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drinking":{
"to swallow in liquid form":{
"examples":[
"the doctor wants her to drink lots of water before the examination"
],
"synonyms":[
"belting (down)",
"gulping",
"guzzling",
"hoisting",
"imbibing",
"knocking back",
"pounding (down)",
"quaffing",
"sipping",
"slugging (down)",
"slurping",
"supping",
"swigging",
"swilling",
"tossing (down or off)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lapping",
"licking",
"sucking",
"consuming",
"downing",
"ingurgitating",
"killing",
"mouthing (down)",
"putting away",
"nipping",
"tippling",
"pledging",
"toasting",
"wining"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages":{
"examples":[
"we're worried that she's started drinking again"
],
"synonyms":[
"bibbing",
"boozing",
"guzzling",
"liquoring (up)",
"lushing (up)",
"soaking",
"tippling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carousing",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"imbibing",
"nipping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstaining"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take in (something liquid) through small openings":{
"examples":[
"the hot surface of the porous rock drank water like a sponge"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbing",
"imbibing",
"soaking (up)",
"sponging",
"sucking (up)",
"taking up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gulping",
"guzzling",
"quaffing",
"sipping",
"slurping",
"swallowing",
"swigging",
"swilling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drinks":{
"to swallow in liquid form":{
"examples":[
"the doctor wants her to drink lots of water before the examination"
],
"synonyms":[
"belts (down)",
"gulps",
"guzzles",
"hoists",
"imbibes",
"knocks back",
"pounds (down)",
"quaffs",
"sips",
"slugs (down)",
"slurps",
"sups",
"swigs",
"swills",
"tosses (down or off)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"laps",
"licks",
"sucks",
"consumes",
"downs",
"ingurgitates",
"kills",
"mouths (down)",
"puts away",
"nips",
"tipples",
"pledges",
"toasts",
"wines"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages":{
"examples":[
"we're worried that she's started drinking again"
],
"synonyms":[
"bibs",
"boozes",
"guzzles",
"liquors (up)",
"lushes (up)",
"soaks",
"tipples"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carouses",
"revels",
"imbibes",
"nips"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take in (something liquid) through small openings":{
"examples":[
"the hot surface of the porous rock drank water like a sponge"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbs",
"imbibes",
"soaks (up)",
"sponges",
"sucks (up)",
"takes up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gulps",
"guzzles",
"quaffs",
"sips",
"slurps",
"swallows",
"swigs",
"swills"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a liquid suitable for drinking":{
"examples":[
"we went inside to have a drink after mowing the lawn"
],
"synonyms":[
"beverages",
"drinkables",
"libations",
"potables",
"quenchers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"potions",
"pops",
"soda pops",
"sodas",
"soft drinks",
"nectars",
"alcohols",
"brews",
"intoxicants",
"liquors",
"spirits",
"mixers",
"mixes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the portion of a serving of a beverage that is swallowed at one time":{
"examples":[
"the thirsty soldier took a long drink from his canteen"
],
"synonyms":[
"belts",
"drafts",
"drags",
"gulps",
"nips",
"quaffs",
"shots",
"sips",
"slugs",
"snorts",
"sups",
"swallows",
"swigs",
"swills"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drams",
"drops"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk":{
"examples":[
"you can get drinks at the bar only if you show them a valid ID"
],
"synonyms":[
"alcohols",
"aqua vitaes",
"ardent spirits",
"boozes",
"bottles",
"firewaters",
"grogs",
"hooches",
"inebriants",
"intoxicants",
"John Barleycorns",
"juices",
"liquors",
"lushes",
"moonshines",
"potables",
"rums",
"sauces",
"spirits",
"stimulants",
"strong drinks",
"tipples"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aperitifs",
"bracers",
"chasers",
"digestifs",
"nightcaps",
"belts",
"loads",
"nips",
"pegs",
"pops",
"shooters",
"shots",
"slugs",
"snifters",
"snorts",
"tots",
"whets",
"cocktails",
"mixed drinks",
"ales",
"beers",
"brewages",
"brews",
"brewskis",
"home brews",
"malt liquors",
"microbrews",
"mums",
"nappies",
"meads",
"sakes",
"sakis",
"wines",
"barley-brees",
"barley-broos",
"brandies",
"gins",
"liqueurs",
"mao-tais",
"mescals",
"schnapps",
"tequilas",
"vodkas",
"whiskeys",
"whiskies",
"Dutch courages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drippy":{
"appealing to the emotions in an obvious and tiresome way":{
"examples":[
"drippy romance novels that are apparently intended for the terminally lovesick"
],
"synonyms":[
"chocolate-box",
"cloying",
"corny",
"fruity",
"gooey",
"lovey-dovey",
"maudlin",
"mawkish",
"mushy",
"novelettish",
"saccharine",
"sappy",
"schmaltzy",
"sentimental",
"sloppy",
"slushy",
"soppy",
"soupy",
"spoony",
"spooney",
"sticky",
"sugarcoated",
"sugary",
"wet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dreamy",
"misty-eyed",
"moonstruck",
"moony",
"nostalgic",
"starry-eyed",
"feel-good",
"fuzzy",
"melodramatic",
"soap-operatic",
"soapy",
"sudsy",
"flat",
"insipid",
"soft-boiled",
"tasteless",
"vapid",
"watery",
"cutesy",
"twee"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unadulterated",
"unvarnished",
"antisentimental",
"cynical",
"hard-boiled",
"hard-edged",
"hardheaded"
],
"antonyms":[
"unsentimental"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"drive (away or off)":{
"as in turn away , repulse":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"repulse",
"turn away",
"alert",
"caution",
"forewarn",
"ward (off)",
"warn"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allure",
"bait",
"beguile",
"betray",
"decoy",
"entice",
"lead on",
"lure",
"seduce",
"solicit",
"tempt",
"draw in",
"inveigle",
"persuade",
"rope (in)",
"snow",
"catch",
"enmesh",
"immesh",
"ensnare",
"entrap",
"mesh",
"snare",
"tangle",
"trap"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drive (into)":{
"as in beat (into)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beat (into)",
"imbue",
"infuse",
"instill",
"establish",
"place",
"put",
"settle",
"stick",
"bed",
"embed",
"imbed",
"enroot",
"entrench",
"intrench",
"fix",
"impact",
"implant",
"ingrain",
"engrain",
"lodge",
"root"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dislodge",
"root (out)",
"uproot",
"eliminate",
"eradicate",
"eject",
"expel",
"detach",
"disconnect",
"disengage",
"remove"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"driveled":{
"to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the panting dog driveled on my hand"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"watered",
"expectorated",
"spit",
"spat",
"foamed",
"frothed",
"spluttered",
"sputtered"
],
"synonyms":[
"dribbled",
"drooled",
"salivated",
"slavered",
"slobbered"
]
},
"to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"he driveled on about his \"distinguished\" family for what seemed like hours"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulated",
"enunciated",
"pronounced"
],
"related":[
"blabbered",
"blathered",
"bleated",
"blithered",
"gabbed",
"jangled",
"jawed",
"pattered",
"prated",
"ran on",
"rattled",
"smattered",
"tittle-tattled",
"trolled",
"yakked",
"yacked",
"chuntered",
"maundered",
"mouthed",
"mumbled",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"stammered",
"stuttered",
"screeched",
"shouted",
"shrieked"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbled",
"bumbled",
"chatted",
"chattered",
"drooled",
"gabbled",
"gibbered",
"jabbered",
"prattled",
"sputtered"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"droll":{
"causing or intended to cause laughter":{
"examples":[
"made a droll comment about the commencement speaker's penchant for clich\u00e9s"
],
"synonyms":[
"antic",
"chucklesome",
"comedic",
"comic",
"comical",
"farcical",
"funny",
"hilarious",
"humoristic",
"humorous",
"hysterical",
"hysteric",
"killing",
"laughable",
"ludicrous",
"ridiculous",
"riotous",
"risible",
"screaming",
"sidesplitting",
"uproarious"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"clownish",
"knockabout",
"slapstick",
"slapsticky",
"zany",
"facetious",
"flip",
"flippant",
"pert",
"smart",
"smart-aleck",
"smart-alecky",
"snickery",
"jocular",
"playful",
"waggish",
"campy",
"jokey",
"joky",
"priceless",
"rich",
"whimsical",
"witty",
"wry",
"blithesome",
"gleeful",
"jocose",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"laughing",
"mad",
"merry",
"mirthful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"earnest",
"grave",
"no-nonsense",
"sedate",
"serious",
"severe",
"sober",
"sobersided",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"staid",
"unsmiling",
"weighty",
"affecting",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"tragic",
"tragical",
"lachrymose",
"mournful",
"sad",
"sorrowful",
"tearful",
"woeful"
],
"antonyms":[
"humorless",
"lame",
"unamusing",
"uncomic",
"unfunny",
"unhumorous",
"unhysterical"
]
},
"a person (as a writer) noted for or specializing in humor":{
"examples":[
"the drolls of late-night TV had a field day with that senator's sexual shenanigans"
],
"synonyms":[
"card",
"comedian",
"comic",
"farceur",
"funnyman",
"gagger",
"gagman",
"gagster",
"humorist",
"jester",
"joker",
"jokester",
"wag",
"wit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comedienne",
"entertainer",
"banterer",
"cutup",
"kidder",
"knockabout",
"practical joker",
"prankster",
"quipper",
"quipster",
"teaser",
"wisecracker",
"buffoon",
"clown",
"fool",
"harlequin",
"zany",
"caricaturist",
"lampooner",
"parodist",
"satirist"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"drollery":{
"something said or done to cause laughter":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the film's sophisticated drolleries will elicit smiles and chuckles even upon repeated viewings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"funning",
"joking",
"wisecracking",
"knee-slapper",
"panic",
"riot",
"scream",
"thigh-slapper",
"antic",
"buffoonery",
"caper",
"leg-pull",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"practical joke",
"prank",
"trick",
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"lampoon",
"mock",
"mockery",
"parody",
"put-on",
"riff",
"banter",
"kidding",
"persiflage",
"raillery",
"repartee",
"drollness",
"facetiousness",
"funniness",
"hilariousness",
"humorousness",
"comedy",
"humor",
"wit",
"wordplay"
],
"synonyms":[
"boff",
"boffo",
"boffola",
"crack",
"funny",
"gag",
"giggle",
"jape",
"jest",
"joke",
"josh",
"laugh",
"nifty",
"one-liner",
"pleasantry",
"quip",
"rib",
"sally",
"waggery",
"wisecrack",
"witticism",
"yuk",
"yuck",
"yak",
"yock"
]
},
"the amusing quality or element in something":{
"antonyms":[
"pathos"
],
"examples":[
"though generally serious, the novel about a seriously dysfunctional family is not without drollery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agony",
"anguish",
"dolor",
"grief",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"misery",
"sorrow",
"torment",
"torture",
"tribulation",
"woe",
"gravity",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness",
"somberness"
],
"related":[
"amusement",
"enjoyment",
"fun",
"pleasure",
"absurdity",
"irony",
"laughableness",
"ludicrousness",
"ridiculousness",
"whimsicality",
"wittiness",
"wryness",
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"farce",
"jest",
"lampoon",
"parody",
"satire",
"slapstick",
"spoof",
"takeoff",
"jocularity",
"jokiness",
"playfulness",
"waggishness"
],
"synonyms":[
"comedy",
"comic",
"comicality",
"drollness",
"funniness",
"hilariousness",
"humor",
"humorousness",
"richness",
"uproariousness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drolls":{
"a person (as a writer) noted for or specializing in humor":{
"examples":[
"the drolls of late-night TV had a field day with that senator's sexual shenanigans"
],
"synonyms":[
"cards",
"comedians",
"comics",
"farceurs",
"funnymen",
"gaggers",
"gagmen",
"gagsters",
"humorists",
"jesters",
"jokers",
"jokesters",
"wags",
"wits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comediennes",
"entertainers",
"banterers",
"cutups",
"kidders",
"knockabouts",
"practical jokers",
"pranksters",
"quippers",
"quipsters",
"teasers",
"wisecrackers",
"buffoons",
"clowns",
"fools",
"harlequins",
"zanies",
"caricaturists",
"lampooners",
"parodists",
"satirists"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drone":{
"a lazy person":{
"examples":[
"those drones just lie around while we do all the work"
],
"synonyms":[
"couch potato",
"deadbeat",
"do-nothing",
"idler",
"layabout",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"lotus-eater",
"slouch",
"slug",
"slugabed",
"sluggard"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum",
"good-for-nothing",
"ne'er-do-well",
"crawler",
"creeper",
"dawdler",
"laggard",
"putterer",
"slowpoke",
"snail",
"stick-in-the-mud",
"straggler",
"clock-watcher",
"goldbrick",
"malingerer",
"shirker",
"slacker",
"dallier",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"loller",
"lounger",
"saunterer",
"delayer",
"procrastinator",
"dropout",
"quitter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"achiever",
"comer",
"highflier",
"highflyer",
"live wire",
"powerhouse"
],
"antonyms":[
"doer",
"go-ahead",
"go-getter",
"hummer",
"hustler",
"self-starter"
]
},
"a person who does very hard or dull work":{
"examples":[
"after lunch my fellow drones and I shuffle back to our cubicles"
],
"synonyms":[
"dogsbody",
"drudge",
"drudger",
"fag",
"foot soldier",
"grub",
"grubber",
"grunt",
"laborer",
"peon",
"plugger",
"slave",
"slogger",
"toiler",
"worker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"workhorse",
"serf"
],
"near antonyms":[
"goldbrick",
"shirker",
"idler",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"slouch",
"slug",
"sluggard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a monotonous sound like that of an insect in motion":{
"examples":[
"heard the drone of an airplane overhead"
],
"synonyms":[
"burr",
"buzz",
"chirr",
"churr",
"hum",
"purr",
"thrum",
"whir",
"whirr",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"babble",
"coo",
"gasp",
"gurgle",
"hiss",
"moan",
"murmur",
"rustle",
"sigh",
"suspiration",
"susurration",
"susurrus",
"whisper",
"whish",
"zing",
"zip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bawl",
"howl",
"roar",
"scream",
"screech",
"shriek",
"squall",
"squeal",
"yelp",
"yell"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound":{
"examples":[
"the sound of droning bees all around us"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumble",
"burr",
"buzz",
"hum",
"whir",
"whirr",
"whish",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chirr",
"churr",
"thrum",
"fizz",
"hiss",
"murmur",
"purr",
"rustle",
"sigh",
"sizzle",
"swish",
"whisper",
"coo",
"curr",
"wheeze",
"whistle",
"whoosh"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to spend time doing nothing":{
"examples":[
"instead of getting a job, he preferred to drone and live off his parents"
],
"synonyms":[
"bum",
"chill",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"footle",
"goof (off)",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around or out)",
"hang about",
"idle",
"kick around",
"kick back",
"laze",
"lazy",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"veg out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddle (around)",
"fool",
"mess",
"monkey",
"muck",
"piddle",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"doze",
"estivate",
"aestivate",
"hibernate",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"relax",
"rest",
"tarry",
"amble",
"mosey",
"saunter",
"stroll",
"swan",
"furlough",
"goldbrick",
"malinger",
"truant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudge",
"grind",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"work",
"apply",
"buckle (down)",
"exert",
"put out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"droopy":{
"bending downward or forward":{
"examples":[
"the droopy heads of tired fans riding home on the bus"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowed",
"bowing",
"declined",
"declining",
"descendant",
"descendent",
"descending",
"drooping",
"hanging",
"hung",
"inclining",
"nodding",
"pendulous",
"sagging",
"stooping",
"weeping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"floppy",
"limp",
"dangling",
"falling",
"pendent",
"pendant",
"suspended",
"dipping",
"sinking",
"slumping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"erect",
"inflexible",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"elevated",
"raised",
"upraised"
],
"antonyms":[
"unbending",
"upright"
]
},
"not stiff in structure":{
"examples":[
"a droopy stalk of celery"
],
"synonyms":[
"flaccid",
"floppy",
"lank",
"limp",
"yielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flabby",
"mushy",
"semisoft",
"soft",
"squashy",
"squishy",
"delicate",
"flimsy",
"insubstantial",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"lax",
"loose",
"pliant",
"relaxed",
"resilient",
"springy",
"stretchy",
"supple"
],
"near antonyms":[
"firm",
"hard",
"indurated",
"solid",
"sound",
"strong",
"brittle",
"crisp",
"compact",
"dense",
"substantial"
],
"antonyms":[
"inflexible",
"resilient",
"rigid",
"stiff",
"sturdy",
"tense"
]
},
"feeling unhappiness":{
"examples":[
"looking droopy and miserable while standing in the pouring rain"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"blue",
"brokenhearted",
"cast down",
"crestfallen",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"doleful",
"down",
"down in the mouth",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"forlorn",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"hangdog",
"heartbroken",
"heartsick",
"heartsore",
"heavyhearted",
"inconsolable",
"joyless",
"low",
"low-spirited",
"melancholic",
"melancholy",
"miserable",
"mournful",
"sad",
"saddened",
"sorrowful",
"sorry",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"woeful",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aggrieved",
"distressed",
"troubled",
"uneasy",
"unquiet",
"upset",
"worried",
"despairing",
"hopeless",
"sunk",
"disappointed",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"dispirited",
"suicidal",
"dolorous",
"lachrymose",
"lugubrious",
"plaintive",
"tearful",
"regretful",
"rueful",
"agonized",
"anguished",
"grieving",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"funereal",
"gray",
"grey",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"saturnine",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"enraptured",
"entranced",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"exuberant",
"exultant",
"overjoyed",
"rapturous",
"rhapsodic",
"rhapsodical",
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"jocose",
"jocular",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"jovial",
"lightsome",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"excited",
"thrilled",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"rosy",
"sanguine",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"animated",
"bouncing",
"energetic",
"frisky",
"jaunty",
"lively",
"peppy",
"perky",
"spirited",
"sprightful",
"sprightly",
"springy",
"vital",
"vivacious",
"zippy",
"content",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"beaming",
"grinning",
"laughing",
"smiling",
"boon",
"carefree",
"careless",
"cavalier",
"devil-may-care",
"easygoing",
"happy-go-lucky",
"insouciant",
"lighthearted",
"unconcerned"
],
"antonyms":[
"blissful",
"buoyant",
"buoyed",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"chipper",
"delighted",
"glad",
"gladdened",
"gladsome",
"gleeful",
"happy",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"jubilant",
"sunny",
"upbeat"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"drop behind":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"He dropped behind in the second half of the race."
],
"synonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"dally",
"dawdle",
"delay",
"diddle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"lollygag",
"lallygag",
"mope",
"poke",
"shilly-shally",
"tarry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddle (around)",
"fool around",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"loaf",
"loll",
"lounge",
"amble",
"ease",
"inch",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stagger",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)",
"filibuster",
"procrastinate",
"stall",
"temporize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowl",
"breeze",
"dart",
"hump",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"scramble",
"stampede",
"gallop",
"jog",
"run",
"sprint",
"trot",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"speed (up)",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake"
],
"antonyms":[
"barrel",
"bolt",
"career",
"course",
"dash",
"fly",
"hasten",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hurry",
"race",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"scoot",
"scud",
"scurry",
"speed",
"tear",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zip"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"drop out of sight":{
"to cease to be visible":{
"examples":[
"The city dropped out of sight as we rounded the highway."
],
"synonyms":[
"dematerialize",
"disappear",
"dissolve",
"evanesce",
"evaporate",
"fade",
"flee",
"fly",
"melt",
"sink",
"vanish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blank (out)",
"clear",
"die (away or down or out)",
"disperse",
"dissipate",
"dissolve",
"dry up",
"blur",
"dim"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrive",
"break out",
"come out",
"emerge",
"issue",
"loom",
"show up"
],
"antonyms":[
"appear",
"materialize"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"drop the ball":{
"to make a mistake":{
"examples":[
"I'm so sorry I dropped the ball and forgot to buy the wine for the dinner party."
],
"synonyms":[
"blunder",
"boob",
"err",
"flub",
"fluff",
"foul up",
"fumble",
"goof (up)",
"louse up",
"mess (up)",
"screw up",
"slip up",
"stumble",
"trip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nod",
"bobble",
"botch",
"bungle",
"butcher",
"foozle",
"mangle",
"mishandle",
"muff",
"murder",
"miscalculate",
"misconceive",
"miscount",
"miscue",
"misdeem",
"misgauge",
"misjudge",
"mistake",
"misconstrue",
"misinterpret",
"misunderstand"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"dropped out of sight":{
"to cease to be visible":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"dematerialized",
"disappeared",
"dissolved",
"evanesced",
"evaporated",
"faded",
"fled",
"flew",
"melted",
"sank",
"sunk",
"vanished"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blanked (out)",
"cleared",
"died (away or down or out)",
"dispersed",
"dissipated",
"dissolved",
"dried up",
"blurred",
"dimmed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrived",
"broke out",
"came out",
"emerged",
"issued",
"loomed",
"showed up"
],
"antonyms":[
"appeared",
"materialized"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"dropped the ball":{
"to make a mistake":{
"examples":[
"I'm so sorry I dropped the ball and forgot to buy the wine for the dinner party."
],
"synonyms":[
"blundered",
"boobed",
"erred",
"flubbed",
"fluffed",
"fouled up",
"fumbled",
"goofed (up)",
"loused up",
"messed (up)",
"screwed up",
"slipped up",
"stumbled",
"tripped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nodded",
"bobbled",
"botched",
"bungled",
"butchered",
"foozled",
"mangled",
"mishandled",
"muffed",
"murdered",
"miscalculated",
"misconceived",
"miscounted",
"miscued",
"misdeemed",
"misgauged",
"misgaged",
"misjudged",
"mistook",
"misconstrued",
"misinterpreted",
"misunderstood"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"dropping":{
"solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal":{
"examples":[
"the only bad part about owning a rabbit was cleaning the droppings out of the litter box every night"
],
"synonyms":[
"dirt",
"doo-doo",
"dung",
"excrement",
"excreta",
"feces",
"ordure",
"poop",
"scat",
"slops",
"soil",
"waste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"night soil",
"stool",
"dunghill",
"guano",
"manure",
"midden",
"muck",
"spoor",
"sewage",
"sewerage",
"coprolite"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act of putting an end to something planned or previously agreed to":{
"examples":[
"the dropping of an act from the talent show should bring it in on time"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandonment",
"abortion",
"calling",
"calling off",
"cancellation",
"cancelation",
"recall",
"recision",
"repeal",
"rescission",
"revocation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"annulment",
"invalidation",
"neutralization",
"nullification",
"voidance",
"abolishment",
"abolition",
"ending",
"halting",
"stopping",
"termination",
"giving up",
"relinquishment",
"surrender",
"reversal",
"rollback"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beginning",
"commencement",
"initiation",
"engagement",
"undertaking"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuation"
]
},
"to cause to fall intentionally or unintentionally":{
"examples":[
"I dropped the fly ball",
"drop the anchor"
],
"synonyms":[
"depressing",
"lowering",
"throwing",
"throwing down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flattening",
"flooring",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"knocking down",
"knocking over",
"striking down",
"toppling",
"plopping",
"plunking down",
"plonking down",
"bobbling",
"bungling",
"foozling",
"fumbling",
"immersing",
"sinking",
"submerging"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"lifting",
"picking up",
"raising"
]
},
"to go to a lower level especially abruptly":{
"examples":[
"although they start out high, prices for home electronics eventually drop"
],
"synonyms":[
"crashing",
"cratering",
"declining",
"descending",
"dipping",
"diving",
"falling",
"lowering",
"nose-diving",
"plummeting",
"plunging",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"tumbling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"drooping",
"dwindling",
"dying (down)",
"ebbing",
"lessening",
"letting up",
"moderating",
"subsiding",
"tapering off",
"waning",
"receding",
"retreating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"growing",
"increasing",
"intensifying",
"mushrooming",
"picking up",
"snowballing",
"swelling",
"waxing"
],
"antonyms":[
"arising",
"ascending",
"lifting",
"mounting",
"rising",
"soaring",
"spiking",
"upping"
]
},
"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
"examples":[
"drop what you're doing and come here"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking",
"breaking off",
"breaking up",
"canning",
"ceasing",
"cutting off",
"cutting out",
"desisting (from)",
"discontinuing",
"ending",
"giving over",
"halting",
"knocking off",
"laying off",
"leaving off",
"packing (up or in)",
"quitting",
"shutting off",
"stopping"
],
"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":[]
},
"to stop doing (something) permanently":{
"examples":[
"isn't it time you dropped that smoking habit and spent your money on better things?"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandoning",
"discontinuing",
"giving up",
"knocking off",
"laying off (of)",
"packing (up or in)",
"quitting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking off",
"breaking up",
"ceasing",
"closing",
"concluding",
"ending",
"expiring",
"finishing",
"halting",
"leaving off",
"shutting off",
"pausing",
"tapering off",
"throwing up",
"rounding (off or out)",
"terminating",
"winding up",
"wrapping up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"going",
"running on",
"hanging in",
"hanging on",
"holding on",
"persevering",
"persisting",
"following through (with)",
"renewing",
"reopening",
"restarting",
"resuming",
"preserving",
"staying",
"beginning",
"commencing",
"starting"
],
"antonyms":[
"carrying on",
"continuing",
"keeping",
"keeping up",
"maintaining"
]
},
"to lead or extend downward":{
"examples":[
"the cable car tracks can drop suddenly, so be sure to hang onto something"
],
"synonyms":[
"declining",
"descending",
"dipping",
"falling",
"plunging",
"sinking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angling",
"canting",
"cocking",
"heeling",
"inclining",
"leaning",
"listing",
"reclining",
"slanting",
"sloping",
"tilting",
"tipping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evening",
"flattening",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"planing",
"smoothing",
"straightening"
],
"antonyms":[
"arising",
"ascending",
"climbing",
"mounting",
"rising",
"uprising",
"upsweeping",
"upturning"
]
},
"to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to)":{
"examples":[
"drop that plan in favor of another"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandoning",
"aborting",
"calling",
"calling off",
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"crying off",
"recalling",
"repealing",
"rescinding",
"revoking",
"scrapping",
"scrubbing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abrogating",
"annulling",
"invalidating",
"nullifying",
"voiding",
"writing off",
"recanting",
"retracting",
"taking back",
"withdrawing",
"countermanding",
"reversing",
"rolling back",
"breaking off",
"discontinuing",
"ending",
"halting",
"stopping",
"terminating",
"holding back",
"interrupting",
"suspending",
"giving up",
"relinquishing",
"surrendering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"engaging",
"pledging",
"promising",
"beginning",
"commencing",
"initiating",
"starting",
"taking on",
"taking up",
"undertaking"
],
"antonyms":[
"continuing",
"keeping"
]
},
"to bring forth from the womb":{
"examples":[
"the cow dropped her calf early this morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing",
"birthing",
"delivering",
"having",
"mothering",
"producing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"laboring",
"breeding",
"multiplying",
"propagating",
"reproducing",
"spawning",
"begetting",
"fathering",
"generating",
"getting",
"siring",
"calving",
"kidding",
"kindling",
"kittening",
"littering",
"pupping",
"whelping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aborting",
"losing",
"miscarrying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"dropped the would-be mugger in his tracks with a single well-aimed blow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowling (down or over)",
"downing",
"felling",
"flooring",
"knocking down",
"knocking over",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"mowing (down)",
"prostrating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayoing",
"knocking out",
"KO'ing",
"overthrowing",
"throwing down",
"toppling",
"banging",
"bashing",
"belting",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"hammering",
"hitting",
"jabbing",
"pasting",
"poking",
"pounding",
"punching",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"slogging",
"slugging",
"smacking",
"smiting",
"socking",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"thumping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whaling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fail to win, gain, or obtain":{
"examples":[
"the local hockey team has dropped two out of the last three contests"
],
"synonyms":[
"losing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forfeiting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conquering",
"prevailing (over)",
"triumphing (over)"
],
"antonyms":[
"nailing (down)",
"winning"
]
},
"to fall or let fall in or as if in drops":{
"examples":[
"the cold glass dropped condensation"
],
"synonyms":[
"distilling",
"dribbling",
"dripping",
"trickling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drizzling",
"sprinkling",
"flowing",
"pouring",
"rolling",
"running",
"streaming",
"cascading",
"guttering",
"riffling",
"rippling",
"bleeding",
"exuding",
"oozing",
"seeping",
"weeping",
"discharging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gushing",
"spouting",
"spurting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hand over or use up in payment":{
"examples":[
"I dropped $50 on these shoes"
],
"synonyms":[
"disbursing",
"expending",
"forking (over, out, or up)",
"giving",
"laying out",
"outlaying",
"paying",
"shelling out",
"spending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lavishing",
"raining",
"blowing",
"dissipating",
"frittering (away)",
"running through",
"squandering",
"throwing away",
"wasting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"caching",
"hoarding",
"laying up",
"saving",
"acquiring",
"earning",
"gaining",
"garnering",
"making",
"procuring",
"realizing",
"securing",
"winning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically":{
"examples":[
"he would ever so \"casually\" drop the names of celebrities he knew personally"
],
"synonyms":[
"adverting (to)",
"citing",
"instancing",
"mentioning",
"naming",
"noticing",
"noting",
"quoting",
"referring (to)",
"specifying",
"touching (on or upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alluding (to)",
"hinting (at)",
"implying",
"indicating",
"inferring",
"intending",
"intimating",
"suggesting",
"pointing (out)",
"signaling",
"signalling",
"signifying",
"denominating",
"designating",
"indicating",
"bringing up",
"broaching",
"interjecting",
"interpolating",
"interposing",
"introducing",
"infiltrating",
"insinuating",
"worming",
"advertising",
"announcing",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"proclaiming",
"pronouncing",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"sounding",
"clarifying",
"clearing (up)",
"elucidating",
"explaining",
"explicating",
"spelling out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarding",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"slighting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
"examples":[
"with these icy road conditions, drivers should be dropping their speed"
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"denting",
"depleting",
"diminishing",
"downscaling",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"easing",
"knocking down",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reducing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"clipping",
"cropping",
"curtailing",
"cutting",
"cutting back",
"cutting down",
"docking",
"nicking",
"paring",
"pruning",
"retrenching",
"shortening",
"slashing",
"trimming",
"truncating",
"whittling",
"deflating",
"shrinking",
"minimizing",
"moderating",
"modifying",
"modulating",
"qualifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blowing up",
"dilating",
"distending",
"inflating",
"swelling",
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"prolonging",
"protracting",
"adding (to)",
"complementing",
"supplementing",
"enhancing",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"boosting",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"increasing",
"raising"
]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"during the Black Death people all over Asia and Europe were dropping like flies"
],
"synonyms":[
"checking out",
"conking (out)",
"croaking",
"deceasing",
"demising",
"departing",
"dying",
"ending",
"exiting",
"expiring",
"falling",
"flatlining",
"going",
"kicking in",
"kicking off",
"parting",
"passing away",
"passing (on)",
"pegging out",
"perishing",
"popping off",
"stepping out",
"succumbing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predeceasing",
"consuming",
"disappearing",
"drying up",
"fading",
"failing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming to",
"reviving",
"lingering",
"being",
"existing",
"subsisting",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathing",
"living"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dropping in":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"drop in any time\u2014we're always home"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"barging (in)",
"looking up",
"seeing",
"bopping (into)",
"happening (by)",
"frequenting",
"hanging (at)",
"haunting",
"resorting (to)"
],
"synonyms":[
"calling",
"coming by",
"coming over",
"dropping by",
"popping (in)",
"running in",
"running (over)",
"stepping in",
"stopping (by or in)",
"visiting"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dropping in (on)":{
"to make a social call upon":{
"examples":[
"as long as we're in town, we should drop in on my aunt"
],
"synonyms":[
"calling (on or upon)",
"seeing",
"visiting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"looking up",
"seeking (out)",
"dropping by"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brushing (aside or off)",
"cold-shouldering",
"ignoring",
"snubbing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drops the ball":{
"to make a mistake":{
"examples":[
"I'm so sorry I dropped the ball and forgot to buy the wine for the dinner party."
],
"synonyms":[
"blunders",
"boobs",
"errs",
"flubs",
"fluffs",
"fouls up",
"fumbles",
"goofs (up)",
"louses up",
"messes (up)",
"screws up",
"slips up",
"stumbles",
"trips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nods",
"bobbles",
"botches",
"bungles",
"butchers",
"foozles",
"mangles",
"mishandles",
"muffs",
"murders",
"miscalculates",
"misconceives",
"miscounts",
"miscues",
"misdeems",
"misgauges",
"misjudges",
"mistakes",
"misconstrues",
"misinterprets",
"misunderstands"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"drought":{
"a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number":{
"antonyms":[
"abundance",
"adequacy",
"amplitude",
"opulence",
"plenitude",
"plenty",
"sufficiency",
"wealth"
],
"examples":[
"there's been a drought of good movies this year"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bountifulness",
"copiousness",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"oversupply",
"surfeit",
"surplus"
],
"related":[
"absence",
"omission",
"meagerness",
"poorness",
"skimpiness",
"necessity",
"need",
"privation"
],
"synonyms":[
"crunch",
"dearth",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"failure",
"famine",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness",
"insufficiency",
"lack",
"lacuna",
"paucity",
"pinch",
"poverty",
"scantiness",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drouth":{
"a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number":{
"examples":[
"there's been a drought of good movies this year"
],
"synonyms":[
"crunch",
"dearth",
"deficiency",
"deficit",
"failure",
"famine",
"inadequacy",
"inadequateness",
"insufficiency",
"lack",
"lacuna",
"paucity",
"pinch",
"poverty",
"scantiness",
"scarceness",
"scarcity",
"shortage",
"undersupply",
"want"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absence",
"omission",
"meagerness",
"poorness",
"skimpiness",
"necessity",
"need",
"privation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bountifulness",
"copiousness",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"oversupply",
"surfeit",
"surplus"
],
"antonyms":[
"abundance",
"adequacy",
"amplitude",
"opulence",
"plenitude",
"plenty",
"sufficiency",
"wealth"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drove (into)":{
"as in beat (into)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beat (into)",
"imbued",
"infused",
"instilled",
"established",
"placed",
"put",
"settled",
"stuck",
"bedded",
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"enrooted",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"fixed",
"impacted",
"implanted",
"ingrained",
"engrained",
"lodged",
"rooted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dislodged",
"rooted (out)",
"uprooted",
"eliminated",
"eradicated",
"ejected",
"expelled",
"detached",
"disconnected",
"disengaged",
"removed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drowned":{
"as in flooded , inundated":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deluged",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"awash",
"bathed",
"bedraggled",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"drenched",
"dripping",
"logged",
"saturate",
"saturated",
"soaked",
"soaking",
"sodden",
"soggy",
"sopping",
"soppy",
"soused",
"washed",
"watered",
"waterlogged",
"water-soaked",
"watery",
"wet",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"hydrated",
"dipped",
"dunked",
"splashed",
"aqueous",
"steeped",
"flushed",
"irrigated",
"laved",
"rinsed",
"sluiced",
"clammy",
"damp",
"dampish",
"dank",
"humid",
"moist",
"semimoist",
"wettish",
"boggy",
"miry",
"seepy",
"sloppy",
"squashy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arid",
"dry",
"unwatered",
"waterless",
"bone-dry",
"hyperarid",
"ultradry",
"waterproof",
"water-repellent",
"water-resistant",
"watertight",
"baked",
"dehydrated",
"freeze-dried",
"droughty",
"parched",
"sere",
"sear",
"sunbaked",
"thirsty",
"wrung"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cover with a flood":{
"examples":[
"whole villages drowned by the rampaging river"
],
"synonyms":[
"deluged",
"engulfed",
"flooded",
"gulfed",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"overwhelmed",
"submerged",
"submersed",
"swamped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avalanched",
"smothered",
"overcame",
"overran",
"flowed",
"flushed",
"gushed",
"poured",
"sluiced",
"spouted",
"spurted",
"streamed",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"drenched",
"soaked",
"wet",
"wetted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehydrated",
"dried",
"parched"
],
"antonyms":[
"drained"
]
},
"to wet thoroughly with liquid":{
"examples":[
"drowned the carpet with shampoo, and so it took forever to dry"
],
"synonyms":[
"drenched",
"impregnated",
"macerated",
"saturated",
"soaked",
"soddened",
"sopped",
"soused",
"steeped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"waterlogged",
"water-soaked",
"marinated",
"seethed",
"presoaked",
"dipped",
"immersed",
"inundated",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"bathed",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"hydrated",
"swilled",
"washed",
"watered",
"infiltrated",
"penetrated",
"permeated",
"damped",
"dampened",
"humidified",
"moistened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehydrated",
"desiccated",
"dried",
"parched",
"seared",
"drained",
"emptied",
"voided",
"dehumidified"
],
"antonyms":[
"wrung (out)"
]
},
"to make wet":{
"examples":[
"cooked pasta drowned in marinara sauce"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathed",
"bedraggled",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"drenched",
"soaked",
"soddened",
"sopped",
"soused",
"washed",
"watered",
"waterlogged",
"water-soaked",
"wet",
"wetted",
"wet down",
"wetted down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersed",
"bedewed",
"damped",
"dampened",
"drizzled",
"humidified",
"hydrated",
"misted",
"moistened",
"moisturized",
"showered",
"sprinkled",
"deluged",
"flooded",
"hosed (down)",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"splashed",
"impregnated",
"saturated",
"steeped",
"flushed",
"irrigated",
"laved",
"rinsed",
"sloshed",
"sluiced",
"dipped",
"ducked",
"dunked",
"rehydrated",
"rewashed",
"rewet",
"rewetted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewatered",
"evaporated",
"freeze-dried",
"drip-dried",
"wrung",
"dehumidified"
],
"antonyms":[
"dehydrated",
"desiccated",
"dried",
"parched",
"scorched",
"seared"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"drowsed":{
"to sleep lightly or briefly":{
"examples":[
"picnickers drowsing in the shade of an oak tree"
],
"synonyms":[
"catnapped",
"dozed",
"kipped",
"napped",
"slumbered",
"snoozed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"relaxed",
"reposed",
"rested",
"couched",
"laid",
"lay",
"roosted",
"lulled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arose",
"aroused",
"awakened",
"awoke",
"awaked",
"got up",
"rose",
"roused",
"uprose",
"wakened",
"woke (up)",
"waked (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drubbing":{
"failure to win a contest":{
"examples":[
"took a terrible drubbing in last night's basketball game"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"defeat",
"licking",
"loss",
"lump",
"overthrow",
"plastering",
"rout",
"shellacking",
"trimming",
"trouncing",
"whipping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collapse",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"fizzle",
"flop",
"nonsuccess",
"setback",
"upset",
"lurch",
"shutout",
"washout",
"whitewash"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"blowout",
"cakewalk",
"landslide",
"romp",
"runaway",
"sweep",
"walkaway",
"walkover"
],
"antonyms":[
"success",
"triumph",
"victory",
"win"
]
},
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"a crowd was drubbing the purse snatcher when the police arrived on the scene"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashing",
"basting",
"battering",
"batting",
"beating",
"belaboring",
"belting",
"birching",
"bludgeoning",
"buffeting",
"bunging up",
"clubbing",
"currying",
"doing",
"fibbing",
"flogging",
"hammering",
"hiding",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"lashing",
"lathering",
"licking",
"mauling",
"messing (up)",
"paddling",
"pelting",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"punching out",
"roughing (up)",
"slating",
"slogging",
"switching",
"tanning",
"thrashing",
"threshing",
"thumping",
"tromping",
"walloping",
"whaling",
"whipping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping",
"working over"
],
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"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"
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"we drubbed our traditional football rivals so badly that it was basically no contest"
],
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"annihilating",
"blowing away",
"bombing",
"burying",
"clobbering",
"creaming",
"dusting",
"flattening",
"pasting",
"routing",
"shellacking",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"smoking",
"smothering",
"snowing under",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"tromping",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"waxing",
"whipping",
"whomping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweeping",
"upsetting",
"beating",
"besting",
"conquering",
"dispatching",
"hurdling",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"taking",
"throwing",
"triumphing (over)",
"winning (against)",
"worsting",
"crushing",
"knocking off",
"knocking over",
"overpowering",
"overthrowing",
"overwhelming",
"subjugating",
"upending",
"vanquishing",
"acing (out)",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outfighting",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"transcending",
"edging (out)",
"nosing out",
"pipping",
"capping",
"excelling",
"flourishing",
"scoring",
"succeeding",
"breaking",
"destroying",
"doing in",
"finishing",
"sinking",
"slaughtering"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drumfire":{
"a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once":{
"examples":[
"a rising drumfire of criticism for the president's latest nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrage",
"blitz",
"blitzkrieg",
"bombardment",
"cannonade",
"drumbeat",
"flurry",
"fusillade",
"hail",
"salvo",
"shower",
"storm",
"volley"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broadside",
"earful",
"avalanche",
"burst",
"cataclysm",
"cataract",
"deluge",
"discharge",
"engulfment",
"flood",
"flood tide",
"flush",
"gush",
"inundation",
"outburst",
"outflow",
"outpouring",
"overflow",
"rash",
"spate",
"surge",
"torrent",
"current",
"river",
"stream",
"tide",
"excess",
"glut",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dribble",
"drip",
"trickle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dry":{
"as in prohibitionist":{
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"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest":{
"antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting"
],
"examples":[
"a very dry topic for a lecture at a museum of natural history"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"sensational",
"spectacular",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"animating",
"breathtaking",
"electrifying",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"galvanizing",
"hair-raising",
"inspiring",
"invigorating",
"rip-roaring",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"thrilling",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"attractive",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"enthralling",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"mesmerizing",
"spellbinding",
"suspenseful",
"arresting",
"provocative",
"tantalizing"
],
"related":[
"aseptic",
"barren",
"blah",
"dullish",
"pleasureless",
"prosaic",
"prosy",
"soggy",
"spiritless",
"blank",
"earthbound",
"gray",
"grey",
"inanimate",
"pallid",
"pedantic",
"sterile",
"suspenseless",
"undramatic",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"unimaginative",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"longsome",
"palling",
"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"fatiguing",
"wearing",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"tepid",
"unexceptional",
"unsurprising",
"vapid",
"cumbersome",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"poky",
"pokey"
],
"synonyms":[
"arid",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dreary",
"drudging",
"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"ho-hum",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"leaden",
"mind-numbing",
"monochromatic",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"slow",
"stale",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"stupid",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying"
]
},
"having or showing a lack of friendliness or interest in others":{
"antonyms":[
"cordial",
"friendly",
"sociable",
"social",
"warm"
],
"examples":[
"a dry temperament that suited him well in a desk job that required no interaction with the customers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"boon",
"clubbable",
"clubable",
"clubby",
"companionable",
"convivial",
"extroverted",
"extraverted",
"gregarious",
"outgoing",
"communicative",
"expansive",
"garrulous",
"talkative",
"affable",
"folksy",
"genial",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"congenial",
"kindly",
"neighborly"
],
"related":[
"indrawn",
"introverted",
"nongregarious",
"recessive",
"reclusive",
"reserved",
"unsocial",
"withdrawn",
"misanthropic",
"apathetic",
"hard",
"indifferent",
"unconcerned",
"clinical",
"dispassionate",
"impersonal",
"professional",
"disinterested",
"incurious",
"uninterested",
"reticent",
"silent",
"taciturn",
"uncommunicative",
"diffident",
"shy",
"timid",
"cliquey",
"cliquish",
"clubbish"
],
"synonyms":[
"aloof",
"antisocial",
"asocial",
"buttoned-up",
"cold",
"cold-eyed",
"cool",
"detached",
"distant",
"frosty",
"offish",
"remote",
"standoff",
"standoffish",
"unbending",
"unclubbable",
"unsociable"
]
},
"marked by little or no precipitation or humidity":{
"antonyms":[
"damp",
"dank",
"humid",
"moist",
"wet"
],
"examples":[
"the dry climate of the American Southwest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"awash",
"bathed",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"drenched",
"dripping",
"saturated",
"soaked",
"soaking",
"sodden",
"soggy",
"sopping",
"soppy",
"soused",
"washed",
"watered",
"waterlogged",
"watery",
"deluged",
"drowned",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"hydrated"
],
"related":[
"air-dry",
"bone-dry",
"hyperarid",
"ultradry",
"baked",
"dehydrated",
"parched",
"sunbaked",
"rainless",
"desert",
"desertic",
"desertlike",
"xerothermic"
],
"synonyms":[
"arid",
"droughty",
"sere",
"sear",
"thirsty",
"waterless"
]
},
"to lose liveliness, force, or freshness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his creative talents were just drying on the vine in that small, provincial town"
],
"near antonyms":[
"freshen",
"revive",
"bloom",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive",
"develop",
"grow",
"increase",
"wax",
"crest",
"peak",
"surge"
],
"related":[
"mummify",
"shrivel",
"wizen",
"decline",
"fade",
"wane",
"decrease",
"diminish",
"lessen"
],
"synonyms":[
"wilt",
"wither"
]
},
"to make dry":{
"antonyms":[
"hydrate",
"wash",
"water",
"wet"
],
"examples":[
"the wind quickly dried their clothes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bathe",
"deluge",
"douse",
"dowse",
"drench",
"drown",
"flood",
"inundate",
"overflow",
"saturate",
"soak",
"sop",
"souse",
"waterlog",
"damp",
"dampen",
"humidify",
"moisten",
"rehydrate",
"dip",
"dunk",
"submerge",
"swamp"
],
"related":[
"dehumidify",
"drain",
"evaporate",
"mummify",
"shrivel",
"wither",
"wizen",
"air-dry",
"bake"
],
"synonyms":[
"dehydrate",
"desiccate",
"parch",
"scorch",
"sear"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dry-cleaned":{
"as in washed , brushed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brushed",
"combed",
"dusted",
"laundered",
"mopped",
"mucked (out)",
"rinsed",
"scoured",
"scrubbed",
"shampooed",
"sponged",
"swabbed",
"swept",
"vacuumed",
"washed",
"wiped",
"cleaned",
"cleansed",
"deterged",
"GI'd",
"turned out",
"decontaminated",
"purged",
"purified",
"disinfected",
"sanitized",
"brightened",
"deodorized",
"freshened",
"spruced (up)",
"sweetened",
"picked up",
"straightened (up)",
"tidied",
"uncluttered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrimed",
"muddied",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"blackened",
"discolored",
"besmirched",
"dirtied",
"fouled",
"soiled",
"spotted",
"stained",
"sullied"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dry-cleaning":{
"as in washing , brushing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brushing",
"combing",
"dusting",
"laundering",
"mopping",
"mucking (out)",
"rinsing",
"scouring",
"scrubbing",
"shampooing",
"sponging",
"swabbing",
"sweeping",
"vacuuming",
"washing",
"wiping",
"cleaning",
"cleansing",
"deterging",
"GI'ing",
"turning out",
"decontaminating",
"purging",
"purifying",
"disinfecting",
"sanitizing",
"brightening",
"deodorizing",
"freshening",
"sprucing (up)",
"sweetening",
"picking up",
"straightening (up)",
"tidying",
"uncluttering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begriming",
"muddying",
"defiling",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"blackening",
"discoloring",
"besmirching",
"dirtying",
"fouling",
"soiling",
"spotting",
"staining",
"sullying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dry-cleans":{
"as in washes , brushes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brushes",
"combs",
"dusts",
"launders",
"mops",
"mucks (out)",
"rinses",
"scours",
"scrubs",
"shampoos",
"sponges",
"swabs",
"sweeps",
"vacuums",
"washes",
"wipes",
"cleans",
"cleanses",
"deterges",
"GIs",
"turns out",
"decontaminates",
"purges",
"purifies",
"disinfects",
"sanitizes",
"brightens",
"deodorizes",
"freshens",
"spruces (up)",
"sweetens",
"picks up",
"straightens (up)",
"tidies",
"unclutters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrimes",
"muddies",
"defiles",
"pollutes",
"taints",
"blackens",
"discolors",
"besmirches",
"dirties",
"fouls",
"soils",
"spots",
"stains",
"sullies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drying":{
"to lose liveliness, force, or freshness":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"his creative talents were just drying on the vine in that small, provincial town"
],
"near antonyms":[
"freshening",
"reviving",
"blooming",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"developing",
"growing",
"increasing",
"waxing",
"cresting",
"peaking",
"surging"
],
"related":[
"mummifying",
"shriveling",
"shrivelling",
"wizening",
"declining",
"fading",
"waning",
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"lessening"
],
"synonyms":[
"wilting",
"withering"
]
},
"to make dry":{
"antonyms":[
"hydrating",
"washing",
"watering",
"wetting"
],
"examples":[
"the wind quickly dried their clothes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bathing",
"deluging",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"drenching",
"drowning",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"saturating",
"soaking",
"sopping",
"sousing",
"waterlogging",
"dampening",
"damping",
"humidifying",
"moistening",
"rehydrating",
"dipping",
"dunking",
"submerging",
"swamping"
],
"related":[
"dehumidifying",
"draining",
"evaporating",
"mummifying",
"shriveling",
"shrivelling",
"withering",
"wizening",
"air-drying",
"baking"
],
"synonyms":[
"dehydrating",
"desiccating",
"parching",
"scorching",
"searing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dray":{
"as in oxcart , jolt-wagon":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"jolt-wagon",
"oxcart",
"spring wagon",
"wagonette",
"cart",
"wagon",
"wain",
"barrow",
"hand truck",
"pushcart",
"tram",
"truck",
"wheelbarrow"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drooped":{
"to be limp from lack of water or vigor":{
"examples":[
"the flowers drooped on their stalks in the blazing sun"
],
"synonyms":[
"flagged",
"hung",
"hanged",
"lolled",
"sagged",
"swagged",
"wilted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slouched",
"slumped",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"crumpled",
"dropped",
"fell",
"sank",
"sunk",
"subsided",
"yielded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distended",
"stiffened",
"rose",
"straightened",
"unbent",
"uncurled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"as the afternoon wore on, we started to droop"
],
"synonyms":[
"decayed",
"emaciated",
"faded",
"failed",
"flagged",
"lagged",
"languished",
"sagged",
"sank",
"sunk",
"wasted (away)",
"weakened",
"went",
"wilted",
"withered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broke down",
"wore out",
"yielded",
"degenerated",
"deteriorated",
"ran down",
"rotted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalesced",
"rallied",
"rebounded",
"recovered",
"recuperated",
"gained"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dropouts":{
"as in quitters":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"quitters",
"malingerers",
"drones",
"idlers",
"lazybones",
"loafers",
"slouches",
"slugabeds",
"sluggards",
"slugs",
"goldbricks",
"shirkers",
"slackers",
"dalliers",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"loungers",
"saunterers",
"dawdlers",
"laggards",
"putterers",
"slowpokes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"live wires",
"pistols",
"powerhouses",
"doers",
"go-getters",
"hummers",
"hustlers",
"self-starters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in leavers , abandoners":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abandoners",
"come-outers",
"leavers",
"betrayers",
"double-crossers",
"quislings",
"traitors",
"traitresses",
"traitoresses",
"turnabouts",
"turncoats",
"defiers",
"insurgents",
"insurrectionaries",
"insurrectionists",
"mutineers",
"rebels",
"reds",
"revolters",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists",
"revolutionizers",
"apostates",
"defectors",
"deserters",
"recreants",
"renegades",
"discontents",
"malcontents",
"recusants",
"refuseniks",
"refusniks",
"refusers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loyalists",
"adherents",
"disciples",
"followers",
"supporters",
"fanatics",
"militants",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"zealots"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drops in the bucket":{
"a very small amount":{
"examples":[
"Your copay may seem expensive, but it's a drop in the bucket compared with the total cost of the procedure."
],
"synonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"crumbs",
"dabs",
"drams",
"driblets",
"glimmers",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"nips",
"ounces",
"particles",
"peanuts",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"shreds",
"skoshes",
"smacks",
"smells",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"snaps",
"soup\u00e7ons",
"sparks",
"spatters",
"specks",
"splashes",
"spots",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"touches",
"traces"
],
"related":[
"hoots",
"iotas",
"jots",
"minima",
"minimums",
"minims",
"modicums",
"semblances",
"syllables",
"tittles",
"vestiges",
"whits",
"atoms",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"grains",
"granules",
"molecules",
"morsels",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"patches",
"scraps",
"dashes",
"drops",
"pinches",
"parts",
"portions",
"sections",
"bites",
"nibbles",
"tastes",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"scatterings",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"doses",
"shots",
"chips",
"flakes",
"fragments",
"shards",
"shivers",
"slivers",
"smithereens",
"splinters",
"shreds",
"tatters",
"clippings",
"parings",
"shavings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bundles",
"bushels",
"deals",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"oodles",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"plenties",
"potfuls",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"stacks",
"wads",
"wealths",
"volumes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overflows",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"chunks",
"hunks",
"lumps",
"slabs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"dreamy":{
"giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses":{
"examples":[
"a beach resort that is a perfectly dreamy place to relax"
],
"synonyms":[
"agreeable",
"blessed",
"blest",
"congenial",
"darling",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"delightsome",
"dulcet",
"enjoyable",
"felicitous",
"good",
"grateful",
"gratifying",
"heavenly",
"jolly",
"luscious",
"nice",
"palatable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"pretty",
"satisfying",
"savory",
"savoury",
"sweet",
"tasty",
"welcome"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alluring",
"attractive",
"desirable",
"enviable",
"inviting",
"relishable",
"tempting",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"fascinating",
"calming",
"comforting",
"soothing",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"recreative",
"affable",
"amiable",
"cheerful",
"cheery",
"comfortable",
"gem\u00fctlich",
"genial",
"goodly",
"good-natured",
"gracious",
"hospitable",
"kindly",
"personable",
"blissful",
"felicific",
"glad",
"happy",
"joyous",
"elating",
"exhilarating",
"intoxicating",
"ecstatic",
"euphoric",
"nirvanic",
"rapturous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abominable",
"ghastly",
"god-awful",
"hellish",
"horrid",
"miserable",
"wretched",
"bilious",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"obnoxious",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revulsive",
"unsavory",
"vile",
"yucky",
"yukky",
"abhorrent",
"detestable",
"hateful",
"odious",
"boring",
"commonplace",
"dull",
"flat",
"insipid",
"irksome",
"stale",
"tedious",
"displeasing",
"dissatisfying",
"depressing",
"disheartening",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"gloomy",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"joyless",
"lachrymose",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"deplorable",
"doleful",
"dolorous",
"lamentable",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"regrettable",
"sorrowful",
"tragic",
"tragical",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"exasperating",
"irritating",
"peeving",
"perturbing",
"vexing",
"forbidding",
"hostile",
"intimidating",
"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"outraging",
"rankling",
"riling",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"antonyms":[
"disagreeable",
"pleasureless",
"unpalatable",
"unpleasant",
"unwelcome"
]
},
"tending to calm the emotions and relieve stress":{
"examples":[
"the kind of dreamy music I want after a hard day at work"
],
"synonyms":[
"calming",
"comforting",
"lulling",
"narcotic",
"pacifying",
"quieting",
"relaxing",
"sedative",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hypnotic",
"opiate",
"analgesic",
"anesthetic",
"anodyne",
"deadening",
"depressant",
"numbing",
"antianxiety",
"antidepressant",
"antidepression",
"antistress"
],
"near antonyms":[
"painful",
"stressful",
"tiresome",
"troubling",
"trying",
"unsettling",
"worrisome",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"stimulant",
"stimulating",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"disturbing",
"exasperating",
"frustrating",
"galling",
"grating",
"harassing",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"maddening",
"nettlesome",
"troublesome",
"vexatious",
"vexing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"dramatists":{
"as in playwrights , screenwriters":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"draping":{
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"the town hall was draped in bunting for the annual Fourth of July festivities"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorning",
"arraying",
"beautifying",
"bedecking",
"bedizening",
"blazoning",
"caparisoning",
"decking",
"decorating",
"doing",
"doing up",
"dolling up",
"dressing",
"embellishing",
"emblazing",
"embossing",
"enriching",
"fancifying",
"fancying up",
"festooning",
"garnishing",
"glitzing (up)",
"gracing",
"gussying up",
"ornamenting",
"prettying (up)",
"trimming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessorizing",
"dressing up",
"trapping",
"tricking (out)",
"brightening",
"freshening",
"smartening",
"sprucing (up)",
"bossing",
"chasing",
"braiding",
"embroidering",
"feathering",
"figuring",
"filigreeing",
"filleting",
"flouncing",
"frilling",
"fringing",
"furbelowing",
"garlanding",
"hanging",
"lacing",
"ribboning",
"swagging",
"wreathing",
"appliqu\u00e9ing",
"gilding",
"painting",
"diamonding",
"gemming",
"impearling",
"jeweling",
"jewelling",
"pearling",
"redecorating",
"redoing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplifying",
"streamlining",
"baring",
"denuding",
"dismantling",
"displaying",
"divesting",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"stripping",
"uncovering",
"uglifying"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemishing",
"defacing",
"disfiguring",
"marring",
"scarring",
"spoiling"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drays":{
"as in oxcarts , jolt-wagons":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"jolt-wagons",
"oxcarts",
"spring wagons",
"wagonettes",
"carts",
"wagons",
"wains",
"barrows",
"hand trucks",
"pushcarts",
"trams",
"trucks",
"wheelbarrows"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drawings":{
"a picture using lines to represent the chief features of an object or scene":{
"examples":[
"with an economy of lines, he created a vivid drawing of the tree"
],
"synonyms":[
"cartoons",
"delineations",
"sketches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contours",
"figures",
"outlines",
"silhouettes",
"caricatures",
"doodles",
"illustrations",
"depictions",
"images",
"likenesses",
"portraits",
"representations",
"engravings",
"etches",
"etchings",
"aquatints",
"charcoals",
"line drawings",
"pastels",
"watercolors",
"blueprints"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dragon lady":{
"a bad-tempered scolding woman":{
"examples":[
"a conniving dragon lady , their mother attempted to dominate their lives well into their adult years"
],
"synonyms":[
"battle-ax",
"battle-axe",
"fury",
"harpy",
"harridan",
"shrew",
"termagant",
"virago",
"vixen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fishwife",
"gorgon",
"carper",
"castigator",
"caviler",
"caviller",
"censurer",
"critic",
"faultfinder",
"nitpicker",
"railer",
"scold",
"belittler",
"derider",
"detractor",
"pettifogger",
"quibbler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"draftee":{
"a person forced or required to enroll in military service":{
"examples":[
"the massive mobilization required draftees to be rushed through training"
],
"synonyms":[
"conscript",
"inductee",
"selectee"
],
"near synonyms":[
"levy",
"recruit",
"rookie"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enlistee",
"volunteer"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drip-dry":{
"as in wring":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"wring",
"dewater",
"evaporate",
"freeze-dry",
"dehumidify",
"dehydrate",
"desiccate",
"dry",
"parch",
"scorch",
"sear"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bathe",
"bedraggle",
"douse",
"dowse",
"drench",
"drown",
"soak",
"sodden",
"sop",
"souse",
"wash",
"water",
"waterlog",
"water-soak",
"wet",
"wet down",
"asperse",
"bedew",
"damp",
"dampen",
"drizzle",
"humidify",
"hydrate",
"mist",
"moisten",
"moisturize",
"shower",
"sprinkle",
"deluge",
"flood",
"hose (down)",
"inundate",
"overflow"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drudged":{
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"examples":[
"factory workers who must drudge all day at repetitive tasks"
],
"synonyms":[
"banged away",
"beavered (away)",
"dug (away)",
"endeavored",
"fagged",
"grubbed",
"humped",
"hustled",
"labored",
"moiled",
"pegged (away)",
"plodded",
"plowed",
"plugged",
"slaved",
"slogged",
"strained",
"strove",
"strived",
"struggled",
"sweat",
"sweated",
"toiled",
"travailed",
"tugged",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near synonyms":[
"applied (oneself)",
"buckled (down)",
"dug in",
"hammered (away)",
"knuckled down",
"pitched in",
"attacked",
"drove",
"essayed",
"tried",
"exercised",
"exerted",
"overexerted",
"overworked",
"eked out",
"ground (out)",
"put out",
"scrabbled",
"scratched",
"trudged",
"waded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"broke",
"eased (up)",
"let up",
"slackened",
"bummed",
"chilled",
"dallied",
"dillydallied",
"footled",
"goldbricked",
"goofed (off)",
"hacked (around)",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"lazed",
"loafed",
"lounged",
"shirked",
"slacked (off)",
"vegged out",
"basked",
"lolled",
"relaxed",
"reposed",
"rested",
"unwound",
"dabbled",
"doodled",
"fooled around",
"fribbled",
"goofed (around)",
"hung",
"hanged",
"hung about",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drove":{
"a great number of persons or creatures massed together":{
"examples":[
"people flocked to the annual festival in droves"
],
"synonyms":[
"army",
"bike",
"cram",
"crowd",
"crush",
"flock",
"herd",
"horde",
"host",
"legion",
"mass",
"mob",
"multitude",
"press",
"rout",
"scrum",
"swarm",
"throng"
],
"near synonyms":[
"masses",
"millions",
"rabble",
"rabblement",
"riffraff",
"gaggle",
"heap",
"mountain",
"pile",
"jam",
"logjam"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a group of domestic animals assembled or herded together":{
"examples":[
"a drove of cattle"
],
"synonyms":[
"flock",
"herd"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colony",
"covey",
"gaggle",
"pack",
"plump",
"pod",
"school",
"swarm"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to urge, push, or force onward":{
"examples":[
"cowboys drove the herd of cattle from San Antonio to San Francisco"
],
"synonyms":[
"herded",
"punched",
"ran",
"run"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shepherded",
"wrangled",
"egged",
"exhorted",
"flogged",
"goaded",
"hounded",
"pressed",
"pricked",
"prodded",
"prompted",
"scourged",
"spurred",
"whipped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to travel by a motorized vehicle":{
"examples":[
"I'm going to drive across the country\u2014want to come?"
],
"synonyms":[
"automobiled",
"motored",
"tooled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rolled",
"wheeled",
"joyrode",
"chauffeured",
"hacked",
"taxied",
"rode",
"rid",
"dragged",
"raced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one":{
"examples":[
"drove the plunger into the opening"
],
"synonyms":[
"propelled",
"pushed",
"shoved",
"thrust"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impelled",
"moved",
"bore (down)",
"compressed",
"depressed",
"jammed",
"pressured",
"squashed",
"squeezed",
"weighed (upon)",
"bulldozed",
"compelled",
"forced",
"leaned (on or against)",
"muscled",
"rammed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (a person) to give in to pressure":{
"examples":[
"the corrupt governor was driven out of office"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacked",
"coerced",
"compelled",
"constrained",
"dragooned",
"forced",
"impelled",
"impressed",
"made",
"muscled",
"obligated",
"obliged",
"pressed",
"pressured",
"sandbagged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"browbeat",
"bulldozed",
"bullied",
"cowed",
"hectored",
"intimidated",
"blackmailed",
"high-pressured",
"menaced",
"shamed",
"terrorized",
"threatened",
"dragged",
"badgered",
"harassed",
"hounded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allowed",
"let",
"permitted",
"argued",
"convinced",
"induced",
"moved",
"persuaded",
"prevailed (on or upon)",
"satisfied",
"talked (into)",
"won (over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to function":{
"examples":[
"machinery driven by waterpower"
],
"synonyms":[
"activated",
"actuated",
"cranked (up)",
"moved",
"ran",
"run",
"set off",
"sparked",
"started",
"touched off",
"triggered",
"turned on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kicked over",
"turned over",
"charged",
"electrified",
"energized",
"fired",
"fueled",
"fuelled",
"generated",
"powered",
"pushed",
"discharged",
"launched",
"released",
"switched",
"tripped",
"reactivated",
"recharged",
"aroused",
"excited",
"jump-started",
"kick-started",
"stimulated",
"vitalized",
"ignited",
"incited",
"instigated",
"provoked",
"quickened",
"stirred up",
"accelerated",
"catalyzed",
"sped (up)",
"speeded (up)",
"stepped up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrested",
"braked",
"checked",
"cut off",
"drew up",
"halted",
"jammed",
"stalled",
"stopped",
"stuck",
"decelerated",
"repressed",
"slowed",
"stunted",
"suppressed"
],
"antonyms":[
"cut",
"cut out",
"deactivated",
"killed",
"shut off",
"turned off"
]
},
"to set or keep in motion":{
"examples":[
"this motor drives the gears, which then turn the shaft"
],
"synonyms":[
"actuated",
"impelled",
"moved",
"propelled",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near synonyms":[
"activated",
"motivated",
"provoked",
"abetted",
"fermented",
"fomented",
"incited",
"raised",
"stirred (up)",
"whipped (up)",
"set off",
"triggered",
"tripped",
"aroused",
"excited",
"fired (up)",
"galvanized",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"inspired",
"instigated",
"roused",
"stimulated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bridled",
"checked",
"constrained",
"contained",
"controlled",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"regulated",
"reined (in)",
"restrained"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"the runner drove past the finish line and then came to a dead stop"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"belted",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blew",
"bolted",
"bombed",
"bowled",
"breezed",
"bundled",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"cannonballed",
"careened",
"careered",
"chased",
"coursed",
"cracked (on)",
"dashed",
"flew",
"hared",
"hastened",
"hied",
"highballed",
"hotfooted (it)",
"humped",
"hurled",
"hurried",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"jetted",
"jumped",
"motored",
"nipped",
"pelted",
"raced",
"rammed",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"rustled",
"scooted",
"scurried",
"scuttled",
"shot",
"sped",
"speeded",
"stepped",
"tore",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trotted",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetled",
"darted",
"flitted",
"scampered",
"scudded",
"scuffled",
"stampeded",
"streaked",
"whizzed",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"sprinted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"stepped out",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook",
"arrowed",
"beelined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"poked",
"tarried",
"ambled",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"poked"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dresses down":{
"to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings":{
"examples":[
"dressed down for boorish behavior at the dance"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastes",
"bawls out",
"berates",
"calls down",
"castigates",
"chastises",
"chews out",
"flays",
"hammers",
"jaws",
"keelhauls",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"lectures",
"rags",
"rails (at or against)",
"rants (at)",
"rates",
"reams (out)",
"rebukes",
"reprimands",
"reproaches",
"scolds",
"scores",
"tongue-lashes",
"upbraids"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admonishes",
"chides",
"remonstrates (with)",
"reproves",
"abuses",
"assails",
"attacks",
"bad-mouths",
"blames",
"blasts",
"censures",
"condemns",
"criticizes",
"crucifies",
"denounces",
"disses",
"excoriates",
"faults",
"harangues",
"knocks",
"laces (into)",
"lashes",
"pans",
"reprehends",
"reviles",
"scourges",
"slams",
"vituperates",
"belittles",
"disparages",
"mocks",
"puts down",
"ridicules",
"scoffs",
"scorns"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approves",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"sanctions",
"extols",
"extolls",
"lauds",
"praises"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drop-off":{
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"my interest in photography has dropped off over the years"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"de-escalate",
"decline",
"decrease",
"die (away or down or out)",
"diminish",
"drain (away)",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"ebb",
"fall",
"fall away",
"lessen",
"let up",
"lower",
"moderate",
"pall",
"phase down",
"ratchet (down)",
"rachet (down)",
"recede",
"relent",
"remit",
"shrink",
"subside",
"taper",
"taper off",
"wane"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"evaporate",
"fade (away)",
"fritter (away)",
"give out",
"melt (away)",
"peter (out)",
"tail (off)",
"vanish",
"slacken",
"slow (down)",
"alleviate",
"relax",
"flag",
"sink",
"weaken",
"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"deflate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appear",
"emerge",
"show up",
"blow up",
"distend",
"elongate",
"lengthen"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulate",
"balloon",
"build",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"grow",
"increase",
"intensify",
"mount",
"mushroom",
"pick up",
"rise",
"snowball",
"soar",
"swell",
"wax"
]
},
"the amount by which something is lessened":{
"examples":[
"the drop-off in movie attendance was the greatest in more than a decade"
],
"synonyms":[
"abatement",
"decline",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"dent",
"depletion",
"depression",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"drop",
"fall",
"falloff",
"loss",
"reduction",
"shrinkage",
"step-down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deduction",
"subtraction",
"downturn",
"slip",
"slump",
"curtailment",
"cut",
"cutback",
"retrenchment",
"shortening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accretion",
"accrual",
"accumulation",
"addition",
"supplement",
"continuation",
"extension",
"upswing",
"uptrend",
"upturn"
],
"antonyms":[
"boost",
"enlargement",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"raise",
"rise",
"step-up",
"uptick"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drives (away or off)":{
"as in turns away , repulses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"repulses",
"turns away",
"alerts",
"cautions",
"forewarns",
"wards (off)",
"warns"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allures",
"baits",
"beguiles",
"betrays",
"decoys",
"entices",
"leads on",
"lures",
"seduces",
"solicits",
"tempts",
"draws in",
"inveigles",
"persuades",
"ropes (in)",
"snows",
"catches",
"enmeshes",
"immeshes",
"ensnares",
"entraps",
"meshes",
"snares",
"tangles",
"traps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"drubbed":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"a crowd was drubbing the purse snatcher when the police arrived on the scene"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashed",
"basted",
"batted",
"battered",
"beat",
"belabored",
"belted",
"birched",
"bludgeoned",
"buffeted",
"bunged up",
"clubbed",
"curried",
"did",
"fibbed",
"flogged",
"hammered",
"hided",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"lashed",
"lathered",
"licked",
"mauled",
"messed (up)",
"paddled",
"pelted",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pounded",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"punched out",
"roughed (up)",
"slated",
"slogged",
"switched",
"tanned",
"thrashed",
"threshed",
"thumped",
"tromped",
"walloped",
"whaled",
"whipped",
"whopped",
"whapped",
"whupped",
"worked over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"beset",
"boxed",
"busted",
"bust",
"chopped",
"clobbered",
"clouted",
"cracked",
"cudgeled",
"cudgelled",
"cuffed",
"descended (on or upon)",
"hit",
"jumped (on)",
"knocked",
"laid on",
"lammed",
"pasted",
"pounced (on or upon)",
"punched",
"raided",
"rushed",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"smacked",
"smashed",
"socked",
"spanked",
"stormed",
"swatted",
"swiped",
"thwacked",
"whacked",
"whammed",
"whomped",
"blackjacked",
"caned",
"cowhided",
"flagellated",
"fustigated",
"horsewhipped",
"leathered",
"pistol-whipped",
"rawhided",
"scourged",
"strapped",
"gored",
"lacerated",
"wounded",
"maimed",
"mangled",
"mutilated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"we drubbed our traditional football rivals so badly that it was basically no contest"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilated",
"blew away",
"bombed",
"buried",
"clobbered",
"creamed",
"dusted",
"flattened",
"pasted",
"routed",
"shellacked",
"skinned",
"skunked",
"smoked",
"smothered",
"snowed under",
"thrashed",
"trimmed",
"tromped",
"trounced",
"walloped",
"waxed",
"whipped",
"whomped",
"whopped",
"whapped",
"whupped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swept",
"upset",
"beat",
"bested",
"conquered",
"dispatched",
"hurdled",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"threw",
"took",
"triumphed (over)",
"won (against)",
"worsted",
"crushed",
"knocked off",
"knocked over",
"overpowered",
"overthrew",
"overwhelmed",
"subjugated",
"upended",
"vanquished",
"aced (out)",
"bettered",
"eclipsed",
"exceeded",
"outdid",
"outdistanced",
"outfought",
"outshone",
"outshined",
"outstripped",
"overtopped",
"surpassed",
"topped",
"transcended",
"edged (out)",
"nosed out",
"pipped",
"capped",
"excelled",
"flourished",
"scored",
"succeeded",
"broke",
"destroyed",
"did in",
"finished",
"sank",
"sunk",
"slaughtered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drab":{
"causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest":{
"examples":[
"the new city hall promises to be another drab pile of masonry for the town"
],
"synonyms":[
"arid",
"boring",
"colorless",
"dreary",
"drudging",
"dry",
"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"ho-hum",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"leaden",
"mind-numbing",
"monochromatic",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"slow",
"stale",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"stupid",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aseptic",
"barren",
"blah",
"dullish",
"pleasureless",
"prosaic",
"prosy",
"soggy",
"spiritless",
"blank",
"earthbound",
"gray",
"grey",
"inanimate",
"pallid",
"pedantic",
"sterile",
"suspenseless",
"undramatic",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"unimaginative",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"longsome",
"palling",
"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"fatiguing",
"wearing",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"tepid",
"unexceptional",
"unsurprising",
"vapid",
"cumbersome",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"poky",
"pokey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"sensational",
"spectacular",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"animating",
"breathtaking",
"electrifying",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"galvanizing",
"hair-raising",
"inspiring",
"invigorating",
"rip-roaring",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"thrilling",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"attractive",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"enthralling",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"mesmerizing",
"spellbinding",
"suspenseful",
"arresting",
"provocative",
"tantalizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting"
]
},
"a woman who engages in sexual activities for money":{
"examples":[
"in its time, this waterfront dive was decried as a den of iniquity, unfit even for the drunks and drabs who haunted it"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawd",
"call girl",
"cocotte",
"courtesan",
"hooker",
"hustler",
"prostitute",
"sex worker",
"streetwalker",
"tart",
"whore"
],
"near synonyms":[
"madam",
"madame",
"chippie",
"chippy",
"doxy",
"doxie",
"floozy",
"floozie",
"tramp",
"hussy",
"jade",
"minx",
"coquette",
"flirt",
"libertine",
"siren",
"tempter",
"temptress",
"vamp",
"wench"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"drifter":{
"a person who roams about without a fixed route or destination":{
"examples":[
"the drifter just packed up and moved on to the next dead-end job"
],
"synonyms":[
"gadabout",
"gypsy",
"knockabout",
"maunderer",
"nomad",
"rambler",
"roamer",
"rover",
"stroller",
"vagabond",
"wanderer",
"wayfarer"
],
"near synonyms":[
"laggard",
"straggler",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"sojourner",
"bum",
"hobo",
"tramp",
"passenger",
"sightseer",
"traveler",
"traveller",
"migrant",
"transient",
"vagrant",
"ambler",
"saunterer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"homebody",
"denizen",
"dweller",
"habitant",
"inhabitant",
"resident",
"settler"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drawing":{
"a picture using lines to represent the chief features of an object or scene":{
"examples":[
"with an economy of lines, he created a vivid drawing of the tree"
],
"synonyms":[
"cartoon",
"delineation",
"sketch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"contour",
"figure",
"outline",
"silhouette",
"caricature",
"doodle",
"illustration",
"depiction",
"image",
"likeness",
"portrait",
"representation",
"engraving",
"etch",
"etching",
"aquatint",
"charcoal",
"line drawing",
"pastel",
"watercolor",
"blueprint"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a representation of by producing lines on a surface":{
"examples":[
"see if you can draw the bowl of fruit"
],
"synonyms":[
"picturing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caricaturing",
"cartooning",
"crayoning",
"inking",
"penciling",
"pencilling",
"outlining",
"profiling",
"scrawling",
"scribbling",
"sketching"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to follow by applying steady force on":{
"examples":[
"draw a chair up to the fire and sit with us"
],
"synonyms":[
"dragging",
"haling",
"hauling",
"lugging",
"pulling",
"towing",
"tugging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attracting",
"heaving",
"jerking",
"yanking",
"carrying",
"conveying",
"ferrying",
"moving",
"transporting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shoving",
"thrusting"
],
"antonyms":[
"driving",
"propelling",
"pushing"
]
},
"to give a representation or account of in words":{
"examples":[
"a writer who draws characters with lifelike clarity"
],
"synonyms":[
"delineating",
"depicting",
"describing",
"imaging",
"limning",
"painting",
"picturing",
"portraying",
"rendering",
"setting out",
"sketching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"characterizing",
"defining",
"labeling",
"labelling",
"qualifying",
"representing",
"demonstrating",
"illustrating",
"narrating",
"reciting",
"recounting",
"rehearsing",
"relating",
"reporting",
"telling",
"displaying",
"exhibiting",
"showing",
"hinting",
"suggesting",
"drafting",
"outlining",
"silhouetting",
"tracing",
"vignetting",
"summarizing",
"summing up",
"touching off",
"redescribing",
"reimaging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coloring",
"distorting",
"falsifying",
"garbling",
"misdescribing",
"misrepresenting",
"misstating",
"perverting",
"twisting",
"warping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to receive as return for effort":{
"examples":[
"draws a hefty weekly salary"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquiring",
"attaining",
"bagging",
"bringing in",
"capturing",
"carrying",
"coming by",
"earning",
"gaining",
"garnering",
"getting",
"knocking down",
"landing",
"making",
"obtaining",
"procuring",
"pulling down",
"realizing",
"reaping",
"securing",
"winning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clearing",
"grossing",
"netting",
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"notching (up)",
"scoring",
"accumulating",
"amassing",
"racking up",
"catching",
"picking up",
"annexing",
"occupying",
"taking over",
"reacquiring",
"reattaining",
"recapturing",
"regaining",
"remaking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"according",
"giving",
"granting",
"paying",
"giving up",
"handing over",
"parting (with)",
"relinquishing",
"surrendering",
"yielding"
],
"antonyms":[
"forfeiting",
"losing"
]
},
"to take away from a place or position":{
"examples":[
"draw her aside so we can ask a quick question"
],
"synonyms":[
"clearing",
"removing",
"taking out",
"withdrawing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demounting",
"dislodging",
"abstracting",
"cutting",
"drawing off",
"drawing out",
"extracting",
"pulling",
"budging",
"dislocating",
"displacing",
"disturbing",
"moving",
"shifting",
"transferring",
"transposing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mounting",
"anchoring",
"clamping",
"fixing",
"hitching",
"mooring",
"securing",
"setting",
"embedding",
"imbedding",
"entrenching",
"intrenching",
"implanting",
"ingraining",
"engraining",
"lodging",
"rooting",
"setting up",
"siting",
"situating",
"sticking"
],
"antonyms":[
"placing",
"positioning",
"putting"
]
},
"to take the internal organs out of":{
"examples":[
"hated the thought of having to pluck and draw a goose before cooking it"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleaning",
"disemboweling",
"eviscerating",
"gutting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boning",
"dressing",
"cutting",
"excising",
"extracting",
"removing",
"withdrawing",
"yanking",
"transplanting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shape with a hammer":{
"examples":[
"drew the metal into a thin sheet by pounding it"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"forging",
"hammering",
"pounding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chasing",
"planishing",
"fashioning",
"forming",
"kneading",
"modeling",
"modelling",
"molding",
"patting",
"working",
"coining",
"minting",
"stamping",
"abating",
"boasting",
"carving",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"cutting",
"graving",
"hewing",
"knapping",
"sculpting",
"sculpturing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"draw (off)":{
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"examples":[
"drew off the fat from the top of the drippings"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleed",
"draft",
"drain",
"pump",
"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"
]
},
"driving (into)":{
"as in beating (into)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beating (into)",
"imbuing",
"infusing",
"instilling",
"establishing",
"placing",
"putting",
"settling",
"sticking",
"bedding",
"embedding",
"imbedding",
"enrooting",
"entrenching",
"intrenching",
"fixing",
"impacting",
"implanting",
"ingraining",
"engraining",
"lodging",
"rooting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dislodging",
"rooting (out)",
"uprooting",
"eliminating",
"eradicating",
"ejecting",
"expelling",
"detaching",
"disconnecting",
"disengaging",
"removing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drops out (of)":{
"as in throws up":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"throws up",
"abandons",
"vacates",
"bags",
"chucks",
"leaves",
"quits",
"resigns (from)",
"retires (from)",
"steps aside (from)",
"steps down (from)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stays (at)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drumhead court-martial":{
"as in court-martial":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"court-martial",
"high court",
"supreme court",
"inquisition",
"kangaroo court",
"criminal court",
"judicatory",
"judicature",
"judiciary",
"bar",
"bench",
"court",
"forum",
"tribunal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"drinks (in)":{
"to receive or accept gladly or readily":{
"examples":[
"the studio audience for the infomercial seemed to drink in \u2014a little too readily\u2014every word of the host's spiel"
],
"synonyms":[
"eats (up)",
"embraces",
"laps (up)",
"welcomes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adopts",
"espouses",
"takes up",
"greets",
"hails",
"enjoys",
"likes",
"prefers",
"cherry-picks",
"chooses",
"culls",
"decides (on)",
"elects",
"handpicks",
"names",
"opts (for)",
"picks",
"selects",
"singles (out)",
"takes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balks (at)",
"declines",
"passes up",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"spurns",
"throws over",
"turns down",
"demurs (to)",
"objects (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drumbeat":{
"a rapid or overwhelming outpouring of many things at once":{
"examples":[
"a dizzying drumbeat of interviews in the hours following her winning of the Academy Award"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrage",
"blitz",
"blitzkrieg",
"bombardment",
"cannonade",
"drumfire",
"flurry",
"fusillade",
"hail",
"salvo",
"shower",
"storm",
"volley"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broadside",
"earful",
"avalanche",
"burst",
"cataclysm",
"cataract",
"deluge",
"discharge",
"engulfment",
"flood",
"flood tide",
"flush",
"gush",
"inundation",
"outburst",
"outflow",
"outpouring",
"overflow",
"rash",
"spate",
"surge",
"torrent",
"current",
"river",
"stream",
"tide",
"excess",
"glut",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dribble",
"drip",
"trickle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"draw":{
"to make a representation of by producing lines on a surface":{
"examples":[
"see if you can draw the bowl of fruit"
],
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"picture"
],
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"caricature",
"cartoon",
"crayon",
"ink",
"pencil",
"outline",
"profile",
"scrawl",
"scribble",
"sketch"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to follow by applying steady force on":{
"examples":[
"draw a chair up to the fire and sit with us"
],
"synonyms":[
"drag",
"hale",
"haul",
"lug",
"pull",
"tow",
"tug"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attract",
"heave",
"jerk",
"yank",
"carry",
"convey",
"ferry",
"move",
"transport"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shove",
"thrust"
],
"antonyms":[
"drive",
"propel",
"push"
]
},
"to give a representation or account of in words":{
"examples":[
"a writer who draws characters with lifelike clarity"
],
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"delineate",
"depict",
"describe",
"image",
"limn",
"paint",
"picture",
"portray",
"render",
"set out",
"sketch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"characterize",
"define",
"label",
"qualify",
"represent",
"demonstrate",
"illustrate",
"narrate",
"recite",
"recount",
"rehearse",
"relate",
"report",
"tell",
"display",
"exhibit",
"show",
"hint",
"suggest",
"draft",
"outline",
"silhouette",
"trace",
"vignette",
"summarize",
"sum up",
"touch off",
"redescribe",
"reimage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"color",
"distort",
"falsify",
"garble",
"misdescribe",
"misrepresent",
"misstate",
"pervert",
"twist",
"warp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to receive as return for effort":{
"examples":[
"draws a hefty weekly salary"
],
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"acquire",
"attain",
"bag",
"bring in",
"capture",
"carry",
"come by",
"earn",
"gain",
"garner",
"get",
"knock down",
"land",
"make",
"obtain",
"procure",
"pull down",
"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"
]
},
"to take away from a place or position":{
"examples":[
"draw her aside so we can ask a quick question"
],
"synonyms":[
"clear",
"remove",
"take out",
"withdraw"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demount",
"dislodge",
"abstract",
"cut",
"draw off",
"draw out",
"extract",
"pull",
"budge",
"dislocate",
"displace",
"disturb",
"move",
"shift",
"transfer",
"transpose"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mount",
"anchor",
"clamp",
"fix",
"hitch",
"moor",
"secure",
"set",
"embed",
"imbed",
"entrench",
"intrench",
"implant",
"ingrain",
"engrain",
"lodge",
"root",
"set up",
"site",
"situate",
"stick"
],
"antonyms":[
"place",
"position",
"put"
]
},
"to take the internal organs out of":{
"examples":[
"hated the thought of having to pluck and draw a goose before cooking it"
],
"synonyms":[
"clean",
"disembowel",
"eviscerate",
"gut"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bone",
"dress",
"cut",
"excise",
"extract",
"remove",
"withdraw",
"yank",
"transplant"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shape with a hammer":{
"examples":[
"drew the metal into a thin sheet by pounding it"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"forge",
"hammer",
"pound"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chase",
"planish",
"fashion",
"form",
"knead",
"model",
"mold",
"pat",
"work",
"coin",
"mint",
"stamp",
"abate",
"boast",
"carve",
"chisel",
"cut",
"grave",
"hew",
"knap",
"sculpt",
"sculpture"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a situation in which neither participant in a contest, competition, or struggle comes out ahead of the other":{
"examples":[
"the game ended in a draw"
],
"synonyms":[
"dead heat",
"stalemate",
"standoff",
"tie"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deadlock",
"impasse",
"seesaw",
"photo finish",
"horse race",
"toss-up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that attracts interest":{
"examples":[
"city leaders hoped that the new waterfront development would be a big draw for tourists"
],
"synonyms":[
"attraction",
"lodestone",
"loadstone",
"magnet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capital",
"center",
"cynosure",
"epicenter",
"mecca",
"pole",
"polestar",
"allure",
"allurement",
"bait",
"enticement",
"fascination",
"lure",
"temptation",
"turn-on",
"appeal",
"call",
"incentive",
"inducement",
"persuasion",
"spur",
"stimulus",
"curiosity",
"sight(s)",
"spectacle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or an instance of applying force on something so that it moves in the direction of the force":{
"examples":[
"took a draw on his cigarette and immediately started coughing"
],
"synonyms":[
"haul",
"jerk",
"pluck",
"pull",
"tug",
"wrench",
"yank"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drag",
"tow",
"hitch",
"twitch",
"grab",
"snatch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heave",
"shove",
"thrust"
],
"antonyms":[
"push"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drooling":{
"as in slobbering , slavering":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"slavering",
"slobbering",
"adulatory",
"fulsome",
"gushing",
"gushy",
"hagiographic",
"hagiographical",
"oily",
"oleaginous",
"soapy",
"unctuous",
"cloying",
"sickening",
"demonstrative",
"effusive",
"mushy",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved",
"unrestrained",
"artificial",
"backhanded",
"feigned",
"hypocritical",
"insincere",
"left-handed",
"mealymouthed",
"sanctimonious",
"two-faced",
"disarming",
"endearing",
"ingratiating",
"winning",
"winsome",
"extravagant",
"lavish",
"unrestrained",
"abundant",
"copious",
"profuse"
],
"near antonyms":[
"artless",
"earnest",
"genuine",
"heartfelt",
"honest",
"ingenuous",
"sincere",
"true",
"unaffected",
"unfeigned",
"unpretending",
"unpretentious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth":{
"examples":[
"the dog drooled when we put the steak down on the floor"
],
"synonyms":[
"dribbling",
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"salivating",
"slavering",
"slobbering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"watering",
"expectorating",
"spitting",
"foaming",
"frothing",
"spluttering",
"sputtering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make an exaggerated display of affection or enthusiasm":{
"examples":[
"middle-aged men drooling over a starlet half their age"
],
"synonyms":[
"effusing",
"enthusing",
"fussing",
"gushing",
"raving",
"rhapsodizing",
"slobbering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doting (on)",
"fawning",
"emoting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly":{
"examples":[
"stop drooling , slow down, and take a deep breath, because I can't understand you"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbling",
"bumbling",
"chattering",
"chatting",
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"gabbling",
"gibbering",
"jabbering",
"prattling",
"sputtering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blabbering",
"blathering",
"bleating",
"blithering",
"gabbing",
"jangling",
"jawing",
"pattering",
"prating",
"rattling",
"running on",
"smattering",
"tittle-tattling",
"trolling",
"yakking",
"yacking",
"chuntering",
"maundering",
"mouthing",
"mumbling",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"stammering",
"stuttering",
"screeching",
"shouting",
"shrieking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulating",
"enunciating",
"pronouncing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"drawn":{
"as in painted , represented":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"painted",
"represented",
"photographic",
"video",
"illustrational",
"illustrative",
"graphic",
"graphical",
"imaginal",
"pictorial",
"visual",
"hieroglyphic",
"hieroglyphical",
"iconographic",
"iconographical",
"ideogramic",
"ideogrammic",
"ideogrammatic",
"ideographic",
"pictographic"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a representation of by producing lines on a surface":{
"examples":[
"see if you can draw the bowl of fruit"
],
"synonyms":[
"pictured"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caricatured",
"cartooned",
"crayoned",
"inked",
"penciled",
"pencilled",
"outlined",
"profiled",
"scrawled",
"scribbled",
"sketched"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to follow by applying steady force on":{
"examples":[
"draw a chair up to the fire and sit with us"
],
"synonyms":[
"dragged",
"haled",
"hauled",
"lugged",
"pulled",
"towed",
"tugged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attracted",
"heaved",
"hove",
"jerked",
"yanked",
"carried",
"conveyed",
"ferried",
"moved",
"transported"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shoved",
"thrust"
],
"antonyms":[
"driven",
"propelled",
"pushed"
]
},
"to give a representation or account of in words":{
"examples":[
"a writer who draws characters with lifelike clarity"
],
"synonyms":[
"delineated",
"depicted",
"described",
"imaged",
"limned",
"painted",
"pictured",
"portrayed",
"rendered",
"set out",
"sketched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"characterized",
"defined",
"labeled",
"labelled",
"qualified",
"represented",
"demonstrated",
"illustrated",
"narrated",
"recited",
"recounted",
"rehearsed",
"related",
"reported",
"told",
"displayed",
"exhibited",
"shown",
"showed",
"hinted",
"suggested",
"drafted",
"outlined",
"silhouetted",
"traced",
"vignetted",
"summarized",
"summed up",
"touched off",
"redescribed",
"reimaged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"colored",
"distorted",
"falsified",
"garbled",
"misdescribed",
"misrepresented",
"misstated",
"perverted",
"twisted",
"warped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to receive as return for effort":{
"examples":[
"draws a hefty weekly salary"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquired",
"attained",
"bagged",
"brought in",
"captured",
"carried",
"come by",
"earned",
"gained",
"garnered",
"got",
"gotten",
"knocked down",
"landed",
"made",
"obtained",
"procured",
"pulled down",
"realized",
"reaped",
"secured",
"won"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleared",
"grossed",
"netted",
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"notched (up)",
"scored",
"accumulated",
"amassed",
"racked up",
"caught",
"picked up",
"annexed",
"occupied",
"taken over",
"reacquired",
"reattained",
"recaptured",
"regained",
"remade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accorded",
"given",
"granted",
"paid",
"given up",
"handed over",
"parted (with)",
"relinquished",
"surrendered",
"yielded"
],
"antonyms":[
"forfeited",
"lost"
]
},
"to take away from a place or position":{
"examples":[
"draw her aside so we can ask a quick question"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleared",
"removed",
"taken out",
"withdrawn"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demounted",
"dislodged",
"abstracted",
"cut",
"drawn off",
"drawn out",
"extracted",
"pulled",
"budged",
"dislocated",
"displaced",
"disturbed",
"moved",
"shifted",
"transferred",
"transposed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mounted",
"anchored",
"clamped",
"fixed",
"hitched",
"moored",
"secured",
"set",
"embedded",
"imbedded",
"entrenched",
"intrenched",
"implanted",
"ingrained",
"engrained",
"lodged",
"rooted",
"set up",
"sited",
"situated",
"stuck"
],
"antonyms":[
"placed",
"positioned",
"put"
]
},
"to take the internal organs out of":{
"examples":[
"hated the thought of having to pluck and draw a goose before cooking it"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleaned",
"disemboweled",
"eviscerated",
"gutted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boned",
"dressed",
"cut",
"excised",
"extracted",
"removed",
"withdrawn",
"yanked",
"transplanted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shape with a hammer":{
"examples":[
"drew the metal into a thin sheet by pounding it"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaten",
"beat",
"forged",
"hammered",
"pounded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chased",
"planished",
"fashioned",
"formed",
"kneaded",
"modeled",
"modelled",
"molded",
"patted",
"worked",
"wrought",
"coined",
"minted",
"stamped",
"abated",
"boasted",
"carved",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"cut",
"graven",
"graved",
"hewed",
"hewn",
"knapped",
"sculpted",
"sculptured"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"dresses":{
"a garment with a joined blouse and skirt usually worn by a woman or girl":{
"examples":[
"what a lovely dress you're wearing today!"
],
"synonyms":[
"frocks",
"gowns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chemises",
"coatdresses",
"granny dresses",
"housedresses",
"jumpers",
"kimonos",
"kirtles",
"minidresses",
"Mother Hubbards",
"muumuus",
"overdresses",
"sacks",
"sheaths",
"shifts",
"shirtdresses",
"shirtwaists",
"sundresses",
"sweaterdresses",
"tea gowns"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"clothing chosen as appropriate for a specific situation":{
"examples":[
"a bagpiper in full Scottish Highlander dress"
],
"synonyms":[
"costumes",
"drags",
"garbs",
"getups",
"guises",
"outfits",
"togs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparels",
"attires",
"clothes",
"duds",
"habiliments",
"raiments",
"fashions",
"modes",
"styles",
"arrays",
"caparisons",
"vestments"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the outward form of someone or something especially as indicative of a quality":{
"examples":[
"another version of the Cinderella story but in modern-romance dress"
],
"synonyms":[
"appearances",
"aspects",
"figures",
"garbs",
"looks",
"miens",
"outsides",
"presences",
"regards"
],
"near synonyms":[
"airs",
"attitudes",
"bearings",
"behaviors",
"comportments",
"demeanors",
"deportments",
"manners",
"poises",
"poses",
"carriages",
"postures",
"stances",
"casts",
"molds",
"shapes",
"turns",
"colorings",
"colors",
"complexions",
"countenances",
"faces",
"features",
"habits",
"habitus",
"persons",
"physiognomies",
"superficies",
"visages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cover with a bandage":{
"examples":[
"first wash and then dress the wound"
],
"synonyms":[
"bandages",
"binds",
"swathes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attends",
"cares (for)",
"doctors",
"medicates",
"ministers (to)",
"nurses",
"treats",
"cures",
"heals",
"mends",
"rehabilitates",
"remedies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"let's dress up the room with some greenery for the holiday party"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorns",
"arrays",
"beautifies",
"bedecks",
"bedizens",
"blazons",
"caparisons",
"decks",
"decorates",
"does",
"does up",
"dolls up",
"drapes",
"embellishes",
"emblazes",
"embosses",
"enriches",
"fancies up",
"fancifies",
"festoons",
"garnishes",
"glitzes (up)",
"graces",
"gussies up",
"ornaments",
"pretties (up)",
"trims"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessorizes",
"dresses up",
"traps",
"tricks (out)",
"brightens",
"freshens",
"smartens",
"spruces (up)",
"bosses",
"chases",
"braids",
"embroiders",
"feathers",
"figures",
"filigrees",
"fillets",
"flounces",
"frills",
"fringes",
"furbelows",
"garlands",
"hangs",
"laces",
"ribbons",
"swags",
"wreathes",
"appliqu\u00e9s",
"gilds",
"paints",
"diamonds",
"gems",
"impearls",
"jewels",
"pearls",
"redecorates",
"redoes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplifies",
"streamlines",
"bares",
"denudes",
"dismantles",
"displays",
"divests",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"strips",
"uncovers",
"uglifies"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemishes",
"defaces",
"disfigures",
"mars",
"scars",
"spoils"
]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"dress the granite block to be used as the headstone on all four sides"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffs",
"burnishes",
"furbishes",
"glosses",
"grinds",
"polishes",
"rubs",
"shines",
"smoothens",
"smooths",
"smoothes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleeks",
"slicks",
"coats",
"glazes",
"japans",
"lacquers",
"varnishes",
"faces",
"finishes",
"veneers",
"brightens",
"files",
"rasps",
"sandblasts",
"sandpapers",
"sands",
"scours",
"scrapes",
"scrubs",
"bobs",
"bones",
"laps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"roughens",
"roughs (up)",
"ruffles",
"scuffs (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{
"examples":[
"dressed the young girl in satin and lace"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparels",
"arrays",
"attires",
"bedecks",
"caparisons",
"clothes",
"costumes",
"decks (out)",
"does up",
"dresses up",
"enrobes",
"garbs",
"garments",
"gets up",
"gowns",
"habits",
"invests",
"rigs (out)",
"robes",
"suits",
"togs (up or out)",
"toilets",
"vestures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloaks",
"frocks",
"jackets",
"mantles",
"vests",
"drapes",
"enswathes",
"haps",
"huddles",
"swaddles",
"swathes",
"wraps",
"accoutres",
"accouters",
"bedights",
"equips",
"furnishes",
"habilitates",
"outfits",
"tailors",
"uniforms",
"dresses down",
"underdresses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denudes",
"divests",
"uncovers",
"undrapes",
"unveils"
],
"antonyms":[
"disarrays",
"disrobes",
"strips",
"unclothes",
"undresses",
"untrusses"
]
},
"to put on one's best or formal clothes":{
"examples":[
"we don't usually dress for dinner"
],
"synonyms":[
"dolls up",
"dresses up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preens",
"primps",
"prinks",
"smartens (up)",
"accessorizes",
"apparels",
"arrays",
"attires",
"bedecks",
"bedizens",
"caparisons",
"clothes",
"costumes",
"decks",
"dudes (up)",
"garbs",
"garments",
"invests",
"rigs (out)",
"robes",
"suits"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care":{
"examples":[
"dress the beans by applying fertilizer once a week"
],
"synonyms":[
"crops",
"cultivates",
"cultures",
"grows",
"promotes",
"raises",
"rears",
"tends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breeds",
"produces",
"propagates",
"plants",
"sows",
"gathers",
"gleans",
"harvests",
"reaps",
"germinates",
"quickens",
"ripens",
"roots",
"sprouts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"kills",
"digs",
"extirpates",
"picks",
"plucks",
"pulls (up)",
"uproots",
"cuts",
"hays",
"mows"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drudger":{
"a person who does very hard or dull work":{
"examples":[
"a youth striving to become something more than just a drudger working at some dead-end job"
],
"synonyms":[
"dogsbody",
"drone",
"drudge",
"fag",
"foot soldier",
"grub",
"grubber",
"grunt",
"laborer",
"peon",
"plugger",
"slave",
"slogger",
"toiler",
"worker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"workhorse",
"serf"
],
"near antonyms":[
"goldbrick",
"shirker",
"idler",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"slouch",
"slug",
"sluggard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drawling":{
"to speak slowly with vowel sounds that are longer than usual":{
"examples":[
"He drawled his name in a Southern accent."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"breathing",
"chirping",
"gasping",
"lipping",
"mouthing",
"murmuring",
"purring",
"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"
]
},
"drums":{
"a metal container in the shape of a cylinder":{
"examples":[
"an oil drum"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"canisters",
"cannisters",
"cans",
"tins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"buckets",
"pails",
"cannikins",
"tin cans"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike or cause to strike lightly and usually rhythmically":{
"examples":[
"absentmindedly drumming his fingers on the table"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"raps",
"taps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"bonks",
"bops",
"hammers",
"hits",
"knocks",
"pastes",
"pounds",
"slams",
"smacks",
"socks",
"strikes",
"swats",
"thuds",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"whacks",
"chinks",
"clatters",
"clinks",
"pings",
"pats",
"pit-a-pats",
"pitter-patters",
"chucks",
"claps",
"clicks",
"flicks",
"tips"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"draws":{
"to make a representation of by producing lines on a surface":{
"examples":[
"see if you can draw the bowl of fruit"
],
"synonyms":[
"pictures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caricatures",
"cartoons",
"crayons",
"inks",
"pencils",
"outlines",
"profiles",
"scrawls",
"scribbles",
"sketches"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to follow by applying steady force on":{
"examples":[
"draw a chair up to the fire and sit with us"
],
"synonyms":[
"drags",
"hales",
"hauls",
"lugs",
"pulls",
"tows",
"tugs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attracts",
"heaves",
"jerks",
"yanks",
"carries",
"conveys",
"ferries",
"moves",
"transports"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shoves",
"thrusts"
],
"antonyms":[
"drives",
"propels",
"pushes"
]
},
"to give a representation or account of in words":{
"examples":[
"a writer who draws characters with lifelike clarity"
],
"synonyms":[
"delineates",
"depicts",
"describes",
"images",
"limns",
"paints",
"pictures",
"portrays",
"renders",
"sets out",
"sketches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"characterizes",
"defines",
"labels",
"qualifies",
"represents",
"demonstrates",
"illustrates",
"narrates",
"recites",
"recounts",
"rehearses",
"relates",
"reports",
"tells",
"displays",
"exhibits",
"shows",
"hints",
"suggests",
"drafts",
"outlines",
"silhouettes",
"traces",
"vignettes",
"summarizes",
"sums up",
"touches off",
"redescribes",
"reimages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"colors",
"distorts",
"falsifies",
"garbles",
"misdescribes",
"misrepresents",
"misstates",
"perverts",
"twists",
"warps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to receive as return for effort":{
"examples":[
"draws a hefty weekly salary"
],
"synonyms":[
"acquires",
"attains",
"bags",
"brings in",
"captures",
"carries",
"comes by",
"earns",
"gains",
"garners",
"gets",
"knocks down",
"lands",
"makes",
"obtains",
"procures",
"pulls down",
"realizes",
"reaps",
"secures",
"wins"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clears",
"grosses",
"nets",
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"notches (up)",
"scores",
"accumulates",
"amasses",
"racks up",
"catches",
"picks up",
"annexes",
"occupies",
"takes over",
"reacquires",
"reattains",
"recaptures",
"regains",
"remakes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accords",
"gives",
"grants",
"pays",
"gives up",
"hands over",
"parts (with)",
"relinquishes",
"surrenders",
"yields"
],
"antonyms":[
"forfeits",
"loses"
]
},
"to take away from a place or position":{
"examples":[
"draw her aside so we can ask a quick question"
],
"synonyms":[
"clears",
"removes",
"takes out",
"withdraws"
],
"near synonyms":[
"demounts",
"dislodges",
"abstracts",
"cuts",
"draws off",
"draws out",
"extracts",
"pulls",
"budges",
"dislocates",
"displaces",
"disturbs",
"moves",
"shifts",
"transfers",
"transposes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"mounts",
"anchors",
"clamps",
"fixes",
"hitches",
"moors",
"secures",
"sets",
"embeds",
"imbeds",
"entrenches",
"intrenches",
"implants",
"ingrains",
"engrains",
"lodges",
"roots",
"sets up",
"sites",
"situates",
"sticks"
],
"antonyms":[
"places",
"positions",
"puts"
]
},
"to take the internal organs out of":{
"examples":[
"hated the thought of having to pluck and draw a goose before cooking it"
],
"synonyms":[
"cleans",
"disembowels",
"eviscerates",
"guts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bones",
"dresses",
"cuts",
"excises",
"extracts",
"removes",
"withdraws",
"yanks",
"transplants"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to shape with a hammer":{
"examples":[
"drew the metal into a thin sheet by pounding it"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"forges",
"hammers",
"pounds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chases",
"planishes",
"fashions",
"forms",
"kneads",
"models",
"molds",
"pats",
"works",
"coins",
"mints",
"stamps",
"abates",
"boasts",
"carves",
"chisels",
"cuts",
"graves",
"hews",
"knaps",
"sculpts",
"sculptures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a situation in which neither participant in a contest, competition, or struggle comes out ahead of the other":{
"examples":[
"the game ended in a draw"
],
"synonyms":[
"dead heats",
"stalemates",
"standoffs",
"ties"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deadlocks",
"impasses",
"seesaws",
"photo finishes",
"horse races",
"toss-ups"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that attracts interest":{
"examples":[
"city leaders hoped that the new waterfront development would be a big draw for tourists"
],
"synonyms":[
"attractions",
"lodestones",
"loadstones",
"magnets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capitals",
"centers",
"cynosures",
"epicenters",
"meccas",
"poles",
"polestars",
"allurements",
"allures",
"baits",
"enticements",
"fascinations",
"lures",
"temptations",
"turn-ons",
"appeals",
"calls",
"incentives",
"inducements",
"persuasions",
"spurs",
"stimuli",
"curiosities",
"sights",
"spectacles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or an instance of applying force on something so that it moves in the direction of the force":{
"examples":[
"took a draw on his cigarette and immediately started coughing"
],
"synonyms":[
"hauls",
"jerks",
"plucks",
"pulls",
"tugs",
"wrenches",
"yanks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drags",
"tows",
"hitches",
"twitches",
"grabs",
"snatches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heaves",
"shoves",
"thrusts"
],
"antonyms":[
"pushes"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dreadlock":{
"as in cornrow , pigtail":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cornrow",
"pigtail",
"queue",
"rickrack",
"ricrac",
"stripe",
"braiding",
"braid",
"lace",
"lacing",
"plait",
"plat"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drenches":{
"to make wet":{
"examples":[
"we were drenched by the sudden rainstorm"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathes",
"bedraggles",
"douses",
"dowses",
"drowns",
"soaks",
"soddens",
"sops",
"souses",
"washes",
"waterlogs",
"waters",
"water-soaks",
"wets",
"wets down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"asperses",
"bedews",
"dampens",
"damps",
"drizzles",
"humidifies",
"hydrates",
"mists",
"moistens",
"moisturizes",
"showers",
"sprinkles",
"deluges",
"floods",
"hoses (down)",
"inundates",
"overflows",
"submerges",
"swamps",
"splashes",
"impregnates",
"saturates",
"steeps",
"flushes",
"irrigates",
"laves",
"rinses",
"sloshes",
"sluices",
"dips",
"ducks",
"dunks",
"rehydrates",
"rewashes",
"rewets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewaters",
"evaporates",
"freeze-dries",
"drip-dries",
"wrings",
"dehumidifies"
],
"antonyms":[
"dehydrates",
"desiccates",
"dries",
"parches",
"scorches",
"sears"
]
},
"to wet thoroughly with liquid":{
"examples":[
"when using the carpet shampooer, wet but do not drench the carpet"
],
"synonyms":[
"drowns",
"impregnates",
"macerates",
"saturates",
"soaks",
"soddens",
"sops",
"souses",
"steeps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"waterlogs",
"water-soaks",
"marinates",
"seethes",
"presoaks",
"dips",
"immerses",
"inundates",
"submerges",
"swamps",
"bathes",
"douses",
"dowses",
"hydrates",
"swills",
"washes",
"waters",
"infiltrates",
"penetrates",
"permeates",
"dampens",
"damps",
"humidifies",
"moistens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehydrates",
"desiccates",
"dries",
"parches",
"sears",
"drains",
"empties",
"voids",
"dehumidifies"
],
"antonyms":[
"wrings (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"driver":{
"a person who travels by automobile":{
"examples":[
"fans arriving by public transportation will find the south entrance most convenient, but drivers will have a choice of entrances"
],
"synonyms":[
"automobilist",
"motorist",
"wheelman"
],
"near synonyms":[
"operator",
"codriver",
"chauffeur",
"carpooler"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dragging one's heels":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"I think she's dragging her feet on the project because she thinks it's not worth the effort."
],
"synonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"delaying",
"diddling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"lollygagging",
"lallygagging",
"moping",
"poking",
"shilly-shallying",
"tarrying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling around",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"ambling",
"easing",
"inching",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"staggering",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)",
"filibustering",
"procrastinating",
"stalling",
"temporizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowling",
"breezing",
"darting",
"humping",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"scrambling",
"stampeding",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"running",
"sprinting",
"trotting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"speeding (up)",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"bolting",
"careering",
"coursing",
"dashing",
"flying",
"hastening",
"hotfooting (it)",
"hurrying",
"racing",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"scooting",
"scudding",
"scurrying",
"speeding",
"tearing",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"whizzing",
"zipping"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"drummed up":{
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
"examples":[
"anyone who drums up a better way of doing this tedious task will make a fortune"
],
"synonyms":[
"concocted",
"constructed",
"contrived",
"cooked (up)",
"devised",
"excogitated",
"fabricated",
"invented",
"made up",
"manufactured",
"thought (up)",
"trumped up",
"vamped (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coined",
"designed",
"hatched",
"produced",
"daydreamed",
"dreamed",
"dreamt",
"fantasized",
"conceived",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"imagined",
"pictured",
"visioned",
"visualized",
"ad-libbed",
"extemporized",
"improvised"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cloned",
"copied",
"copycatted",
"duplicated",
"imitated",
"mimicked",
"reduplicated",
"replicated",
"reproduced"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"droshky":{
"as in barouche , caroche":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barouche",
"brougham",
"buckboard",
"buggy",
"cab",
"cabriolet",
"calash",
"cal\u00e8che",
"caleche",
"caroche",
"carryall",
"chaise",
"chariot",
"coach",
"coup\u00e9",
"coupe",
"curricle",
"diligence",
"dogcart",
"four-in-hand",
"gig",
"go-cart",
"hackney",
"hansom",
"hansom cab",
"jaunting car",
"landau",
"phaeton",
"post chaise",
"roadster",
"rockaway",
"stage",
"stagecoach",
"stanhope",
"surrey",
"tandem",
"tilbury",
"tonga",
"trap",
"troika",
"victoria",
"carriage",
"equipage",
"rig",
"turnout"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dreamboat":{
"a physically attractive person":{
"examples":[
"an actor who's still regarded as one of the screen's all-time great dreamboats"
],
"synonyms":[
"babe",
"cutie",
"cutey",
"dish",
"doll",
"fox",
"glamour-puss",
"hottie",
"knockout",
"looker",
"showstopper",
"ten"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beauty",
"eyeful",
"goddess",
"lovely",
"stunner",
"beefcake",
"hunk",
"stud",
"superstud"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"dog"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drably":{
"as in dully , boringly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boringly",
"dully",
"colorlessly",
"inconspicuously",
"unobtrusively",
"unpretentiously",
"chastely",
"demurely",
"modestly",
"conservatively",
"plainly",
"quietly",
"simply",
"bleakly",
"severely",
"somberly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bravely",
"brightly",
"brilliantly",
"colorfully",
"gaily",
"gayly",
"flamboyantly",
"flashily",
"garishly",
"gaudily",
"loud",
"loudly",
"ostentatiously",
"fancily",
"ornately",
"swankily"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"dragoon":{
"to cause (a person) to give in to pressure":{
"examples":[
"she was dragooned into agreeing to the fraudulent scheme"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"coerce",
"compel",
"constrain",
"drive",
"force",
"impel",
"impress",
"make",
"muscle",
"obligate",
"oblige",
"press",
"pressure",
"sandbag"
],
"near synonyms":[
"browbeat",
"bulldoze",
"bully",
"cow",
"hector",
"intimidate",
"blackmail",
"high-pressure",
"menace",
"shame",
"terrorize",
"threaten",
"drag",
"badger",
"harass",
"hound"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allow",
"let",
"permit",
"argue",
"convince",
"induce",
"move",
"persuade",
"prevail (on or upon)",
"satisfy",
"talk (into)",
"win (over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in cavalryman , cuirassier":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"carabineer",
"carabinier",
"cavalier",
"cavalryman",
"cuirassier",
"servicewoman",
"doughboy",
"footman",
"foot soldier",
"grunt",
"infantryman",
"dogface",
"fighter",
"legionary",
"legionnaire",
"man-at-arms",
"regular",
"serviceman",
"soldier",
"trooper",
"warrior",
"commando",
"raider",
"jarhead",
"marine",
"ranger",
"artilleryman",
"cannoneer",
"gunner",
"mortarman",
"musketeer",
"rifleman",
"archer",
"crossbowman",
"lancer",
"pikeman",
"spearman",
"Confederate",
"Continental",
"Federal",
"GI",
"guardsman",
"militiaman",
"minuteman"
],
"near antonyms":[
"civilian"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drop-offs":{
"the amount by which something is lessened":{
"examples":[
"the drop-off in movie attendance was the greatest in more than a decade"
],
"synonyms":[
"abatements",
"declines",
"decreases",
"decrements",
"dents",
"depletions",
"depressions",
"diminishments",
"diminutions",
"drops",
"falloffs",
"falls",
"losses",
"reductions",
"shrinkages",
"step-downs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deductions",
"subtractions",
"downturns",
"slips",
"slumps",
"curtailments",
"cutbacks",
"cuts",
"retrenchments",
"shortenings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accretions",
"accruals",
"accumulations",
"additions",
"supplements",
"continuations",
"extensions",
"upswings",
"uptrends",
"upturns"
],
"antonyms":[
"boosts",
"enlargements",
"gains",
"increases",
"increments",
"raises",
"rises",
"step-ups",
"upticks"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drop (off)":{
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"my interest in photography has dropped off over the years"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"de-escalate",
"decline",
"decrease",
"die (away or down or out)",
"diminish",
"drain (away)",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"ebb",
"fall",
"fall away",
"lessen",
"let up",
"lower",
"moderate",
"pall",
"phase down",
"ratchet (down)",
"rachet (down)",
"recede",
"relent",
"remit",
"shrink",
"subside",
"taper",
"taper off",
"wane"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"evaporate",
"fade (away)",
"fritter (away)",
"give out",
"melt (away)",
"peter (out)",
"tail (off)",
"vanish",
"slacken",
"slow (down)",
"alleviate",
"relax",
"flag",
"sink",
"weaken",
"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"deflate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appear",
"emerge",
"show up",
"blow up",
"distend",
"elongate",
"lengthen"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulate",
"balloon",
"build",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"grow",
"increase",
"intensify",
"mount",
"mushroom",
"pick up",
"rise",
"snowball",
"soar",
"swell",
"wax"
]
},
"the amount by which something is lessened":{
"examples":[
"the drop-off in movie attendance was the greatest in more than a decade"
],
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"abatement",
"decline",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"dent",
"depletion",
"depression",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"drop",
"fall",
"falloff",
"loss",
"reduction",
"shrinkage",
"step-down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deduction",
"subtraction",
"downturn",
"slip",
"slump",
"curtailment",
"cut",
"cutback",
"retrenchment",
"shortening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accretion",
"accrual",
"accumulation",
"addition",
"supplement",
"continuation",
"extension",
"upswing",
"uptrend",
"upturn"
],
"antonyms":[
"boost",
"enlargement",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"raise",
"rise",
"step-up",
"uptick"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dressers":{
"as in cuddies , pie safes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cuddies",
"pie safes",
"bookcases",
"breakfronts",
"chests",
"china closets",
"credences",
"credenzas",
"\u00e9tag\u00e8res",
"etageres",
"secretaries",
"showcases",
"taborets",
"tabourets",
"vitrines",
"armoires",
"clothespresses",
"garderobes",
"wardrobes",
"buffets",
"cabinets",
"closets",
"consoles",
"cupboards",
"hutches",
"lockers",
"presses",
"sideboards",
"cabinetries",
"shelvings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drop by":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I'll either drop by on the way there or on the way back"
],
"synonyms":[
"call",
"come by",
"come over",
"drop in",
"pop (in)",
"run (over)",
"run in",
"step in",
"stop (by or in)",
"visit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barge (in)",
"look up",
"see",
"bop (into)",
"happen (by)",
"frequent",
"hang (at)",
"haunt",
"resort (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"droshkies":{
"as in barouches , caroches":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barouches",
"broughams",
"buckboards",
"buggies",
"cabriolets",
"cabs",
"calashes",
"cal\u00e8ches",
"caleches",
"caroches",
"carryalls",
"chaises",
"chariots",
"coaches",
"coup\u00e9s",
"coupes",
"curricles",
"diligences",
"dogcarts",
"four-in-hands",
"gigs",
"go-carts",
"hackneys",
"hansoms",
"hansom cabs",
"jaunting cars",
"landaus",
"phaetons",
"post chaises",
"roadsters",
"rockaways",
"stagecoaches",
"stages",
"stanhopes",
"surreys",
"tandems",
"tilburies",
"tongas",
"traps",
"troikas",
"victorias",
"carriages",
"equipages",
"rigs",
"turnouts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drinking songs":{
"as in fight songs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fight songs",
"arias",
"arie",
"art songs",
"barcaroles",
"barcarolles",
"blues",
"chansons",
"chanteys",
"chanties",
"shanties",
"chants",
"choruses",
"croons",
"descants",
"discants",
"folk songs",
"glees",
"lullabies",
"madrigals",
"motets",
"part-songs",
"pops",
"rockers",
"roundelays",
"rounds",
"serenades",
"standards",
"torch songs",
"hallelujahs",
"paeans",
"covers",
"medleys",
"remixes",
"dirges",
"laments",
"requiems",
"threnodies",
"anthems",
"cantatas",
"canticles",
"carols",
"chorales",
"hymns",
"noels",
"psalms",
"spirituals",
"ballads",
"ditties",
"jingles",
"lays",
"lyrics",
"songs",
"vocals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drizzling":{
"as in drizzly , misty":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"drippy",
"drizzly",
"misty",
"mizzly",
"spitting",
"sprinkling",
"pouring",
"precipitating",
"rainy",
"stormy",
"wet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dry"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in dusting , blanketing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blanketing",
"dusting",
"bestrewing",
"dotting",
"peppering",
"scattering",
"sowing",
"spotting",
"spraying",
"sprinkling",
"strewing",
"studding",
"dappling",
"flecking",
"speckling",
"stippling",
"bespattering",
"spattering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"drunkards":{
"a person who makes a habit of getting drunk":{
"examples":[
"accused him of being a no-good drunkard who needed professional help for his problem"
],
"synonyms":[
"alcoholics",
"alkies",
"boozehounds",
"boozers",
"dipsomaniacs",
"drinkers",
"drunks",
"inebriates",
"juiceheads",
"juicers",
"lushes",
"rummies",
"soakers",
"soaks",
"sots",
"souses",
"tipplers",
"topers",
"tosspots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swiggers",
"swillers",
"winos"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstainers",
"nondrinkers",
"teetotalers",
"teetotallers",
"teetotalists"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"draws up":{
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"examples":[
"he drew up his horse outside the tavern"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrests",
"brings up",
"catches",
"checks",
"fetches up",
"halts",
"holds up",
"pulls 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":[]
},
"to put into a particular arrangement":{
"examples":[
"drew up the troops into a line along the ridge"
],
"synonyms":[
"arranges",
"arrays",
"classifies",
"codifies",
"disposes",
"lays out",
"marshals",
"marshalls",
"orders",
"organizes",
"ranges",
"systematizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grooms",
"makes up",
"spruces (up)",
"straightens (up)",
"tidies (up)",
"unscrambles",
"aligns",
"alines",
"cues",
"lines",
"lines up",
"queues",
"alphabetizes",
"files",
"hierarchizes",
"prioritizes",
"sequences",
"emplaces",
"places",
"sets",
"displays",
"maps (out)",
"sets out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"deranges",
"disarranges",
"disarrays",
"disorders",
"messes (up)",
"musses (up)",
"rumples",
"upsets"
]
},
"to put (something) into proper and usually carefully worked out written form":{
"examples":[
"draw up a proposal and submit it to the committee for approval"
],
"synonyms":[
"casts",
"composes",
"crafts",
"drafts",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drudgery":{
"very hard or unpleasant work":{
"examples":[
"in the \"good old days\" household servants led lives filled with much drudgery and little pleasure"
],
"synonyms":[
"donkeywork",
"drudge",
"fatigue",
"grind",
"labor",
"moil",
"slavery",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spadework",
"effort",
"exertion",
"pains",
"struggle",
"trouble",
"chore",
"duty",
"job",
"obligation",
"responsibility",
"routine",
"tedium",
"treadmill"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decompression",
"ease",
"leisure",
"relaxation",
"repose",
"rest",
"amusement",
"dalliance",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"recreation",
"sport",
"dormancy",
"idleness",
"inactivity",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"dallying",
"goldbricking",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging"
],
"antonyms":[
"fun",
"play"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"draggers":{
"someone who moves slowly or more slowly than others":{
"examples":[
"we quickly left the draggers behind and sprinted up the hill"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawlers",
"dalliers",
"dawdlers",
"laggards",
"laggers",
"lingerers",
"loiterers",
"plodders",
"slowpokes",
"snails",
"stragglers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"latecomers",
"idlers",
"lazybones",
"loafers",
"loungers",
"slouches",
"sluggards",
"slugs",
"delayers",
"procrastinators"
],
"near antonyms":[
"go-getters",
"hustlers",
"scramblers",
"hurriers",
"rushers",
"speeders"
],
"antonyms":[
"speedsters"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dreadlocks":{
"as in cornrow , perm":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"Afro",
"conk",
"cornrow",
"perm",
"permanent",
"comb-over",
"ducktail",
"roach",
"beehive",
"big hair",
"bun",
"chignon",
"French twist",
"pageboy",
"pug",
"updo",
"upsweep",
"coiffure",
"cut",
"do",
"haircut",
"hairdo",
"hairstyle",
"bob",
"buzz cut",
"crew cut",
"crop",
"fade",
"Mohawk",
"shag",
"shingle",
"trim",
"pompadour",
"quiff",
"braid",
"pigtail",
"plait",
"ponytail",
"queue"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"dreaminess":{
"as in surreality":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"surreality",
"fancy",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"fiction",
"fictitiousness",
"irreality",
"unreality"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actuality",
"fact",
"factuality",
"materiality",
"reality",
"authenticity",
"genuineness",
"truth",
"verity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dropped by":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I'll either drop by on the way there or on the way back"
],
"synonyms":[
"called",
"came by",
"came over",
"dropped in",
"popped (in)",
"ran in",
"ran (over)",
"stepped in",
"stopped (by or in)",
"visited"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barged (in)",
"looked up",
"saw",
"bopped (into)",
"happened (by)",
"frequented",
"haunted",
"hung (at)",
"hanged (at)",
"resorted (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drafted":{
"to pick especially for required military service":{
"examples":[
"my grandfather was drafted to fight in a war that he opposed"
],
"synonyms":[
"conscribed",
"conscripted",
"levied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impressed",
"pressed",
"enlisted",
"enrolled",
"recruited",
"called up",
"signed up",
"volunteered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharged",
"mustered out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put (something) into proper and usually carefully worked out written form":{
"examples":[
"draft a letter to the local newspaper giving your views on the problem"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"composed",
"crafted",
"drew up",
"formulated",
"framed",
"prepared"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"formed",
"molded",
"sculptured",
"shaped",
"couched",
"expressed",
"phrased",
"stated",
"verbalized",
"worded",
"authored",
"indited",
"penned",
"wrote",
"conceived",
"concocted",
"devised",
"built",
"constructed",
"made",
"assembled",
"compounded",
"pieced (together)",
"redrafted",
"reformulated",
"reframed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"examples":[
"remember to draft the water from the pool so that we can close it up for the winter"
],
"synonyms":[
"bled",
"drained",
"drew (off)",
"pumped",
"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":[
"verb"
]
},
"drawing a conclusion":{
"to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"concluding",
"deciding",
"deducing",
"deriving",
"extrapolating",
"gathering",
"inferring",
"judging",
"making out",
"reasoning",
"understanding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assuming",
"supposing",
"conjecturing",
"guessing",
"speculating",
"surmising",
"construing",
"interpreting",
"reading",
"contemplating",
"philosophizing",
"rationalizing",
"thinking",
"ascertaining",
"doping (out)",
"finding out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"drop back":{
"to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)":{
"examples":[
"a change in the wind direction forced the firefighters to drop back"
],
"synonyms":[
"back away",
"fall back",
"pull out",
"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"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drop a dime (on)":{
"to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities":{
"examples":[
"The criminal dropped a dime on his former associates in exchange for a more lenient sentence."
],
"synonyms":[
"fink",
"grass (on)",
"inform",
"rat (on)",
"sing",
"snitch",
"split (on)",
"squeak",
"squeal",
"talk",
"tell (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"betray",
"give away",
"turn in",
"backstab",
"cross",
"double-cross",
"sell (out)",
"two-time",
"blab",
"tattle",
"tip (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"drollness":{
"the amusing quality or element in something":{
"examples":[
"fans of Edward Gorey appreciate the delicious drollness of his illustrations of poker-faced individuals caught in macabre situations"
],
"synonyms":[
"comedy",
"comic",
"comicality",
"drollery",
"funniness",
"hilariousness",
"humor",
"humorousness",
"richness",
"uproariousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amusement",
"enjoyment",
"fun",
"pleasure",
"absurdity",
"irony",
"laughableness",
"ludicrousness",
"ridiculousness",
"whimsicality",
"wittiness",
"wryness",
"burlesque",
"caricature",
"farce",
"jest",
"lampoon",
"parody",
"satire",
"slapstick",
"spoof",
"takeoff",
"jocularity",
"jokiness",
"playfulness",
"waggishness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agony",
"anguish",
"dolor",
"grief",
"heartache",
"heartbreak",
"misery",
"sorrow",
"torment",
"torture",
"tribulation",
"woe",
"gravity",
"seriousness",
"soberness",
"solemnity",
"solemnness",
"somberness"
],
"antonyms":[
"pathos"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dropping a dime (on)":{
"to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"finking",
"grassing (on)",
"informing",
"ratting (on)",
"singing",
"snitching",
"splitting (on)",
"squeaking",
"squealing",
"talking",
"telling (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"betraying",
"giving away",
"turning in",
"backstabbing",
"crossing",
"double-crossing",
"selling (out)",
"two-timing",
"blabbing",
"tattling",
"tipping (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"dressing up":{
"to put on one's best or formal clothes":{
"examples":[
"we always like to dress up when going to parties"
],
"synonyms":[
"dolling up",
"dressing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preening",
"primping",
"prinking",
"smartening (up)",
"accessorizing",
"appareling",
"apparelling",
"arraying",
"attiring",
"bedecking",
"bedizening",
"caparisoning",
"clothing",
"costuming",
"decking",
"duding (up)",
"garbing",
"garmenting",
"investing",
"rigging (out)",
"robing",
"suiting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change the dress or looks of so as to conceal true identity":{
"examples":[
"the war was a fiasco that the administration tried to dress up as a triumph"
],
"synonyms":[
"camouflaging",
"cloaking",
"disguising",
"masking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blanketing",
"blotting out",
"concealing",
"covering",
"curtaining",
"enshrouding",
"hiding",
"obscuring",
"occulting",
"screening",
"shrouding",
"veiling",
"affecting",
"assuming",
"counterfeiting",
"dissembling",
"dissimulating",
"feigning",
"posing",
"pretending",
"shamming",
"simulating",
"acting",
"faking",
"impersonating",
"masquerading",
"playing",
"cosmeticizing",
"gilding",
"glossing (over)",
"varnishing",
"whitewashing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"displaying",
"exhibiting",
"exposing",
"flaunting",
"parading",
"showing",
"uncloaking",
"unclothing",
"uncovering",
"undraping",
"unveiling",
"baring",
"betraying",
"disclosing",
"discovering",
"divulging",
"exposing",
"revealing"
],
"antonyms":[
"unmasking"
]
},
"to make more desirable":{
"examples":[
"dressed up the house with new windows and a paint job before putting it on the market"
],
"synonyms":[
"candying",
"enhancing",
"sweetening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ameliorating",
"enriching",
"improving",
"meliorating",
"embellishing",
"souping up",
"tricking",
"cosmeticizing",
"dolling up",
"sprucing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{
"examples":[
"the girls were dressed up in skirts or dresses, but the boys were wearing jeans"
],
"synonyms":[
"appareling",
"apparelling",
"arraying",
"attiring",
"bedecking",
"caparisoning",
"clothing",
"costuming",
"decking (out)",
"doing up",
"dressing",
"enrobing",
"garbing",
"garmenting",
"getting up",
"gowning",
"habiting",
"investing",
"rigging (out)",
"robing",
"suiting",
"togging (up or out)",
"toileting",
"vesturing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloaking",
"frocking",
"jacketing",
"mantling",
"vesting",
"draping",
"enswathing",
"happing",
"huddling",
"swaddling",
"swathing",
"wrapping",
"accoutring",
"accoutering",
"bedighting",
"equipping",
"furnishing",
"habilitating",
"outfitting",
"tailoring",
"uniforming",
"dressing down",
"underdressing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denuding",
"divesting",
"uncovering",
"undraping",
"unveiling"
],
"antonyms":[
"disarraying",
"disrobing",
"stripping",
"unclothing",
"undressing",
"untrussing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dripped":{
"to fall or let fall in or as if in drops":{
"examples":[
"water from the leaky roof was dripping all over the floor",
"the cracked bottle dripped wine"
],
"synonyms":[
"distilled",
"dribbled",
"dropped",
"trickled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drizzled",
"sprinkled",
"flowed",
"poured",
"ran",
"run",
"rolled",
"streamed",
"cascaded",
"guttered",
"riffled",
"rippled",
"bled",
"exuded",
"oozed",
"seeped",
"wept",
"discharged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gushed",
"spouted",
"spurted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drudges":{
"a person who does very hard or dull work":{
"examples":[
"worked like a drudge at a low-paying job that had few benefits"
],
"synonyms":[
"dogsbodies",
"drones",
"drudgers",
"fags",
"foot soldiers",
"grubbers",
"grubs",
"grunts",
"laborers",
"peons",
"peones",
"pluggers",
"slaves",
"sloggers",
"toilers",
"workers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"workhorses",
"serfs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"goldbricks",
"shirkers",
"idlers",
"lazybones",
"loafers",
"slouches",
"sluggards",
"slugs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"very hard or unpleasant work":{
"examples":[
"it took hours of pure drudge to sort through the junk in the basement"
],
"synonyms":[
"donkeyworks",
"drudgeries",
"fatigues",
"grinds",
"labors",
"moils",
"slaveries",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spadeworks",
"efforts",
"exertions",
"pains",
"struggles",
"troubles",
"chores",
"duties",
"jobs",
"obligations",
"responsibilities",
"routines",
"tediums",
"treadmills"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decompressions",
"eases",
"leisures",
"relaxations",
"reposes",
"rests",
"amusements",
"dalliances",
"diversions",
"entertainments",
"recreations",
"sports",
"dormancies",
"inactivities",
"inertias"
],
"antonyms":[
"fun",
"plays"
]
},
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"examples":[
"factory workers who must drudge all day at repetitive tasks"
],
"synonyms":[
"bangs away",
"beavers (away)",
"digs (away)",
"endeavors",
"fags",
"grubs",
"humps",
"hustles",
"labors",
"moils",
"pegs (away)",
"plods",
"plows",
"plugs",
"slaves",
"slogs",
"strains",
"strives",
"struggles",
"sweats",
"toils",
"travails",
"tugs",
"works"
],
"near synonyms":[
"applies (oneself)",
"buckles (down)",
"digs in",
"hammers (away)",
"knuckles down",
"pitches in",
"attacks",
"drives",
"essays",
"tries",
"exercises",
"exerts",
"overexerts",
"overworks",
"ekes out",
"grinds (out)",
"puts out",
"scrabbles",
"scratches",
"trudges",
"wades"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breaks",
"eases (up)",
"lets up",
"slackens",
"bums",
"chills",
"dallies",
"dillydallies",
"footles",
"goldbricks",
"goofs (off)",
"hacks (around)",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"lazes",
"loafs",
"lounges",
"shirks",
"slacks (off)",
"vegges out",
"veges out",
"basks",
"lolls",
"relaxes",
"reposes",
"rests",
"unwinds",
"dabbles",
"doodles",
"fools around",
"fribbles",
"goofs (around)",
"hangs",
"hangs about",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"droves":{
"a great number of persons or creatures massed together":{
"examples":[
"people flocked to the annual festival in droves"
],
"synonyms":[
"armies",
"bikes",
"crams",
"crowds",
"crushes",
"flocks",
"herds",
"hordes",
"hosts",
"legions",
"masses",
"mobs",
"multitudes",
"presses",
"routs",
"scrums",
"swarms",
"throngs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"masses",
"millions",
"rabblements",
"rabbles",
"riffraffs",
"gaggles",
"heaps",
"mountains",
"piles",
"jams",
"logjams"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a group of domestic animals assembled or herded together":{
"examples":[
"a drove of cattle"
],
"synonyms":[
"flocks",
"herds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colonies",
"coveys",
"gaggles",
"packs",
"plumps",
"pods",
"schools",
"swarms"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"droskies":{
"as in barouches , caroches":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barouches",
"broughams",
"buckboards",
"buggies",
"cabriolets",
"cabs",
"calashes",
"cal\u00e8ches",
"caleches",
"caroches",
"carryalls",
"chaises",
"chariots",
"coaches",
"coup\u00e9s",
"coupes",
"curricles",
"diligences",
"dogcarts",
"four-in-hands",
"gigs",
"go-carts",
"hackneys",
"hansoms",
"hansom cabs",
"jaunting cars",
"landaus",
"phaetons",
"post chaises",
"roadsters",
"rockaways",
"stagecoaches",
"stages",
"stanhopes",
"surreys",
"tandems",
"tilburies",
"tongas",
"traps",
"troikas",
"victorias",
"carriages",
"equipages",
"rigs",
"turnouts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"draw down":{
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"I drew down my bank account just paying for tuition"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorb",
"burn",
"consume",
"deplete",
"devour",
"drain",
"exhaust",
"expend",
"play out",
"spend",
"use up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abate",
"decrease",
"de-escalate",
"diminish",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"lower",
"reduce",
"eat",
"use",
"bankrupt",
"clean (out)",
"impoverish",
"cripple",
"debilitate",
"disable",
"enfeeble",
"sap",
"undermine",
"weaken",
"dry up",
"empty",
"blow",
"dissipate",
"fritter (away)",
"guzzle",
"lavish",
"misspend",
"run through",
"squander",
"throw away",
"waste"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augment",
"enlarge",
"increase",
"bolster",
"enforce",
"fortify",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"strengthen",
"rebuild",
"repair",
"restore",
"revive",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"save"
],
"antonyms":[
"renew",
"replace"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dry up":{
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"sick of her constant complaining, he angrily told her to dry up"
],
"synonyms":[
"belt up",
"clam up",
"dummy up",
"hush",
"pipe down",
"quiet (down)",
"shut up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calm (down)",
"cool (down)",
"settle (down)",
"haw",
"hem"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pipe up",
"sound off",
"speak out",
"speak up",
"spout (off)",
"talk up"
],
"antonyms":[
"speak",
"talk"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dreaded":{
"as in feared , apprehended":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"apprehended",
"feared",
"descried",
"discerned",
"perceived",
"previewed",
"alerted",
"cautioned",
"foretokened",
"forewarned",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"foreshadowed",
"prefigured",
"visualized",
"augured",
"forecast",
"forecasted",
"foretold",
"predicted",
"presaged",
"prognosticated",
"prophesied",
"anticipated",
"divined",
"forefelt",
"foreknew",
"foresaw",
"previsioned"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dreamlands":{
"as in wonderlands , fairylands":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dreamworlds",
"fairylands",
"wonderlands",
"Camelots",
"Cockaignes",
"Edens",
"Elysiums",
"Elysia",
"empyreans",
"fantasylands",
"heavens",
"lotuslands",
"never-never lands",
"New Jerusalems",
"nirvanas",
"paradises",
"promised lands",
"Shangri-las",
"utopias",
"Zions",
"Sions",
"arcadias",
"blisses",
"euphorias",
"joys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fool's paradises",
"anti-utopias",
"dystopias",
"hells"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drains":{
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"examples":[
"we drained the water from the tank before cleaning it"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleeds",
"drafts",
"draws (off)",
"pumps",
"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"
]
},
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"virtually drained the country's natural resources"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbs",
"burns",
"consumes",
"depletes",
"devours",
"draws down",
"exhausts",
"expends",
"plays out",
"spends",
"uses up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"diminishes",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"reduces",
"eats",
"uses",
"bankrupts",
"cleans (out)",
"impoverishes",
"cripples",
"debilitates",
"disables",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"undermines",
"weakens",
"dries up",
"empties",
"blows",
"dissipates",
"fritters (away)",
"guzzles",
"lavishes",
"misspends",
"runs through",
"squanders",
"throws away",
"wastes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augments",
"enlarges",
"increases",
"bolsters",
"enforces",
"fortifies",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"strengthens",
"rebuilds",
"repairs",
"restores",
"revives",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"saves"
],
"antonyms":[
"renews",
"replaces"
]
},
"to use up all the physical energy of":{
"examples":[
"the long hike drained us"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"burns out",
"busts",
"does in",
"does up",
"exhausts",
"fags",
"fatigues",
"frazzles",
"harasses",
"kills",
"knocks out",
"outwears",
"tires",
"tuckers (out)",
"washes out",
"wearies",
"wears",
"wears out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debilitates",
"enervates",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"wastes",
"weakens"
],
"near antonyms":[
"activates",
"energizes",
"invigorates",
"rejuvenates",
"strengthens",
"vitalizes",
"relaxes",
"rests",
"unwinds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in sluices , flumes":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flumes",
"sluices",
"drainpipes",
"eaves troughs",
"gutters",
"rainspouts",
"spouts",
"troughs",
"waterspouts",
"conduits",
"ducts",
"aqueducts"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in flows":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"flows",
"exoduses",
"gushes",
"outflows",
"outpourings",
"outpours",
"ebbs",
"reflows",
"refluxes",
"rushes",
"stampedes",
"diasporas",
"emigrations",
"flights",
"discharges",
"effluences",
"emanations",
"emissions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fluxes",
"inflows",
"influxes",
"inrushes",
"deluges",
"floods",
"inundations",
"overflows",
"spates",
"torrents",
"rivers",
"streams",
"tides"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"draggle":{
"as in confuse , muddle":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"confuse",
"disarrange",
"disarray",
"dishevel",
"disorder",
"jumble",
"mess",
"muddle",
"discolor",
"colly",
"crock",
"contaminate",
"defile",
"pollute",
"taint",
"befoul",
"begrime",
"bemire",
"besmirch",
"blacken",
"daub",
"dirty",
"distain",
"foul",
"gaum",
"grime",
"mire",
"muck",
"muddy",
"smirch",
"smudge",
"soil",
"stain",
"sully"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clean",
"cleanse",
"decontaminate",
"purge",
"purify",
"disinfect",
"sanitize",
"brush",
"dry-clean",
"dust",
"launder",
"mop",
"rinse",
"scour",
"scrub",
"sweep",
"wash",
"wipe",
"brighten",
"deodorize",
"freshen",
"renew",
"spruce (up)",
"straighten (up)",
"tidy (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dribbling":{
"as in trickling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"trickling",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"incomplete",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"scarce",
"unsatisfactory",
"wanting",
"bare",
"mere",
"minimal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"copious",
"galore",
"gushing",
"lavish",
"profuse",
"riotous",
"abounding",
"abundant",
"ample",
"bounteous",
"bountiful",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"extravagant",
"luxuriant"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fall or let fall in or as if in drops":{
"examples":[
"water dribbling over the lip of the fountain"
],
"synonyms":[
"distilling",
"dripping",
"dropping",
"trickling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drizzling",
"sprinkling",
"flowing",
"pouring",
"rolling",
"running",
"streaming",
"cascading",
"guttering",
"riffling",
"rippling",
"bleeding",
"exuding",
"oozing",
"seeping",
"weeping",
"discharging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gushing",
"spouting",
"spurting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to flow in a broken irregular stream":{
"examples":[
"rainwater dribbling along the partially clogged gutter"
],
"synonyms":[
"bubbling",
"guggling",
"gurgling",
"lapping",
"plashing",
"rippling",
"splashing",
"trickling",
"washing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eddying",
"purling",
"swirling",
"swashing",
"swishing",
"swooshing",
"whishing",
"dripping",
"dropping",
"gushing",
"jetting",
"rushing",
"spewing",
"spouting",
"spurting",
"squirting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"running"
],
"antonyms":[
"pouring",
"rolling",
"streaming"
]
},
"to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth":{
"examples":[
"picnickers dribbling in eager anticipation of the hamburgers on the grill"
],
"synonyms":[
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"drooling",
"salivating",
"slavering",
"slobbering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"watering",
"expectorating",
"spitting",
"foaming",
"frothing",
"spluttering",
"sputtering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"drawing on":{
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"the general's imprudent remarks drew on a public rebuke by the secretary of defense"
],
"synonyms":[
"begetting",
"breeding",
"bringing",
"bringing about",
"bringing on",
"catalyzing",
"causing",
"creating",
"doing",
"effecting",
"effectuating",
"engendering",
"generating",
"inducing",
"invoking",
"making",
"occasioning",
"producing",
"prompting",
"resulting (in)",
"spawning",
"translating (into)",
"working",
"yielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conducing (to)",
"contributing (to)",
"deciding",
"determining",
"beginning",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"founding",
"inaugurating",
"initiating",
"innovating",
"instituting",
"introducing",
"launching",
"pioneering",
"setting",
"setting up",
"starting",
"advancing",
"cultivating",
"developing",
"encouraging",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"nourishing",
"nurturing",
"promoting",
"enacting",
"rendering",
"turning out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impeding",
"limiting",
"restricting",
"clamping down (on)",
"cracking down (on)",
"crushing",
"dampening",
"putting down",
"quashing",
"quelling",
"repressing",
"smothering",
"squashing",
"squelching",
"stifling",
"subduing",
"suppressing",
"arresting",
"checking",
"controlling",
"curbing",
"inhibiting",
"reining (in)",
"restraining",
"retarding",
"canning",
"killing",
"snuffing (out)",
"stilling",
"abolishing",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"extinguishing",
"liquidating",
"quenching"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come near or nearer":{
"examples":[
"night draws on , so we should hurry home"
],
"synonyms":[
"approaching",
"bellying up",
"closing",
"closing in",
"coming up",
"nearing",
"nighing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arriving",
"attaining",
"coming",
"gaining",
"hitting",
"landing",
"making",
"reaching",
"showing up",
"turning up",
"waltzing (up)",
"creeping up",
"sneaking up",
"adjoining",
"bordering",
"touching",
"verging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clearing out",
"departing",
"exiting",
"going",
"leaving",
"lighting out",
"pulling out",
"quitting",
"removing",
"running away",
"shoving (off)",
"taking off",
"walking out"
],
"antonyms":[
"backing (up or away)",
"receding",
"retiring",
"retreating",
"withdrawing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drills":{
"an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity":{
"examples":[
"shuttling the kids between extracurricular activities is all part of the suburban drill"
],
"synonyms":[
"grinds",
"grooves",
"locksteps",
"patterns",
"rotes",
"routines",
"ruts",
"treadmills"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daily dozens",
"regimens",
"housekeepings",
"customs",
"fashions",
"habits",
"practices",
"practises",
"tricks",
"wonts",
"approaches",
"manners",
"methods",
"procedures",
"strategies",
"styles",
"tacks",
"techniques",
"ways",
"designs",
"plans",
"programs",
"schemes",
"conventions",
"policies",
"traditions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something done over and over in order to develop skill":{
"examples":[
"doing vocabulary drills all afternoon in preparation for the test"
],
"synonyms":[
"exercises",
"practices",
"practises",
"routines",
"trainings",
"workouts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assignments",
"homeworks",
"lessons",
"brushups",
"refreshers",
"reviews"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make a hole or series of holes in":{
"examples":[
"the nerve-jangling sound when a dentist drills a tooth"
],
"synonyms":[
"bores",
"holes",
"perforates",
"pierces",
"punches",
"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 strike with a missile from a gun":{
"examples":[
"drilled the target from 100 yards away"
],
"synonyms":[
"guns",
"plugs",
"pops",
"shoots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blows away",
"brings down",
"drops",
"picks off",
"shoots down",
"blazes",
"peppers",
"potshots",
"snipes (at)",
"blasts (at)",
"fires (at)",
"pistols",
"shotguns",
"machine-guns",
"tommy-guns",
"croaks",
"destroys",
"dispatches",
"does in",
"fells",
"ices",
"kills",
"slays",
"annihilates",
"blots out",
"butchers",
"decimates",
"massacres",
"slaughters",
"wipes out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put or set into the ground to grow":{
"examples":[
"he drills soybeans in the same rows with corn"
],
"synonyms":[
"plants",
"puts in",
"seeds",
"sows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beds",
"replants",
"transplants",
"broadcasts",
"scatters",
"pots",
"overseeds",
"reseeds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gathers",
"harvests",
"reaps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"draconic":{
"as in harsh , draconian":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"draconian",
"hardhanded",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"oppressive",
"atrocious",
"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"brutal",
"brute",
"butcherly",
"cruel",
"fiendish",
"heartless",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"truculent",
"vicious",
"wanton",
"hard-hearted",
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"stonyhearted",
"unfeeling",
"fell",
"ferocious",
"grim",
"bloodthirsty",
"cutthroat",
"murderous",
"sanguinary",
"sanguine",
"catty",
"despiteful",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"malign",
"malignant",
"mean",
"nasty",
"spiteful",
"vindictive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"tender",
"warm",
"warmhearted",
"charitable",
"clement",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"pitying",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"peaceful",
"benign",
"benignant",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tenderhearted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"drops in (on)":{
"to make a social call upon":{
"examples":[
"as long as we're in town, we should drop in on my aunt"
],
"synonyms":[
"calls (on or upon)",
"sees",
"visits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"looks up",
"seeks (out)",
"drops by"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brushes (aside or off)",
"cold-shoulders",
"ignores",
"snubs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dry nurses":{
"a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children":{
"examples":[
"after years of being a dry nurse to other women's children, she longed to have a child of her own"
],
"synonyms":[
"babysitters",
"nannies",
"nursemaids",
"nursers",
"nurses",
"sitters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amahs",
"ayahs",
"au pairs",
"bonnes",
"mammies",
"duennas",
"frauleins",
"governesses",
"mademoiselles",
"mesdemoiselles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"draw off":{
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"examples":[
"drew off the fat from the top of the drippings"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleed",
"draft",
"drain",
"pump",
"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"
]
},
"dribbled":{
"to fall or let fall in or as if in drops":{
"examples":[
"water dribbling over the lip of the fountain"
],
"synonyms":[
"distilled",
"dripped",
"dropped",
"trickled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drizzled",
"sprinkled",
"flowed",
"poured",
"ran",
"run",
"rolled",
"streamed",
"cascaded",
"guttered",
"riffled",
"rippled",
"bled",
"exuded",
"oozed",
"seeped",
"wept",
"discharged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gushed",
"spouted",
"spurted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to flow in a broken irregular stream":{
"examples":[
"rainwater dribbling along the partially clogged gutter"
],
"synonyms":[
"bubbled",
"guggled",
"gurgled",
"lapped",
"plashed",
"rippled",
"splashed",
"trickled",
"washed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eddied",
"purled",
"swirled",
"swashed",
"swished",
"swooshed",
"whished",
"dripped",
"dropped",
"gushed",
"jetted",
"rushed",
"spewed",
"spouted",
"spurted",
"squirted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ran",
"run"
],
"antonyms":[
"poured",
"rolled",
"streamed"
]
},
"to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth":{
"examples":[
"picnickers dribbling in eager anticipation of the hamburgers on the grill"
],
"synonyms":[
"driveled",
"drivelled",
"drooled",
"salivated",
"slavered",
"slobbered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"watered",
"expectorated",
"spit",
"spat",
"foamed",
"frothed",
"spluttered",
"sputtered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dry run":{
"a private performance or session in preparation for a public appearance":{
"examples":[
"we had time for just one dry run of the play before opening night"
],
"synonyms":[
"practice",
"practise",
"rehearsal",
"trial"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dress rehearsal",
"preview",
"run-through",
"walk-through",
"drill",
"exercise"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drive-in":{
"as in theater , cinema":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cinema",
"playhouse",
"theater",
"theatre",
"megaplex",
"multiplex",
"plex",
"'plex",
"art house",
"art theater",
"cinematheque",
"fleapit",
"grind house",
"nickelodeon"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"draw up":{
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"examples":[
"he drew up his horse outside the tavern"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrest",
"bring up",
"catch",
"check",
"fetch up",
"halt",
"hold up",
"pull 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":[]
},
"to put into a particular arrangement":{
"examples":[
"drew up the troops into a line along the ridge"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrange",
"array",
"classify",
"codify",
"dispose",
"lay out",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"order",
"organize",
"range",
"systematize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"groom",
"make up",
"spruce (up)",
"straighten (up)",
"tidy (up)",
"unscramble",
"align",
"aline",
"cue",
"line",
"line up",
"queue",
"alphabetize",
"file",
"hierarchize",
"prioritize",
"sequence",
"emplace",
"place",
"set",
"display",
"map (out)",
"set out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"derange",
"disarrange",
"disarray",
"disorder",
"mess (up)",
"muss (up)",
"rumple",
"upset"
]
},
"to put (something) into proper and usually carefully worked out written form":{
"examples":[
"draw up a proposal and submit it to the committee for approval"
],
"synonyms":[
"cast",
"compose",
"craft",
"draft",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"draw in":{
"as in persuade , rope (in)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"inveigle",
"persuade",
"rope (in)",
"snow",
"allure",
"bait",
"beguile",
"betray",
"decoy",
"entice",
"lead on",
"lure",
"seduce",
"solicit",
"tempt",
"catch",
"enmesh",
"immesh",
"ensnare",
"entrap",
"mesh",
"snare",
"tangle",
"trap",
"bewitch",
"captivate",
"charm",
"enchant",
"fascinate",
"magnetize",
"wile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alert",
"caution",
"forewarn",
"ward (off)",
"warn",
"drive (away or off)",
"repulse",
"turn away"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drags (out)":{
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"pointless questions that merely dragged out the meeting another hour"
],
"synonyms":[
"draws out",
"elongates",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"outstretches",
"prolongs",
"protracts",
"stretches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplifies",
"enlarges",
"expands",
"increases",
"attenuates",
"thins"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"lessens",
"reduces",
"thickens"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviates",
"abridges",
"curtails",
"cuts",
"cuts back",
"shortens"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drip-drying":{
"as in wringing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"wringing",
"dewatering",
"evaporating",
"freeze-drying",
"dehumidifying",
"dehydrating",
"desiccating",
"drying",
"parching",
"scorching",
"searing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bathing",
"bedraggling",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"drenching",
"drowning",
"soaking",
"soddening",
"sopping",
"sousing",
"washing",
"watering",
"waterlogging",
"water-soaking",
"wetting",
"wetting down",
"aspersing",
"bedewing",
"dampening",
"damping",
"drizzling",
"humidifying",
"hydrating",
"misting",
"moistening",
"moisturizing",
"showering",
"sprinkling",
"deluging",
"flooding",
"hosing (down)",
"inundating",
"overflowing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drolleries":{
"something said or done to cause laughter":{
"examples":[
"the film's sophisticated drolleries will elicit smiles and chuckles even upon repeated viewings"
],
"synonyms":[
"boffolas",
"boffs",
"boffos",
"cracks",
"funnies",
"gags",
"giggles",
"japes",
"jests",
"jokes",
"joshes",
"laughs",
"nifties",
"one-liners",
"pleasantries",
"quips",
"ribs",
"sallies",
"waggeries",
"wisecracks",
"witticisms",
"yuks",
"yucks",
"yaks",
"yocks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"knee-slappers",
"panics",
"riots",
"screams",
"thigh-slappers",
"antics",
"buffooneries",
"capers",
"leg-pulls",
"monkeyshines",
"practical jokes",
"pranks",
"tricks",
"burlesques",
"caricatures",
"lampoons",
"mockeries",
"mocks",
"parodies",
"put-ons",
"riffs",
"banters",
"persiflages",
"railleries",
"repartees",
"comedies",
"humors",
"wits",
"wordplays"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"driveling":{
"as in prattling , prattle":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"babble",
"babbling",
"blab",
"blabbing",
"chatter",
"chattering",
"drivel",
"gabble",
"gabbling",
"jabber",
"jabbering",
"maundering",
"prattle",
"prattling",
"rambling",
"rumor",
"undertone",
"whisper",
"grunt",
"grunting",
"mumble",
"murmur",
"murmuring",
"mutter",
"muttering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth":{
"examples":[
"the panting dog driveled on my hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"dribbling",
"drooling",
"salivating",
"slavering",
"slobbering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"watering",
"expectorating",
"spitting",
"foaming",
"frothing",
"spluttering",
"sputtering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly":{
"examples":[
"he driveled on about his \"distinguished\" family for what seemed like hours"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbling",
"bumbling",
"chattering",
"chatting",
"drooling",
"gabbling",
"gibbering",
"jabbering",
"prattling",
"sputtering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blabbering",
"blathering",
"bleating",
"blithering",
"gabbing",
"jangling",
"jawing",
"pattering",
"prating",
"rattling",
"running on",
"smattering",
"tittle-tattling",
"trolling",
"yakking",
"yacking",
"chuntering",
"maundering",
"mouthing",
"mumbling",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"stammering",
"stuttering",
"screeching",
"shouting",
"shrieking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulating",
"enunciating",
"pronouncing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dreamt":{
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"I dreamed that I was living on that proverbial desert island in the South Pacific"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceited",
"conceived",
"conjured (up)",
"envisaged",
"envisioned",
"fancied",
"fantasied",
"fantasized",
"featured",
"ideated",
"imaged",
"imagined",
"pictured",
"saw",
"visioned",
"visualized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydreamed",
"stargazed",
"hallucinated",
"re-created",
"recreated",
"reflected",
"relived",
"reminisced",
"contemplated",
"meditated",
"mused",
"pondered",
"ruminated",
"concocted",
"fabricated",
"invented",
"made up",
"manufactured",
"planned",
"projected",
"foresaw",
"prefigured"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drew out":{
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"the actor refused to draw out the interview any further"
],
"synonyms":[
"dragged (out)",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"outstretched",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"stretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplified",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"increased",
"attenuated",
"thinned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"reduced",
"thickened"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"cut",
"cut back",
"shortened"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"draws down":{
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"I drew down my bank account just paying for tuition"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbs",
"burns",
"consumes",
"depletes",
"devours",
"drains",
"exhausts",
"expends",
"plays out",
"spends",
"uses up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"diminishes",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"reduces",
"eats",
"uses",
"bankrupts",
"cleans (out)",
"impoverishes",
"cripples",
"debilitates",
"disables",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"undermines",
"weakens",
"dries up",
"empties",
"blows",
"dissipates",
"fritters (away)",
"guzzles",
"lavishes",
"misspends",
"runs through",
"squanders",
"throws away",
"wastes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augments",
"enlarges",
"increases",
"bolsters",
"enforces",
"fortifies",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"strengthens",
"rebuilds",
"repairs",
"restores",
"revives",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"saves"
],
"antonyms":[
"renews",
"replaces"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dropped a dime (on)":{
"to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities":{
"examples":[
"The criminal dropped a dime on his former associates in exchange for a more lenient sentence."
],
"synonyms":[
"finked",
"grassed (on)",
"informed",
"ratted (on)",
"sang",
"sung",
"snitched",
"split (on)",
"squeaked",
"squealed",
"talked",
"told (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"betrayed",
"gave away",
"turned in",
"backstabbed",
"crossed",
"double-crossed",
"sold (out)",
"two-timed",
"blabbed",
"tattled",
"tipped (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"drowse (off)":{
"as in drop off , nod off":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"drop off",
"nod off",
"catnap",
"doze",
"nap",
"rest",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"snooze",
"oversleep",
"sleep in",
"dream",
"hibernate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arise",
"arouse",
"awake",
"rise",
"wake"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drenched":{
"containing, covered with, or thoroughly penetrated by water":{
"examples":[
"the drenched tourists straggled into the visitors' center"
],
"synonyms":[
"awash",
"bathed",
"bedraggled",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"dripping",
"logged",
"saturate",
"saturated",
"soaked",
"soaking",
"sodden",
"soggy",
"sopping",
"soppy",
"soused",
"washed",
"water-soaked",
"watered",
"waterlogged",
"watery",
"wet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deluged",
"drowned",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"hydrated",
"dipped",
"dunked",
"splashed",
"aqueous",
"steeped",
"flushed",
"irrigated",
"laved",
"rinsed",
"sluiced",
"clammy",
"damp",
"dampish",
"dank",
"humid",
"moist",
"semimoist",
"wettish",
"boggy",
"miry",
"seepy",
"sloppy",
"squashy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bone-dry",
"hyperarid",
"ultradry",
"waterproof",
"water-repellent",
"water-resistant",
"watertight",
"baked",
"dehydrated",
"freeze-dried",
"droughty",
"parched",
"sere",
"sear",
"sunbaked",
"thirsty",
"wrung"
],
"antonyms":[
"arid",
"dry",
"unwatered",
"waterless"
]
},
"to make wet":{
"examples":[
"we were drenched by the sudden rainstorm"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathed",
"bedraggled",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"drowned",
"soaked",
"soddened",
"sopped",
"soused",
"washed",
"watered",
"waterlogged",
"water-soaked",
"wet",
"wetted",
"wet down",
"wetted down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aspersed",
"bedewed",
"damped",
"dampened",
"drizzled",
"humidified",
"hydrated",
"misted",
"moistened",
"moisturized",
"showered",
"sprinkled",
"deluged",
"flooded",
"hosed (down)",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"splashed",
"impregnated",
"saturated",
"steeped",
"flushed",
"irrigated",
"laved",
"rinsed",
"sloshed",
"sluiced",
"dipped",
"ducked",
"dunked",
"rehydrated",
"rewashed",
"rewet",
"rewetted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewatered",
"evaporated",
"freeze-dried",
"drip-dried",
"wrung",
"dehumidified"
],
"antonyms":[
"dehydrated",
"desiccated",
"dried",
"parched",
"scorched",
"seared"
]
},
"to wet thoroughly with liquid":{
"examples":[
"when using the carpet shampooer, wet but do not drench the carpet"
],
"synonyms":[
"drowned",
"impregnated",
"macerated",
"saturated",
"soaked",
"soddened",
"sopped",
"soused",
"steeped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"waterlogged",
"water-soaked",
"marinated",
"seethed",
"presoaked",
"dipped",
"immersed",
"inundated",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"bathed",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"hydrated",
"swilled",
"washed",
"watered",
"infiltrated",
"penetrated",
"permeated",
"damped",
"dampened",
"humidified",
"moistened"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehydrated",
"desiccated",
"dried",
"parched",
"seared",
"drained",
"emptied",
"voided",
"dehumidified"
],
"antonyms":[
"wrung (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"dreg(s)":{
"matter that settles to the bottom of a body of liquid":{
"examples":[
"poured the dregs into the sink"
],
"synonyms":[
"deposit",
"deposition",
"grounds",
"precipitate",
"sediment",
"settlings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lees",
"ooze",
"silt",
"sludge",
"dross",
"slag",
"waste"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"druthers":{
"the power, right, or opportunity to choose":{
"examples":[
"If I had my druthers , I'd stay home tonight"
],
"synonyms":[
"alternative",
"choice",
"discretion",
"election",
"liberty",
"option",
"pick",
"preference",
"selection",
"volition",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"determination",
"free will",
"will",
"say",
"voice",
"vote",
"inclination",
"liking",
"partiality",
"penchant",
"predilection",
"proclivity",
"propensity",
"tendency",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"perspicacity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coercion",
"duress",
"force",
"duty",
"obligation",
"Hobson's choice"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"plural noun"
]
},
"dropped out (of)":{
"as in threw up":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"threw up",
"abandoned",
"vacated",
"bagged",
"chucked",
"left",
"quit",
"quitted",
"resigned (from)",
"retired (from)",
"stepped aside (from)",
"stepped down (from)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"stayed (at)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drowse":{
"a short sleep":{
"examples":[
"was just falling into a drowse when you called"
],
"synonyms":[
"catnap",
"doze",
"forty winks",
"kip",
"nap",
"siesta",
"snooze",
"wink"
],
"near synonyms":[
"repose",
"rest",
"slumber",
"bed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to sleep lightly or briefly":{
"examples":[
"picnickers drowsing in the shade of an oak tree"
],
"synonyms":[
"catnap",
"doze",
"kip",
"nap",
"slumber",
"snooze"
],
"near synonyms":[
"relax",
"repose",
"rest",
"couch",
"lay",
"lie",
"roost",
"lull"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arise",
"arouse",
"awake",
"awaken",
"get up",
"rise",
"rouse",
"uprise",
"wake (up)",
"waken"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dropping by":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I'll either drop by on the way there or on the way back"
],
"synonyms":[
"calling",
"coming by",
"coming over",
"dropping in",
"popping (in)",
"running in",
"running (over)",
"stepping in",
"stopping (by or in)",
"visiting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barging (in)",
"looking up",
"seeing",
"bopping (into)",
"happening (by)",
"frequenting",
"hanging (at)",
"haunting",
"resorting (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"draw out":{
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"the actor refused to draw out the interview any further"
],
"synonyms":[
"drag (out)",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"outstretch",
"prolong",
"protract",
"stretch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplify",
"enlarge",
"expand",
"increase",
"attenuate",
"thin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decrease",
"diminish",
"lessen",
"reduce",
"thicken"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"curtail",
"cut",
"cut back",
"shorten"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drainpipe":{
"a pipe or channel for carrying off water from a roof":{
"examples":[
"our drainpipe is always getting clogged with leaves"
],
"synonyms":[
"eaves trough",
"gutter",
"rainspout",
"spout",
"trough",
"waterspout"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drain",
"flume",
"sluice",
"conduit",
"duct",
"aqueduct"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"droning":{
"to fly, turn, or move rapidly with a fluttering or vibratory sound":{
"examples":[
"the sound of droning bees all around us"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumbling",
"burring",
"buzzing",
"humming",
"whirring",
"whishing",
"whizzing",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chirring",
"churring",
"thrumming",
"fizzing",
"hissing",
"murmuring",
"purring",
"rustling",
"sighing",
"sizzling",
"swishing",
"whispering",
"cooing",
"curring",
"wheezing",
"whistling",
"whooshing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to spend time doing nothing":{
"examples":[
"instead of getting a job, he preferred to drone and live off his parents"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumming",
"chilling",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"footling",
"goofing (off)",
"hacking (around)",
"hanging about",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"kicking around",
"kicking back",
"lazing",
"lazying",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"vegging out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling",
"messing",
"monkeying",
"mucking",
"piddling",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling",
"dozing",
"estivating",
"aestivating",
"hibernating",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"relaxing",
"resting",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"moseying",
"sauntering",
"strolling",
"swanning",
"furloughing",
"goldbricking",
"malingering",
"truanting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"drudging",
"grinding",
"grubbing",
"humping",
"hustling",
"laboring",
"moiling",
"pegging",
"plodding",
"plowing",
"plugging",
"slaving",
"sweating",
"toiling",
"travailing",
"working",
"applying",
"buckling (down)",
"exerting",
"putting out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dressing":{
"a medicated covering used to heal an injury":{
"examples":[
"nurses put a dressing over his cuts so they wouldn't get infected"
],
"synonyms":[
"cataplasm",
"plaster",
"poultice"
],
"near synonyms":[
"balm",
"cream",
"embrocation",
"liniment",
"lotion",
"ointment",
"salve",
"unguent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a savory fluid food used as a topping or accompaniment to a main dish":{
"examples":[
"tangy salad dressing that wasn't overloaded with corn syrup"
],
"synonyms":[
"gravy",
"sauce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condiment",
"relish",
"seasoning",
"fixing(s)",
"garnish",
"topping",
"dip",
"marinade"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cover with a bandage":{
"examples":[
"first wash and then dress the wound"
],
"synonyms":[
"bandaging",
"binding",
"swathing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attending",
"caring (for)",
"doctoring",
"medicating",
"ministering (to)",
"nursing",
"treating",
"curing",
"healing",
"mending",
"rehabilitating",
"remedying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"let's dress up the room with some greenery for the holiday party"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorning",
"arraying",
"beautifying",
"bedecking",
"bedizening",
"blazoning",
"caparisoning",
"decking",
"decorating",
"doing",
"doing up",
"dolling up",
"draping",
"embellishing",
"emblazing",
"embossing",
"enriching",
"fancifying",
"fancying up",
"festooning",
"garnishing",
"glitzing (up)",
"gracing",
"gussying up",
"ornamenting",
"prettying (up)",
"trimming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessorizing",
"dressing up",
"trapping",
"tricking (out)",
"brightening",
"freshening",
"smartening",
"sprucing (up)",
"bossing",
"chasing",
"braiding",
"embroidering",
"feathering",
"figuring",
"filigreeing",
"filleting",
"flouncing",
"frilling",
"fringing",
"furbelowing",
"garlanding",
"hanging",
"lacing",
"ribboning",
"swagging",
"wreathing",
"appliqu\u00e9ing",
"gilding",
"painting",
"diamonding",
"gemming",
"impearling",
"jeweling",
"jewelling",
"pearling",
"redecorating",
"redoing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplifying",
"streamlining",
"baring",
"denuding",
"dismantling",
"displaying",
"divesting",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"stripping",
"uncovering",
"uglifying"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemishing",
"defacing",
"disfiguring",
"marring",
"scarring",
"spoiling"
]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"dress the granite block to be used as the headstone on all four sides"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffing",
"burnishing",
"furbishing",
"glossing",
"grinding",
"polishing",
"rubbing",
"shining",
"smoothening",
"smoothing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleeking",
"slicking",
"coating",
"glazing",
"japanning",
"lacquering",
"varnishing",
"facing",
"finishing",
"veneering",
"brightening",
"filing",
"rasping",
"sandblasting",
"sanding",
"sandpapering",
"scouring",
"scraping",
"scrubbing",
"bobbing",
"boning",
"lapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"roughening",
"roughing (up)",
"ruffling",
"scuffing (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{
"examples":[
"dressed the young girl in satin and lace"
],
"synonyms":[
"appareling",
"apparelling",
"arraying",
"attiring",
"bedecking",
"caparisoning",
"clothing",
"costuming",
"decking (out)",
"doing up",
"dressing up",
"enrobing",
"garbing",
"garmenting",
"getting up",
"gowning",
"habiting",
"investing",
"rigging (out)",
"robing",
"suiting",
"togging (up or out)",
"toileting",
"vesturing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloaking",
"frocking",
"jacketing",
"mantling",
"vesting",
"draping",
"enswathing",
"happing",
"huddling",
"swaddling",
"swathing",
"wrapping",
"accoutring",
"accoutering",
"bedighting",
"equipping",
"furnishing",
"habilitating",
"outfitting",
"tailoring",
"uniforming",
"dressing down",
"underdressing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denuding",
"divesting",
"uncovering",
"undraping",
"unveiling"
],
"antonyms":[
"disarraying",
"disrobing",
"stripping",
"unclothing",
"undressing",
"untrussing"
]
},
"to put on one's best or formal clothes":{
"examples":[
"we don't usually dress for dinner"
],
"synonyms":[
"dolling up",
"dressing up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preening",
"primping",
"prinking",
"smartening (up)",
"accessorizing",
"appareling",
"apparelling",
"arraying",
"attiring",
"bedecking",
"bedizening",
"caparisoning",
"clothing",
"costuming",
"decking",
"duding (up)",
"garbing",
"garmenting",
"investing",
"rigging (out)",
"robing",
"suiting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to look after or assist the growth of by labor and care":{
"examples":[
"dress the beans by applying fertilizer once a week"
],
"synonyms":[
"cropping",
"cultivating",
"culturing",
"growing",
"promoting",
"raising",
"rearing",
"tending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breeding",
"producing",
"propagating",
"planting",
"sowing",
"gathering",
"gleaning",
"harvesting",
"reaping",
"germinating",
"quickening",
"ripening",
"rooting",
"sprouting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"killing",
"digging",
"extirpating",
"picking",
"plucking",
"pulling (up)",
"uprooting",
"cutting",
"haying",
"mowing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drips":{
"someone or something boring":{
"examples":[
"he's well-meaning, but kind of a drip"
],
"synonyms":[
"bores",
"drags",
"droners",
"dullsvilles",
"nudniks",
"nudnicks",
"snoozers",
"snoozes",
"yawners",
"yawns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bummers",
"downers",
"bromides",
"pills"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blasts",
"gases",
"gasses",
"kicks",
"rushes",
"uppers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass":{
"examples":[
"the faucet leaked one drip after another no matter what I did to try to fix it"
],
"synonyms":[
"beads",
"blobs",
"driblets",
"droplets",
"drops",
"globs",
"globules"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gobbets",
"dewdrops",
"raindrops",
"teardrops",
"tears",
"spatters",
"dribbles",
"trickles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fall or let fall in or as if in drops":{
"examples":[
"water from the leaky roof was dripping all over the floor",
"the cracked bottle dripped wine"
],
"synonyms":[
"distills",
"distils",
"dribbles",
"drops",
"trickles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drizzles",
"sprinkles",
"flows",
"pours",
"rolls",
"runs",
"streams",
"cascades",
"gutters",
"riffles",
"ripples",
"bleeds",
"exudes",
"oozes",
"seeps",
"weeps",
"discharges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gushes",
"spouts",
"spurts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drivelled":{
"to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth":{
"examples":[
"the panting dog driveled on my hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"dribbled",
"drooled",
"salivated",
"slavered",
"slobbered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"watered",
"expectorated",
"spit",
"spat",
"foamed",
"frothed",
"spluttered",
"sputtered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly":{
"examples":[
"he driveled on about his \"distinguished\" family for what seemed like hours"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbled",
"bumbled",
"chatted",
"chattered",
"drooled",
"gabbled",
"gibbered",
"jabbered",
"prattled",
"sputtered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blabbered",
"blathered",
"bleated",
"blithered",
"gabbed",
"jangled",
"jawed",
"pattered",
"prated",
"ran on",
"rattled",
"smattered",
"tittle-tattled",
"trolled",
"yakked",
"yacked",
"chuntered",
"maundered",
"mouthed",
"mumbled",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"stammered",
"stuttered",
"screeched",
"shouted",
"shrieked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulated",
"enunciated",
"pronounced"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drop out":{
"as in quit , withdraw":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"quit",
"withdraw",
"demit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enlist (in)",
"enroll (in)",
"enter",
"join",
"sign on (for)",
"sign up (for)",
"reenlist",
"reenroll",
"reenter",
"rejoin",
"re-up",
"get in"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in quitter":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"quitter",
"malingerer",
"drone",
"idler",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"slouch",
"slug",
"slugabed",
"sluggard",
"goldbrick",
"shirker",
"slacker",
"dallier",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"lounger",
"saunterer",
"dawdler",
"laggard",
"putterer",
"slowpoke"
],
"near antonyms":[
"live wire",
"pistol",
"powerhouse",
"doer",
"go-getter",
"hummer",
"hustler",
"self-starter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in leaver , abandoner":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abandoner",
"come-outer",
"leaver",
"betrayer",
"double-crosser",
"quisling",
"traitor",
"traitress",
"traitoress",
"turnabout",
"turncoat",
"defier",
"insurgent",
"insurrectionary",
"insurrectionist",
"mutineer",
"rebel",
"red",
"revolter",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"revolutionizer",
"apostate",
"defector",
"deserter",
"recreant",
"renegade",
"discontent",
"malcontent",
"recusant",
"refusenik",
"refusnik",
"refuser"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loyalist",
"adherent",
"disciple",
"follower",
"supporter",
"fanatic",
"militant",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"zealot"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drumming up":{
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
"examples":[
"anyone who drums up a better way of doing this tedious task will make a fortune"
],
"synonyms":[
"concocting",
"constructing",
"contriving",
"cooking (up)",
"devising",
"excogitating",
"fabricating",
"inventing",
"making up",
"manufacturing",
"thinking (up)",
"trumping up",
"vamping (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coining",
"designing",
"hatching",
"producing",
"daydreaming",
"dreaming",
"fantasizing",
"conceiving",
"envisaging",
"envisioning",
"imagining",
"picturing",
"visioning",
"visualizing",
"ad-libbing",
"extemporizing",
"improvising"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cloning",
"copycatting",
"copying",
"duplicating",
"imitating",
"mimicking",
"reduplicating",
"replicating",
"reproducing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drivelling":{
"as in prattling , prattle":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"babble",
"babbling",
"blab",
"blabbing",
"chatter",
"chattering",
"drivel",
"gabble",
"gabbling",
"jabber",
"jabbering",
"maundering",
"prattle",
"prattling",
"rambling",
"rumor",
"undertone",
"whisper",
"grunt",
"grunting",
"mumble",
"murmur",
"murmuring",
"mutter",
"muttering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth":{
"examples":[
"the panting dog driveled on my hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"dribbling",
"drooling",
"salivating",
"slavering",
"slobbering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"watering",
"expectorating",
"spitting",
"foaming",
"frothing",
"spluttering",
"sputtering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly":{
"examples":[
"he driveled on about his \"distinguished\" family for what seemed like hours"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbling",
"bumbling",
"chattering",
"chatting",
"drooling",
"gabbling",
"gibbering",
"jabbering",
"prattling",
"sputtering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blabbering",
"blathering",
"bleating",
"blithering",
"gabbing",
"jangling",
"jawing",
"pattering",
"prating",
"rattling",
"running on",
"smattering",
"tittle-tattling",
"trolling",
"yakking",
"yacking",
"chuntering",
"maundering",
"mouthing",
"mumbling",
"murmuring",
"muttering",
"stammering",
"stuttering",
"screeching",
"shouting",
"shrieking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulating",
"enunciating",
"pronouncing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drops behind":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"He dropped behind in the second half of the race."
],
"synonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"delays",
"diddles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"lollygags",
"lallygags",
"mopes",
"pokes",
"shilly-shallies",
"tarries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddles (around)",
"fools around",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"loafs",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"ambles",
"eases",
"inches",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"staggers",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)",
"filibusters",
"procrastinates",
"stalls",
"temporizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowls",
"breezes",
"darts",
"humps",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"scrambles",
"stampedes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"runs",
"sprints",
"trots",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"speeds (up)",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes"
],
"antonyms":[
"barrels",
"bolts",
"careers",
"courses",
"dashes",
"flies",
"hastens",
"hotfoots (it)",
"hurries",
"races",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"scoots",
"scuds",
"scurries",
"speeds",
"tears",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"whizzes",
"zips"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"drew upon":{
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"the general's imprudent remarks drew on a public rebuke by the secretary of defense"
],
"synonyms":[
"beget",
"breed",
"bring",
"bring about",
"bring on",
"catalyze",
"cause",
"create",
"do",
"effect",
"effectuate",
"engender",
"generate",
"induce",
"invoke",
"make",
"occasion",
"produce",
"prompt",
"result (in)",
"spawn",
"translate (into)",
"work",
"yield"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conduce (to)",
"contribute (to)",
"decide",
"determine",
"begin",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"institute",
"introduce",
"launch",
"pioneer",
"set",
"set up",
"start",
"advance",
"cultivate",
"develop",
"encourage",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"promote",
"enact",
"render",
"turn out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impede",
"limit",
"restrict",
"clamp down (on)",
"crack down (on)",
"crush",
"dampen",
"put down",
"quash",
"quell",
"repress",
"smother",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stifle",
"subdue",
"suppress",
"arrest",
"check",
"control",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"retard",
"can",
"kill",
"snuff (out)",
"still",
"abolish",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"extinguish",
"liquidate",
"quench"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come near or nearer":{
"examples":[
"night draws on , so we should hurry home"
],
"synonyms":[
"approach",
"belly up",
"close",
"close in",
"come up",
"near",
"nigh"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arrive",
"attain",
"come",
"gain",
"hit",
"land",
"make",
"reach",
"show up",
"turn up",
"waltz (up)",
"creep up",
"sneak up",
"adjoin",
"border",
"touch",
"verge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear out",
"depart",
"exit",
"go",
"leave",
"light out",
"pull out",
"quit",
"remove",
"run away",
"shove (off)",
"take off",
"walk out"
],
"antonyms":[
"back (up or away)",
"recede",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drank":{
"to swallow in liquid form":{
"examples":[
"the doctor wants her to drink lots of water before the examination"
],
"synonyms":[
"belted (down)",
"gulped",
"guzzled",
"hoisted",
"imbibed",
"knocked back",
"pounded (down)",
"quaffed",
"sipped",
"slugged (down)",
"slurped",
"supped",
"swigged",
"swilled",
"tossed (down or off)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lapped",
"licked",
"sucked",
"consumed",
"downed",
"ingurgitated",
"killed",
"mouthed (down)",
"put away",
"nipped",
"tippled",
"pledged",
"toasted",
"wined"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to partake excessively of alcoholic beverages":{
"examples":[
"we're worried that she's started drinking again"
],
"synonyms":[
"bibbed",
"boozed",
"guzzled",
"liquored (up)",
"lushed (up)",
"soaked",
"tippled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caroused",
"reveled",
"revelled",
"imbibed",
"nipped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstained"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take in (something liquid) through small openings":{
"examples":[
"the hot surface of the porous rock drank water like a sponge"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbed",
"imbibed",
"soaked (up)",
"sponged",
"sucked (up)",
"took up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gulped",
"guzzled",
"quaffed",
"sipped",
"slurped",
"swallowed",
"swigged",
"swilled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drops off":{
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"my interest in photography has dropped off over the years"
],
"synonyms":[
"abates",
"declines",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"dies (away or down or out)",
"diminishes",
"drains (away)",
"dwindles",
"eases",
"ebbs",
"falls",
"falls away",
"lessens",
"lets up",
"lowers",
"moderates",
"palls",
"phases down",
"ratchets (down)",
"rachets (down)",
"recedes",
"relents",
"remits",
"shrinks",
"subsides",
"tapers",
"tapers off",
"wanes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"evaporates",
"fades (away)",
"fritters (away)",
"gives out",
"melts (away)",
"peters (out)",
"tails (off)",
"vanishes",
"slackens",
"slows (down)",
"alleviates",
"relaxes",
"flags",
"sinks",
"weakens",
"caves (in)",
"collapses",
"deflates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appears",
"emerges",
"shows up",
"blows up",
"distends",
"elongates",
"lengthens"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulates",
"balloons",
"builds",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"grows",
"increases",
"intensifies",
"mounts",
"mushrooms",
"picks up",
"rises",
"snowballs",
"soars",
"swells",
"waxes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drops back":{
"to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)":{
"examples":[
"a change in the wind direction forced the firefighters to drop back"
],
"synonyms":[
"backs away",
"falls back",
"pulls out",
"recedes",
"retires",
"retreats",
"withdraws"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flees",
"flies",
"flinches",
"recoils",
"shrinks",
"chickens (out)",
"bows out",
"backpedals",
"backs down",
"backtracks",
"climbs down",
"detaches",
"disengages",
"disentangles",
"pulls away",
"abandons",
"departs",
"evacuates",
"goes",
"leaves",
"quits",
"vacates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beards",
"braves",
"brazens",
"breasts",
"confronts",
"dares",
"defies",
"faces",
"outbraves"
],
"antonyms":[
"advances"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drip":{
"someone or something boring":{
"examples":[
"he's well-meaning, but kind of a drip"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"drag",
"droner",
"dullsville",
"nudnik",
"nudnick",
"snooze",
"snoozer",
"yawn",
"yawner"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bummer",
"downer",
"bromide",
"pill"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blast",
"gas",
"kick",
"rush",
"upper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass":{
"examples":[
"the faucet leaked one drip after another no matter what I did to try to fix it"
],
"synonyms":[
"bead",
"blob",
"driblet",
"drop",
"droplet",
"glob",
"globule"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gobbet",
"dewdrop",
"raindrop",
"tear",
"teardrop",
"spatter",
"dribble",
"trickle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fall or let fall in or as if in drops":{
"examples":[
"water from the leaky roof was dripping all over the floor",
"the cracked bottle dripped wine"
],
"synonyms":[
"distill",
"distil",
"dribble",
"drop",
"trickle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drizzle",
"sprinkle",
"flow",
"pour",
"roll",
"run",
"stream",
"cascade",
"gutter",
"riffle",
"ripple",
"bleed",
"exude",
"ooze",
"seep",
"weep",
"discharge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gush",
"spout",
"spurt"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dramshops":{
"a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises":{
"examples":[
"according to the state's dramshop laws, anyone who serves alcohol automatically incurs certain liabilities"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrooms",
"bars",
"caf\u00e9s",
"cafes",
"cantinas",
"gin mills",
"grogshops",
"public houses",
"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"
]
},
"dragged one's feet":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"I think she's dragging her feet on the project because she thinks it's not worth the effort."
],
"synonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"delayed",
"diddled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"lollygagged",
"lallygagged",
"moped",
"poked",
"shilly-shallied",
"tarried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddled (around)",
"fooled around",
"messed around",
"monkeyed (around)",
"played",
"pottered (around)",
"puttered (around)",
"trifled",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"idled",
"loafed",
"lolled",
"lounged",
"ambled",
"eased",
"inched",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"staggered",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)",
"filibustered",
"procrastinated",
"stalled",
"temporized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowled",
"breezed",
"darted",
"humped",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"scrambled",
"stampeded",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"ran",
"run",
"sprinted",
"trotted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"sped (up)",
"speeded (up)",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"bolted",
"careered",
"coursed",
"dashed",
"flew",
"hastened",
"hotfooted (it)",
"hurried",
"raced",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rushed",
"scooted",
"scudded",
"scurried",
"sped",
"speeded",
"tore",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"whizzed",
"zipped"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"drop":{
"to cause to fall intentionally or unintentionally":{
"examples":[
"I dropped the fly ball",
"drop the anchor"
],
"synonyms":[
"depress",
"lower",
"throw",
"throw down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flatten",
"floor",
"level",
"knock down",
"knock over",
"strike down",
"topple",
"plop",
"plunk down",
"bobble",
"bungle",
"foozle",
"fumble",
"immerse",
"sink",
"submerge"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"lift",
"pick up",
"raise"
]
},
"to go to a lower level especially abruptly":{
"examples":[
"although they start out high, prices for home electronics eventually drop"
],
"synonyms":[
"crash",
"crater",
"decline",
"descend",
"dip",
"dive",
"fall",
"lower",
"nose-dive",
"plummet",
"plunge",
"sink",
"skid",
"tumble"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abate",
"decrease",
"de-escalate",
"die (down)",
"diminish",
"droop",
"dwindle",
"ebb",
"lessen",
"let up",
"moderate",
"subside",
"taper off",
"wane",
"recede",
"retreat"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accumulate",
"balloon",
"build",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"grow",
"increase",
"intensify",
"mushroom",
"pick up",
"snowball",
"swell",
"wax"
],
"antonyms":[
"arise",
"ascend",
"lift",
"mount",
"rise",
"soar",
"spike",
"up"
]
},
"to bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate end":{
"examples":[
"drop what you're doing and come here"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"break off",
"break up",
"can",
"cease",
"cut off",
"cut out",
"desist (from)",
"discontinue",
"end",
"give over",
"halt",
"knock off",
"lay off",
"leave off",
"pack (up or in)",
"quit",
"shut off",
"stop"
],
"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":[]
},
"to stop doing (something) permanently":{
"examples":[
"isn't it time you dropped that smoking habit and spent your money on better things?"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandon",
"discontinue",
"give up",
"knock off",
"lay off (of)",
"pack (up or in)",
"quit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break off",
"break up",
"cease",
"close",
"conclude",
"end",
"expire",
"finish",
"halt",
"leave off",
"shut off",
"pause",
"taper off",
"throw up",
"round (off or out)",
"terminate",
"wind up",
"wrap up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"go",
"run on",
"hang in",
"hang on",
"hold on",
"persevere",
"persist",
"follow through (with)",
"renew",
"reopen",
"restart",
"resume",
"preserve",
"stay",
"begin",
"commence",
"start"
],
"antonyms":[
"carry on",
"continue",
"keep",
"keep up",
"maintain"
]
},
"to lead or extend downward":{
"examples":[
"the cable car tracks can drop suddenly, so be sure to hang onto something"
],
"synonyms":[
"decline",
"descend",
"dip",
"fall",
"plunge",
"sink"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angle",
"cant",
"cock",
"heel",
"incline",
"lean",
"list",
"recline",
"slant",
"slope",
"tilt",
"tip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"even",
"flatten",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth",
"straighten"
],
"antonyms":[
"arise",
"ascend",
"climb",
"mount",
"rise",
"uprise",
"upsweep",
"upturn"
]
},
"to put an end to (something planned or previously agreed to)":{
"examples":[
"drop that plan in favor of another"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandon",
"abort",
"call",
"call off",
"cancel",
"cry off",
"recall",
"repeal",
"rescind",
"revoke",
"scrap",
"scrub"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abrogate",
"annul",
"invalidate",
"nullify",
"void",
"write off",
"recant",
"retract",
"take back",
"withdraw",
"countermand",
"reverse",
"roll back",
"break off",
"discontinue",
"end",
"halt",
"stop",
"terminate",
"hold back",
"interrupt",
"suspend",
"give up",
"relinquish",
"surrender"
],
"near antonyms":[
"engage",
"pledge",
"promise",
"begin",
"commence",
"initiate",
"start",
"take on",
"take up",
"undertake"
],
"antonyms":[
"continue",
"keep"
]
},
"to bring forth from the womb":{
"examples":[
"the cow dropped her calf early this morning"
],
"synonyms":[
"bear",
"birth",
"deliver",
"have",
"mother",
"produce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"labor",
"breed",
"multiply",
"propagate",
"reproduce",
"spawn",
"beget",
"father",
"generate",
"get",
"sire",
"calve",
"kid",
"kindle",
"kitten",
"litter",
"pup",
"whelp"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abort",
"lose",
"miscarry"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to strike (someone) so forcefully as to cause a fall":{
"examples":[
"dropped the would-be mugger in his tracks with a single well-aimed blow"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowl (down or over)",
"down",
"fell",
"floor",
"knock down",
"knock over",
"level",
"mow (down)",
"prostrate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kayo",
"knock out",
"KO",
"overthrow",
"throw down",
"topple",
"bang",
"bash",
"belt",
"bludgeon",
"clobber",
"hammer",
"hit",
"jab",
"paste",
"poke",
"pound",
"punch",
"slam",
"slap",
"slog",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"swat",
"swipe",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"whale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to fail to win, gain, or obtain":{
"examples":[
"the local hockey team has dropped two out of the last three contests"
],
"synonyms":[
"lose"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forfeit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conquer",
"prevail (over)",
"triumph (over)"
],
"antonyms":[
"nail (down)",
"win"
]
},
"to fall or let fall in or as if in drops":{
"examples":[
"the cold glass dropped condensation"
],
"synonyms":[
"distill",
"distil",
"dribble",
"drip",
"trickle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drizzle",
"sprinkle",
"flow",
"pour",
"roll",
"run",
"stream",
"cascade",
"gutter",
"riffle",
"ripple",
"bleed",
"exude",
"ooze",
"seep",
"weep",
"discharge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gush",
"spout",
"spurt"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hand over or use up in payment":{
"examples":[
"I dropped $50 on these shoes"
],
"synonyms":[
"disburse",
"expend",
"fork (over, out, or up)",
"give",
"lay out",
"outlay",
"pay",
"shell out",
"spend"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lavish",
"rain",
"blow",
"dissipate",
"fritter (away)",
"run through",
"squander",
"throw away",
"waste"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cache",
"hoard",
"lay up",
"save",
"acquire",
"earn",
"gain",
"garner",
"make",
"procure",
"realize",
"secure",
"win"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically":{
"examples":[
"he would ever so \"casually\" drop the names of celebrities he knew personally"
],
"synonyms":[
"advert (to)",
"cite",
"instance",
"mention",
"name",
"note",
"notice",
"quote",
"refer (to)",
"specify",
"touch (on or upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allude (to)",
"hint (at)",
"imply",
"indicate",
"infer",
"intend",
"intimate",
"suggest",
"point (out)",
"signal",
"signify",
"denominate",
"designate",
"indicate",
"bring up",
"broach",
"interject",
"interpolate",
"interpose",
"introduce",
"infiltrate",
"insinuate",
"worm",
"advertise",
"announce",
"broadcast",
"declare",
"proclaim",
"pronounce",
"publicize",
"publish",
"sound",
"clarify",
"clear (up)",
"elucidate",
"explain",
"explicate",
"spell out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregard",
"forget",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"slight"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
"examples":[
"with these icy road conditions, drivers should be dropping their speed"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"de-escalate",
"decrease",
"dent",
"deplete",
"diminish",
"downscale",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"knock down",
"lessen",
"lower",
"reduce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"clip",
"crop",
"curtail",
"cut",
"cut back",
"cut down",
"dock",
"nick",
"pare",
"prune",
"retrench",
"shorten",
"slash",
"trim",
"truncate",
"whittle",
"deflate",
"shrink",
"minimize",
"moderate",
"modify",
"modulate",
"qualify"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blow up",
"dilate",
"distend",
"inflate",
"swell",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"prolong",
"protract",
"add (to)",
"complement",
"supplement",
"enhance",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"redouble"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"boost",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"increase",
"raise"
]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"during the Black Death people all over Asia and Europe were dropping like flies"
],
"synonyms":[
"check out",
"conk (out)",
"croak",
"decease",
"demise",
"depart",
"die",
"end",
"exit",
"expire",
"fall",
"flatline",
"go",
"kick in",
"kick off",
"part",
"pass (on)",
"pass away",
"peg out",
"perish",
"pop off",
"step out",
"succumb"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predecease",
"consume",
"disappear",
"dry up",
"fade",
"fail"
],
"near antonyms":[
"come to",
"revive",
"linger",
"be",
"exist",
"subsist",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathe",
"live"
]
},
"the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass":{
"examples":[
"a drop of water fell from the leaky faucet every few seconds"
],
"synonyms":[
"bead",
"blob",
"driblet",
"drip",
"droplet",
"glob",
"globule"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gobbet",
"dewdrop",
"raindrop",
"tear",
"teardrop",
"spatter",
"dribble",
"trickle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"distance measured from the top to the bottom of something":{
"examples":[
"a drop of 10 feet from the roof to the ground"
],
"synonyms":[
"deepness",
"depth"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lowness",
"draft",
"sounding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shallowness",
"altitude",
"elevation",
"height",
"stature"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act or process of going to a lower level or altitude":{
"examples":[
"the sudden drop of the plane really shook up the passengers"
],
"synonyms":[
"descent",
"dip",
"dive",
"down",
"fall",
"nosedive",
"plunge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"comedown",
"decline",
"downfall",
"downgrade",
"plummeting",
"sinking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"advance",
"headway",
"progress",
"progression",
"betterment",
"improvement"
],
"antonyms":[
"ascent",
"climb",
"rise",
"rising",
"soaring",
"upswing",
"upturn"
]
},
"the amount by which something is lessened":{
"examples":[
"a huge drop in pressure"
],
"synonyms":[
"abatement",
"decline",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"dent",
"depletion",
"depression",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"drop-off",
"fall",
"falloff",
"loss",
"reduction",
"shrinkage",
"step-down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deduction",
"subtraction",
"downturn",
"slip",
"slump",
"curtailment",
"cut",
"cutback",
"retrenchment",
"shortening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accretion",
"accrual",
"accumulation",
"addition",
"supplement",
"continuation",
"extension",
"upswing",
"uptrend",
"upturn"
],
"antonyms":[
"boost",
"enlargement",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"raise",
"rise",
"step-up",
"uptick"
]
},
"the more favorable condition or position in a competition":{
"examples":[
"got the drop on his opponent very early in the wrestling match"
],
"synonyms":[
"advantage",
"better",
"bulge",
"catbird seat",
"edge",
"high ground",
"inside track",
"jump",
"pull",
"stead",
"upper hand",
"vantage",
"whip hand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"allowance",
"head start",
"lead",
"leg up",
"margin",
"odds",
"start",
"ascendancy",
"ascendency",
"command",
"dominance",
"mastery",
"predominance",
"superiority",
"supremacy",
"transcendence",
"transcendency",
"precedence",
"preference",
"prerogative",
"privilege",
"seniority",
"break",
"foothold",
"opportunity",
"benefit",
"blessing",
"boon",
"felicity",
"godsend",
"manna",
"windfall"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detriment",
"stranglehold",
"disparity",
"imbalance",
"inequality",
"unevenness",
"disability",
"failing",
"impairment",
"shortcoming",
"bar",
"catch",
"check",
"clog",
"crimp",
"embarrassment",
"hindrance",
"hitch",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"rub",
"shackle",
"stop",
"trammel",
"lurch",
"setback"
],
"antonyms":[
"disadvantage",
"drawback",
"handicap",
"liability",
"minus",
"penalty",
"strike"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"draining (away)":{
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"as the city lost population, its political influence drained away"
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"declining",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"dropping (off)",
"dwindling",
"dying (away or down or out)",
"easing",
"ebbing",
"falling",
"falling away",
"lessening",
"letting up",
"lowering",
"moderating",
"palling",
"phasing down",
"ratcheting (down)",
"racheting (down)",
"receding",
"relenting",
"remitting",
"shrinking",
"subsiding",
"tapering",
"tapering off",
"waning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"evaporating",
"fading (away)",
"frittering (away)",
"giving out",
"melting (away)",
"petering (out)",
"tailing (off)",
"vanishing",
"slackening",
"slowing (down)",
"alleviating",
"relaxing",
"flagging",
"sinking",
"weakening",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"deflating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appearing",
"emerging",
"showing up",
"blowing up",
"distending",
"elongating",
"lengthening"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"growing",
"increasing",
"intensifying",
"mounting",
"mushrooming",
"picking up",
"rising",
"snowballing",
"soaring",
"swelling",
"waxing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drubbings":{
"failure to win a contest":{
"examples":[
"took a terrible drubbing in last night's basketball game"
],
"synonyms":[
"beatings",
"defeats",
"lickings",
"losses",
"lumps",
"overthrows",
"plasterings",
"routs",
"shellackings",
"trimmings",
"whippings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collapses",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"failures",
"fiascoes",
"fizzles",
"flops",
"nonsuccesses",
"setbacks",
"upsets",
"lurches",
"shutouts",
"washouts",
"whitewashes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accomplishments",
"achievements",
"blowouts",
"cakewalks",
"landslides",
"romps",
"runaways",
"sweeps",
"walkaways",
"walkovers"
],
"antonyms":[
"successes",
"triumphs",
"victories",
"wins"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drench":{
"to make wet":{
"examples":[
"we were drenched by the sudden rainstorm"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathe",
"bedraggle",
"douse",
"dowse",
"drown",
"soak",
"sodden",
"sop",
"souse",
"wash",
"water",
"water-soak",
"waterlog",
"wet",
"wet down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"asperse",
"bedew",
"damp",
"dampen",
"drizzle",
"humidify",
"hydrate",
"mist",
"moisten",
"moisturize",
"shower",
"sprinkle",
"deluge",
"flood",
"hose (down)",
"inundate",
"overflow",
"submerge",
"swamp",
"splash",
"impregnate",
"saturate",
"steep",
"flush",
"irrigate",
"lave",
"rinse",
"slosh",
"sluice",
"dip",
"duck",
"dunk",
"rehydrate",
"rewash",
"rewet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewater",
"evaporate",
"freeze-dry",
"drip-dry",
"wring",
"dehumidify"
],
"antonyms":[
"dehydrate",
"desiccate",
"dry",
"parch",
"scorch",
"sear"
]
},
"to wet thoroughly with liquid":{
"examples":[
"when using the carpet shampooer, wet but do not drench the carpet"
],
"synonyms":[
"drown",
"impregnate",
"macerate",
"saturate",
"soak",
"sodden",
"sop",
"souse",
"steep"
],
"near synonyms":[
"waterlog",
"water-soak",
"marinate",
"seethe",
"presoak",
"dip",
"immerse",
"inundate",
"submerge",
"swamp",
"bathe",
"douse",
"dowse",
"hydrate",
"swill",
"wash",
"water",
"infiltrate",
"penetrate",
"permeate",
"damp",
"dampen",
"humidify",
"moisten"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehydrate",
"desiccate",
"dry",
"parch",
"sear",
"drain",
"empty",
"void",
"dehumidify"
],
"antonyms":[
"wring (out)"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drowses (off)":{
"as in drops off , nods off":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"drops off",
"nods off",
"catnaps",
"dozes",
"naps",
"rests",
"sleeps",
"slumbers",
"snoozes",
"oversleeps",
"sleeps in",
"dreams",
"hibernates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arises",
"arouses",
"awakes",
"rises",
"wakes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dragging one's feet":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"I think she's dragging her feet on the project because she thinks it's not worth the effort."
],
"synonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"delaying",
"diddling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"lollygagging",
"lallygagging",
"moping",
"poking",
"shilly-shallying",
"tarrying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling around",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"ambling",
"easing",
"inching",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"staggering",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)",
"filibustering",
"procrastinating",
"stalling",
"temporizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowling",
"breezing",
"darting",
"humping",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"scrambling",
"stampeding",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"running",
"sprinting",
"trotting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"speeding (up)",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"bolting",
"careering",
"coursing",
"dashing",
"flying",
"hastening",
"hotfooting (it)",
"hurrying",
"racing",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"scooting",
"scudding",
"scurrying",
"speeding",
"tearing",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"whizzing",
"zipping"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"draws upon":{
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"the general's imprudent remarks drew on a public rebuke by the secretary of defense"
],
"synonyms":[
"beget",
"breed",
"bring",
"bring about",
"bring on",
"catalyze",
"cause",
"create",
"do",
"effect",
"effectuate",
"engender",
"generate",
"induce",
"invoke",
"make",
"occasion",
"produce",
"prompt",
"result (in)",
"spawn",
"translate (into)",
"work",
"yield"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conduce (to)",
"contribute (to)",
"decide",
"determine",
"begin",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"institute",
"introduce",
"launch",
"pioneer",
"set",
"set up",
"start",
"advance",
"cultivate",
"develop",
"encourage",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"promote",
"enact",
"render",
"turn out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impede",
"limit",
"restrict",
"clamp down (on)",
"crack down (on)",
"crush",
"dampen",
"put down",
"quash",
"quell",
"repress",
"smother",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stifle",
"subdue",
"suppress",
"arrest",
"check",
"control",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"retard",
"can",
"kill",
"snuff (out)",
"still",
"abolish",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"extinguish",
"liquidate",
"quench"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come near or nearer":{
"examples":[
"night draws on , so we should hurry home"
],
"synonyms":[
"approach",
"belly up",
"close",
"close in",
"come up",
"near",
"nigh"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arrive",
"attain",
"come",
"gain",
"hit",
"land",
"make",
"reach",
"show up",
"turn up",
"waltz (up)",
"creep up",
"sneak up",
"adjoin",
"border",
"touch",
"verge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear out",
"depart",
"exit",
"go",
"leave",
"light out",
"pull out",
"quit",
"remove",
"run away",
"shove (off)",
"take off",
"walk out"
],
"antonyms":[
"back (up or away)",
"recede",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dropping (off)":{
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"my interest in photography has dropped off over the years"
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"declining",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"draining (away)",
"dwindling",
"dying (away or down or out)",
"easing",
"ebbing",
"falling",
"falling away",
"lessening",
"letting up",
"lowering",
"moderating",
"palling",
"phasing down",
"ratcheting (down)",
"racheting (down)",
"receding",
"relenting",
"remitting",
"shrinking",
"subsiding",
"tapering",
"tapering off",
"waning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"evaporating",
"fading (away)",
"frittering (away)",
"giving out",
"melting (away)",
"petering (out)",
"tailing (off)",
"vanishing",
"slackening",
"slowing (down)",
"alleviating",
"relaxing",
"flagging",
"sinking",
"weakening",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"deflating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appearing",
"emerging",
"showing up",
"blowing up",
"distending",
"elongating",
"lengthening"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"growing",
"increasing",
"intensifying",
"mounting",
"mushrooming",
"picking up",
"rising",
"snowballing",
"soaring",
"swelling",
"waxing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drumming":{
"to strike or cause to strike lightly and usually rhythmically":{
"examples":[
"absentmindedly drumming his fingers on the table"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"rapping",
"tapping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banging",
"bashing",
"batting",
"bonking",
"bopping",
"hammering",
"hitting",
"knocking",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"slamming",
"smacking",
"socking",
"striking",
"swatting",
"thudding",
"thumping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"chinking",
"clattering",
"clinking",
"pinging",
"patting",
"pit-a-patting",
"pitter-pattering",
"chucking",
"clapping",
"clicking",
"flicking",
"tipping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drifted":{
"to move or proceed smoothly and readily":{
"examples":[
"casual conversation drifting from one topic to another"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowled",
"breezed",
"brushed",
"coasted",
"cruised",
"flowed",
"glided",
"rolled",
"sailed",
"skimmed",
"slid",
"slipped",
"streamed",
"swept",
"whisked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flew",
"raced",
"rushed",
"sped",
"speeded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"limped",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"stumbled",
"trudged",
"shambled",
"shuffled",
"stamped",
"stomped",
"stumped",
"tramped",
"labored",
"toiled"
],
"antonyms":[
"floundered",
"struggled"
]
},
"to rest or move along the surface of a liquid or in the air":{
"examples":[
"the boat drifted along on the current"
],
"synonyms":[
"floated",
"glided",
"hovered",
"hung",
"hanged",
"poised",
"rode",
"rid",
"sailed",
"swam",
"wafted"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bobbed",
"dangled",
"suspended",
"buoyed",
"ballooned",
"rafted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dived",
"dove",
"lunged",
"plunged",
"dipped",
"immersed",
"submerged",
"submersed"
],
"antonyms":[
"sank",
"sunk",
"settled"
]
},
"to move about from place to place aimlessly":{
"examples":[
"spent several years drifting from town to town, picking up odd jobs whenever he needed cash"
],
"synonyms":[
"batted",
"cruised",
"floated",
"gadded (about)",
"gallivanted",
"galavanted",
"kicked around",
"knocked (about)",
"maundered",
"meandered",
"mooched",
"rambled",
"ranged",
"roamed",
"roved",
"traipsed",
"wandered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambled",
"sauntered",
"strolled",
"dawdled",
"moped",
"gypsied",
"hoboed",
"tramped",
"vagabonded",
"milled (about or around)",
"straggled",
"strayed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dropping behind":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"He dropped behind in the second half of the race."
],
"synonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"delaying",
"diddling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"lollygagging",
"lallygagging",
"moping",
"poking",
"shilly-shallying",
"tarrying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling around",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"ambling",
"easing",
"inching",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"staggering",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)",
"filibustering",
"procrastinating",
"stalling",
"temporizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowling",
"breezing",
"darting",
"humping",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"scrambling",
"stampeding",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"running",
"sprinting",
"trotting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"speeding (up)",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"bolting",
"careering",
"coursing",
"dashing",
"flying",
"hastening",
"hotfooting (it)",
"hurrying",
"racing",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"scooting",
"scudding",
"scurrying",
"speeding",
"tearing",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"whizzing",
"zipping"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"drew down":{
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"I drew down my bank account just paying for tuition"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"consumed",
"depleted",
"devoured",
"drained",
"exhausted",
"expended",
"played out",
"spent",
"used up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abated",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"reduced",
"ate",
"used",
"bankrupted",
"cleaned (out)",
"impoverished",
"crippled",
"debilitated",
"disabled",
"enfeebled",
"sapped",
"undermined",
"weakened",
"dried up",
"emptied",
"blew",
"dissipated",
"frittered (away)",
"guzzled",
"lavished",
"misspent",
"ran through",
"squandered",
"threw away",
"wasted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augmented",
"enlarged",
"increased",
"bolstered",
"enforced",
"fortified",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"strengthened",
"rebuilt",
"repaired",
"restored",
"revived",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"saved"
],
"antonyms":[
"renewed",
"replaced"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dream":{
"a conception or image created by the imagination and having no objective reality":{
"examples":[
"his invention is only a dream right now, but someday it might be a reality"
],
"synonyms":[
"chimera",
"conceit",
"daydream",
"delusion",
"fancy",
"fantasy",
"phantasy",
"figment",
"hallucination",
"illusion",
"nonentity",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"pipe dream",
"unreality",
"vision"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ignis fatuus",
"mirage",
"will-o'-the-wisp",
"brainchild",
"idea",
"concoction",
"fable",
"fabrication",
"fiction",
"invention",
"envisaging",
"imaging",
"visualization",
"cloud-cuckoo-land",
"cloudland",
"Shangri-la",
"utopia",
"daymare",
"nightmare"
],
"near antonyms":[
"actuality",
"fact",
"reality"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that one hopes or intends to accomplish":{
"examples":[
"my dream is to open my own restaurant"
],
"synonyms":[
"aim",
"ambition",
"aspiration",
"bourne",
"bourn",
"design",
"end",
"goal",
"idea",
"ideal",
"intent",
"intention",
"mark",
"meaning",
"object",
"objective",
"plan",
"point",
"pretension",
"purpose",
"target",
"thing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grail",
"holy grail",
"plot",
"project",
"scheme",
"desire",
"hope",
"mind",
"wish",
"nirvana",
"destination",
"terminus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"means",
"method",
"way"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something very good of its kind":{
"examples":[
"the Alaskan cruise exceeded their wildest expectations\u2014it was a dream of a vacation"
],
"synonyms":[
"beaut",
"beauty",
"bee's knees",
"cat's meow",
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"daisy",
"dandy",
"dilly",
"doozy",
"doozie",
"doozer",
"honey",
"hot stuff",
"humdinger",
"hummer",
"jim-dandy",
"knockout",
"lollapalooza",
"lulu",
"nifty",
"peach",
"pip",
"pippin",
"ripper",
"ripsnorter",
"snorter",
"sockdolager",
"sockdologer",
"standout",
"sweetheart"
],
"near synonyms":[
"marvel",
"phenomenon",
"prodigy",
"sensation",
"wonder",
"catch",
"crown jewel",
"diamond",
"gem",
"imperial",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"plum",
"treasure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bust",
"disappointment",
"dud",
"failure",
"flop",
"lemon",
"letdown",
"loser",
"stinker",
"turkey"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"I dreamed that I was living on that proverbial desert island in the South Pacific"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceit",
"conceive",
"conjure (up)",
"envisage",
"envision",
"fancy",
"fantasize",
"fantasy",
"feature",
"ideate",
"image",
"imagine",
"picture",
"see",
"vision",
"visualize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydream",
"stargaze",
"hallucinate",
"re-create",
"reflect",
"relive",
"reminisce",
"contemplate",
"meditate",
"muse",
"ponder",
"ruminate",
"concoct",
"fabricate",
"invent",
"make up",
"manufacture",
"plan",
"project",
"foresee",
"prefigure"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dry-clean":{
"as in wash , brush":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"brush",
"comb",
"dust",
"launder",
"mop",
"muck (out)",
"rinse",
"scour",
"scrub",
"shampoo",
"sponge",
"swab",
"sweep",
"vacuum",
"wash",
"wipe",
"clean",
"cleanse",
"deterge",
"GI",
"turn out",
"decontaminate",
"purge",
"purify",
"disinfect",
"sanitize",
"brighten",
"deodorize",
"freshen",
"spruce (up)",
"sweeten",
"pick up",
"straighten (up)",
"tidy",
"unclutter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrime",
"muddy",
"defile",
"pollute",
"taint",
"blacken",
"discolor",
"besmirch",
"dirty",
"foul",
"soil",
"spot",
"stain",
"sully"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dreadfulness":{
"the quality of inspiring intense dread or dismay":{
"examples":[
"the dreadfulness of an oncoming avalanche can scarcely be described"
],
"synonyms":[
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"awfulness",
"frightfulness",
"ghastliness",
"grisliness",
"gruesomeness",
"hideousness",
"horridness",
"horror",
"monstrosity",
"repulsiveness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"badness",
"baseness",
"depravedness",
"depravity",
"diabolicalness",
"evil",
"evilness",
"foulness",
"heinousness",
"immorality",
"iniquitousness",
"iniquity",
"invidiousness",
"sinfulness",
"ungodliness",
"viciousness",
"vileness",
"wickedness",
"accursedness",
"cursedness",
"deplorableness",
"despicableness",
"detestableness",
"execrableness",
"hatefulness",
"loathsomeness",
"reprehensibleness",
"creepiness",
"eeriness",
"fearfulness",
"fearsomeness",
"ghostliness",
"ghoulishness",
"scariness",
"agony",
"anguish",
"hellishness",
"misery",
"torment",
"torture"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeableness",
"delightfulness",
"pleasantness",
"pleasurableness",
"allurement",
"appeal",
"attraction",
"attractiveness",
"desirability",
"desirableness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dry nurse":{
"a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children":{
"examples":[
"after years of being a dry nurse to other women's children, she longed to have a child of her own"
],
"synonyms":[
"babysitter",
"nanny",
"nannie",
"nurse",
"nursemaid",
"nurser",
"sitter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amah",
"ayah",
"au pair",
"bonne",
"mammy",
"duenna",
"fraulein",
"governess",
"mademoiselle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drop in the bucket":{
"a very small amount":{
"examples":[
"Your copay may seem expensive, but it's a drop in the bucket compared with the total cost of the procedure."
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dram",
"driblet",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smack",
"smell",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"soup\u00e7on",
"spark",
"spatter",
"speck",
"splash",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"minim",
"minimum",
"modicum",
"semblance",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"vestige",
"whit",
"atom",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"morsel",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"patch",
"scrap",
"dash",
"drop",
"pinch",
"part",
"portion",
"section",
"bite",
"nibble",
"taste",
"handful",
"scattering",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dose",
"shot",
"chip",
"flake",
"fragment",
"shard",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"smithereens",
"splinter",
"shred",
"tatter",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"deal",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"oodles",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plenty",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"stack",
"wad",
"wealth",
"volume",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"chunk",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"drys":{
"as in prohibitionists":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"prohibitionists",
"abstainers",
"nondrinkers",
"teetotalers",
"teetotallers",
"teetotalists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bibbers",
"drinkers",
"alcoholics",
"barflies",
"boozehounds",
"boozers",
"drunkards",
"drunks",
"inebriates",
"sots",
"souses",
"tipplers",
"wets"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dresses up":{
"to put on one's best or formal clothes":{
"examples":[
"we always like to dress up when going to parties"
],
"synonyms":[
"dolls up",
"dresses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"preens",
"primps",
"prinks",
"smartens (up)",
"accessorizes",
"apparels",
"arrays",
"attires",
"bedecks",
"bedizens",
"caparisons",
"clothes",
"costumes",
"decks",
"dudes (up)",
"garbs",
"garments",
"invests",
"rigs (out)",
"robes",
"suits"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to change the dress or looks of so as to conceal true identity":{
"examples":[
"the war was a fiasco that the administration tried to dress up as a triumph"
],
"synonyms":[
"camouflages",
"cloaks",
"disguises",
"masks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blankets",
"blots out",
"conceals",
"covers",
"curtains",
"enshrouds",
"hides",
"obscures",
"occults",
"screens",
"shrouds",
"veils",
"affects",
"assumes",
"counterfeits",
"dissembles",
"dissimulates",
"feigns",
"poses",
"pretends",
"shams",
"simulates",
"acts",
"fakes",
"impersonates",
"masquerades",
"plays",
"cosmeticizes",
"gilds",
"glosses (over)",
"varnishes",
"whitewashes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"displays",
"exhibits",
"exposes",
"flaunts",
"parades",
"shows",
"uncloaks",
"unclothes",
"uncovers",
"undrapes",
"unveils",
"bares",
"betrays",
"discloses",
"discovers",
"divulges",
"exposes",
"reveals"
],
"antonyms":[
"unmasks"
]
},
"to make more desirable":{
"examples":[
"dressed up the house with new windows and a paint job before putting it on the market"
],
"synonyms":[
"candies",
"enhances",
"sweetens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ameliorates",
"enriches",
"improves",
"meliorates",
"embellishes",
"soups up",
"tricks",
"cosmeticizes",
"dolls up",
"spruces"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to outfit with clothes and especially fine or special clothes":{
"examples":[
"the girls were dressed up in skirts or dresses, but the boys were wearing jeans"
],
"synonyms":[
"apparels",
"arrays",
"attires",
"bedecks",
"caparisons",
"clothes",
"costumes",
"decks (out)",
"does up",
"dresses",
"enrobes",
"garbs",
"garments",
"gets up",
"gowns",
"habits",
"invests",
"rigs (out)",
"robes",
"suits",
"togs (up or out)",
"toilets",
"vestures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cloaks",
"frocks",
"jackets",
"mantles",
"vests",
"drapes",
"enswathes",
"haps",
"huddles",
"swaddles",
"swathes",
"wraps",
"accoutres",
"accouters",
"bedights",
"equips",
"furnishes",
"habilitates",
"outfits",
"tailors",
"uniforms",
"dresses down",
"underdresses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denudes",
"divests",
"uncovers",
"undrapes",
"unveils"
],
"antonyms":[
"disarrays",
"disrobes",
"strips",
"unclothes",
"undresses",
"untrusses"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drawing off":{
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"examples":[
"drew off the fat from the top of the drippings"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleeding",
"drafting",
"draining",
"pumping",
"siphoning",
"syphoning",
"tapping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
]
},
"droop":{
"the extent to which something hangs or dips below a straight line":{
"examples":[
"tighten the line at the top of the banner so there won't be so much droop"
],
"synonyms":[
"hang",
"sag",
"slack",
"slackness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"floppiness",
"laxity",
"laxness",
"limpness",
"looseness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rigidity",
"rigidness",
"tautness",
"tenseness",
"tension",
"tightness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be limp from lack of water or vigor":{
"examples":[
"the flowers drooped on their stalks in the blazing sun"
],
"synonyms":[
"flag",
"hang",
"loll",
"sag",
"swag",
"wilt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"slouch",
"slump",
"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"crumple",
"drop",
"fall",
"sink",
"subside",
"yield"
],
"near antonyms":[
"distend",
"stiffen",
"rise",
"straighten",
"unbend",
"uncurl"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to lose bodily strength or vigor":{
"examples":[
"as the afternoon wore on, we started to droop"
],
"synonyms":[
"decay",
"emaciate",
"fade",
"fail",
"flag",
"go",
"lag",
"languish",
"sag",
"sink",
"waste (away)",
"weaken",
"wilt",
"wither"
],
"near synonyms":[
"break down",
"wear out",
"yield",
"degenerate",
"deteriorate",
"rot",
"run down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"convalesce",
"rally",
"rebound",
"recover",
"recuperate",
"gain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dreamboats":{
"a physically attractive person":{
"examples":[
"an actor who's still regarded as one of the screen's all-time great dreamboats"
],
"synonyms":[
"babes",
"cuties",
"cuteys",
"dishes",
"dolls",
"foxes",
"fox",
"glamour-pusses",
"hotties",
"knockouts",
"lookers",
"showstoppers",
"tens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beauties",
"eyefuls",
"goddesses",
"lovelies",
"stunners",
"beefcakes",
"hunks",
"studs",
"superstuds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"dogs"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drawn a conclusion":{
"to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information":{
"examples":[
"You can draw a conclusion about what happened by looking at the clues."
],
"synonyms":[
"concluded",
"decided",
"deduced",
"derived",
"extrapolated",
"gathered",
"inferred",
"judged",
"made out",
"reasoned",
"understood"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assumed",
"supposed",
"conjectured",
"guessed",
"speculated",
"surmised",
"construed",
"interpreted",
"read",
"contemplated",
"philosophized",
"rationalized",
"thought",
"ascertained",
"doped (out)",
"found out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"driblets":{
"a very small amount":{
"examples":[
"money doled out in driblets to the workers"
],
"synonyms":[
"aces",
"bits",
"crumbs",
"dabs",
"drams",
"glimmers",
"hints",
"licks",
"little",
"mites",
"nips",
"ounces",
"particles",
"peanuts",
"rays",
"scintillas",
"scruples",
"shades",
"shadows",
"shreds",
"skoshes",
"smacks",
"smells",
"smidgens",
"smidgeons",
"smidgins",
"smidges",
"snaps",
"soup\u00e7ons",
"sparks",
"spatters",
"specks",
"splashes",
"spots",
"sprinklings",
"strains",
"streaks",
"suspicions",
"touches",
"traces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoots",
"iotas",
"jots",
"minima",
"minimums",
"minims",
"modicums",
"semblances",
"syllables",
"tittles",
"vestiges",
"whits",
"atoms",
"dots",
"flecks",
"flyspecks",
"grains",
"granules",
"molecules",
"morsels",
"motes",
"nubbins",
"patches",
"scraps",
"dashes",
"drops",
"pinches",
"parts",
"portions",
"sections",
"bites",
"nibbles",
"tastes",
"handfuls",
"handsful",
"scatterings",
"smatterings",
"smatters",
"doses",
"shots",
"chips",
"flakes",
"fragments",
"shards",
"shivers",
"slivers",
"smithereens",
"splinters",
"tatters",
"clippings",
"parings",
"shavings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundances",
"barrels",
"boatloads",
"buckets",
"bundles",
"bushels",
"deals",
"fistfuls",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lots",
"masses",
"messes",
"mountains",
"much",
"oodles",
"passels",
"pecks",
"piles",
"plenties",
"potfuls",
"profusions",
"quantities",
"rafts",
"reams",
"scads",
"stacks",
"wads",
"wealths",
"volumes",
"bonanzas",
"embarrassments",
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overflows",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"oversupplies",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surpluses",
"chunks",
"hunks",
"lumps",
"slabs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass":{
"examples":[
"rain leaked through the roof in solitary driblets here and there"
],
"synonyms":[
"beads",
"blobs",
"drips",
"droplets",
"drops",
"globs",
"globules"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gobbets",
"dewdrops",
"raindrops",
"teardrops",
"tears",
"spatters",
"dribbles",
"trickles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"draggling":{
"as in confusing , muddling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"confusing",
"disarranging",
"disarraying",
"disheveling",
"dishevelling",
"disordering",
"jumbling",
"messing",
"muddling",
"discoloring",
"collying",
"crocking",
"contaminating",
"defiling",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"befouling",
"begriming",
"bemiring",
"besmirching",
"blackening",
"daubing",
"dirtying",
"distaining",
"fouling",
"gauming",
"griming",
"miring",
"mucking",
"muddying",
"smirching",
"smudging",
"soiling",
"staining",
"sullying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleaning",
"cleansing",
"decontaminating",
"purging",
"purifying",
"disinfecting",
"sanitizing",
"brushing",
"dry-cleaning",
"dusting",
"laundering",
"mopping",
"rinsing",
"scouring",
"scrubbing",
"sweeping",
"washing",
"wiping",
"brightening",
"deodorizing",
"freshening",
"renewing",
"sprucing (up)",
"straightening (up)",
"tidying (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drunks":{
"a person who makes a habit of getting drunk":{
"examples":[
"you can't trust anything that old drunk says"
],
"synonyms":[
"alcoholics",
"alkies",
"boozehounds",
"boozers",
"dipsomaniacs",
"drinkers",
"drunkards",
"inebriates",
"juiceheads",
"juicers",
"lushes",
"rummies",
"soakers",
"soaks",
"sots",
"souses",
"tipplers",
"topers",
"tosspots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swiggers",
"swillers",
"winos"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstainers",
"nondrinkers",
"teetotalers",
"teetotallers",
"teetotalists"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a bout of prolonged or excessive drinking":{
"examples":[
"after a weeklong drunk he was unable to remember anything"
],
"synonyms":[
"benders",
"binges",
"busts",
"carousals",
"carouses",
"jamborees",
"sprees",
"toots",
"wassails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blowouts",
"keggers",
"keg parties",
"bacchanalia",
"orgies",
"revelries",
"revels",
"bibberies",
"inebriations",
"inebrieties",
"intoxications",
"jags"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drunkenness":{
"habitual or excessive drinking of intoxicants":{
"examples":[
"unfortunately most of his time in college had been devoted to drunkenness and debauchery"
],
"synonyms":[
"alcoholism",
"insobriety",
"intemperance",
"intemperateness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inebriety",
"intoxication",
"bibulousness",
"dipsomania",
"debauchery",
"dissoluteness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstention",
"abstinence",
"teetotalism"
],
"antonyms":[
"sobriety",
"temperance"
]
},
"the condition of being drunk":{
"examples":[
"officials warning that public drunkenness would not be tolerated, even during Mardi Gras"
],
"synonyms":[
"inebriation",
"inebriety",
"intoxication"
],
"near synonyms":[
"tipsiness",
"insobriety",
"intemperance",
"alcoholism",
"bender",
"binge",
"brannigan",
"jag",
"souse",
"spree",
"toot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dramedy":{
"as in comedy , melodrama":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comedy",
"comedy drama",
"docudrama",
"melodrama",
"monodrama",
"musical",
"musical comedy",
"psychodrama",
"tragedy",
"tragicomedy",
"interlude",
"playlet",
"magnum opus",
"opus",
"work",
"drama",
"dramatization",
"play",
"adaptation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dramshop":{
"a place of business where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises":{
"examples":[
"according to the state's dramshop laws, anyone who serves alcohol automatically incurs certain liabilities"
],
"synonyms":[
"bar",
"barroom",
"caf\u00e9",
"cafe",
"cantina",
"gin mill",
"grogshop",
"pub",
"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"
]
},
"drags one's heels":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"I think she's dragging her feet on the project because she thinks it's not worth the effort."
],
"synonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"delays",
"diddles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"lollygags",
"lallygags",
"mopes",
"pokes",
"shilly-shallies",
"tarries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddles (around)",
"fools around",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"loafs",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"ambles",
"eases",
"inches",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"staggers",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)",
"filibusters",
"procrastinates",
"stalls",
"temporizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowls",
"breezes",
"darts",
"humps",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"scrambles",
"stampedes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"runs",
"sprints",
"trots",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"speeds (up)",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes"
],
"antonyms":[
"barrels",
"bolts",
"careers",
"courses",
"dashes",
"flies",
"hastens",
"hotfoots (it)",
"hurries",
"races",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"scoots",
"scuds",
"scurries",
"speeds",
"tears",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"whizzes",
"zips"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"droplet":{
"the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass":{
"examples":[
"there were only a few droplets left in the canteen"
],
"synonyms":[
"bead",
"blob",
"driblet",
"drip",
"drop",
"glob",
"globule"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gobbet",
"dewdrop",
"raindrop",
"tear",
"teardrop",
"spatter",
"dribble",
"trickle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dreadfully":{
"as in terribly , horribly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abysmally",
"atrociously",
"awfully",
"damnably",
"deplorably",
"detestably",
"disastrously",
"execrably",
"horrendously",
"horribly",
"horrifically",
"rottenly",
"terribly",
"bad",
"badly",
"deficiently",
"inadequately",
"lousily",
"poorly",
"unacceptably",
"unsatisfactorily",
"wretchedly",
"intolerably",
"unbearably",
"inappropriately",
"incorrectly",
"indecently",
"reprehensibly",
"unsuitably",
"vulgarly",
"naughtily",
"egregiously",
"flagrantly",
"grossly",
"miserably",
"shoddily",
"sleazily",
"trashily",
"unspeakably",
"abominably",
"odiously",
"vilely",
"inferiorly",
"insufficiently",
"meagerly",
"meanly",
"niggardly",
"scantily",
"scantly",
"shabbily",
"skimpily",
"sparely",
"stingily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acceptably",
"adequately",
"all right",
"fine",
"good",
"nicely",
"OK",
"okay",
"palatably",
"passably",
"satisfactorily",
"so-so",
"tolerably",
"well",
"appropriately",
"congruously",
"correctly",
"decently",
"decorously",
"felicitously",
"fittingly",
"meetly",
"rightly",
"seemly",
"suitably",
"exactly",
"faithfully",
"ideally",
"precisely",
"respectably",
"gratifyingly",
"satisfyingly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"drizzled":{
"as in dusted , blanketed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blanketed",
"dusted",
"bestrewed",
"dotted",
"peppered",
"scattered",
"sowed",
"spotted",
"sprayed",
"sprinkled",
"strewed",
"studded",
"dappled",
"flecked",
"speckled",
"stippled",
"bespattered",
"spattered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dredges (up)":{
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"I might be able to dredge up some old baby clothes to donate"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertains",
"descries",
"detects",
"determines",
"digs out",
"digs up",
"discovers",
"ferrets (out)",
"finds",
"finds out",
"gets",
"hits (on or upon)",
"hunts (down or up)",
"learns",
"locates",
"noses out",
"roots (out)",
"routs (out)",
"rummages",
"runs down",
"scares up",
"scouts (up)",
"tracks (down)",
"turns up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espies",
"sights",
"spots",
"looks for",
"searches (for or out)",
"seeks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loses",
"mislays",
"misplaces",
"missets"
],
"antonyms":[
"misses",
"overlooks",
"passes over"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drowning":{
"to cover with a flood":{
"examples":[
"whole villages drowned by the rampaging river"
],
"synonyms":[
"deluging",
"engulfing",
"flooding",
"gulfing",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"overwhelming",
"submerging",
"submersing",
"swamping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avalanching",
"smothering",
"overcoming",
"overrunning",
"flowing",
"flushing",
"gushing",
"pouring",
"sluicing",
"spouting",
"spurting",
"streaming",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"drenching",
"soaking",
"wetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehydrating",
"drying",
"parching"
],
"antonyms":[
"draining"
]
},
"to wet thoroughly with liquid":{
"examples":[
"drowned the carpet with shampoo, and so it took forever to dry"
],
"synonyms":[
"drenching",
"impregnating",
"macerating",
"saturating",
"soaking",
"soddening",
"sopping",
"sousing",
"steeping"
],
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"waterlogging",
"water-soaking",
"marinating",
"seething",
"presoaking",
"dipping",
"immersing",
"inundating",
"submerging",
"swamping",
"bathing",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"hydrating",
"swilling",
"washing",
"watering",
"infiltrating",
"penetrating",
"permeating",
"dampening",
"damping",
"humidifying",
"moistening"
],
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"dehydrating",
"desiccating",
"drying",
"parching",
"searing",
"draining",
"emptying",
"voiding",
"dehumidifying"
],
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"wringing (out)"
]
},
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"cooked pasta drowned in marinara sauce"
],
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"bedraggling",
"dousing",
"dowsing",
"drenching",
"soaking",
"soddening",
"sopping",
"sousing",
"washing",
"watering",
"waterlogging",
"water-soaking",
"wetting",
"wetting down"
],
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"aspersing",
"bedewing",
"dampening",
"damping",
"drizzling",
"humidifying",
"hydrating",
"misting",
"moistening",
"moisturizing",
"showering",
"sprinkling",
"deluging",
"flooding",
"hosing (down)",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"submerging",
"swamping",
"splashing",
"impregnating",
"saturating",
"steeping",
"flushing",
"irrigating",
"laving",
"rinsing",
"sloshing",
"sluicing",
"dipping",
"ducking",
"dunking",
"rehydrating",
"rewashing",
"rewetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewatering",
"evaporating",
"freeze-drying",
"drip-drying",
"wringing",
"dehumidifying"
],
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"dehydrating",
"desiccating",
"drying",
"parching",
"scorching",
"searing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drawn out":{
"as in long-term , prolonged":{
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"extended",
"long-term",
"prolonged",
"circumspect",
"foresighted",
"forethoughtful",
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"hesitating",
"tentative",
"calculated",
"calculating",
"measured",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"laggard",
"leisurely",
"poky",
"pokey",
"shilly-shallying",
"slow",
"deliberate",
"unhurried",
"unrushed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cursory",
"drive-by",
"flying",
"gadarene",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"helter-skelter",
"hurried",
"overhasty",
"pell-mell",
"precipitate",
"precipitous",
"rash",
"rushed",
"breakneck",
"breathtaking",
"headstrong",
"heady",
"hotheaded",
"impatient",
"impetuous",
"impulsive",
"madcap",
"reckless",
"unadvised"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"the actor refused to draw out the interview any further"
],
"synonyms":[
"dragged (out)",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"outstretched",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"stretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplified",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"increased",
"attenuated",
"thinned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"reduced",
"thickened"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"cut",
"cut back",
"shortened"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"drear":{
"causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer":{
"examples":[
"it was a drear morning in January when I went to take my driving test"
],
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"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"chill",
"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
"cold",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"depressive",
"desolate",
"dire",
"disconsolate",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"dreich",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"godforsaken",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"lugubrious",
"miserable",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"plutonian",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"sunless",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blue",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"down",
"droopy",
"hangdog",
"inconsolable",
"low",
"melancholic",
"melancholy",
"mirthless",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"woeful",
"dim",
"discomfiting",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismaying",
"dispiriting",
"distressful",
"distressing",
"upsetting",
"desperate",
"hopeless",
"pessimistic",
"lamentable",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"sorrowful",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dull",
"dour",
"grim",
"lowering",
"louring",
"lowery",
"loury",
"menacing",
"negative",
"oppressive",
"threatening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"gay",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"encouraging",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"lighthearted",
"lightsome"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"comforting",
"cordial",
"festive",
"friendly",
"gay",
"heartwarming",
"sunshiny"
]
},
"causing unhappiness":{
"examples":[
"a barren and drear existence in a remote village"
],
"synonyms":[
"depressing",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"melancholy",
"mournful",
"pathetic",
"sad",
"saddening",
"sorry",
"tearful",
"teary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deplorable",
"distressful",
"grievous",
"lamentable",
"unfortunate",
"woeful",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"affecting",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heartening",
"heartwarming",
"inspiring",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"uplifting",
"agreeable",
"delightful",
"enjoyable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"satisfying",
"welcome",
"exhilarating",
"thrilling"
],
"antonyms":[
"cheering",
"cheery",
"glad",
"happy"
]
},
"as in morbidness , moroseness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dismalness",
"morbidness",
"moroseness",
"morosity",
"boredom",
"ennui",
"tedium",
"regret",
"rue",
"despair",
"desperation",
"hopelessness",
"self-despair",
"moodiness",
"discouragement",
"disheartenment",
"misery",
"woe",
"wretchedness",
"agony",
"distress",
"pain",
"anguish",
"dolor",
"grief",
"mourning",
"somberness",
"sorrow",
"woefulness",
"melancholia",
"self-pity"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"ecstasy",
"elatedness",
"elation",
"euphoria",
"exhilaration",
"exuberance",
"exultation",
"felicity",
"gladness",
"gladsomeness",
"happiness",
"heaven",
"intoxication",
"joy",
"joyfulness",
"joyousness",
"jubilation",
"rapture",
"rapturousness",
"gaiety",
"gayety",
"gayness",
"glee",
"gleefulness",
"humor",
"jollity",
"joviality",
"lightheartedness",
"merriment",
"mirth",
"mirthfulness",
"cheer",
"cheerfulness",
"cheeriness",
"hopefulness",
"optimism",
"sunniness",
"content",
"contentedness",
"contentment",
"satisfaction",
"delight",
"gratification"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"drive-ins":{
"as in theaters , cinemas":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cinemas",
"playhouses",
"theaters",
"theatres",
"megaplexes",
"multiplexes",
"plexes",
"'plexes",
"art houses",
"art theaters",
"cinematheques",
"fleapits",
"grind houses",
"nickelodeons"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drabness":{
"as in boredom , tedium":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blahs",
"boredom",
"dullness",
"dulness",
"ennui",
"restlessness",
"tediousness",
"tedium",
"tiresomeness",
"weariness",
"wearisomeness",
"uniformity",
"humdrum",
"monotone",
"monotonousness",
"monotony",
"sameness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"diversity",
"multiplicity",
"variety",
"variability",
"variation",
"absorption",
"engagement",
"engrossment",
"enthrallment",
"fascination",
"grip",
"interest",
"intrigue",
"involvement",
"animation",
"enlivenment",
"excitement",
"invigoration",
"stimulation"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drinkable":{
"suitable for drinking":{
"examples":[
"technically, that cheap stuff may be wine, but it's hardly drinkable"
],
"synonyms":[
"potable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"clean",
"fresh",
"pure",
"uncontaminated",
"unpolluted",
"nonpoisonous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contaminated",
"dirty",
"foul",
"polluted",
"poison",
"poisonous",
"toxic",
"unhealthful",
"unhealthy",
"unwholesome"
],
"antonyms":[
"undrinkable"
]
},
"a liquid suitable for drinking":{
"examples":[
"the thoughtful hostess offered her guests an assortment of alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinkables"
],
"synonyms":[
"beverage",
"drink",
"libation",
"potable",
"quencher"
],
"near synonyms":[
"potion",
"pop",
"soda",
"soda pop",
"soft drink",
"nectar",
"alcohol",
"brew",
"intoxicant",
"liquor",
"spirits",
"mix",
"mixer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"dress rehearsal":{
"as in preview":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"preview",
"dry run",
"practice",
"practise",
"rehearsal",
"trial",
"run-through",
"walk-through",
"drill",
"exercise"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drop-dead":{
"very pleasing to look at":{
"examples":[
"a drop-dead wedding dress that must have cost a fortune"
],
"synonyms":[
"aesthetic",
"esthetic",
"aesthetical",
"esthetical",
"attractive",
"beauteous",
"beautiful",
"bonny",
"bonnie",
"comely",
"cute",
"fair",
"fetching",
"good",
"good-looking",
"goodly",
"gorgeous",
"handsome",
"knockout",
"likely",
"lovely",
"lovesome",
"pretty",
"ravishing",
"seemly",
"sightly",
"stunning",
"taking",
"well-favored"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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",
"desirable",
"dishy",
"dollish",
"foxy",
"hot",
"luscious",
"nubile",
"pulchritudinous",
"seductive",
"sexy",
"toothsome",
"hunky",
"studly",
"arresting",
"eye-catching",
"flamboyant",
"flashy",
"glossy",
"showstopping",
"showy",
"slick",
"snazzy",
"splashy",
"striking",
"zingy",
"photogenic",
"telegenic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"bad",
"disagreeable",
"disgusting",
"dreadful",
"foul",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"horrible",
"loathsome",
"nasty",
"nauseating",
"objectionable",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"shocking",
"sickening",
"terrible",
"vile",
"unappealing",
"unappetizing",
"unimposing",
"unpleasant",
"unprepossessing",
"frumpish",
"frumpy",
"unbecoming",
"unshapely"
],
"antonyms":[
"grotesque",
"hideous",
"homely",
"ill-favored",
"plain",
"ugly",
"unaesthetic",
"unattractive",
"unbeautiful",
"uncomely",
"uncute",
"unhandsome",
"unlovely",
"unpleasing",
"unpretty",
"unsightly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"droppings":{
"solid matter discharged from an animal's alimentary canal":{
"examples":[
"the only bad part about owning a rabbit was cleaning the droppings out of the litter box every night"
],
"synonyms":[
"dirt",
"doo-doo",
"dung",
"excrement",
"excreta",
"feces",
"ordure",
"poop",
"scat",
"slops",
"soil",
"waste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"night soil",
"stool",
"dunghill",
"guano",
"manure",
"midden",
"muck",
"spoor",
"sewage",
"sewerage",
"coprolite"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dreamworlds":{
"as in wonderlands , dreamlands":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dreamlands",
"fairylands",
"wonderlands",
"Camelots",
"Cockaignes",
"Edens",
"Elysiums",
"Elysia",
"empyreans",
"fantasylands",
"heavens",
"lotuslands",
"never-never lands",
"New Jerusalems",
"nirvanas",
"paradises",
"promised lands",
"Shangri-las",
"utopias",
"Zions",
"Sions",
"arcadias",
"blisses",
"euphorias",
"joys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fool's paradises",
"anti-utopias",
"dystopias",
"hells"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dramatization":{
"a written work in which the story is told through speech and action that is intended to be acted out on stage":{
"examples":[
"a dramatization of a true story"
],
"synonyms":[
"drama",
"play"
],
"near synonyms":[
"interlude",
"playlet",
"comedy",
"comedy drama",
"docudrama",
"dramedy",
"melodrama",
"monodrama",
"musical",
"musical comedy",
"psychodrama",
"tragedy",
"tragicomedy",
"magnum opus",
"opus",
"work",
"adaptation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dragging":{
"moving or proceeding at less than the normal, desirable, or required speed":{
"examples":[
"a mysterious, cloaked figure with a strange, dragging walk"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dilatory",
"dillydallying",
"laggard",
"lagging",
"languid",
"leisurely",
"poking",
"poky",
"pokey",
"slow",
"sluggish",
"snail-paced",
"snaillike",
"tardy",
"unhurried"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deliberate",
"measured",
"inactive",
"inert",
"lethargic",
"loafing",
"lounging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"heavy-footed",
"inching",
"plodding",
"shuffling",
"slow-footed",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing",
"filibustering",
"procrastinating",
"stalling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"expeditious",
"prompt",
"ready",
"accelerated",
"hastened",
"quickened",
"hurried",
"rushed"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreling",
"bolting",
"breakneck",
"breathless",
"brisk",
"careering",
"dizzy",
"fast",
"fleet",
"flying",
"hasty",
"hurrying",
"lightning",
"meteoric",
"quick",
"racing",
"rapid",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"scooting",
"scudding",
"scurrying",
"snappy",
"speeding",
"speedy",
"swift",
"warp-speed",
"whirling",
"whirlwind",
"whisking",
"zipping"
]
},
"to cause to follow by applying steady force on":{
"examples":[
"the deliveryman dragged the barrels over against the wall"
],
"synonyms":[
"drawing",
"haling",
"hauling",
"lugging",
"pulling",
"towing",
"tugging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"attracting",
"heaving",
"jerking",
"yanking",
"carrying",
"conveying",
"ferrying",
"moving",
"transporting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"shoving",
"thrusting"
],
"antonyms":[
"driving",
"propelling",
"pushing"
]
},
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"one of the climbers was beginning to drag"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"delaying",
"diddling",
"dillydallying",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"lollygagging",
"lallygagging",
"moping",
"poking",
"shilly-shallying",
"tarrying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddling (around)",
"fooling around",
"messing around",
"monkeying (around)",
"playing",
"pottering (around)",
"puttering (around)",
"trifling",
"hanging (around or out)",
"idling",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging",
"ambling",
"easing",
"inching",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"staggering",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)",
"filibustering",
"procrastinating",
"stalling",
"temporizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowling",
"breezing",
"darting",
"humping",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"scrambling",
"stampeding",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"running",
"sprinting",
"trotting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"speeding (up)",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking"
],
"antonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"bolting",
"careering",
"coursing",
"dashing",
"flying",
"hastening",
"hotfooting (it)",
"hurrying",
"racing",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"scooting",
"scudding",
"scurrying",
"speeding",
"tearing",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"whizzing",
"zipping"
]
},
"to move slowly":{
"examples":[
"the play dragged and seemed to take forever to get to its predictable conclusion"
],
"synonyms":[
"crawling",
"creaking (along)",
"creeping",
"inching",
"limping",
"nosing",
"oozing",
"plodding",
"poking",
"slouching",
"snailing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lumbering",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"tramping",
"trudging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floating",
"gliding",
"sailing",
"hurrying",
"tearing"
],
"antonyms":[
"flying",
"racing",
"speeding",
"whizzing",
"zipping"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"dramatizations":{
"a written work in which the story is told through speech and action that is intended to be acted out on stage":{
"examples":[
"a dramatization of a true story"
],
"synonyms":[
"dramas",
"plays"
],
"near synonyms":[
"interludes",
"playlets",
"comedies",
"comedy dramas",
"docudramas",
"dramedies",
"melodramas",
"monodramas",
"musical comedies",
"musicals",
"psychodramas",
"tragedies",
"tragicomedies",
"magnum opuses",
"opera",
"opuses",
"works",
"adaptations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drawn off":{
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"examples":[
"drew off the fat from the top of the drippings"
],
"synonyms":[
"bled",
"drafted",
"drained",
"pumped",
"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":[
"verb"
]
},
"drinkables":{
"a liquid suitable for drinking":{
"examples":[
"the thoughtful hostess offered her guests an assortment of alcoholic and nonalcoholic drinkables"
],
"synonyms":[
"beverages",
"drinks",
"libations",
"potables",
"quenchers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"potions",
"pops",
"soda pops",
"sodas",
"soft drinks",
"nectars",
"alcohols",
"brews",
"intoxicants",
"liquors",
"spirits",
"mixers",
"mixes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drops (off)":{
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"my interest in photography has dropped off over the years"
],
"synonyms":[
"abates",
"declines",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"dies (away or down or out)",
"diminishes",
"drains (away)",
"dwindles",
"eases",
"ebbs",
"falls",
"falls away",
"lessens",
"lets up",
"lowers",
"moderates",
"palls",
"phases down",
"ratchets (down)",
"rachets (down)",
"recedes",
"relents",
"remits",
"shrinks",
"subsides",
"tapers",
"tapers off",
"wanes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"evaporates",
"fades (away)",
"fritters (away)",
"gives out",
"melts (away)",
"peters (out)",
"tails (off)",
"vanishes",
"slackens",
"slows (down)",
"alleviates",
"relaxes",
"flags",
"sinks",
"weakens",
"caves (in)",
"collapses",
"deflates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appears",
"emerges",
"shows up",
"blows up",
"distends",
"elongates",
"lengthens"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulates",
"balloons",
"builds",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"grows",
"increases",
"intensifies",
"mounts",
"mushrooms",
"picks up",
"rises",
"snowballs",
"soars",
"swells",
"waxes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dross":{
"discarded or useless material":{
"examples":[
"get rid of the dross before closing up the shop"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaff",
"deadwood",
"debris",
"dreck",
"drek",
"dust",
"effluvium",
"effluvia",
"garbage",
"junk",
"litter",
"offal",
"offscouring",
"raffle",
"refuse",
"riffraff",
"rubbish",
"scrap",
"spilth",
"trash",
"truck",
"waste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crud",
"sewage",
"slop",
"swill",
"wash",
"detritus",
"remains",
"rubble",
"ruins",
"dump",
"scrap heap",
"lumber",
"odds and ends",
"trumpery",
"flotsam",
"jetsam",
"wreckage",
"castoff",
"cull",
"discard",
"hand-me-down",
"reject",
"throwaway",
"nothing",
"straw",
"two bits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"catch",
"gem",
"goody",
"goodie",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"plum",
"prize",
"treasure",
"treasure trove",
"trove",
"valuable",
"booty",
"find",
"salvage"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drovers":{
"as in herders , herdsmen":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cowherds",
"herders",
"herdsmen",
"cattlemen",
"ranchers",
"stockmen",
"horsemen",
"horsewomen",
"caballeros",
"gauchos",
"vaqueros",
"cowgirls",
"buckaroos",
"buckeroos",
"cowboys",
"cowhands",
"cowmen",
"cowpokes",
"cowpunchers",
"waddies",
"wranglers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drawing up":{
"to bring (something) to a standstill":{
"examples":[
"he drew up his horse outside the tavern"
],
"synonyms":[
"arresting",
"bringing up",
"catching",
"checking",
"fetching up",
"halting",
"holding up",
"pulling 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":[]
},
"to put into a particular arrangement":{
"examples":[
"drew up the troops into a line along the ridge"
],
"synonyms":[
"arranging",
"arraying",
"classifying",
"codifying",
"disposing",
"laying out",
"marshaling",
"marshalling",
"ordering",
"organizing",
"ranging",
"systematizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grooming",
"making up",
"sprucing (up)",
"straightening (up)",
"tidying (up)",
"unscrambling",
"aligning",
"alining",
"cuing",
"cueing",
"lining",
"lining up",
"queuing",
"queueing",
"alphabetizing",
"filing",
"hierarchizing",
"prioritizing",
"sequencing",
"emplacing",
"placing",
"setting",
"displaying",
"mapping (out)",
"setting out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"deranging",
"disarranging",
"disarraying",
"disordering",
"messing (up)",
"mussing (up)",
"rumpling",
"upsetting"
]
},
"to put (something) into proper and usually carefully worked out written form":{
"examples":[
"draw up a proposal and submit it to the committee for approval"
],
"synonyms":[
"casting",
"composing",
"crafting",
"drafting",
"formulating",
"framing",
"preparing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forming",
"molding",
"sculpturing",
"shaping",
"couching",
"expressing",
"phrasing",
"stating",
"verbalizing",
"wording",
"authoring",
"inditing",
"penning",
"writing",
"conceiving",
"concocting",
"devising",
"building",
"constructing",
"making",
"assembling",
"compounding",
"piecing (together)",
"redrafting",
"reformulating",
"reframing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drown":{
"to cover with a flood":{
"examples":[
"whole villages drowned by the rampaging river"
],
"synonyms":[
"deluge",
"engulf",
"flood",
"gulf",
"inundate",
"overflow",
"overwhelm",
"submerge",
"submerse",
"swamp"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avalanche",
"smother",
"overcome",
"overrun",
"flow",
"flush",
"gush",
"pour",
"sluice",
"spout",
"spurt",
"stream",
"douse",
"dowse",
"drench",
"soak",
"wet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehydrate",
"dry",
"parch"
],
"antonyms":[
"drain"
]
},
"to wet thoroughly with liquid":{
"examples":[
"drowned the carpet with shampoo, and so it took forever to dry"
],
"synonyms":[
"drench",
"impregnate",
"macerate",
"saturate",
"soak",
"sodden",
"sop",
"souse",
"steep"
],
"near synonyms":[
"waterlog",
"water-soak",
"marinate",
"seethe",
"presoak",
"dip",
"immerse",
"inundate",
"submerge",
"swamp",
"bathe",
"douse",
"dowse",
"hydrate",
"swill",
"wash",
"water",
"infiltrate",
"penetrate",
"permeate",
"damp",
"dampen",
"humidify",
"moisten"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehydrate",
"desiccate",
"dry",
"parch",
"sear",
"drain",
"empty",
"void",
"dehumidify"
],
"antonyms":[
"wring (out)"
]
},
"to make wet":{
"examples":[
"cooked pasta drowned in marinara sauce"
],
"synonyms":[
"bathe",
"bedraggle",
"douse",
"dowse",
"drench",
"soak",
"sodden",
"sop",
"souse",
"wash",
"water",
"water-soak",
"waterlog",
"wet",
"wet down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"asperse",
"bedew",
"damp",
"dampen",
"drizzle",
"humidify",
"hydrate",
"mist",
"moisten",
"moisturize",
"shower",
"sprinkle",
"deluge",
"flood",
"hose (down)",
"inundate",
"overflow",
"submerge",
"swamp",
"splash",
"impregnate",
"saturate",
"steep",
"flush",
"irrigate",
"lave",
"rinse",
"slosh",
"sluice",
"dip",
"duck",
"dunk",
"rehydrate",
"rewash",
"rewet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dewater",
"evaporate",
"freeze-dry",
"drip-dry",
"wring",
"dehumidify"
],
"antonyms":[
"dehydrate",
"desiccate",
"dry",
"parch",
"scorch",
"sear"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drying up":{
"to stop talking":{
"examples":[
"sick of her constant complaining, he angrily told her to dry up"
],
"synonyms":[
"belting up",
"clamming up",
"dummying up",
"hushing",
"piping down",
"quieting (down)",
"shutting up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calming (down)",
"cooling (down)",
"settling (down)",
"hawing",
"hemming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"piping up",
"sounding off",
"speaking out",
"speaking up",
"spouting (off)",
"talking up"
],
"antonyms":[
"speaking",
"talking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dresser":{
"as in cuddy , pie safe":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cuddy",
"pie safe",
"bookcase",
"breakfront",
"chest",
"china closet",
"credence",
"credenza",
"\u00e9tag\u00e8re",
"etagere",
"secretary",
"showcase",
"taboret",
"tabouret",
"vitrine",
"armoire",
"clothespress",
"garderobe",
"wardrobe",
"buffet",
"cabinet",
"closet",
"console",
"cupboard",
"hutch",
"locker",
"press",
"sideboard",
"cabinetry",
"shelving"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dropped (off)":{
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"my interest in photography has dropped off over the years"
],
"synonyms":[
"abated",
"declined",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"died (away or down or out)",
"diminished",
"drained (away)",
"dwindled",
"eased",
"ebbed",
"fell",
"fell away",
"lessened",
"let up",
"lowered",
"moderated",
"palled",
"phased down",
"ratcheted (down)",
"racheted (down)",
"receded",
"relented",
"remitted",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"subsided",
"tapered",
"tapered off",
"waned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"evaporated",
"faded (away)",
"frittered (away)",
"gave out",
"melted (away)",
"petered (out)",
"tailed (off)",
"vanished",
"slackened",
"slowed (down)",
"alleviated",
"relaxed",
"flagged",
"sank",
"sunk",
"weakened",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"deflated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeared",
"emerged",
"showed up",
"blew up",
"distended",
"elongated",
"lengthened"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"grew",
"increased",
"intensified",
"mounted",
"mushroomed",
"picked up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"soared",
"swelled",
"waxed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"druggie":{
"a person who regularly uses drugs especially illegally":{
"examples":[
"an old college classmate who became a druggie and ended up on skid row"
],
"synonyms":[
"addict",
"dopehead",
"doper",
"fiend",
"freak",
"head",
"hophead",
"hype",
"junkie",
"junky",
"stoner",
"user"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acidhead",
"cokehead",
"crackhead",
"pothead",
"speed freak",
"burnout"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonaddict",
"nonuser"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"driblet":{
"a very small amount":{
"examples":[
"money doled out in driblets to the workers"
],
"synonyms":[
"ace",
"bit",
"crumb",
"dab",
"dram",
"glimmer",
"hint",
"lick",
"little",
"mite",
"nip",
"ounce",
"particle",
"peanuts",
"ray",
"scintilla",
"scruple",
"shade",
"shadow",
"shred",
"skosh",
"smack",
"smell",
"smidgen",
"smidgeon",
"smidgin",
"smidge",
"snap",
"soup\u00e7on",
"spark",
"spatter",
"speck",
"splash",
"spot",
"sprinkling",
"strain",
"streak",
"suspicion",
"tad",
"touch",
"trace"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hoot",
"iota",
"jot",
"minim",
"minimum",
"modicum",
"semblance",
"syllable",
"tittle",
"vestige",
"whit",
"atom",
"dot",
"fleck",
"flyspeck",
"grain",
"granule",
"molecule",
"morsel",
"mote",
"nubbin",
"patch",
"scrap",
"dash",
"drop",
"pinch",
"part",
"portion",
"section",
"bite",
"nibble",
"taste",
"handful",
"scattering",
"smatter",
"smattering",
"dose",
"shot",
"chip",
"flake",
"fragment",
"shard",
"shiver",
"sliver",
"smithereens",
"splinter",
"tatter",
"clipping",
"paring",
"shaving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abundance",
"barrel",
"boatload",
"bucket",
"bundle",
"bushel",
"deal",
"fistful",
"gobs",
"heaps",
"lashings",
"lashins",
"loads",
"lot",
"mass",
"mess",
"mountain",
"much",
"oodles",
"passel",
"peck",
"pile",
"plenty",
"potful",
"profusion",
"quantity",
"raft",
"reams",
"scads",
"stack",
"wad",
"wealth",
"volume",
"bonanza",
"embarrassment",
"excess",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"oversupply",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"chunk",
"hunk",
"lump",
"slab"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass":{
"examples":[
"rain leaked through the roof in solitary driblets here and there"
],
"synonyms":[
"bead",
"blob",
"drip",
"drop",
"droplet",
"glob",
"globule"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gobbet",
"dewdrop",
"raindrop",
"tear",
"teardrop",
"spatter",
"dribble",
"trickle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drives":{
"to urge, push, or force onward":{
"examples":[
"cowboys drove the herd of cattle from San Antonio to San Francisco"
],
"synonyms":[
"herds",
"punches",
"runs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shepherds",
"wrangles",
"eggs",
"exhorts",
"flogs",
"goads",
"hounds",
"presses",
"pricks",
"prods",
"prompts",
"scourges",
"spurs",
"whips"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to travel by a motorized vehicle":{
"examples":[
"I'm going to drive across the country\u2014want to come?"
],
"synonyms":[
"automobiles",
"motors",
"tools"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rolls",
"wheels",
"joyrides",
"chauffeurs",
"hacks",
"taxis",
"taxies",
"rides",
"drags",
"races"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one":{
"examples":[
"drove the plunger into the opening"
],
"synonyms":[
"propels",
"pushes",
"shoves",
"thrusts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impels",
"moves",
"bears (down)",
"compresses",
"depresses",
"jams",
"pressures",
"squashes",
"squeezes",
"weighs (upon)",
"bulldozes",
"compels",
"forces",
"leans (on or against)",
"muscles",
"rams"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (a person) to give in to pressure":{
"examples":[
"the corrupt governor was driven out of office"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"coerces",
"compels",
"constrains",
"dragoons",
"forces",
"impels",
"impresses",
"makes",
"muscles",
"obligates",
"obliges",
"presses",
"pressures",
"sandbags"
],
"near synonyms":[
"browbeats",
"bulldozes",
"bullies",
"cows",
"hectors",
"intimidates",
"blackmails",
"high-pressures",
"menaces",
"shames",
"terrorizes",
"threatens",
"drags",
"badgers",
"harasses",
"hounds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allows",
"lets",
"permits",
"argues",
"convinces",
"induces",
"moves",
"persuades",
"prevails (on or upon)",
"satisfies",
"talks (into)",
"wins (over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to function":{
"examples":[
"machinery driven by waterpower"
],
"synonyms":[
"activates",
"actuates",
"cranks (up)",
"moves",
"runs",
"sets off",
"sparks",
"starts",
"touches off",
"triggers",
"turns on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kicks over",
"turns over",
"charges",
"electrifies",
"energizes",
"fires",
"fuels",
"generates",
"powers",
"pushes",
"discharges",
"launches",
"releases",
"switches",
"trips",
"reactivates",
"recharges",
"arouses",
"excites",
"jump-starts",
"kick-starts",
"stimulates",
"vitalizes",
"ignites",
"incites",
"instigates",
"provokes",
"quickens",
"stirs up",
"accelerates",
"catalyzes",
"speeds (up)",
"steps up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrests",
"brakes",
"checks",
"cuts off",
"draws up",
"halts",
"jams",
"stalls",
"sticks",
"stops",
"decelerates",
"represses",
"slows",
"stunts",
"suppresses"
],
"antonyms":[
"cuts",
"cuts out",
"deactivates",
"kills",
"shuts off",
"turns off"
]
},
"to set or keep in motion":{
"examples":[
"this motor drives the gears, which then turn the shaft"
],
"synonyms":[
"actuates",
"impels",
"moves",
"propels",
"works"
],
"near synonyms":[
"activates",
"motivates",
"provokes",
"abets",
"ferments",
"foments",
"incites",
"raises",
"stirs (up)",
"whips (up)",
"sets off",
"triggers",
"trips",
"arouses",
"excites",
"fires (up)",
"galvanizes",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"inspires",
"instigates",
"rouses",
"stimulates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bridles",
"checks",
"constrains",
"contains",
"controls",
"curbs",
"inhibits",
"regulates",
"reins (in)",
"restrains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"the runner drove past the finish line and then came to a dead stop"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bundles",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"careers",
"chases",
"courses",
"cracks (on)",
"dashes",
"flies",
"hares",
"hastens",
"hies",
"highballs",
"hotfoots (it)",
"humps",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"jets",
"jumps",
"motors",
"nips",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"rustles",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"steps",
"tears",
"travels",
"trots",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetles",
"darts",
"flits",
"scampers",
"scuds",
"scuffles",
"stampedes",
"streaks",
"whizzes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"sprints",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"steps out",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes",
"arrows",
"beelines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"hangs (around or out)",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"ambles",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"pokes"
]
},
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"examples":[
"raced our motorcycles along the drive"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterials",
"arteries",
"avenues",
"boulevards",
"carriageways",
"drags",
"expressways",
"freeways",
"high roads",
"highways",
"passes",
"pike",
"pikes",
"roads",
"roadways",
"routes",
"rows",
"streets",
"thoroughfares",
"thruways",
"traces",
"turnpikes",
"ways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causeways",
"autobahns",
"autoroutes",
"autostradas",
"autostrade",
"dual carriageways",
"interstates",
"motorways",
"superhighways",
"beltways",
"bypasses",
"parkways",
"ring roads",
"corniches",
"switchbacks",
"through streets",
"high streets",
"Main Streets",
"backstreets",
"branches",
"bystreets",
"byways",
"crossroads",
"secondary roads",
"shunpikes",
"side roads",
"side streets",
"alleys",
"alleyways",
"circles",
"lanes",
"laneways",
"mews",
"places",
"closes",
"culs-de-sac",
"cul-de-sacs",
"dead ends",
"corridors",
"tracks",
"trails"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a series of activities undertaken to achieve a goal":{
"examples":[
"a fund-raising drive for the school's marching band"
],
"synonyms":[
"bandwagons",
"blitzes",
"campaigns",
"causes",
"crusades",
"juggernauts",
"movements",
"pushes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assaults",
"attacks",
"maneuvers",
"marches",
"offensives",
"actions",
"bids",
"enterprises",
"initiatives",
"missions",
"projects",
"undertakings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drops in":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"drop in any time\u2014we're always home"
],
"synonyms":[
"calls",
"comes by",
"comes over",
"drops by",
"pops (in)",
"runs in",
"runs (over)",
"steps in",
"stops (by or in)",
"visits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barges (in)",
"looks up",
"sees",
"bops (into)",
"happens (by)",
"frequents",
"hangs (at)",
"haunts",
"resorts (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drummer":{
"as in guitarist , pianist":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"accordionist",
"bassoonist",
"clarinetist",
"clarinettist",
"cornetist",
"cornettist",
"fiddler",
"flautist",
"flutist",
"guitarist",
"harpist",
"hornist",
"keyboardist",
"oboist",
"organ-grinder",
"organist",
"percussionist",
"pianist",
"picker",
"piper",
"reedman",
"saxophonist",
"trombonist",
"trumpeter",
"violinist",
"violist",
"accompanist",
"recitalist",
"soloist",
"symphonist",
"maestro",
"virtuoso",
"artist",
"performer",
"minstrel",
"instrumentalist",
"musician",
"player"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"droplets":{
"the quantity of fluid that falls naturally in one rounded mass":{
"examples":[
"there were only a few droplets left in the canteen"
],
"synonyms":[
"beads",
"blobs",
"driblets",
"drips",
"drops",
"globs",
"globules"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gobbets",
"dewdrops",
"raindrops",
"teardrops",
"tears",
"spatters",
"dribbles",
"trickles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drawing down":{
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"I drew down my bank account just paying for tuition"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbing",
"burning",
"consuming",
"depleting",
"devouring",
"draining",
"exhausting",
"expending",
"playing out",
"spending",
"using up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reducing",
"eating",
"using",
"bankrupting",
"cleaning (out)",
"impoverishing",
"crippling",
"debilitating",
"disabling",
"enfeebling",
"sapping",
"undermining",
"weakening",
"drying up",
"emptying",
"blowing",
"dissipating",
"frittering (away)",
"guzzling",
"lavishing",
"misspending",
"running through",
"squandering",
"throwing away",
"wasting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augmenting",
"enlarging",
"increasing",
"bolstering",
"enforcing",
"fortifying",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"strengthening",
"rebuilding",
"repairing",
"restoring",
"reviving",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"saving"
],
"antonyms":[
"renewing",
"replacing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drum (out)":{
"to drive or force out":{
"examples":[
"drummed out of the service for conduct unbecoming an officer"
],
"synonyms":[
"banish",
"boot (out)",
"bounce",
"cast out",
"chase",
"dismiss",
"eject",
"expel",
"extrude",
"kick out",
"oust",
"out",
"rout",
"run off",
"throw out",
"turf (out)",
"turn out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deforce",
"deport",
"displace",
"dispossess",
"evict",
"exile",
"expatriate",
"ostracize",
"read out",
"shut out",
"ax",
"axe",
"can",
"cashier",
"defenestrate",
"discharge",
"fire",
"muster out",
"pink-slip",
"release",
"remove",
"retire",
"sack",
"terminate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"admit",
"receive",
"take",
"take in",
"welcome",
"entertain",
"harbor",
"house",
"lodge",
"shelter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"droner":{
"someone or something boring":{
"examples":[
"the movie turned out to be a droner"
],
"synonyms":[
"bore",
"drag",
"drip",
"dullsville",
"nudnik",
"nudnick",
"snooze",
"snoozer",
"yawn",
"yawner"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bummer",
"downer",
"bromide",
"pill"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blast",
"gas",
"kick",
"rush",
"upper"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drew off":{
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"examples":[
"drew off the fat from the top of the drippings"
],
"synonyms":[
"bled",
"drafted",
"drained",
"pumped",
"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":[
"verb"
]
},
"drops a dime (on)":{
"to give information (as to the authorities) about another's improper or unlawful activities":{
"examples":[
"The criminal dropped a dime on his former associates in exchange for a more lenient sentence."
],
"synonyms":[
"finks",
"grasses (on)",
"informs",
"rats (on)",
"sings",
"snitches",
"splits (on)",
"squeaks",
"squeals",
"talks",
"tells (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"betrays",
"gives away",
"turns in",
"backstabs",
"crosses",
"double-crosses",
"sells (out)",
"two-times",
"blabs",
"tattles",
"tips (off)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"drafty":{
"as in windy , blustery":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blowy",
"blustery",
"breezy",
"gusty",
"squally",
"windy",
"stormy",
"tempestuous"
],
"near antonyms":[
"breathless",
"calm",
"motionless",
"still"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"dreary":{
"causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer":{
"examples":[
"vowed that he would never take a desk job working in a dreary office"
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"chill",
"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
"cold",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"depressive",
"desolate",
"dire",
"disconsolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreich",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"godforsaken",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"lugubrious",
"miserable",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"plutonian",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"sunless",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blue",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"down",
"droopy",
"hangdog",
"inconsolable",
"low",
"melancholic",
"melancholy",
"mirthless",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"woeful",
"dim",
"discomfiting",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismaying",
"dispiriting",
"distressful",
"distressing",
"upsetting",
"desperate",
"hopeless",
"pessimistic",
"lamentable",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"sorrowful",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dull",
"dour",
"grim",
"lowering",
"louring",
"lowery",
"loury",
"menacing",
"negative",
"oppressive",
"threatening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"gay",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"encouraging",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"lighthearted",
"lightsome"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"comforting",
"cordial",
"festive",
"friendly",
"gay",
"heartwarming",
"sunshiny"
]
},
"causing unhappiness":{
"examples":[
"decided to see a professional counselor in order to save their dreary marriage"
],
"synonyms":[
"depressing",
"dismal",
"drear",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"melancholy",
"mournful",
"pathetic",
"sad",
"saddening",
"sorry",
"tearful",
"teary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deplorable",
"distressful",
"grievous",
"lamentable",
"unfortunate",
"woeful",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"affecting",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heartening",
"heartwarming",
"inspiring",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"uplifting",
"agreeable",
"delightful",
"enjoyable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"satisfying",
"welcome",
"exhilarating",
"thrilling"
],
"antonyms":[
"cheering",
"cheery",
"glad",
"happy"
]
},
"causing weariness, restlessness, or lack of interest":{
"examples":[
"another dreary social event to suffer through"
],
"synonyms":[
"arid",
"boring",
"colorless",
"drab",
"drudging",
"dry",
"dull",
"dusty",
"flat",
"heavy",
"ho-hum",
"humdrum",
"jading",
"jejune",
"leaden",
"mind-numbing",
"monochromatic",
"monotonous",
"numbing",
"old",
"pedestrian",
"ponderous",
"slow",
"stale",
"stodgy",
"stuffy",
"stupid",
"tame",
"tedious",
"tiresome",
"tiring",
"uninteresting",
"wearisome",
"weary",
"wearying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aseptic",
"barren",
"blah",
"dullish",
"pleasureless",
"prosaic",
"prosy",
"soggy",
"spiritless",
"blank",
"earthbound",
"gray",
"grey",
"inanimate",
"pallid",
"pedantic",
"sterile",
"suspenseless",
"undramatic",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"unimaginative",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"annoying",
"bothersome",
"irksome",
"irritating",
"longsome",
"palling",
"draining",
"enervating",
"exhausting",
"fatiguing",
"wearing",
"debilitating",
"enfeebling",
"demoralizing",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dispiriting",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"tepid",
"unexceptional",
"unsurprising",
"vapid",
"cumbersome",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"poky",
"pokey"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"sensational",
"spectacular",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"animating",
"breathtaking",
"electrifying",
"energizing",
"enlivening",
"exciting",
"exhilarating",
"galvanizing",
"hair-raising",
"inspiring",
"invigorating",
"rip-roaring",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"stirring",
"thrilling",
"amusing",
"diverting",
"entertaining",
"moving",
"poignant",
"touching",
"alluring",
"attracting",
"attractive",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"enthralling",
"entrancing",
"fascinating",
"mesmerizing",
"spellbinding",
"suspenseful",
"arresting",
"provocative",
"tantalizing"
],
"antonyms":[
"absorbing",
"engaging",
"engrossing",
"gripping",
"interesting",
"intriguing",
"involving",
"riveting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"drawing in":{
"as in persuading , roping (in)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"inveigling",
"persuading",
"roping (in)",
"snowing",
"alluring",
"baiting",
"beguiling",
"betraying",
"decoying",
"enticing",
"leading on",
"luring",
"seducing",
"soliciting",
"tempting",
"catching",
"enmeshing",
"immeshing",
"ensnaring",
"entrapping",
"meshing",
"snaring",
"tangling",
"trapping",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"enchanting",
"fascinating",
"magnetizing",
"wiling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alerting",
"cautioning",
"forewarning",
"warding (off)",
"warning",
"driving (away or off)",
"repulsing",
"turning away"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"draw upon":{
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"examples":[
"drew off the fat from the top of the drippings"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleed",
"draft",
"drain",
"pump",
"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"
]
},
"to be the cause of (a situation, action, or state of mind)":{
"examples":[
"the general's imprudent remarks drew on a public rebuke by the secretary of defense"
],
"synonyms":[
"beget",
"breed",
"bring",
"bring about",
"bring on",
"catalyze",
"cause",
"create",
"do",
"effect",
"effectuate",
"engender",
"generate",
"induce",
"invoke",
"make",
"occasion",
"produce",
"prompt",
"result (in)",
"spawn",
"translate (into)",
"work",
"yield"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conduce (to)",
"contribute (to)",
"decide",
"determine",
"begin",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"inaugurate",
"initiate",
"innovate",
"institute",
"introduce",
"launch",
"pioneer",
"set",
"set up",
"start",
"advance",
"cultivate",
"develop",
"encourage",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"nourish",
"nurture",
"promote",
"enact",
"render",
"turn out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"impede",
"limit",
"restrict",
"clamp down (on)",
"crack down (on)",
"crush",
"dampen",
"put down",
"quash",
"quell",
"repress",
"smother",
"squash",
"squelch",
"stifle",
"subdue",
"suppress",
"arrest",
"check",
"control",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"retard",
"can",
"kill",
"snuff (out)",
"still",
"abolish",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"extinguish",
"liquidate",
"quench"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come near or nearer":{
"examples":[
"night draws on , so we should hurry home"
],
"synonyms":[
"approach",
"belly up",
"close",
"close in",
"come up",
"near",
"nigh"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arrive",
"attain",
"come",
"gain",
"hit",
"land",
"make",
"reach",
"show up",
"turn up",
"waltz (up)",
"creep up",
"sneak up",
"adjoin",
"border",
"touch",
"verge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clear out",
"depart",
"exit",
"go",
"leave",
"light out",
"pull out",
"quit",
"remove",
"run away",
"shove (off)",
"take off",
"walk out"
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"back (up or away)",
"recede",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drawing boards":{
"as in first bases , ground zeros":{
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"first bases",
"ground zeros",
"square ones",
"alphas",
"baselines",
"beginnings",
"births",
"commencements",
"dawns",
"day ones",
"geneses",
"get-goes",
"git-goes",
"inceptions",
"incipiences",
"incipiencies",
"kickoffs",
"launches",
"mornings",
"nascences",
"nascencies",
"onsets",
"outsets",
"starts",
"thresholds",
"creations",
"inaugurations",
"initiations",
"institutions",
"originations",
"cradles",
"fountainheads",
"fountains",
"germs",
"origins",
"roots",
"seedbeds",
"sources",
"springs",
"wells",
"wellsprings",
"openings",
"advents",
"appearances",
"arrivals",
"debuts",
"d\u00e9buts",
"emergences",
"childhoods",
"infancies",
"youths"
],
"near antonyms":[
"closes",
"conclusions",
"endings",
"ends",
"omegas",
"cessations",
"closings",
"closures",
"completions",
"finales",
"finishes",
"periods",
"stops",
"terminations",
"windups"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"driller":{
"as in drillmaster":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
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"drillmaster",
"instructor",
"teacher",
"tutor",
"adviser",
"advisor",
"cicerone",
"counselor",
"counsellor",
"guide",
"mentor",
"handler",
"manager",
"coach",
"trainer"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"draws a conclusion":{
"to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information":{
"examples":[
"You can draw a conclusion about what happened by looking at the clues."
],
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"concludes",
"decides",
"deduces",
"derives",
"extrapolates",
"gathers",
"infers",
"judges",
"makes out",
"reasons",
"understands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assumes",
"supposes",
"conjectures",
"guesses",
"speculates",
"surmises",
"construes",
"interprets",
"reads",
"contemplates",
"philosophizes",
"rationalizes",
"thinks",
"ascertains",
"dopes (out)",
"finds out"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"dreamily":{
"in a pleasing way":{
"examples":[
"our date at the restaurant went dreamily until the check arrived"
],
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"agreeably",
"charmingly",
"delectably",
"deliciously",
"delightfully",
"enchantingly",
"enjoyably",
"favorably",
"felicitously",
"fetchingly",
"gloriously",
"gratifyingly",
"great",
"nicely",
"palatably",
"pleasantly",
"pleasingly",
"pleasurably",
"prettily",
"satisfyingly",
"splendidly",
"sweetly",
"swimmingly",
"welcomely",
"well",
"winningly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"finely",
"grandly",
"magnificently",
"advantageously",
"helpfully",
"blessedly",
"fortunately",
"happily",
"luckily",
"excellently",
"superbly",
"marvelously",
"sensationally",
"wonderfully",
"attractively",
"beautifully",
"handsomely",
"appealingly",
"appetizingly",
"enticingly",
"invitingly",
"temptingly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abominably",
"appallingly",
"awfully",
"dreadfully",
"horrendously",
"horribly",
"horridly",
"shockingly",
"sickeningly",
"terribly",
"vilely",
"annoyingly",
"disgustingly",
"distressingly",
"irritatingly",
"vexingly"
],
"antonyms":[
"badly",
"disagreeably",
"ill",
"unpleasantly"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"draftees":{
"a person forced or required to enroll in military service":{
"examples":[
"the massive mobilization required draftees to be rushed through training"
],
"synonyms":[
"conscripts",
"inductees",
"selectees"
],
"near synonyms":[
"levies",
"recruits",
"rookies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enlistees",
"volunteers"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dramatizes":{
"as in represents , depicts":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"depicts",
"renders",
"represents",
"acts",
"does",
"impersonates",
"interprets",
"performs",
"plays",
"portrays",
"acts out",
"enacts",
"pantomimes",
"playacts",
"role-plays",
"takes on",
"overacts",
"overplays",
"underplays",
"apes",
"clowns",
"hams",
"imitates",
"masquerades",
"mimes",
"mimics",
"poses (as)",
"stars (in)",
"coacts",
"costars"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drool":{
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"the only thing more pathetic than the pop psychologist who gushed such drool was the public that lapped it up"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"rubbish",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"fatuity",
"foolery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"kookiness",
"lunacy",
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"madness",
"witlessness",
"hoity-toity",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"gas",
"hot air",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"double-talk",
"greek",
"hocus-pocus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the fluid that is secreted into the mouth by certain glands":{
"examples":[
"the baby left a puddle of drool on my shirt"
],
"synonyms":[
"saliva",
"slaver",
"slobber",
"spit",
"spittle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"foam",
"froth",
"expectoration",
"salivation",
"sputum"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth":{
"examples":[
"the dog drooled when we put the steak down on the floor"
],
"synonyms":[
"dribble",
"drivel",
"salivate",
"slaver",
"slobber"
],
"near synonyms":[
"water",
"expectorate",
"spit",
"foam",
"froth",
"splutter",
"sputter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make an exaggerated display of affection or enthusiasm":{
"examples":[
"middle-aged men drooling over a starlet half their age"
],
"synonyms":[
"effuse",
"enthuse",
"fuss",
"gush",
"rave",
"rhapsodize",
"slobber"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dote (on)",
"fawn",
"emote"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly":{
"examples":[
"stop drooling , slow down, and take a deep breath, because I can't understand you"
],
"synonyms":[
"babble",
"bumble",
"chat",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"jabber",
"prattle",
"sputter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blabber",
"blather",
"bleat",
"blither",
"gab",
"jangle",
"jaw",
"patter",
"prate",
"rattle",
"run on",
"smatter",
"tittle-tattle",
"troll",
"yak",
"yack",
"chunter",
"maunder",
"mouth",
"mumble",
"murmur",
"mutter",
"stammer",
"stutter",
"screech",
"shout",
"shriek"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulate",
"enunciate",
"pronounce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drew a conclusion":{
"to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information":{
"examples":[
"You can draw a conclusion about what happened by looking at the clues."
],
"synonyms":[
"concluded",
"decided",
"deduced",
"derived",
"extrapolated",
"gathered",
"inferred",
"judged",
"made out",
"reasoned",
"understood"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assumed",
"supposed",
"conjectured",
"guessed",
"speculated",
"surmised",
"construed",
"interpreted",
"read",
"contemplated",
"philosophized",
"rationalized",
"thought",
"ascertained",
"doped (out)",
"found out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"drizzle":{
"a light or fine rain":{
"examples":[
"the intermittent drizzle was just heavy enough to spoil all of our outdoor activities"
],
"synonyms":[
"mist",
"mizzle",
"sprinkle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"precipitation",
"rainfall",
"shower"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cloudburst",
"deluge",
"downpour",
"storm",
"rainstorm",
"thunderstorm",
"monsoon"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in dust , blanket":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blanket",
"dust",
"bestrew",
"dot",
"pepper",
"scatter",
"sow",
"spot",
"spray",
"sprinkle",
"strew",
"stud",
"dapple",
"fleck",
"speckle",
"stipple",
"bespatter",
"spatter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drags one's feet":{
"to move or act slowly":{
"examples":[
"I think she's dragging her feet on the project because she thinks it's not worth the effort."
],
"synonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"delays",
"diddles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"lollygags",
"lallygags",
"mopes",
"pokes",
"shilly-shallies",
"tarries"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fiddles (around)",
"fools around",
"messes around",
"monkeys (around)",
"plays",
"potters (around)",
"putters (around)",
"trifles",
"hangs (around or out)",
"idles",
"loafs",
"lolls",
"lounges",
"ambles",
"eases",
"inches",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"staggers",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)",
"filibusters",
"procrastinates",
"stalls",
"temporizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bowls",
"breezes",
"darts",
"humps",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"scrambles",
"stampedes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"runs",
"sprints",
"trots",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"speeds (up)",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes"
],
"antonyms":[
"barrels",
"bolts",
"careers",
"courses",
"dashes",
"flies",
"hastens",
"hotfoots (it)",
"hurries",
"races",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"scoots",
"scuds",
"scurries",
"speeds",
"tears",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"whizzes",
"zips"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"dropping out of sight":{
"to cease to be visible":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"dematerializing",
"disappearing",
"dissolving",
"evanescing",
"evaporating",
"fading",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"melting",
"sinking",
"vanishing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blanking (out)",
"clearing",
"dispersing",
"dissipating",
"dissolving",
"drying up",
"dying (away or down or out)",
"blurring",
"dimming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arriving",
"breaking out",
"coming out",
"emerging",
"issuing",
"looming",
"showing up"
],
"antonyms":[
"appearing",
"materializing"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"dropout":{
"as in quit , withdraw":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"quit",
"withdraw",
"demit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enlist (in)",
"enroll (in)",
"enter",
"join",
"sign on (for)",
"sign up (for)",
"reenlist",
"reenroll",
"reenter",
"rejoin",
"re-up",
"get in"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in quitter":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"quitter",
"malingerer",
"drone",
"idler",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"slouch",
"slug",
"slugabed",
"sluggard",
"goldbrick",
"shirker",
"slacker",
"dallier",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"lounger",
"saunterer",
"dawdler",
"laggard",
"putterer",
"slowpoke"
],
"near antonyms":[
"live wire",
"pistol",
"powerhouse",
"doer",
"go-getter",
"hummer",
"hustler",
"self-starter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in leaver , abandoner":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"abandoner",
"come-outer",
"leaver",
"betrayer",
"double-crosser",
"quisling",
"traitor",
"traitress",
"traitoress",
"turnabout",
"turncoat",
"defier",
"insurgent",
"insurrectionary",
"insurrectionist",
"mutineer",
"rebel",
"red",
"revolter",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist",
"revolutionizer",
"apostate",
"defector",
"deserter",
"recreant",
"renegade",
"discontent",
"malcontent",
"recusant",
"refusenik",
"refusnik",
"refuser"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loyalist",
"adherent",
"disciple",
"follower",
"supporter",
"fanatic",
"militant",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"zealot"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"draw a conclusion":{
"to form an opinion or reach a conclusion through reasoning and information":{
"examples":[
"You can draw a conclusion about what happened by looking at the clues."
],
"synonyms":[
"conclude",
"decide",
"deduce",
"derive",
"extrapolate",
"gather",
"infer",
"judge",
"make out",
"reason",
"understand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assume",
"suppose",
"conjecture",
"guess",
"speculate",
"surmise",
"construe",
"interpret",
"read",
"contemplate",
"philosophize",
"rationalize",
"think",
"ascertain",
"dope (out)",
"find out"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"drum up":{
"to create or think of by clever use of the imagination":{
"examples":[
"anyone who drums up a better way of doing this tedious task will make a fortune"
],
"synonyms":[
"concoct",
"construct",
"contrive",
"cook (up)",
"devise",
"excogitate",
"fabricate",
"invent",
"make up",
"manufacture",
"think (up)",
"trump up",
"vamp (up)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coin",
"design",
"hatch",
"produce",
"daydream",
"dream",
"fantasize",
"conceive",
"envisage",
"envision",
"imagine",
"picture",
"vision",
"visualize",
"ad-lib",
"extemporize",
"improvise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clone",
"copy",
"copycat",
"duplicate",
"imitate",
"mimic",
"reduplicate",
"replicate",
"reproduce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dredging":{
"to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something":{
"examples":[
"I've been dredging my memory bank, and I simply can't remember her name"
],
"synonyms":[
"combing",
"digging (through)",
"hunting (through)",
"raking",
"ransacking",
"rifling",
"rummaging",
"scouring",
"searching",
"sorting (through)",
"trolling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frisking",
"patting down",
"shaking down",
"auditing",
"checking (out)",
"examining",
"inspecting",
"investigating",
"reviewing",
"scanning",
"scrutinizing",
"surveying",
"ascertaining",
"descrying",
"detecting",
"determining",
"discovering",
"ferreting (out)",
"finding",
"finding out",
"getting",
"hitting (on or upon)",
"learning",
"locating",
"running down",
"scaring up",
"tracking (down)",
"grubbing (about)",
"poking (around)",
"exploring",
"probing",
"prospecting",
"skirmishing",
"snooping",
"browsing",
"glancing (over)",
"looking over",
"perusing",
"studying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hiding",
"abandoning",
"losing",
"ignoring",
"neglecting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dreamland":{
"as in wonderland , fairyland":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dreamworld",
"fairyland",
"wonderland",
"Camelot",
"Cockaigne",
"Eden",
"Elysium",
"empyrean",
"fantasyland",
"heaven",
"lotusland",
"never-never land",
"New Jerusalem",
"nirvana",
"paradise",
"promised land",
"Shangri-la",
"utopia",
"Zion",
"Sion",
"arcadia",
"blessedness",
"bliss",
"blissfulness",
"euphoria",
"gladness",
"joy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fool's paradise",
"anti-utopia",
"dystopia",
"hell"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drawing board":{
"as in first base , ground zero":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"first base",
"ground zero",
"square one",
"alpha",
"baseline",
"beginning",
"birth",
"commencement",
"dawn",
"day one",
"genesis",
"get-go",
"git-go",
"inception",
"incipience",
"incipiency",
"kickoff",
"launch",
"morning",
"nascence",
"nascency",
"onset",
"outset",
"start",
"threshold",
"creation",
"founding",
"inauguration",
"initiation",
"institution",
"origination",
"cradle",
"fountain",
"fountainhead",
"germ",
"origin",
"root",
"seedbed",
"source",
"spring",
"well",
"wellspring",
"dawning",
"opening",
"advent",
"appearance",
"arrival",
"debut",
"d\u00e9but",
"emergence",
"childhood",
"infancy",
"youth"
],
"near antonyms":[
"close",
"conclusion",
"end",
"ending",
"omega",
"cessation",
"closing",
"closure",
"completion",
"finale",
"finish",
"period",
"stop",
"termination",
"windup"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dripping":{
"containing, covered with, or thoroughly penetrated by water":{
"examples":[
"dripping shoes left on the porch to dry"
],
"synonyms":[
"awash",
"bathed",
"bedraggled",
"doused",
"dowsed",
"drenched",
"logged",
"saturate",
"saturated",
"soaked",
"soaking",
"sodden",
"soggy",
"sopping",
"soppy",
"soused",
"washed",
"water-soaked",
"watered",
"waterlogged",
"watery",
"wet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deluged",
"drowned",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"submerged",
"swamped",
"hydrated",
"dipped",
"dunked",
"splashed",
"aqueous",
"steeped",
"flushed",
"irrigated",
"laved",
"rinsed",
"sluiced",
"clammy",
"damp",
"dampish",
"dank",
"humid",
"moist",
"semimoist",
"wettish",
"boggy",
"miry",
"seepy",
"sloppy",
"squashy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bone-dry",
"hyperarid",
"ultradry",
"waterproof",
"water-repellent",
"water-resistant",
"watertight",
"baked",
"dehydrated",
"freeze-dried",
"droughty",
"parched",
"sere",
"sear",
"sunbaked",
"thirsty",
"wrung"
],
"antonyms":[
"arid",
"dry",
"unwatered",
"waterless"
]
},
"to fall or let fall in or as if in drops":{
"examples":[
"water from the leaky roof was dripping all over the floor",
"the cracked bottle dripped wine"
],
"synonyms":[
"distilling",
"dribbling",
"dropping",
"trickling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drizzling",
"sprinkling",
"flowing",
"pouring",
"rolling",
"running",
"streaming",
"cascading",
"guttering",
"riffling",
"rippling",
"bleeding",
"exuding",
"oozing",
"seeping",
"weeping",
"discharging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gushing",
"spouting",
"spurting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"dressing glasses":{
"as in pier glasses , cheval glasses":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cheval glasses",
"hand glasses",
"pier glasses",
"pier mirrors",
"glasses",
"looking glasses",
"mirrors",
"reflectors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dreadnoughts":{
"something or someone that is unusually large and powerful":{
"examples":[
"poor gas mileage did little to stem the popularity of that dreadnought of the roadways: the SUV"
],
"synonyms":[
"behemoths",
"blockbusters",
"colossi",
"dinosaurs",
"elephants",
"elephant",
"giants",
"Goliaths",
"jumbos",
"leviathans",
"mammoths",
"mastodons",
"monsters",
"titans",
"whales",
"whoppers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amazons",
"giantesses",
"bulks",
"hulks",
"heavyweights",
"juggernauts",
"steamrollers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lightweights",
"weaklings",
"wimps",
"wisps",
"nonentities",
"twerps",
"whippersnappers"
],
"antonyms":[
"diminutives",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"half-pints",
"midgets",
"mites",
"peewees",
"pygmies",
"pigmies",
"runts",
"shrimp",
"shrimps"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dress down":{
"to criticize (someone) severely or angrily especially for personal failings":{
"examples":[
"dressed down for boorish behavior at the dance"
],
"synonyms":[
"baste",
"bawl out",
"berate",
"call down",
"castigate",
"chastise",
"chew out",
"flay",
"hammer",
"jaw",
"keelhaul",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lecture",
"rag",
"rail (at or against)",
"rant (at)",
"rate",
"ream (out)",
"rebuke",
"reprimand",
"reproach",
"scold",
"score",
"tongue-lash",
"upbraid"
],
"near synonyms":[
"admonish",
"chide",
"remonstrate (with)",
"reprove",
"abuse",
"assail",
"attack",
"bad-mouth",
"blame",
"blast",
"censure",
"condemn",
"criticize",
"crucify",
"denounce",
"dis",
"diss",
"excoriate",
"fault",
"harangue",
"knock",
"lace (into)",
"lash",
"pan",
"reprehend",
"revile",
"scourge",
"slam",
"vituperate",
"belittle",
"disparage",
"mock",
"put down",
"ridicule",
"scoff",
"scorn"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approve",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"sanction",
"extol",
"extoll",
"laud",
"praise"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drumsticks":{
"as in thighs , calves":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"calves",
"calfs",
"hams",
"shanks",
"shins",
"thighs",
"pins",
"members",
"forelegs",
"forelimbs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dramatized":{
"as in represented , depicted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"depicted",
"rendered",
"represented",
"acted",
"did",
"impersonated",
"interpreted",
"performed",
"played",
"portrayed",
"acted out",
"enacted",
"pantomimed",
"playacted",
"role-played",
"took on",
"overacted",
"overplayed",
"underplayed",
"aped",
"clowned",
"hammed",
"imitated",
"masqueraded",
"mimed",
"mimicked",
"posed (as)",
"starred (in)",
"coacted",
"co-acted",
"costarred",
"co-starred"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dropping the ball":{
"to make a mistake":{
"examples":[
"I'm so sorry I dropped the ball and forgot to buy the wine for the dinner party."
],
"synonyms":[
"blundering",
"boobing",
"erring",
"flubbing",
"fluffing",
"fouling up",
"fumbling",
"goofing (up)",
"lousing up",
"messing (up)",
"screwing up",
"slipping up",
"stumbling",
"tripping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nodding",
"bobbling",
"botching",
"bungling",
"butchering",
"foozling",
"mangling",
"mishandling",
"muffing",
"murdering",
"miscalculating",
"misconceiving",
"miscounting",
"miscuing",
"misdeeming",
"misgauging",
"misgaging",
"misjudging",
"mistaking",
"misconstruing",
"misinterpreting",
"misunderstanding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"drudgers":{
"a person who does very hard or dull work":{
"examples":[
"a youth striving to become something more than just a drudger working at some dead-end job"
],
"synonyms":[
"dogsbodies",
"drones",
"drudges",
"fags",
"foot soldiers",
"grubbers",
"grubs",
"grunts",
"laborers",
"peons",
"peones",
"pluggers",
"slaves",
"sloggers",
"toilers",
"workers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"workhorses",
"serfs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"goldbricks",
"shirkers",
"idlers",
"lazybones",
"loafers",
"slouches",
"sluggards",
"slugs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dropped back":{
"to move back or away (as from something difficult, dangerous, or disagreeable)":{
"examples":[
"a change in the wind direction forced the firefighters to drop back"
],
"synonyms":[
"backed away",
"fell back",
"pulled out",
"receded",
"retired",
"retreated",
"withdrew"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fled",
"flew",
"flinched",
"recoiled",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"chickened (out)",
"bowed out",
"backed down",
"backpedaled",
"backtracked",
"climbed down",
"detached",
"disengaged",
"disentangled",
"pulled away",
"abandoned",
"departed",
"evacuated",
"left",
"quit",
"quitted",
"vacated",
"went"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearded",
"braved",
"brazened",
"breasted",
"confronted",
"dared",
"defied",
"faced",
"outbraved"
],
"antonyms":[
"advanced"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"draggles":{
"as in confuses , muddles":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"confuses",
"disarranges",
"disarrays",
"dishevels",
"disorders",
"jumbles",
"messes",
"muddles",
"discolors",
"collies",
"crocks",
"contaminates",
"defiles",
"pollutes",
"taints",
"befouls",
"begrimes",
"bemires",
"besmirches",
"blackens",
"daubs",
"dirties",
"distains",
"fouls",
"gaums",
"grimes",
"mires",
"mucks",
"muddies",
"smirches",
"smudges",
"soils",
"stains",
"sullies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cleans",
"cleanses",
"decontaminates",
"purges",
"purifies",
"disinfects",
"sanitizes",
"brushes",
"dry-cleans",
"dusts",
"launders",
"mops",
"rinses",
"scours",
"scrubs",
"sweeps",
"washes",
"wipes",
"brightens",
"deodorizes",
"freshens",
"renews",
"spruces (up)",
"straightens (up)",
"tidies (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"druggy":{
"a person who regularly uses drugs especially illegally":{
"examples":[
"an old college classmate who became a druggie and ended up on skid row"
],
"synonyms":[
"addict",
"dopehead",
"doper",
"fiend",
"freak",
"head",
"hophead",
"hype",
"junkie",
"junky",
"stoner",
"user"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acidhead",
"cokehead",
"crackhead",
"pothead",
"speed freak",
"burnout"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"nonaddict",
"nonuser"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drums (out)":{
"to drive or force out":{
"examples":[
"drummed out of the service for conduct unbecoming an officer"
],
"synonyms":[
"banishes",
"boots (out)",
"bounces",
"casts out",
"chases",
"dismisses",
"ejects",
"expels",
"extrudes",
"kicks out",
"ousts",
"outs",
"routs",
"runs off",
"throws out",
"turfs (out)",
"turns out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deforces",
"deports",
"displaces",
"dispossesses",
"evicts",
"exiles",
"expatriates",
"ostracizes",
"reads out",
"shuts out",
"axes",
"cans",
"cashiers",
"defenestrates",
"discharges",
"fires",
"musters out",
"pink-slips",
"releases",
"removes",
"retires",
"sacks",
"terminates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepts",
"admits",
"receives",
"takes",
"takes in",
"welcomes",
"entertains",
"harbors",
"houses",
"lodges",
"shelters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dreich":{
"causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer":{
"examples":[
"historically regarded as a dreich corner of Britain, Scotland's very name comes from the Greek word for \"dark\""
],
"synonyms":[
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"chill",
"Cimmerian",
"cloudy",
"cold",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"depressing",
"depressive",
"desolate",
"dire",
"disconsolate",
"dismal",
"drear",
"dreary",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"forlorn",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"godforsaken",
"gray",
"grey",
"lonely",
"lonesome",
"lugubrious",
"miserable",
"morbid",
"morose",
"murky",
"plutonian",
"saturnine",
"sepulchral",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"sunless",
"tenebrific",
"tenebrous",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blue",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"down",
"droopy",
"hangdog",
"inconsolable",
"low",
"melancholic",
"melancholy",
"mirthless",
"sad",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"woeful",
"dim",
"discomfiting",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"dismaying",
"dispiriting",
"distressful",
"distressing",
"upsetting",
"desperate",
"hopeless",
"pessimistic",
"lamentable",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"sorrowful",
"colorless",
"drab",
"dull",
"dour",
"grim",
"lowering",
"louring",
"lowery",
"loury",
"menacing",
"negative",
"oppressive",
"threatening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"gay",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"joyful",
"joyous",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"encouraging",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"lighthearted",
"lightsome"
],
"antonyms":[
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"comforting",
"cordial",
"festive",
"friendly",
"gay",
"heartwarming",
"sunshiny"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"drugs":{
"a substance or preparation used to treat disease":{
"examples":[
"prescribed a drug to treat the bacterial infection"
],
"synonyms":[
"cures",
"medicaments",
"medications",
"medicinals",
"medicines",
"pharmaceuticals",
"physics",
"remedies",
"specifics"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cure-alls",
"nostrums",
"panaceas",
"botanicals",
"patent medicines",
"prescription drugs",
"prescriptions",
"cordials",
"potions",
"tonics",
"miracle drugs",
"wonder drugs",
"caps",
"capsules",
"pills",
"tablets",
"injections",
"shots",
"embrocations",
"liniments",
"lotions",
"ointments",
"poultices",
"salves",
"syrups",
"sirups",
"tinctures",
"antibiotics",
"antiseptics",
"sera",
"serums",
"cathartics",
"purgatives"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in doses , cares (for)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attends",
"cares (for)",
"doses",
"hospitalizes",
"ministers (to)",
"nurses",
"doctors",
"treats",
"cures",
"heals",
"mends",
"rehabilitates",
"remedies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dropped off":{
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"my interest in photography has dropped off over the years"
],
"synonyms":[
"abated",
"declined",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"died (away or down or out)",
"diminished",
"drained (away)",
"dwindled",
"eased",
"ebbed",
"fell",
"fell away",
"lessened",
"let up",
"lowered",
"moderated",
"palled",
"phased down",
"ratcheted (down)",
"racheted (down)",
"receded",
"relented",
"remitted",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"subsided",
"tapered",
"tapered off",
"waned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"evaporated",
"faded (away)",
"frittered (away)",
"gave out",
"melted (away)",
"petered (out)",
"tailed (off)",
"vanished",
"slackened",
"slowed (down)",
"alleviated",
"relaxed",
"flagged",
"sank",
"sunk",
"weakened",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"deflated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeared",
"emerged",
"showed up",
"blew up",
"distended",
"elongated",
"lengthened"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"grew",
"increased",
"intensified",
"mounted",
"mushroomed",
"picked up",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"soared",
"swelled",
"waxed"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drowsed (off)":{
"as in dropped off , nodded off":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dropped off",
"nodded off",
"catnapped",
"dozed",
"napped",
"rested",
"slept",
"slumbered",
"snoozed",
"overslept",
"slept in",
"dreamed",
"dreamt",
"hibernated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arose",
"aroused",
"awoke",
"awaked",
"rose",
"woke",
"waked"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drowsy":{
"desiring or needing sleep":{
"examples":[
"the drowsy students shuffled into the first-period class"
],
"synonyms":[
"dozy",
"sleepy",
"slumberous",
"slumbrous",
"somnolent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"asleep",
"dormant",
"dozing",
"resting",
"sleeping",
"slumbering",
"nodding",
"yawning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"restive",
"restless",
"sleepless",
"insomniac"
],
"antonyms":[
"alert",
"awake",
"conscious",
"wakeful",
"wide-awake"
]
},
"tending to cause sleep":{
"examples":[
"listened to drowsy music while waiting in the dentist's office"
],
"synonyms":[
"hypnotic",
"narcotic",
"opiate",
"sleepy",
"slumberous",
"slumbrous",
"somniferous",
"somnolent",
"soporific"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depressant",
"relaxant",
"sedative",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"calming",
"comforting",
"lulling",
"pacifying",
"quieting",
"relaxing",
"restful",
"settling",
"soothing",
"analgesic",
"anesthetic",
"anesthetizing",
"benumbing",
"deadening",
"dulling",
"numbing",
"hypnotizing",
"mesmerizing",
"stupefying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arousing",
"awakening",
"energizing",
"invigorating",
"rousing",
"stimulating",
"wakening",
"waking",
"bracing",
"refreshing",
"restorative",
"reviving",
"stimulative",
"stimulatory"
],
"antonyms":[
"stimulant"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"driven":{
"caused by or suggestive of an irresistible urge":{
"examples":[
"a man with a driven need to be loved or liked by everyone"
],
"synonyms":[
"besetting",
"compulsive",
"impulsive",
"obsessional",
"obsessive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"irrepressible",
"uncontrollable",
"automatic",
"instinctive",
"involuntary",
"knee-jerk",
"reflex",
"spontaneous",
"conditioned",
"mechanical",
"unconscious",
"unthinking",
"unwitting",
"capricious",
"unpredictable",
"whimsical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unforced",
"voluntary",
"willful",
"wilful",
"controllable",
"manageable",
"resistible"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to urge, push, or force onward":{
"examples":[
"cowboys drove the herd of cattle from San Antonio to San Francisco"
],
"synonyms":[
"herded",
"punched",
"run"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shepherded",
"wrangled",
"egged",
"exhorted",
"flogged",
"goaded",
"hounded",
"pressed",
"pricked",
"prodded",
"prompted",
"scourged",
"spurred",
"whipped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to travel by a motorized vehicle":{
"examples":[
"I'm going to drive across the country\u2014want to come?"
],
"synonyms":[
"automobiled",
"motored",
"tooled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rolled",
"wheeled",
"joyridden",
"chauffeured",
"hacked",
"taxied",
"ridden",
"rid",
"rode",
"dragged",
"raced"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one":{
"examples":[
"drove the plunger into the opening"
],
"synonyms":[
"propelled",
"pushed",
"shoved",
"thrust"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impelled",
"moved",
"borne (down)",
"born (down)",
"compressed",
"depressed",
"jammed",
"pressured",
"squashed",
"squeezed",
"weighed (upon)",
"bulldozed",
"compelled",
"forced",
"leaned (on or against)",
"muscled",
"rammed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause (a person) to give in to pressure":{
"examples":[
"the corrupt governor was driven out of office"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjacked",
"coerced",
"compelled",
"constrained",
"dragooned",
"forced",
"impelled",
"impressed",
"made",
"muscled",
"obligated",
"obliged",
"pressed",
"pressured",
"sandbagged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"browbeaten",
"browbeat",
"bulldozed",
"bullied",
"cowed",
"hectored",
"intimidated",
"blackmailed",
"high-pressured",
"menaced",
"shamed",
"terrorized",
"threatened",
"dragged",
"badgered",
"harassed",
"hounded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allowed",
"let",
"permitted",
"argued",
"convinced",
"induced",
"moved",
"persuaded",
"prevailed (on or upon)",
"satisfied",
"talked (into)",
"won (over)"
],
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},
"to cause to function":{
"examples":[
"machinery driven by waterpower"
],
"synonyms":[
"activated",
"actuated",
"cranked (up)",
"moved",
"run",
"set off",
"sparked",
"started",
"touched off",
"triggered",
"turned on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kicked over",
"turned over",
"charged",
"electrified",
"energized",
"fired",
"fueled",
"fuelled",
"generated",
"powered",
"pushed",
"discharged",
"launched",
"released",
"switched",
"tripped",
"reactivated",
"recharged",
"aroused",
"excited",
"jump-started",
"kick-started",
"stimulated",
"vitalized",
"ignited",
"incited",
"instigated",
"provoked",
"quickened",
"stirred up",
"accelerated",
"catalyzed",
"sped (up)",
"speeded (up)",
"stepped up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrested",
"braked",
"checked",
"cut off",
"drawn up",
"halted",
"jammed",
"stalled",
"stopped",
"stuck",
"decelerated",
"repressed",
"slowed",
"stunted",
"suppressed"
],
"antonyms":[
"cut",
"cut out",
"deactivated",
"killed",
"shut off",
"turned off"
]
},
"to set or keep in motion":{
"examples":[
"this motor drives the gears, which then turn the shaft"
],
"synonyms":[
"actuated",
"impelled",
"moved",
"propelled",
"worked",
"wrought"
],
"near synonyms":[
"activated",
"motivated",
"provoked",
"abetted",
"fermented",
"fomented",
"incited",
"raised",
"stirred (up)",
"whipped (up)",
"set off",
"triggered",
"tripped",
"aroused",
"excited",
"fired (up)",
"galvanized",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"inspired",
"instigated",
"roused",
"stimulated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bridled",
"checked",
"constrained",
"contained",
"controlled",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"regulated",
"reined (in)",
"restrained"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"the runner drove past the finish line and then came to a dead stop"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"belted",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blown",
"bolted",
"bombed",
"bowled",
"breezed",
"bundled",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"cannonballed",
"careened",
"careered",
"chased",
"coursed",
"cracked (on)",
"dashed",
"flown",
"hared",
"hastened",
"hied",
"highballed",
"hotfooted (it)",
"humped",
"hurled",
"hurried",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"jetted",
"jumped",
"motored",
"nipped",
"pelted",
"raced",
"rammed",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"run",
"rushed",
"rustled",
"scooted",
"scurried",
"scuttled",
"shot",
"sped",
"speeded",
"stepped",
"torn",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trotted",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetled",
"darted",
"flitted",
"scampered",
"scudded",
"scuffled",
"stampeded",
"streaked",
"whizzed",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"sprinted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"stepped out",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outrun",
"outstripped",
"overtaken",
"arrowed",
"beelined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"poked",
"tarried",
"ambled",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"poked"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"drag (out)":{
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"pointless questions that merely dragged out the meeting another hour"
],
"synonyms":[
"draw out",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"outstretch",
"prolong",
"protract",
"stretch"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplify",
"enlarge",
"expand",
"increase",
"attenuate",
"thin"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decrease",
"diminish",
"lessen",
"reduce",
"thicken"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"curtail",
"cut",
"cut back",
"shorten"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dressy":{
"relating to or suitable for wearing to an event requiring elegant dress and manners":{
"examples":[
"shopping for a dressy handbag for a New Year's Eve party"
],
"synonyms":[
"dress",
"formal"
],
"near synonyms":[
"costume",
"costumey",
"chic",
"dapper",
"fashionable",
"in",
"modish",
"natty",
"sharp",
"smart",
"snappy",
"stylish",
"custom-made",
"fitted",
"tailored",
"black-tie",
"evening",
"white-tie",
"semiformal"
],
"near antonyms":[
"street",
"dowdy",
"outmoded",
"styleless",
"unfashionable",
"unstylish",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"grungy",
"sloppy",
"sloven",
"slovenly",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"messy",
"mussy",
"rumpled",
"wrinkled"
],
"antonyms":[
"casual",
"informal",
"sportif",
"sporty"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"drawback":{
"a feature of someone or something that creates difficulty for achieving success":{
"examples":[
"this plan has only one drawback : it's unworkable"
],
"synonyms":[
"debit",
"disadvantage",
"disbenefit",
"downside",
"handicap",
"incommodity",
"liability",
"minus",
"negative",
"strike"
],
"near synonyms":[
"albatross",
"millstone",
"stranglehold",
"disability",
"impairment",
"failing",
"shortcoming",
"bar",
"catch",
"check",
"clog",
"crimp",
"embarrassment",
"hindrance",
"hitch",
"hurdle",
"impediment",
"interference",
"let",
"manacle",
"obstacle",
"obstruction",
"rub",
"shackle",
"stop",
"trammel"
],
"near antonyms":[
"vantage",
"head start",
"jump",
"lead",
"margin",
"start",
"ascendancy",
"ascendency",
"better",
"command",
"control",
"drop",
"mastery",
"predominance",
"superiority",
"supremacy",
"transcendence",
"upper hand",
"prerogative",
"privilege",
"break",
"opportunity",
"aid",
"assistance",
"help"
],
"antonyms":[
"advantage",
"asset",
"edge",
"plus"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dressing glass":{
"as in pier glass , cheval glass":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cheval glass",
"hand glass",
"pier glass",
"pier mirror",
"glass",
"looking glass",
"mirror",
"reflector"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drinking song":{
"as in fight song":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fight song",
"aria",
"art song",
"barcarole",
"barcarolle",
"blues",
"chanson",
"chant",
"chantey",
"chanty",
"shanty",
"chorus",
"croon",
"descant",
"discant",
"folk song",
"glee",
"lullaby",
"madrigal",
"motet",
"part-song",
"pop",
"rocker",
"round",
"roundelay",
"serenade",
"standard",
"torch song",
"hallelujah",
"paean",
"cover",
"medley",
"remix",
"dirge",
"lament",
"requiem",
"threnody",
"anthem",
"cantata",
"canticle",
"carol",
"chorale",
"hymn",
"noel",
"psalm",
"spiritual",
"ballad",
"ditty",
"jingle",
"lay",
"lyric",
"song",
"vocal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drapery":{
"pieces of cloth hung to darken, decorate, or divide a room":{
"examples":[
"the drapery for the picture window matched the color of the furniture in the center of the room"
],
"synonyms":[
"curtains",
"drapes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hanging(s)",
"shade",
"tapestry",
"window shade"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dramaturgic":{
"as in actorly , actressy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"actorish",
"actorly",
"actressy",
"ham",
"hammy",
"affected",
"emotional",
"emotionalistic",
"sensational",
"amazing",
"astonishing",
"astounding",
"awesome",
"exciting",
"eye-opening",
"fabulous",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"spectacular",
"surprising",
"wonderful",
"wondrous",
"dramatic",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"operatic",
"stagy",
"stagey",
"theatrical",
"theatric",
"overdramatic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"undramatic",
"matter-of-fact",
"monotonous",
"uneventful",
"unexciting",
"uninspiring",
"unnewsworthy",
"unrewarding",
"unsensational",
"unspectacular",
"common",
"commonplace",
"ordinary",
"stale",
"unexceptional"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"dragged (out)":{
"to make longer":{
"examples":[
"pointless questions that merely dragged out the meeting another hour"
],
"synonyms":[
"drew out",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"outstretched",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"stretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amplified",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"increased",
"attenuated",
"thinned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"reduced",
"thickened"
],
"antonyms":[
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"curtailed",
"cut",
"cut back",
"shortened"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drummed":{
"to strike or cause to strike lightly and usually rhythmically":{
"examples":[
"absentmindedly drumming his fingers on the table"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"rapped",
"tapped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banged",
"bashed",
"batted",
"bonked",
"bopped",
"hammered",
"hit",
"knocked",
"pasted",
"pounded",
"slammed",
"smacked",
"socked",
"struck",
"swatted",
"thudded",
"thumped",
"thwacked",
"walloped",
"whacked",
"chinked",
"clattered",
"clinked",
"pinged",
"patted",
"pit-a-patted",
"pitter-pattered",
"chucked",
"clapped",
"clapt",
"clicked",
"flicked",
"tipped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drooled":{
"to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth":{
"examples":[
"the dog drooled when we put the steak down on the floor"
],
"synonyms":[
"dribbled",
"driveled",
"drivelled",
"salivated",
"slavered",
"slobbered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"watered",
"expectorated",
"spit",
"spat",
"foamed",
"frothed",
"spluttered",
"sputtered"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make an exaggerated display of affection or enthusiasm":{
"examples":[
"middle-aged men drooling over a starlet half their age"
],
"synonyms":[
"effused",
"enthused",
"fussed",
"gushed",
"raved",
"rhapsodized",
"slobbered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"doted (on)",
"fawned",
"emoted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly":{
"examples":[
"stop drooling , slow down, and take a deep breath, because I can't understand you"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbled",
"bumbled",
"chatted",
"chattered",
"driveled",
"drivelled",
"gabbled",
"gibbered",
"jabbered",
"prattled",
"sputtered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blabbered",
"blathered",
"bleated",
"blithered",
"gabbed",
"jangled",
"jawed",
"pattered",
"prated",
"ran on",
"rattled",
"smattered",
"tittle-tattled",
"trolled",
"yakked",
"yacked",
"chuntered",
"maundered",
"mouthed",
"mumbled",
"murmured",
"muttered",
"stammered",
"stuttered",
"screeched",
"shouted",
"shrieked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulated",
"enunciated",
"pronounced"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drops out of sight":{
"to cease to be visible":{
"examples":[
"The city dropped out of sight as we rounded the highway."
],
"synonyms":[
"dematerializes",
"disappears",
"dissolves",
"evanesces",
"evaporates",
"fades",
"flees",
"flies",
"melts",
"sinks",
"vanishes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blanks (out)",
"clears",
"dies (away or down or out)",
"disperses",
"dissipates",
"dissolves",
"dries up",
"blurs",
"dims"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrives",
"breaks out",
"comes out",
"emerges",
"issues",
"looms",
"shows up"
],
"antonyms":[
"appears",
"materializes"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"drop in":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"drop in any time\u2014we're always home"
],
"synonyms":[
"call",
"come by",
"come over",
"drop by",
"pop (in)",
"run (over)",
"run in",
"step in",
"stop (by or in)",
"visit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barge (in)",
"look up",
"see",
"bop (into)",
"happen (by)",
"frequent",
"hang (at)",
"haunt",
"resort (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who visits another":{
"examples":[
"we're having open house for New Year's, and drop-ins are welcome to come and go as they please"
],
"synonyms":[
"caller",
"frequenter",
"guest",
"visitant",
"visitor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"houseguest",
"company",
"invitee",
"crasher",
"hanger-on"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denizen",
"dweller",
"habitant",
"inhabitant",
"occupant",
"resident",
"resider",
"cohost",
"cohostess",
"host",
"hostess"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dramedies":{
"as in comedies , melodramas":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comedies",
"comedy dramas",
"docudramas",
"melodramas",
"monodramas",
"musical comedies",
"musicals",
"psychodramas",
"tragedies",
"tragicomedies",
"interludes",
"playlets",
"magnum opuses",
"opera",
"opuses",
"works",
"dramas",
"dramatizations",
"plays",
"adaptations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"dreadful":{
"causing fear":{
"examples":[
"a dreadful hurricane"
],
"synonyms":[
"alarming",
"dire",
"direful",
"dread",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"forbidding",
"formidable",
"frightening",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"hair-raising",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrifying",
"intimidating",
"redoubtable",
"scary",
"shocking",
"spine-chilling",
"terrible",
"terrifying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"disconcerting",
"discouraging",
"dismaying",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"startling",
"threatening",
"troubling",
"trying",
"unnerving",
"bone-chilling",
"creepy",
"eerie",
"eery",
"weird",
"appalling",
"atrocious",
"awful",
"grisly",
"gruesome",
"grewsome",
"hideous",
"horrid",
"macabre",
"monstrous",
"nightmarish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calming",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"inviting",
"lulling",
"pacifying",
"quieting",
"reassuring",
"relaxing",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"nonintimidating",
"nonthreatening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"causing intense displeasure, disgust, or resentment":{
"examples":[
"a dreadful performance of a beautiful piece of music"
],
"synonyms":[
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"appalling",
"awful",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"evil",
"foul",
"fulsome",
"gross",
"hideous",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrid",
"loathsome",
"nasty",
"nauseating",
"nauseous",
"noisome",
"noxious",
"obnoxious",
"obscene",
"odious",
"offensive",
"rancid",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"scandalous",
"shocking",
"sickening",
"ugly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"exceptionable",
"objectionable",
"brackish",
"disagreeable",
"dislikable",
"dislikeable",
"unpleasant",
"contemptible",
"despicable",
"detestable",
"hard",
"hateful",
"unhealthy",
"unsavory",
"unwholesome",
"execrable",
"lousy",
"miserable",
"atrocious",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"grim",
"grisly",
"gruesome",
"grewsome",
"heinous",
"horrific",
"horrifying",
"lurid",
"macabre",
"monstrous",
"nightmarish",
"sick",
"sickish",
"sickly",
"terrible",
"unspeakable",
"vile",
"off-putting",
"undesirable",
"unwanted",
"unwelcome",
"barbarous",
"unchristian",
"uncivilized",
"ungodly",
"unholy",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"upsetting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"acceptable",
"agreeable",
"alluring",
"appealing",
"attractive",
"blessed",
"blest",
"congenial",
"darling",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"delightsome",
"desirable",
"dreamy",
"dulcet",
"enjoyable",
"felicitous",
"gratifying",
"heavenly",
"inviting",
"likable",
"likeable",
"luscious",
"nice",
"palatable",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"satisfying",
"savory",
"savoury",
"sweet",
"welcome",
"unexceptionable",
"unobjectionable",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"restorative",
"salubrious",
"salutary",
"wholesome"
],
"antonyms":[
"innocuous",
"inoffensive"
]
},
"extremely disturbing or repellent":{
"examples":[
"dreadful news of a crime wave in the neighborhood"
],
"synonyms":[
"appalling",
"atrocious",
"awful",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"grisly",
"gruesome",
"grewsome",
"hideous",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrid",
"horrific",
"horrifying",
"lurid",
"macabre",
"monstrous",
"nightmare",
"nightmarish",
"shocking",
"terrible",
"terrific"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alarming",
"bloodcurdling",
"dire",
"direful",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"forbidding",
"formidable",
"frightening",
"gut-wrenching",
"hair-raising",
"heart-stopping",
"intimidating",
"redoubtable",
"scary",
"terrifying",
"abhorrent",
"deplorable",
"disagreeable",
"disgusting",
"distasteful",
"loathsome",
"nauseating",
"noisome",
"obnoxious",
"obscene",
"offensive",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"revolting",
"sickening",
"abominable",
"evil",
"foul",
"heinous",
"noxious",
"odious",
"unspeakable",
"vile",
"grotesque",
"ugly",
"unsightly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"agreeable",
"appealing",
"attractive",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delightful",
"enjoyable",
"enticing",
"inviting",
"pleasant",
"pleasing",
"pleasurable",
"satisfying",
"welcome",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"soothing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"extreme in degree, power, or effect":{
"examples":[
"the dreadful heat of the desert"
],
"synonyms":[
"acute",
"almighty",
"blistering",
"deep",
"excruciating",
"explosive",
"exquisite",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"ferocious",
"fierce",
"frightful",
"furious",
"ghastly",
"hard",
"heavy",
"heavy-duty",
"hellacious",
"intense",
"intensive",
"keen",
"profound",
"terrible",
"vehement",
"vicious",
"violent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accentuated",
"aggravated",
"concentrated",
"deepened",
"emphasized",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"magnified",
"stressed",
"exhaustive",
"thorough",
"harsh",
"rigorous",
"severe"
],
"near antonyms":[
"feeble",
"weak",
"shallow",
"superficial",
"moderated",
"qualified",
"alleviated",
"eased",
"lightened",
"toned (down)",
"abated",
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"reduced",
"subdued"
],
"antonyms":[
"light",
"moderate",
"soft"
]
},
"having no exceptions or restrictions":{
"examples":[
"made a dreadful mess of his first marriage"
],
"synonyms":[
"absolute",
"all-out",
"arrant",
"blank",
"blooming",
"bodacious",
"categorical",
"categoric",
"clean",
"complete",
"consummate",
"crashing",
"damn",
"damned",
"dead",
"deadly",
"definite",
"downright",
"fair",
"flat",
"flat-out",
"out-and-out",
"outright",
"perfect",
"plumb",
"profound",
"pure",
"rank",
"regular",
"sheer",
"simple",
"stark",
"stone",
"straight-out",
"thorough",
"thoroughgoing",
"total",
"unadulterated",
"unalloyed",
"unconditional",
"unmitigated",
"unqualified",
"utter",
"very"
],
"near synonyms":[
"authentic",
"classic",
"genuine",
"real",
"veritable",
"constant",
"endless",
"eternal",
"perpetual",
"undying",
"unremitting",
"extreme",
"unrestricted",
"confirmed",
"habitual",
"hopeless",
"inveterate",
"extraordinary",
"frightful",
"horrible",
"huge",
"main",
"superlative",
"supreme",
"surpassing",
"terrible",
"terrific"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doubtful",
"dubious",
"equivocal",
"qualified",
"questionable",
"restricted",
"uncertain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"drubs":{
"to strike repeatedly":{
"examples":[
"a crowd was drubbing the purse snatcher when the police arrived on the scene"
],
"synonyms":[
"bashes",
"bastes",
"bats",
"batters",
"beats",
"belabors",
"belts",
"birches",
"bludgeons",
"buffets",
"bungs up",
"clubs",
"curries",
"does",
"fibs",
"flogs",
"hammers",
"hides",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"lashes",
"lathers",
"licks",
"mauls",
"messes (up)",
"paddles",
"pelts",
"pommels",
"pounds",
"pummels",
"punches out",
"roughs (up)",
"slates",
"slogs",
"switches",
"tans",
"thrashes",
"threshes",
"thumps",
"tromps",
"wallops",
"whales",
"whips",
"whops",
"whaps",
"whups",
"works over"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assails",
"assaults",
"attacks",
"besets",
"boxes",
"busts",
"chops",
"clobbers",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cudgels",
"cuffs",
"descends (on or upon)",
"hits",
"jumps (on)",
"knocks",
"lams",
"lays on",
"pastes",
"pounces (on or upon)",
"punches",
"raids",
"rushes",
"slams",
"slaps",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"storms",
"swats",
"swipes",
"thwacks",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whomps",
"blackjacks",
"canes",
"cowhides",
"flagellates",
"fustigates",
"horsewhips",
"leathers",
"pistol-whips",
"rawhides",
"scourges",
"straps",
"gores",
"lacerates",
"wounds",
"maims",
"mangles",
"mutilates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"we drubbed our traditional football rivals so badly that it was basically no contest"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilates",
"blows away",
"bombs",
"buries",
"clobbers",
"creams",
"dusts",
"flattens",
"pastes",
"routs",
"shellacs",
"skins",
"skunks",
"smokes",
"smothers",
"snows under",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"tromps",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"waxes",
"whips",
"whomps",
"whops",
"whaps",
"whups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweeps",
"upsets",
"beats",
"bests",
"conquers",
"dispatches",
"hurdles",
"licks",
"masters",
"overbears",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"takes",
"throws",
"triumphs (over)",
"wins (against)",
"worsts",
"crushes",
"knocks off",
"knocks over",
"overpowers",
"overthrows",
"overwhelms",
"subjugates",
"upends",
"vanquishes",
"aces (out)",
"betters",
"eclipses",
"exceeds",
"outdistances",
"outdoes",
"outfights",
"outshines",
"outstrips",
"overtops",
"surpasses",
"tops",
"transcends",
"edges (out)",
"noses out",
"pips",
"caps",
"excels",
"flourishes",
"scores",
"succeeds",
"breaks",
"destroys",
"does in",
"finishes",
"sinks",
"slaughters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drools":{
"the fluid that is secreted into the mouth by certain glands":{
"examples":[
"the baby left a puddle of drool on my shirt"
],
"synonyms":[
"salivas",
"slavers",
"slobbers",
"spits",
"spittles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"foams",
"froths",
"expectorations",
"salivations",
"sputa",
"sputums"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to let saliva or some other substance flow from the mouth":{
"examples":[
"the dog drooled when we put the steak down on the floor"
],
"synonyms":[
"dribbles",
"drivels",
"salivates",
"slavers",
"slobbers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"waters",
"expectorates",
"spits",
"foams",
"froths",
"splutters",
"sputters"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make an exaggerated display of affection or enthusiasm":{
"examples":[
"middle-aged men drooling over a starlet half their age"
],
"synonyms":[
"effuses",
"enthuses",
"fusses",
"gushes",
"raves",
"rhapsodizes",
"slobbers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dotes (on)",
"fawns",
"emotes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to speak rapidly, inarticulately, and usually unintelligibly":{
"examples":[
"stop drooling , slow down, and take a deep breath, because I can't understand you"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbles",
"bumbles",
"chats",
"chatters",
"drivels",
"gabbles",
"gibbers",
"jabbers",
"prattles",
"sputters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blabbers",
"blathers",
"bleats",
"blithers",
"gabs",
"jangles",
"jaws",
"patters",
"prates",
"rattles",
"runs on",
"smatters",
"tittle-tattles",
"trolls",
"yaks",
"yacks",
"chunters",
"maunders",
"mouths",
"mumbles",
"murmurs",
"mutters",
"stammers",
"stutters",
"screeches",
"shouts",
"shrieks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"articulates",
"enunciates",
"pronounces"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"dropping off":{
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"my interest in photography has dropped off over the years"
],
"synonyms":[
"abating",
"declining",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"draining (away)",
"dwindling",
"dying (away or down or out)",
"easing",
"ebbing",
"falling",
"falling away",
"lessening",
"letting up",
"lowering",
"moderating",
"palling",
"phasing down",
"ratcheting (down)",
"racheting (down)",
"receding",
"relenting",
"remitting",
"shrinking",
"subsiding",
"tapering",
"tapering off",
"waning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"evaporating",
"fading (away)",
"frittering (away)",
"giving out",
"melting (away)",
"petering (out)",
"tailing (off)",
"vanishing",
"slackening",
"slowing (down)",
"alleviating",
"relaxing",
"flagging",
"sinking",
"weakening",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"deflating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appearing",
"emerging",
"showing up",
"blowing up",
"distending",
"elongating",
"lengthening"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"growing",
"increasing",
"intensifying",
"mounting",
"mushrooming",
"picking up",
"rising",
"snowballing",
"soaring",
"swelling",
"waxing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drops by":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I'll either drop by on the way there or on the way back"
],
"synonyms":[
"calls",
"comes by",
"comes over",
"drops in",
"pops (in)",
"runs in",
"runs (over)",
"steps in",
"stops (by or in)",
"visits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barges (in)",
"looks up",
"sees",
"bops (into)",
"happens (by)",
"frequents",
"hangs (at)",
"haunts",
"resorts (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drop-in":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"drop in any time\u2014we're always home"
],
"synonyms":[
"call",
"come by",
"come over",
"drop by",
"pop (in)",
"run (over)",
"run in",
"step in",
"stop (by or in)",
"visit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"barge (in)",
"look up",
"see",
"bop (into)",
"happen (by)",
"frequent",
"hang (at)",
"haunt",
"resort (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who visits another":{
"examples":[
"we're having open house for New Year's, and drop-ins are welcome to come and go as they please"
],
"synonyms":[
"caller",
"frequenter",
"guest",
"visitant",
"visitor"
],
"near synonyms":[
"houseguest",
"company",
"invitee",
"crasher",
"hanger-on"
],
"near antonyms":[
"denizen",
"dweller",
"habitant",
"inhabitant",
"occupant",
"resident",
"resider",
"cohost",
"cohostess",
"host",
"hostess"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drafting":{
"to pick especially for required military service":{
"examples":[
"my grandfather was drafted to fight in a war that he opposed"
],
"synonyms":[
"conscribing",
"conscripting",
"levying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"impressing",
"pressing",
"enlisting",
"enrolling",
"recruiting",
"calling up",
"signing up",
"volunteering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discharging",
"mustering out"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to put (something) into proper and usually carefully worked out written form":{
"examples":[
"draft a letter to the local newspaper giving your views on the problem"
],
"synonyms":[
"casting",
"composing",
"crafting",
"drawing up",
"formulating",
"framing",
"preparing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forming",
"molding",
"sculpturing",
"shaping",
"couching",
"expressing",
"phrasing",
"stating",
"verbalizing",
"wording",
"authoring",
"inditing",
"penning",
"writing",
"conceiving",
"concocting",
"devising",
"building",
"constructing",
"making",
"assembling",
"compounding",
"piecing (together)",
"redrafting",
"reformulating",
"reframing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove (liquid) gradually or completely":{
"examples":[
"remember to draft the water from the pool so that we can close it up for the winter"
],
"synonyms":[
"bleeding",
"draining",
"drawing (off)",
"pumping",
"siphoning",
"syphoning",
"tapping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
]
},
"dreaming":{
"as in dreamy , daydreaming":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"absorbed",
"daydreaming",
"dreamy",
"engrossed",
"faraway",
"intent",
"pensive",
"rapt",
"absent",
"absentminded",
"abstracted",
"distracted",
"preoccupied",
"heedless",
"inattentive",
"insensible",
"oblivious",
"unaware",
"unconscious",
"unheeding",
"unknowing",
"unmindful",
"unperceptive",
"unthinking",
"unwary",
"unwitting",
"vacant",
"befogged",
"befuddled",
"bemused",
"bewildered",
"birdbrained",
"clueless",
"confused",
"dazed",
"flighty",
"foggy",
"forgetful",
"forgetting",
"hazy",
"muddled",
"scatterbrained",
"unfocused",
"unfocussed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"alert",
"alive",
"attentive",
"aware",
"conscious",
"engaged",
"heads-up",
"heedful",
"mindful",
"observant",
"observing",
"open-eyed",
"sharp",
"vigilant",
"wary",
"watchful",
"wide-awake",
"clearheaded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in reposing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reposing",
"drowsy",
"nodding",
"sleepy",
"slumberous",
"slumbrous",
"somnolent",
"hypnotized",
"mesmerized",
"asleep",
"dormant",
"dozing",
"napping",
"resting",
"sleeping",
"slumbering",
"comatose",
"semiconscious",
"sleepwalking",
"somnambulant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"awake",
"sleepless",
"wakeful",
"wide-awake",
"aware",
"conscious",
"sleepless",
"aroused",
"astir",
"awakened",
"roused",
"up",
"wakened",
"reawakened",
"revived"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in rapid eye movement":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rapid eye movement",
"oversleeping",
"catnap",
"doze",
"drowse",
"forty winks",
"nap",
"siesta",
"snooze",
"wink",
"bed",
"catnapping",
"dozing",
"napping",
"repose",
"rest",
"resting",
"shut-eye",
"sleep",
"slumber",
"slumbering",
"snoozing",
"z's",
"zs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"consciousness",
"wake",
"wakefulness",
"insomnia",
"sleeplessness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to form a mental picture of":{
"examples":[
"I dreamed that I was living on that proverbial desert island in the South Pacific"
],
"synonyms":[
"conceiting",
"conceiving",
"conjuring (up)",
"envisaging",
"envisioning",
"fancying",
"fantasizing",
"fantasying",
"featuring",
"ideating",
"imaging",
"imagining",
"picturing",
"seeing",
"visioning",
"visualizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daydreaming",
"stargazing",
"hallucinating",
"re-creating",
"recreating",
"reflecting",
"reliving",
"reminiscing",
"contemplating",
"meditating",
"musing",
"pondering",
"ruminating",
"concocting",
"fabricating",
"inventing",
"making up",
"manufacturing",
"planning",
"projecting",
"foreseeing",
"prefiguring"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"droughts":{
"a falling short of an essential or desirable amount or number":{
"examples":[
"there's been a drought of good movies this year"
],
"synonyms":[
"crunches",
"dearths",
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"failures",
"famines",
"inadequacies",
"insufficiencies",
"lacks",
"lacunae",
"lacunas",
"paucities",
"pinches",
"poverties",
"scarcities",
"shortages",
"undersupplies",
"wants"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absences",
"omissions",
"necessities",
"needs",
"privations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"excesses",
"overabundances",
"oversupplies",
"surfeits",
"surpluses"
],
"antonyms":[
"abundances",
"adequacies",
"amplitudes",
"opulences",
"plenitudes",
"plenties",
"sufficiencies",
"wealths"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drape":{
"to make more attractive by adding something that is beautiful or becoming":{
"examples":[
"the town hall was draped in bunting for the annual Fourth of July festivities"
],
"synonyms":[
"adorn",
"array",
"beautify",
"bedeck",
"bedizen",
"blazon",
"caparison",
"deck",
"decorate",
"do",
"do up",
"doll up",
"dress",
"embellish",
"emblaze",
"emboss",
"enrich",
"fancify",
"fancy up",
"festoon",
"garnish",
"glitz (up)",
"grace",
"gussy up",
"ornament",
"pretty (up)",
"trim"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessorize",
"dress up",
"trap",
"trick (out)",
"brighten",
"freshen",
"smarten",
"spruce (up)",
"boss",
"chase",
"braid",
"embroider",
"feather",
"figure",
"filigree",
"fillet",
"flounce",
"frill",
"fringe",
"furbelow",
"garland",
"hang",
"lace",
"ribbon",
"swag",
"wreathe",
"appliqu\u00e9",
"gild",
"paint",
"diamond",
"gem",
"impearl",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"redecorate",
"redo"
],
"near antonyms":[
"simplify",
"streamline",
"bare",
"denude",
"dismantle",
"display",
"divest",
"expose",
"reveal",
"strip",
"uncover",
"uglify"
],
"antonyms":[
"blemish",
"deface",
"disfigure",
"mar",
"scar",
"spoil"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"drive":{
"to urge, push, or force onward":{
"examples":[
"cowboys drove the herd of cattle from San Antonio to San Francisco"
],
"synonyms":[
"herd",
"punch",
"run"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shepherd",
"wrangle",
"egg",
"exhort",
"flog",
"goad",
"hound",
"press",
"prick",
"prod",
"prompt",
"scourge",
"spur",
"whip"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to travel by a motorized vehicle":{
"examples":[
"I'm going to drive across the country\u2014want to come?"
],
"synonyms":[
"automobile",
"motor",
"tool"
],
"near synonyms":[
"roll",
"wheel",
"joyride",
"chauffeur",
"hack",
"taxi",
"ride",
"drag",
"race"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to apply force to (someone or something) so that it moves in front of one":{
"examples":[
"drove the plunger into the opening"
],
"synonyms":[
"propel",
"push",
"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 cause (a person) to give in to pressure":{
"examples":[
"the corrupt governor was driven out of office"
],
"synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"coerce",
"compel",
"constrain",
"dragoon",
"force",
"impel",
"impress",
"make",
"muscle",
"obligate",
"oblige",
"press",
"pressure",
"sandbag"
],
"near synonyms":[
"browbeat",
"bulldoze",
"bully",
"cow",
"hector",
"intimidate",
"blackmail",
"high-pressure",
"menace",
"shame",
"terrorize",
"threaten",
"drag",
"badger",
"harass",
"hound"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allow",
"let",
"permit",
"argue",
"convince",
"induce",
"move",
"persuade",
"prevail (on or upon)",
"satisfy",
"talk (into)",
"win (over)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to function":{
"examples":[
"machinery driven by waterpower"
],
"synonyms":[
"activate",
"actuate",
"crank (up)",
"move",
"run",
"set off",
"spark",
"start",
"touch off",
"trigger",
"turn on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kick over",
"turn over",
"charge",
"electrify",
"energize",
"fire",
"fuel",
"generate",
"power",
"push",
"discharge",
"launch",
"release",
"switch",
"trip",
"reactivate",
"recharge",
"arouse",
"excite",
"jump-start",
"kick-start",
"stimulate",
"vitalize",
"ignite",
"incite",
"instigate",
"provoke",
"quicken",
"stir up",
"accelerate",
"catalyze",
"speed (up)",
"step up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arrest",
"brake",
"check",
"cut off",
"draw up",
"halt",
"jam",
"stall",
"stick",
"stop",
"decelerate",
"repress",
"slow",
"stunt",
"suppress"
],
"antonyms":[
"cut",
"cut out",
"deactivate",
"kill",
"shut off",
"turn off"
]
},
"to set or keep in motion":{
"examples":[
"this motor drives the gears, which then turn the shaft"
],
"synonyms":[
"actuate",
"impel",
"move",
"propel",
"work"
],
"near synonyms":[
"activate",
"motivate",
"provoke",
"abet",
"ferment",
"foment",
"incite",
"raise",
"stir (up)",
"whip (up)",
"set off",
"trigger",
"trip",
"arouse",
"excite",
"fire (up)",
"galvanize",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"inspire",
"instigate",
"rouse",
"stimulate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bridle",
"check",
"constrain",
"contain",
"control",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"regulate",
"rein (in)",
"restrain"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"the runner drove past the finish line and then came to a dead stop"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"belt",
"blast",
"blaze",
"blow",
"bolt",
"bomb",
"bowl",
"breeze",
"bundle",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"cannonball",
"careen",
"career",
"chase",
"course",
"crack (on)",
"dash",
"fly",
"hare",
"hasten",
"hie",
"highball",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hump",
"hurl",
"hurry",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"jet",
"jump",
"motor",
"nip",
"pelt",
"race",
"ram",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"rustle",
"scoot",
"scurry",
"scuttle",
"shoot",
"speed",
"step",
"tear",
"travel",
"trot",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetle",
"dart",
"flit",
"scamper",
"scud",
"scuffle",
"stampede",
"streak",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"gallop",
"jog",
"sprint",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"step out",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake",
"arrow",
"beeline"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"hang (around or out)",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"tarry",
"amble",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"poke"
]
},
"a passage cleared for public vehicular travel":{
"examples":[
"raced our motorcycles along the drive"
],
"synonyms":[
"arterial",
"artery",
"avenue",
"boulevard",
"carriageway",
"drag",
"expressway",
"freeway",
"high road",
"highway",
"pass",
"pike",
"road",
"roadway",
"route",
"row",
"street",
"thoroughfare",
"thruway",
"trace",
"turnpike",
"way"
],
"near synonyms":[
"causeway",
"autobahn",
"autoroute",
"autostrada",
"dual carriageway",
"interstate",
"motorway",
"superhighway",
"beltway",
"bypass",
"parkway",
"ring road",
"corniche",
"switchback",
"through street",
"high street",
"Main Street",
"backstreet",
"branch",
"bystreet",
"byway",
"crossroad",
"secondary road",
"shunpike",
"side road",
"side street",
"alley",
"alleyway",
"circle",
"lane",
"laneway",
"mews",
"place",
"close",
"cul-de-sac",
"dead end",
"corridor",
"track",
"trail"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a series of activities undertaken to achieve a goal":{
"examples":[
"a fund-raising drive for the school's marching band"
],
"synonyms":[
"bandwagon",
"blitz",
"campaign",
"cause",
"crusade",
"juggernaut",
"movement",
"push"
],
"near synonyms":[
"assault",
"attack",
"maneuver",
"march",
"offensive",
"action",
"bid",
"enterprise",
"initiative",
"mission",
"project",
"undertaking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a strong wish for something":{
"examples":[
"a drive to succeed in the television news business"
],
"synonyms":[
"appetency",
"appetite",
"craving",
"desire",
"hankering",
"hunger",
"itch",
"jones",
"letch",
"longing",
"lust",
"passion",
"pining",
"thirst",
"thirstiness",
"urge",
"yearning",
"yen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compulsion",
"impulse",
"impulsion",
"will",
"zeal",
"liking",
"love",
"taste",
"weakness",
"eagerness",
"impatience",
"want",
"wish",
"necessity",
"need",
"requirement",
"obsession",
"acquisitiveness",
"avarice",
"avariciousness",
"avidity",
"covetousness",
"cupidity",
"greed",
"greediness",
"rapaciousness",
"rapacity",
"caco\u00ebthes",
"mania"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abhorrence",
"abomination",
"allergy",
"averseness",
"aversion",
"disfavor",
"disgust",
"disinclination",
"dislike",
"disliking",
"distaste",
"hatred",
"loathing",
"nausea",
"repugnance",
"repulsion",
"revulsion",
"apathy",
"indifference",
"insouciance",
"nonchalance",
"unconcern"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"active strength of body or mind":{
"examples":[
"senior citizens who exercise regularly are more likely to have the drive to keep up with their grandchildren"
],
"synonyms":[
"beans",
"bounce",
"brio",
"dash",
"dynamism",
"energy",
"esprit",
"gas",
"get-up-and-go",
"ginger",
"go",
"gusto",
"hardihood",
"juice",
"life",
"moxie",
"oomph",
"pep",
"punch",
"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"
]
},
"readiness to engage in daring or difficult activity":{
"examples":[
"a great opportunity for a sales representative who is full of drive"
],
"synonyms":[
"action",
"aggressiveness",
"ambition",
"enterprise",
"go",
"hustle",
"initiative"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grit",
"gumption",
"pluck",
"snap",
"spirit",
"spunk",
"starch",
"ambitiousness",
"killer instinct",
"overambitiousness",
"assertiveness",
"self-reliance",
"energy",
"hardihood",
"pep",
"vigor",
"vitality"
],
"near antonyms":[
"inactivity",
"inertia",
"passivity",
"diffidence",
"faintheartedness",
"timidity",
"hesitation",
"reluctance",
"indolence",
"laziness",
"lethargy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"druggist":{
"a person who prepares drugs according to a doctor's prescription":{
"examples":[
"she got her prescription for antibiotics filled by the druggist"
],
"synonyms":[
"apothecary",
"chemist",
"pharmacist"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pharmacologist"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drudge":{
"a person who does very hard or dull work":{
"examples":[
"worked like a drudge at a low-paying job that had few benefits"
],
"synonyms":[
"dogsbody",
"drone",
"drudger",
"fag",
"foot soldier",
"grub",
"grubber",
"grunt",
"laborer",
"peon",
"plugger",
"slave",
"slogger",
"toiler",
"worker"
],
"near synonyms":[
"workhorse",
"serf"
],
"near antonyms":[
"goldbrick",
"shirker",
"idler",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"slouch",
"slug",
"sluggard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"very hard or unpleasant work":{
"examples":[
"it took hours of pure drudge to sort through the junk in the basement"
],
"synonyms":[
"donkeywork",
"drudgery",
"fatigue",
"grind",
"labor",
"moil",
"slavery",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spadework",
"effort",
"exertion",
"pains",
"struggle",
"trouble",
"chore",
"duty",
"job",
"obligation",
"responsibility",
"routine",
"tedium",
"treadmill"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decompression",
"ease",
"leisure",
"relaxation",
"repose",
"rest",
"amusement",
"dalliance",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"recreation",
"sport",
"dormancy",
"idleness",
"inactivity",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"dallying",
"goldbricking",
"loafing",
"lolling",
"lounging"
],
"antonyms":[
"fun",
"play"
]
},
"to devote serious and sustained effort":{
"examples":[
"factory workers who must drudge all day at repetitive tasks"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang away",
"beaver (away)",
"dig (away)",
"endeavor",
"fag",
"grub",
"hump",
"hustle",
"labor",
"moil",
"peg (away)",
"plod",
"plow",
"plug",
"slave",
"slog",
"strain",
"strive",
"struggle",
"sweat",
"toil",
"travail",
"tug",
"work"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apply (oneself)",
"buckle (down)",
"dig in",
"hammer (away)",
"knuckle down",
"pitch in",
"attack",
"drive",
"essay",
"try",
"exercise",
"exert",
"overexert",
"overwork",
"eke out",
"grind (out)",
"put out",
"scrabble",
"scratch",
"trudge",
"wade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"break",
"ease (up)",
"let up",
"slacken",
"bum",
"chill",
"dally",
"dillydally",
"footle",
"goldbrick",
"goof (off)",
"hack (around)",
"hang (around or out)",
"idle",
"laze",
"loaf",
"lounge",
"shirk",
"slack (off)",
"veg out",
"bask",
"loll",
"relax",
"repose",
"rest",
"unwind",
"dabble",
"doodle",
"fool around",
"fribble",
"goof (around)",
"hang",
"hang about",
"mess around",
"monkey (around)",
"play",
"potter (around)",
"putter (around)",
"trifle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"drosky":{
"as in barouche , caroche":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barouche",
"brougham",
"buckboard",
"buggy",
"cab",
"cabriolet",
"calash",
"cal\u00e8che",
"caleche",
"caroche",
"carryall",
"chaise",
"chariot",
"coach",
"coup\u00e9",
"coupe",
"curricle",
"diligence",
"dogcart",
"four-in-hand",
"gig",
"go-cart",
"hackney",
"hansom",
"hansom cab",
"jaunting car",
"landau",
"phaeton",
"post chaise",
"roadster",
"rockaway",
"stage",
"stagecoach",
"stanhope",
"surrey",
"tandem",
"tilbury",
"tonga",
"trap",
"troika",
"victoria",
"carriage",
"equipage",
"rig",
"turnout"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drabs":{
"a woman who engages in sexual activities for money":{
"examples":[
"in its time, this waterfront dive was decried as a den of iniquity, unfit even for the drunks and drabs who haunted it"
],
"synonyms":[
"bawds",
"call girls",
"cocottes",
"courtesans",
"hookers",
"hustlers",
"prostitutes",
"sex workers",
"streetwalkers",
"tarts",
"whores"
],
"near synonyms":[
"madames",
"mesdames",
"madams",
"chippies",
"doxies",
"floozies",
"tramps",
"hussies",
"jades",
"minxes",
"coquettes",
"flirts",
"libertines",
"sirens",
"tempters",
"temptresses",
"vamps",
"wenches"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"drains (away)":{
"to grow less in scope or intensity especially gradually":{
"examples":[
"as the city lost population, its political influence drained away"
],
"synonyms":[
"abates",
"declines",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"dies (away or down or out)",
"diminishes",
"drops (off)",
"dwindles",
"eases",
"ebbs",
"falls",
"falls away",
"lessens",
"lets up",
"lowers",
"moderates",
"palls",
"phases down",
"ratchets (down)",
"rachets (down)",
"recedes",
"relents",
"remits",
"shrinks",
"subsides",
"tapers",
"tapers off",
"wanes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"evaporates",
"fades (away)",
"fritters (away)",
"gives out",
"melts (away)",
"peters (out)",
"tails (off)",
"vanishes",
"slackens",
"slows (down)",
"alleviates",
"relaxes",
"flags",
"sinks",
"weakens",
"caves (in)",
"collapses",
"deflates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appears",
"emerges",
"shows up",
"blows up",
"distends",
"elongates",
"lengthens"
],
"antonyms":[
"accumulates",
"balloons",
"builds",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"grows",
"increases",
"intensifies",
"mounts",
"mushrooms",
"picks up",
"rises",
"snowballs",
"soars",
"swells",
"waxes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"dreads":{
"something or someone that causes fear or dread especially without reason":{
"examples":[
"speaking in public is a perennial dread for many people"
],
"synonyms":[
"b\u00eates noires",
"black beasts",
"bogeys",
"bogies",
"bugaboos",
"bugbears",
"hobgoblins",
"ogres"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apparitions",
"ghosts",
"phantasms",
"fantasms",
"phantoms",
"poltergeists",
"shades",
"specters",
"spectres",
"spirits",
"spooks",
"wraiths",
"banshees",
"bogeymen",
"bogymen",
"demons",
"daemons",
"devils",
"fiends",
"ghouls",
"imps",
"incubi",
"incubuses",
"frights",
"horribles",
"horrors",
"monsters",
"monstrosities",
"terrors",
"banes",
"curses",
"enemies",
"plagues",
"scourges",
"torments",
"abominations",
"anathemas"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in fears , apprehends":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"apprehends",
"fears",
"descries",
"discerns",
"perceives",
"previews",
"alerts",
"cautions",
"foretokens",
"forewarns",
"envisages",
"envisions",
"foreshadows",
"prefigures",
"visualizes",
"augurs",
"forecasts",
"foretells",
"predicts",
"presages",
"prognosticates",
"prophesies",
"anticipates",
"divines",
"forefeels",
"foreknows",
"foresees",
"previsions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
}
}
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