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{
"rub":{
"something that is a source of irritation":{
"examples":[
"even what seems to be a dream job usually turns out to have its fair share of rubs"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravation",
"aggro",
"annoyance",
"bother",
"botheration",
"bugbear",
"exasperation",
"frustration",
"hair shirt",
"hassle",
"headache",
"inconvenience",
"irk",
"irritant",
"nuisance",
"peeve",
"pest",
"ruffle",
"thorn",
"trial",
"vexation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discomfort",
"fleabite",
"pinprick",
"affront",
"insult",
"offense",
"offence",
"upset",
"worry",
"affliction",
"albatross",
"burden",
"cross",
"curse",
"menace",
"millstone",
"plague",
"sore",
"anxiety",
"plight",
"predicament",
"tribulation",
"trouble",
"hang-up",
"pet peeve",
"problem",
"annoyer",
"disturber",
"harasser",
"mischief",
"offender",
"pandora's box"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delight",
"joy",
"pleasure"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to damage or diminish by continued friction":{
"examples":[
"the brake pads were rubbed away as a result of years of use"
],
"synonyms":[
"abrade",
"chafe",
"corrade",
"erode",
"fray",
"frazzle",
"fret",
"gall",
"rasp",
"wear"
],
"near synonyms":[
"file",
"gnaw",
"grate",
"graze",
"grind",
"nibble",
"sandblast",
"sandpaper",
"scour",
"scrape",
"scuff",
"shave",
"erase",
"reduce",
"rub out",
"wear out",
"wipe (away)",
"bite",
"break down",
"break up",
"chew",
"corrode",
"decompose",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"eat",
"hone",
"sharpen",
"whet"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth by friction":{
"examples":[
"the furniture restorer rubbed the board perfectly smooth with sandpaper"
],
"synonyms":[
"buff",
"file",
"grind",
"hone",
"rasp",
"sand"
],
"near synonyms":[
"plane",
"scrape",
"sandblast",
"scour",
"burnish",
"dress",
"gloss",
"polish",
"shine",
"smooth",
"edge",
"sharpen",
"strop",
"whet",
"regrind"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarsen",
"rough (up)",
"roughen",
"scuff"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"the butler rubbed the silver tea set until it gleamed"
],
"synonyms":[
"buff",
"burnish",
"dress",
"furbish",
"gloss",
"grind",
"polish",
"shine",
"smooth",
"smoothen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleek",
"slick",
"coat",
"glaze",
"japan",
"lacquer",
"varnish",
"face",
"finish",
"veneer",
"brighten",
"file",
"rasp",
"sand",
"sandblast",
"sandpaper",
"scour",
"scrape",
"scrub",
"bob",
"bone",
"lap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rough (up)",
"roughen",
"ruffle",
"scuff (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rubber-stamp":{
"a person who adopts the appearance or behavior of another especially in an obvious way":{
"examples":[
"an author who was ultimately just another rubber stamp of Hemingway"
],
"synonyms":[
"aper",
"copycat",
"copyist",
"echo",
"follower",
"imitator",
"wannabe",
"wannabee"
],
"near synonyms":[
"parrot",
"ape",
"emulator",
"impersonator",
"impressionist",
"mimic"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in sign , initial":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"initial",
"sign",
"sign off (on)",
"bless",
"canonize",
"sanctify",
"allow",
"enable",
"legalize",
"license",
"licence",
"pass",
"permit",
"certify",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"validate",
"reapprove",
"accept",
"acknowledge",
"affirm",
"accredit",
"approbate",
"approve",
"authorize",
"clear",
"confirm",
"finalize",
"formalize",
"homologate",
"OK",
"okay",
"ratify",
"sanction",
"warrant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decline",
"deny",
"disallow",
"disapprove",
"negative",
"reject",
"turn down",
"veto",
"ban",
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"illegalize",
"interdict",
"prohibit",
"proscribe",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"rebuff",
"rebut",
"refuse",
"spurn"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rubber-stamping":{
"as in signing , initialing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"initialing",
"initialling",
"signing",
"signing off (on)",
"blessing",
"canonizing",
"sanctifying",
"allowing",
"enabling",
"legalizing",
"licensing",
"licencing",
"passing",
"permitting",
"certifying",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"validating",
"reapproving",
"accepting",
"acknowledging",
"affirming",
"accrediting",
"approbating",
"approving",
"authorizing",
"clearing",
"confirming",
"finalizing",
"formalizing",
"homologating",
"OK'ing",
"okaying",
"ratifying",
"sanctioning",
"warranting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declining",
"denying",
"disallowing",
"disapproving",
"negativing",
"rejecting",
"turning down",
"vetoing",
"banning",
"enjoining",
"forbidding",
"illegalizing",
"interdicting",
"prohibiting",
"proscribing",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"rebuffing",
"rebutting",
"refusing",
"spurning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rubbing out":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"antonyms":[
"building",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up"
],
"examples":[
"aerial bombs rubbed out the oil refinery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"mending",
"patching",
"reconditioning",
"repairing",
"revamping",
"creating",
"inventing",
"assembling",
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"forming",
"framing",
"making",
"manufacturing",
"molding",
"producing",
"shaping",
"bringing about",
"constituting",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"founding",
"instituting",
"organizing",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"rebuilding",
"reconstructing",
"remodeling",
"renovating",
"restoring"
],
"related":[
"beating",
"besting",
"clobbering",
"conquering",
"crushing",
"defeating",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"routing",
"scotching",
"skunking",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"triumphing (over)",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"whipping",
"winning (against)",
"blasting",
"blowing up",
"breaking",
"crippling",
"damaging",
"defacing",
"deteriorating",
"disfiguring",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"dynamiting",
"harming",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"mangling",
"marring",
"mutilating",
"spoiling",
"vitiating",
"eroding",
"scouring",
"sweeping (away)",
"washing out",
"wearing (away)",
"dilapidating",
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"gutting",
"taking down",
"unbuilding",
"undoing",
"unmaking",
"blotting out",
"effacing",
"eradicating",
"expunging",
"exterminating",
"extirpating",
"liquidating",
"obliterating",
"removing",
"rooting (out)",
"snuffing (out)",
"stamping (out)",
"wiping out",
"despoiling",
"havocking",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"ravaging",
"sacking",
"trampling",
"trashing",
"vandalizing",
"assassinating",
"butchering",
"cutting down",
"dispatching",
"executing",
"felling",
"killing",
"killing off",
"massacring",
"mowing (down)",
"murdering",
"slaughtering",
"slaying",
"taking out",
"zapping"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilating",
"creaming",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"desolating",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"doing in",
"extinguishing",
"nuking",
"pulling down",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"ruining",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"tearing down",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"vaporizing",
"wasting",
"wracking",
"wrecking"
]
},
"to destroy all traces of":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a promise to rub out the city's drug trade"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserving",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"building",
"constructing",
"creating",
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"forming",
"framing",
"making",
"manufacturing",
"shaping",
"fixing",
"mending",
"patching",
"rebuilding",
"reconditioning",
"reconstructing",
"renewing",
"renovating",
"repairing",
"restoring",
"revamping"
],
"related":[
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"ravaging",
"dismantling",
"flattening",
"mowing (down)",
"razing",
"tearing down",
"ruining",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"wasting",
"wrecking",
"blasting",
"blowing up",
"dashing",
"dynamiting",
"smashing",
"atomizing",
"consuming",
"devouring",
"dissolving",
"fragmenting",
"powdering",
"pulverizing",
"shattering",
"splintering",
"dooming",
"finishing",
"killing",
"killing off",
"terminating",
"zapping",
"cutting",
"discarding",
"ditching",
"ejecting",
"excising",
"expelling",
"jettisoning",
"ousting",
"throwing out"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolishing",
"annihilating",
"blacking out",
"blotting out",
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"cleaning (up)",
"effacing",
"eradicating",
"erasing",
"expunging",
"exterminating",
"extirpating",
"liquidating",
"obliterating",
"rooting (out)",
"snuffing (out)",
"stamping (out)",
"sweeping (away)",
"wiping out"
]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"an elaborate setup to rub out rival mobsters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animating",
"raising",
"restoring",
"resurrecting",
"resuscitating",
"reviving"
],
"related":[
"blowing away",
"shooting",
"shooting down",
"blotting out",
"carrying off",
"claiming",
"cutting down",
"destroying",
"felling",
"killing",
"smiting",
"zapping",
"butchering",
"massacring",
"mowing (down)",
"slaughtering",
"annihilating",
"eliminating",
"eradicating",
"exterminating",
"wiping out"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinating",
"bumping off",
"croaking",
"dispatching",
"doing in",
"executing",
"getting",
"icing",
"knocking off",
"liquidating",
"murdering",
"neutralizing",
"offing",
"putting away",
"slaying",
"snuffing",
"taking out",
"terminating",
"whacking"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rubbish":{
"discarded or useless material":{
"examples":[
"it's illegal to throw rubbish out of your car on the highway"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaff",
"deadwood",
"debris",
"dreck",
"drek",
"dross",
"dust",
"effluvium",
"effluvia",
"garbage",
"junk",
"litter",
"offal",
"offscouring",
"raffle",
"refuse",
"riffraff",
"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":[
"regarded most romance novels as the lowest form of literary rubbish"
],
"synonyms":[
"cheese",
"crapola",
"dreck",
"drek",
"junk",
"muck",
"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":[]
},
"language, behavior, or ideas that are absurd and contrary to good sense":{
"examples":[
"you're obviously no economist because what you're saying is absolute rubbish"
],
"synonyms":[
"applesauce",
"balderdash",
"baloney",
"boloney",
"beans",
"bilge",
"blah",
"blah-blah",
"blarney",
"blather",
"blatherskite",
"blither",
"bosh",
"bull",
"bunk",
"bunkum",
"buncombe",
"claptrap",
"codswallop",
"crapola",
"crock",
"drivel",
"drool",
"fiddle",
"fiddle-faddle",
"fiddlesticks",
"flannel",
"flapdoodle",
"folderol",
"falderal",
"folly",
"foolishness",
"fudge",
"garbage",
"guff",
"hogwash",
"hokeypokey",
"hokum",
"hoodoo",
"hooey",
"horsefeathers",
"humbug",
"humbuggery",
"jazz",
"malarkey",
"malarky",
"moonshine",
"muck",
"nerts",
"nonsense",
"nuts",
"piffle",
"poppycock",
"punk",
"rot",
"senselessness",
"silliness",
"slush",
"stupidity",
"taradiddle",
"tarradiddle",
"tommyrot",
"tosh",
"trash",
"trumpery",
"twaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absurdity",
"asininity",
"fatuity",
"foolery",
"idiocy",
"imbecility",
"inaneness",
"inanity",
"insanity",
"kookiness",
"lunacy",
"absurdness",
"craziness",
"madness",
"witlessness",
"hoity-toity",
"monkey business",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"gas",
"hot air",
"rigmarole",
"rigamarole",
"double-talk",
"greek",
"hocus-pocus"
],
"near antonyms":[
"levelheadedness",
"rationality",
"reasonability",
"reasonableness",
"sensibleness",
"common sense",
"horse sense",
"sense",
"discernment",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"wisdom"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rubout":{
"the intentional and unlawful taking of another person's life":{
"examples":[
"the mafia boss ordered a rubout as casually as you might order a pizza"
],
"synonyms":[
"blood",
"foul play",
"homicide",
"murder",
"slaying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chance-medley",
"killing",
"manslaughter",
"bloodshed",
"butchery",
"carnage",
"decimation",
"destruction",
"massacre",
"slaughter",
"assassination",
"execution",
"hit",
"euthanasia",
"mercy killing",
"filicide",
"fratricide",
"matricide",
"parricide",
"patricide",
"regicide",
"uxoricide"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"aerial bombs rubbed out the oil refinery"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilate",
"cream",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"do in",
"extinguish",
"nuke",
"pull down",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"ruin",
"shatter",
"smash",
"tear down",
"total",
"vaporize",
"waste",
"wrack",
"wreck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beat",
"best",
"clobber",
"conquer",
"crush",
"defeat",
"drub",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"rout",
"scotch",
"skunk",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"thrash",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"whip",
"win (against)",
"blast",
"blow up",
"break",
"cripple",
"damage",
"deface",
"deteriorate",
"disfigure",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"dynamite",
"harm",
"impair",
"injure",
"mangle",
"mar",
"mutilate",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"erode",
"scour",
"sweep (away)",
"wash out",
"wear (away)",
"dilapidate",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"gut",
"take down",
"unbuild",
"undo",
"unmake",
"blot out",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"remove",
"root (out)",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"wipe out",
"despoil",
"havoc",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"trample",
"trash",
"vandalize",
"assassinate",
"butcher",
"cut down",
"dispatch",
"execute",
"fell",
"kill",
"kill off",
"massacre",
"mow (down)",
"murder",
"slaughter",
"slay",
"take out",
"zap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctor",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"recondition",
"repair",
"revamp",
"create",
"invent",
"assemble",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"mold",
"produce",
"shape",
"bring about",
"constitute",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"rebuild",
"reconstruct",
"remodel",
"renovate",
"restore"
],
"antonyms":[
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"an elaborate setup to rub out rival mobsters"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinate",
"bump off",
"croak",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"execute",
"get",
"ice",
"knock off",
"liquidate",
"murder",
"neutralize",
"off",
"put away",
"slay",
"snuff",
"take out",
"terminate",
"whack"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blow away",
"shoot",
"shoot down",
"blot out",
"carry off",
"claim",
"cut down",
"destroy",
"fell",
"kill",
"smite",
"zap",
"butcher",
"massacre",
"mow (down)",
"slaughter",
"annihilate",
"eliminate",
"eradicate",
"exterminate",
"wipe out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animate",
"raise",
"restore",
"resurrect",
"resuscitate",
"revive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"a promise to rub out the city's drug trade"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"black out",
"blot out",
"cancel",
"clean (up)",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"erase",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"root (out)",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"sweep (away)",
"wipe out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decimate",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"ravage",
"dismantle",
"flatten",
"mow (down)",
"raze",
"tear down",
"ruin",
"total",
"waste",
"wreck",
"blast",
"blow up",
"dash",
"dynamite",
"smash",
"atomize",
"consume",
"devour",
"dissolve",
"fragment",
"powder",
"pulverize",
"shatter",
"splinter",
"doom",
"finish",
"kill",
"kill off",
"terminate",
"zap",
"cut",
"discard",
"ditch",
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"jettison",
"oust",
"throw out"
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"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"build",
"construct",
"create",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"shape",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"rebuild",
"recondition",
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"renew",
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"repair",
"restore",
"revamp"
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"verb"
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"hikers carrying their food and water in rucksacks"
],
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"backpack",
"kit bag",
"knapsack",
"pack",
"packsack"
],
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"haversack",
"carryall",
"carry-on",
"grip",
"handbag",
"holdall",
"portmanteau",
"suitcase",
"traveling bag",
"fanny pack",
"school bag",
"seabag",
"overnight bag",
"overnight case",
"weekend bag"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"a soft-sided case designed for carrying belongings especially on the back":{
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"hikers carrying their food and water in rucksacks"
],
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"backpacks",
"kit bags",
"knapsacks",
"packs",
"packsacks"
],
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"haversacks",
"carryalls",
"carry-ons",
"grips",
"handbags",
"holdalls",
"portmanteaus",
"portmanteaux",
"suitcases",
"traveling bags",
"fanny packs",
"school bags",
"seabags",
"overnight bags",
"overnight cases",
"weekend bags"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
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"a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people":{
"examples":[
"the ruckus left one person with a sprained wrist"
],
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"affray",
"brawl",
"broil",
"donnybrook",
"fracas",
"fray",
"free-for-all",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"rough-and-tumble",
"row",
"ruction"
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"battle",
"clash",
"combat",
"conflict",
"contest",
"fisticuffs",
"handgrips",
"hassle",
"scrap",
"scrimmage",
"scuffle",
"skirmish",
"struggle",
"tussle",
"horseplay",
"roughhousing",
"altercation",
"argument",
"dispute",
"kickup",
"quarrel",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle"
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"quit creating such a ruckus \u2014I'm trying to sleep!"
],
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"blather",
"bluster",
"bobbery",
"bother",
"bustle",
"clatter",
"clutter",
"coil",
"commotion",
"corroboree",
"disturbance",
"do",
"foofaraw",
"fun",
"furor",
"furore",
"fuss",
"helter-skelter",
"hoo-ha",
"hoo-hah",
"hoopla",
"hubble-bubble",
"hubbub",
"hullabaloo",
"hurly",
"hurly-burly",
"hurricane",
"hurry",
"hurry-scurry",
"hurry-skurry",
"kerfuffle",
"moil",
"pandemonium",
"pother",
"row",
"ruction",
"rumpus",
"shindy",
"splore",
"squall",
"stew",
"stir",
"storm",
"to-do",
"tumult",
"turmoil",
"uproar",
"welter",
"whirl",
"williwaw",
"zoo"
],
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"cacophony",
"clamor",
"din",
"howl",
"hue and cry",
"noise",
"outcry",
"racket",
"roar",
"disorder",
"unrest",
"upheaval",
"eruption",
"flare-up",
"flurry",
"flutter",
"outbreak",
"outburst",
"brawl",
"fracas",
"fray",
"hassle",
"melee",
"m\u00eal\u00e9e",
"scuffle",
"dither",
"fever",
"fret",
"lather",
"tizzy"
],
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"calm",
"hush",
"peace",
"quiet",
"quietude",
"rest",
"stillness",
"tranquillity",
"tranquility",
"order",
"orderliness"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ruckuses":{
"a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people":{
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"the ruckus left one person with a sprained wrist"
],
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"affrays",
"brawls",
"broils",
"donnybrooks",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"free-for-alls",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"rough-and-tumbles",
"rows",
"ructions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battles",
"clashes",
"combats",
"conflicts",
"contests",
"fisticuffs",
"handgrips",
"hassles",
"scraps",
"scrimmages",
"scuffles",
"skirmishes",
"struggles",
"tussles",
"horseplays",
"altercations",
"arguments",
"disputes",
"kickups",
"quarrels",
"spats",
"squabbles",
"tiffs",
"wrangles"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
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"examples":[
"quit creating such a ruckus \u2014I'm trying to sleep!"
],
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"ados",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoos",
"blathers",
"bluster",
"bobberies",
"bothers",
"bustles",
"clatters",
"clutters",
"coils",
"commotions",
"corroborees",
"disturbances",
"dos",
"do's",
"foofaraws",
"fun",
"furores",
"furors",
"fusses",
"helter-skelters",
"hoo-has",
"hoo-hahs",
"hooplas",
"hubble-bubbles",
"hubbubs",
"hullabaloos",
"hurlies",
"hurly-burlies",
"hurricanes",
"hurry-scurries",
"hurry-skurries",
"kerfuffles",
"moils",
"pandemoniums",
"pothers",
"rows",
"ructions",
"rumpuses",
"shindys",
"shindies",
"splores",
"squalls",
"stews",
"stirs",
"storms",
"to-dos",
"tumults",
"turmoils",
"uproars",
"welters",
"whirls",
"williwaws",
"zoos"
],
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"cacophonies",
"clamors",
"dins",
"howls",
"hue and cries",
"noises",
"outcries",
"rackets",
"roars",
"disorders",
"upheavals",
"eruptions",
"flare-ups",
"flurries",
"flutters",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts",
"brawls",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"hassles",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"scuffles",
"dithers",
"fevers",
"frets",
"lathers",
"tizzies"
],
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"calms",
"hushes",
"peaces",
"quiets",
"quietudes",
"rests",
"tranquillities",
"tranquilities",
"orders"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ructions":{
"a rough and often noisy fight usually involving several people":{
"examples":[
"the ruction ended with everyone involved getting arrested"
],
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"affrays",
"brawls",
"broils",
"donnybrooks",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"free-for-alls",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"rough-and-tumbles",
"rows",
"ruckuses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battles",
"clashes",
"combats",
"conflicts",
"contests",
"fisticuffs",
"handgrips",
"hassles",
"scraps",
"scrimmages",
"scuffles",
"skirmishes",
"struggles",
"tussles",
"horseplays",
"altercations",
"arguments",
"disputes",
"kickups",
"quarrels",
"spats",
"squabbles",
"tiffs",
"wrangles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a state of noisy, confused activity":{
"examples":[
"the ruction outside the door prompted me to investigate what was going on"
],
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"ados",
"alarums and excursions",
"ballyhoos",
"blathers",
"bluster",
"bobberies",
"bothers",
"bustles",
"clatters",
"clutters",
"coils",
"commotions",
"corroborees",
"disturbances",
"dos",
"do's",
"foofaraws",
"fun",
"furores",
"furors",
"fusses",
"helter-skelters",
"hoo-has",
"hoo-hahs",
"hooplas",
"hubble-bubbles",
"hubbubs",
"hullabaloos",
"hurlies",
"hurly-burlies",
"hurricanes",
"hurry-scurries",
"hurry-skurries",
"kerfuffles",
"moils",
"pandemoniums",
"pothers",
"rows",
"ruckuses",
"rumpuses",
"shindys",
"shindies",
"splores",
"squalls",
"stews",
"stirs",
"storms",
"to-dos",
"tumults",
"turmoils",
"uproars",
"welters",
"whirls",
"williwaws",
"zoos"
],
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"cacophonies",
"clamors",
"dins",
"howls",
"hue and cries",
"noises",
"outcries",
"rackets",
"roars",
"disorders",
"upheavals",
"eruptions",
"flare-ups",
"flurries",
"flutters",
"outbreaks",
"outbursts",
"brawls",
"fracases",
"fracas",
"frays",
"hassles",
"melees",
"m\u00eal\u00e9es",
"scuffles",
"dithers",
"fevers",
"frets",
"lathers",
"tizzies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calms",
"hushes",
"peaces",
"quiets",
"quietudes",
"rests",
"tranquillities",
"tranquilities",
"orders"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ruddle":{
"as in rouge , incarnadine":{
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"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"incarnadine",
"rouge",
"bloom",
"blush",
"color",
"crimson",
"flush",
"glow",
"redden",
"abash",
"chagrin",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"humiliate",
"mortify"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ruddles":{
"as in rouges , incarnadines":{
"examples":[],
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"incarnadines",
"rouges",
"blooms",
"blushes",
"colors",
"crimsons",
"flushes",
"glows",
"reddens",
"abashes",
"chagrins",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"embarrasses",
"fazes",
"humiliates",
"mortifies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ruddling":{
"as in rouging , incarnadining":{
"examples":[],
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"incarnadining",
"rouging",
"blooming",
"blushing",
"coloring",
"crimsoning",
"flushing",
"glowing",
"reddening",
"abashing",
"chagrining",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"humiliating",
"mortifying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ruddy":{
"having a healthy reddish skin tone":{
"antonyms":[
"ashen",
"ashy",
"doughy",
"livid",
"lurid",
"mealy",
"pale",
"paled",
"palish",
"pallid",
"pasty",
"peaked",
"peaky",
"sallow",
"sallowish",
"wan"
],
"examples":[
"ruddy complexions run in the family"
],
"near antonyms":[
"waxen",
"waxy",
"blanched",
"white",
"whitened",
"anemic",
"sick",
"sickly",
"bloodless",
"cadaverous",
"whey-faced",
"white-faced"
],
"related":[
"bronzed",
"brown",
"suntanned",
"tanned",
"bloomy",
"blowsy",
"blowzy",
"blushing",
"flushed",
"pink",
"pinkish",
"warm",
"cherubic"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooming",
"florid",
"flush",
"full-blooded",
"glowing",
"red",
"rosy",
"rubicund",
"sanguine"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rudimentary":{
"belonging to or characteristic of an early level of skill or development":{
"examples":[
"rudimentary shelters built by prehistoric peoples"
],
"synonyms":[
"crude",
"low",
"primitive",
"rude"
],
"near synonyms":[
"basic",
"simple",
"uncomplicated",
"homely",
"homespun",
"unsophisticated",
"early",
"embryonic",
"primeval",
"primordial",
"backward",
"underdeveloped",
"undeveloped",
"aged",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"antiquated",
"antique",
"dated",
"fusty",
"hoary",
"musty",
"obsolete",
"old",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"out-of-date",
"outworn",
"pass\u00e9",
"past",
"quaint",
"unmodernized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"complex",
"complicated",
"intricate",
"involved",
"sophisticated",
"full-blown",
"grown",
"mature",
"matured",
"perfected",
"ripe",
"ripened",
"civilized",
"cultivated",
"enlightened",
"refined",
"contemporary",
"current",
"latest",
"mod",
"modern",
"modernistic",
"new",
"newfangled",
"new-fashioned",
"novel",
"now",
"present-day",
"space-age",
"state-of-the-art",
"supermodern",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date"
],
"antonyms":[
"advanced",
"developed",
"evolved",
"high",
"higher",
"late"
]
},
"of or relating to the simplest facts or theories of a subject":{
"examples":[
"had only a rudimentary knowledge of science"
],
"synonyms":[
"abecedarian",
"basal",
"basic",
"beginning",
"elemental",
"elementary",
"essential",
"fundamental",
"introductory",
"meat-and-potatoes",
"rudimental",
"underlying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"primal",
"primary",
"prime",
"simple",
"crude",
"primeval",
"primitive",
"primordial",
"rude",
"uncomplicated",
"preliminary",
"preparatory",
"crucial",
"important",
"key"
],
"near antonyms":[
"complex",
"sophisticated",
"complicated",
"convoluted",
"detailed",
"elaborate",
"extensive",
"intricate",
"developed",
"evolved",
"high",
"higher",
"refined"
],
"antonyms":[
"advanced"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rue":{
"a feeling of responsibility for wrongdoing":{
"examples":[
"a soul filled with pain and rue"
],
"synonyms":[
"contriteness",
"contrition",
"guilt",
"penitence",
"regret",
"remorse",
"remorsefulness",
"repentance",
"self-reproach",
"shame"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compunction",
"misgiving",
"prick",
"qualm",
"scruple",
"blame",
"culpability",
"fault",
"liability",
"rap",
"responsibility",
"chagrin",
"embarrassment",
"anguish",
"distress",
"grief",
"ruth",
"sadness",
"sorrow",
"bloodguilt",
"bloodguiltiness",
"apology",
"excuses",
"hand-wringing",
"mea culpa"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"impenitence",
"remorselessness"
]
},
"to feel sorry or dissatisfied about":{
"examples":[
"I rue the day I agreed to this stupid plan"
],
"synonyms":[
"bemoan",
"deplore",
"lament",
"regret",
"repent"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ache (for)",
"bewail",
"grieve (for)",
"mourn",
"sorrow (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delight (in)",
"enjoy",
"relish",
"revel (in)",
"savor",
"savour"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rues":{
"to feel sorry or dissatisfied about":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"I rue the day I agreed to this stupid plan"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delights (in)",
"enjoys",
"relishes",
"revels (in)",
"savors",
"savours"
],
"related":[
"aches (for)",
"bewails",
"grieves (for)",
"mourns",
"sorrows (for)"
],
"synonyms":[
"bemoans",
"deplores",
"laments",
"regrets",
"repents"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ruffian":{
"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a gang of ruffians preying upon people who ventured into that section of town"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"cutthroat",
"scoundrel",
"villain",
"assassin",
"bandit",
"bravo",
"brigand",
"criminal",
"crook",
"desperado",
"felon",
"gunman",
"highwayman",
"lawbreaker",
"mafioso",
"malefactor",
"offender",
"outlaw",
"perp",
"perpetrator",
"pirate",
"pickpocket",
"racketeer",
"robber",
"swindler",
"thief",
"vandal",
"juvenile delinquent",
"tearaway"
],
"synonyms":[
"bully",
"gangbanger",
"gangsta",
"gangster",
"goon",
"gorilla",
"hood",
"hoodlum",
"hooligan",
"mobster",
"mug",
"plug-ugly",
"punk",
"roughneck",
"rowdy",
"thug",
"tough",
"toughie",
"toughy",
"yob",
"yobbo"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ruffle":{
"a strip of fabric gathered or pleated on one edge and used as trimming":{
"examples":[
"likes lace curtains without ruffles and chintz curtains with ruffles"
],
"synonyms":[
"flounce",
"frill",
"furbelow"
],
"near synonyms":[
"border",
"edging",
"fringe",
"trim",
"plait",
"pleat",
"ruff",
"bunting",
"skirting"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that is a source of irritation":{
"examples":[
"a spouse's snoring is one ruffle that many couples must eventually come to terms with"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravation",
"aggro",
"annoyance",
"bother",
"botheration",
"bugbear",
"exasperation",
"frustration",
"hair shirt",
"hassle",
"headache",
"inconvenience",
"irk",
"irritant",
"nuisance",
"peeve",
"pest",
"rub",
"thorn",
"trial",
"vexation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discomfort",
"fleabite",
"pinprick",
"affront",
"insult",
"offense",
"offence",
"upset",
"worry",
"affliction",
"albatross",
"burden",
"cross",
"curse",
"menace",
"millstone",
"plague",
"sore",
"anxiety",
"plight",
"predicament",
"tribulation",
"trouble",
"hang-up",
"pet peeve",
"problem",
"annoyer",
"disturber",
"harasser",
"mischief",
"offender",
"pandora's box"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delight",
"joy",
"pleasure"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"the stream of minor complaints finally ruffled him into snapping, \"If you don't like the way I'm doing it, do it yourself!\""
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"bug",
"burn (up)",
"chafe",
"eat",
"exasperate",
"frost",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"gripe",
"hack (off)",
"irk",
"irritate",
"itch",
"nark",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"persecute",
"pique",
"put out",
"rasp",
"rile",
"spite",
"vex"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassle",
"heckle",
"nag",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"provoke",
"rouse",
"badger",
"bait",
"bullyrag",
"ballyrag",
"devil",
"hagride",
"harass",
"harry",
"pester",
"plague",
"tease",
"anger",
"antagonize",
"enrage",
"incense",
"infuriate",
"madden",
"rankle",
"roil",
"agitate",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"exercise",
"freak (out)",
"fret",
"perturb",
"undo",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry",
"affront",
"insult",
"miff",
"offend",
"outrage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"oblige",
"pacify",
"placate",
"propitiate",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"satisfy",
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"content",
"quiet",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"ruffled":{
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"the stream of minor complaints finally ruffled him into snapping, \"If you don't like the way I'm doing it, do it yourself!\""
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"ate",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"chafed",
"exasperated",
"frosted",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"griped",
"hacked (off)",
"irked",
"irritated",
"itched",
"narked",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"persecuted",
"piqued",
"put out",
"rasped",
"riled",
"spited",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassled",
"heckled",
"nagged",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"provoked",
"roused",
"badgered",
"baited",
"bullyragged",
"ballyragged",
"deviled",
"devilled",
"hagrode",
"harassed",
"harried",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"teased",
"angered",
"antagonized",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"infuriated",
"maddened",
"rankled",
"roiled",
"agitated",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"exercised",
"freaked (out)",
"fretted",
"perturbed",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"miffed",
"offended",
"outraged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"obliged",
"pacified",
"placated",
"propitiated",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"contented",
"quieted",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ruined":{
"facing certain defeat, disaster, or death":{
"examples":[
"your chances for a promotion were ruined the instance you started mouthing off to the boss"
],
"synonyms":[
"dead",
"done",
"done for",
"doomed",
"finished",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"sunk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"endangered",
"imperiled",
"imperilled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts":{
"examples":[
"after he was ruined by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the industrialist was forced to sell his mansion and start all over again"
],
"synonyms":[
"bankrupted",
"broke",
"busted",
"bust"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beggared",
"impoverished",
"pauperized",
"reduced",
"straitened",
"cleaned (out)",
"wiped out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enriched",
"richened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring destruction to (something) through violent action":{
"examples":[
"tornadoes ruined a wide swath of the county"
],
"synonyms":[
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"ravaged",
"scourged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"despoiled",
"forayed",
"harried",
"looted",
"marauded",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"sacked",
"stripped",
"stript",
"annihilated",
"desolated",
"eradicated",
"expunged",
"extinguished",
"extirpated",
"nuked",
"obliterated",
"rubbed out",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"vaporized",
"wasted",
"wiped out",
"wracked",
"wrecked",
"decimated",
"mowed",
"demolished",
"razed",
"crushed",
"overpowered",
"overran",
"overthrew",
"overwhelmed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"reconditioned",
"recovered",
"redeemed",
"rehabilitated",
"restored",
"fixed",
"mended",
"patched",
"repaired",
"revamped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"a huge fire that ruined an entire city block"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilated",
"creamed",
"decimated",
"demolished",
"desolated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"did in",
"extinguished",
"nuked",
"pulled down",
"pulverized",
"razed",
"rubbed out",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"tore down",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"vaporized",
"wasted",
"wracked",
"wrecked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beat",
"bested",
"clobbered",
"conquered",
"crushed",
"defeated",
"drubbed",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"routed",
"scotched",
"skunked",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"thrashed",
"trimmed",
"triumphed (over)",
"trounced",
"walloped",
"whipped",
"won (against)",
"blasted",
"blew up",
"broke",
"crippled",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"deteriorated",
"disfigured",
"disintegrated",
"dissolved",
"dynamited",
"harmed",
"impaired",
"injured",
"mangled",
"marred",
"mutilated",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"vitiated",
"eroded",
"scoured",
"swept (away)",
"washed out",
"wore (away)",
"dilapidated",
"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"gutted",
"took down",
"unbuilt",
"undid",
"unmade",
"blotted out",
"effaced",
"eradicated",
"expunged",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"liquidated",
"obliterated",
"removed",
"rooted (out)",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"wiped out",
"despoiled",
"havocked",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravaged",
"sacked",
"trampled",
"trashed",
"vandalized",
"assassinated",
"butchered",
"cut down",
"dispatched",
"executed",
"felled",
"killed",
"killed off",
"massacred",
"mowed (down)",
"murdered",
"slaughtered",
"slew",
"took out",
"zapped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctored",
"fixed",
"mended",
"patched",
"reconditioned",
"repaired",
"revamped",
"created",
"invented",
"assembled",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"formed",
"framed",
"made",
"manufactured",
"molded",
"produced",
"shaped",
"brought about",
"constituted",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"protected",
"saved",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"remodeled",
"renovated",
"restored"
],
"antonyms":[
"built",
"constructed",
"erected",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"rule":{
"a statement spelling out the proper procedure or conduct for an activity":{
"examples":[
"read the rules that are posted before you use the pool"
],
"synonyms":[
"bylaw",
"ground rule",
"reg",
"regulation"
],
"near synonyms":[
"code",
"constitution",
"decalogue",
"directory",
"act",
"law",
"ordinance",
"statute",
"behest",
"charge",
"command",
"commandment",
"decree",
"dictate",
"direction",
"directive",
"edict",
"fiat",
"instruction",
"order",
"axiom",
"fundamental",
"maxim",
"precept",
"moral",
"principle",
"value",
"ban",
"interdiction",
"prohibition",
"proscription",
"restriction",
"convention",
"custom",
"habit",
"manners",
"mores",
"practice",
"practise",
"tradition",
"way",
"blueprint",
"canon",
"formula",
"guide",
"guideline",
"standard"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"lawful control over the affairs of a political unit (as a nation)":{
"examples":[
"the years during which Russia was under Communist rule"
],
"synonyms":[
"administration",
"authority",
"governance",
"government",
"jurisdiction",
"regime",
"r\u00e9gime",
"regimen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reign",
"dominion",
"power",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"supremacy",
"sway",
"command",
"leadership",
"direction",
"management",
"regulation",
"superintendence",
"supervision",
"autocracy",
"dictatorship",
"domination",
"hegemony",
"mastery",
"oppression",
"subjugation",
"tyranny"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an inherited or established way of thinking, feeling, or doing":{
"examples":[
"one of the sacred rules of that ancient society was respect for the elderly"
],
"synonyms":[
"convention",
"custom",
"heritage",
"prescription",
"rubric",
"tradition"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ethic",
"form",
"mode",
"mores",
"norm",
"principles",
"standards",
"values",
"birthright",
"inheritance",
"legacy",
"folklore",
"lore",
"superstition",
"culture",
"lifestyle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to exercise authority or power over":{
"examples":[
"a sea captain who ruled his ship sternly but justly"
],
"synonyms":[
"boss",
"captain",
"command",
"control",
"govern",
"preside (over)",
"sway"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conduct",
"direct",
"head",
"lead",
"administer",
"manage",
"micromanage",
"oversee",
"regulate",
"superintend",
"supervise",
"dictate",
"dominate",
"domineer",
"lord (it over)",
"master",
"oppress",
"reign (over)",
"tyrannize",
"conquer",
"subdue",
"subjugate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)":{
"examples":[
"a monarch who is known for ruling her emotions with an iron hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"bridle",
"check",
"constrain",
"contain",
"control",
"curb",
"govern",
"hold",
"inhibit",
"keep",
"measure",
"pull in",
"regulate",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"tame"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottle (up)",
"choke (back)",
"hold back",
"mince",
"muffle",
"pocket",
"repress",
"sink",
"smother",
"squelch",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"suppress",
"swallow",
"arrest",
"interrupt",
"stop",
"block",
"hamper",
"handcuff",
"hinder",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"gag",
"muzzle",
"silence"
],
"near antonyms":[
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"unleash",
"air",
"express",
"take out",
"vent"
],
"antonyms":[
"lose"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rule (on)":{
"to give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute)":{
"examples":[
"the coach ruled on the question of whether an off-campus bar fight ought to disqualify someone from the team"
],
"synonyms":[
"adjudge",
"adjudicate",
"arbitrate",
"decide",
"determine",
"judge",
"referee",
"settle",
"umpire"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consider",
"deem",
"deliberate",
"hear",
"ponder",
"weigh",
"size up",
"mediate",
"moderate",
"negotiate",
"prosecute",
"try",
"find (for or against)",
"conclude",
"resolve",
"redetermine",
"rejudge"
],
"near antonyms":[
"equivocate",
"hedge",
"pussyfoot",
"skirt"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ruly":{
"as in docile , obedient":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"amenable",
"biddable",
"compliant",
"conformable",
"docile",
"obedient",
"submissive",
"tractable",
"acquiescent",
"agreeable",
"amiable",
"cooperative",
"deferential",
"obliging",
"yielding",
"behaved",
"disciplined",
"well-bred",
"courteous",
"polite",
"respectful",
"kowtowing",
"obsequious",
"servile",
"slavish",
"subservient",
"decorous",
"mannerly",
"orderly",
"proper",
"controllable",
"governable",
"manageable",
"trainable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"balky",
"contrary",
"contumacious",
"defiant",
"disobedient",
"froward",
"incompliant",
"insubordinate",
"intractable",
"obstreperous",
"rebel",
"rebellious",
"recalcitrant",
"recusant",
"refractory",
"restive",
"ungovernable",
"unruly",
"untoward",
"wayward",
"willful",
"wilful",
"noncooperative",
"uncooperative",
"insurgent",
"mutinous"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rumbling":{
"as in":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to make a low heavy rolling sound":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"when thunder rumbled in the distant sky, we wisely began packing up our picnic"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"booming",
"drumming",
"thundering",
"bellowing"
],
"synonyms":[
"growling",
"grumbling",
"lumbering",
"rolling"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rumored":{
"as in reported , reputed":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"to make (as a piece of information) the subject of common talk without any authority or confirmation of accuracy":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"for years people have been rumoring the CEO's imminent retirement"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"bandied (about)",
"blabbed",
"dished",
"gossiped",
"tattled",
"bared",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"exposed",
"let on (about)",
"reported",
"revealed",
"spilled",
"spilt",
"told",
"hinted",
"implied",
"insinuated",
"intimated",
"suggested",
"blazed",
"broadcast",
"broadcasted",
"proclaimed",
"promulgated",
"propagated",
"publicized",
"spread"
],
"synonyms":[
"bruited (about)",
"circulated",
"noised (about or abroad)",
"whispered"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"rumoring":{
"to make (as a piece of information) the subject of common talk without any authority or confirmation of accuracy":{
"examples":[
"for years people have been rumoring the CEO's imminent retirement"
],
"synonyms":[
"bruiting (about)",
"circulating",
"noising (about or abroad)",
"whispering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bandying (about)",
"blabbing",
"dishing",
"gossiping",
"tattling",
"baring",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"exposing",
"letting on (about)",
"reporting",
"revealing",
"spilling",
"telling",
"hinting",
"implying",
"insinuating",
"intimating",
"suggesting",
"blazing",
"broadcasting",
"proclaiming",
"promulgating",
"propagating",
"publicizing",
"spreading"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rumple":{
"to create (as by crushing) an irregular mass of creases in":{
"examples":[
"the guest rumpled the antique bedspread by lying down on it"
],
"synonyms":[
"crinkle",
"crumple",
"scrunch",
"wrinkle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"corrugate",
"crease",
"crimp",
"fold",
"pleat",
"pucker",
"ruck",
"crisp",
"ripple",
"ruffle",
"contract",
"furrow",
"knit",
"mess (up)",
"muss (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"even",
"iron",
"press",
"straighten",
"unfold",
"neaten",
"tidy"
],
"antonyms":[
"flatten",
"iron out",
"smooth",
"smoothen",
"uncrumple"
]
},
"to develop creases or folds":{
"examples":[
"the linen skirt rumpled as soon as she started wearing it"
],
"synonyms":[
"crease",
"crinkle",
"furrow",
"wrinkle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collapse",
"crumple",
"double",
"fold"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to undo the proper order or arrangement of":{
"examples":[
"the aunt would invariably rumple the little boy's hair whenever she came to visit"
],
"synonyms":[
"confuse",
"derange",
"disarrange",
"disarray",
"discompose",
"dishevel",
"disjoint",
"dislocate",
"disorder",
"disorganize",
"disrupt",
"disturb",
"hash",
"jumble",
"mess (up)",
"mix (up)",
"muddle",
"muss",
"scramble",
"shuffle",
"tousle",
"tumble",
"upset"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embroil",
"entangle",
"snarl",
"tangle",
"agitate",
"perturb",
"stir (up)",
"unsettle",
"clutter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"align",
"aline",
"line",
"line up",
"queue",
"classify",
"codify",
"methodize",
"systematize",
"systemize",
"adjust",
"fix",
"groom",
"make up",
"spruce (up)",
"unscramble"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrange",
"array",
"dispose",
"draw up",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"order",
"organize",
"range",
"regulate",
"straighten (up)",
"tidy"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rumpled":{
"lacking in order, neatness, and often cleanliness":{
"examples":[
"a rumpled room that suited its teenage occupant just fine"
],
"synonyms":[
"chaotic",
"cluttered",
"confused",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"disorderly",
"higgledy-piggledy",
"hugger-mugger",
"jumbled",
"littered",
"messed",
"messy",
"muddled",
"mussed",
"mussy",
"pell-mell",
"sloppy",
"topsy-turvy",
"tousled",
"tumbled",
"unkempt",
"untidy",
"upside-down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bedraggled",
"befouled",
"begrimed",
"bemired",
"besmirched",
"blackened",
"cruddy",
"dingy",
"dirty",
"draggled",
"filthy",
"foul",
"grimy",
"grotty",
"grubby",
"grungy",
"mucky",
"nasty",
"smudged",
"soiled",
"spotted",
"squalid",
"stained",
"sullied",
"unclean",
"uncleanly",
"dowdy",
"frowsy",
"frowzy",
"shaggy",
"slatternly",
"sloven",
"slovenly",
"uncombed",
"wrinkled",
"adulterated",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"knotted",
"snarled",
"tangled",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"sordid",
"neglected",
"neglectful",
"negligent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"antiseptic",
"clean",
"cleaned",
"cleanly",
"hygienic",
"immaculate",
"sparkling",
"spick-and-span",
"spic-and-span",
"spotless",
"stainless",
"unsoiled",
"unsullied",
"methodical",
"methodic",
"regular",
"systematic",
"systematized",
"careful",
"fastidious",
"finicky",
"fussy",
"meticulous",
"combed",
"groomed",
"manicured",
"well-groomed",
"taintless",
"undefiled",
"unpolluted",
"untainted",
"wholesome"
],
"antonyms":[
"bandbox",
"crisp",
"kempt",
"neat",
"neatened",
"ordered",
"orderly",
"organized",
"shipshape",
"snug",
"tidied",
"tidy",
"trim",
"uncluttered",
"well-ordered"
]
},
"to create (as by crushing) an irregular mass of creases in":{
"examples":[
"the guest rumpled the antique bedspread by lying down on it"
],
"synonyms":[
"crinkled",
"crumpled",
"scrunched",
"wrinkled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"corrugated",
"creased",
"crimped",
"folded",
"pleated",
"puckered",
"rucked",
"crisped",
"rippled",
"ruffled",
"contracted",
"furrowed",
"knit",
"knitted",
"messed (up)",
"mussed (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evened",
"ironed",
"pressed",
"straightened",
"unfolded",
"neatened",
"tidied"
],
"antonyms":[
"flattened",
"ironed out",
"smoothed",
"smoothened",
"uncrumpled"
]
},
"to develop creases or folds":{
"examples":[
"the linen skirt rumpled as soon as she started wearing it"
],
"synonyms":[
"creased",
"crinkled",
"furrowed",
"wrinkled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collapsed",
"crumpled",
"doubled",
"folded"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to undo the proper order or arrangement of":{
"examples":[
"the aunt would invariably rumple the little boy's hair whenever she came to visit"
],
"synonyms":[
"confused",
"deranged",
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"discomposed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disjointed",
"dislocated",
"disordered",
"disorganized",
"disrupted",
"disturbed",
"hashed",
"jumbled",
"messed (up)",
"mixed (up)",
"muddled",
"mussed",
"scrambled",
"shuffled",
"tousled",
"tumbled",
"upset"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embroiled",
"entangled",
"snarled",
"tangled",
"agitated",
"perturbed",
"stirred (up)",
"unsettled",
"cluttered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aligned",
"alined",
"lined",
"lined up",
"queued",
"classified",
"codified",
"methodized",
"systematized",
"systemized",
"adjusted",
"fixed",
"groomed",
"made up",
"spruced (up)",
"unscrambled"
],
"antonyms":[
"arranged",
"arrayed",
"disposed",
"drew up",
"marshaled",
"marshalled",
"ordered",
"organized",
"ranged",
"regulated",
"straightened (up)",
"tidied"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"rumpling":{
"to create (as by crushing) an irregular mass of creases in":{
"examples":[
"the guest rumpled the antique bedspread by lying down on it"
],
"synonyms":[
"crinkling",
"crumpling",
"scrunching",
"wrinkling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"corrugating",
"creasing",
"crimping",
"folding",
"pleating",
"puckering",
"rucking",
"crisping",
"rippling",
"ruffling",
"contracting",
"furrowing",
"knitting",
"messing (up)",
"mussing (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"evening",
"ironing",
"pressing",
"straightening",
"unfolding",
"neatening",
"tidying"
],
"antonyms":[
"flattening",
"ironing out",
"smoothening",
"smoothing",
"uncrumpling"
]
},
"to develop creases or folds":{
"examples":[
"the linen skirt rumpled as soon as she started wearing it"
],
"synonyms":[
"creasing",
"crinkling",
"furrowing",
"wrinkling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"collapsing",
"crumpling",
"doubling",
"folding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to undo the proper order or arrangement of":{
"examples":[
"the aunt would invariably rumple the little boy's hair whenever she came to visit"
],
"synonyms":[
"confusing",
"deranging",
"disarranging",
"disarraying",
"discomposing",
"disheveling",
"dishevelling",
"disjointing",
"dislocating",
"disordering",
"disorganizing",
"disrupting",
"disturbing",
"hashing",
"jumbling",
"messing (up)",
"mixing (up)",
"muddling",
"mussing",
"scrambling",
"shuffling",
"tousling",
"tumbling",
"upsetting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"embroiling",
"entangling",
"snarling",
"tangling",
"agitating",
"perturbing",
"stirring (up)",
"unsettling",
"cluttering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aligning",
"alining",
"lining",
"lining up",
"queuing",
"queueing",
"classifying",
"codifying",
"methodizing",
"systematizing",
"systemizing",
"adjusting",
"fixing",
"grooming",
"making up",
"sprucing (up)",
"unscrambling"
],
"antonyms":[
"arranging",
"arraying",
"disposing",
"drawing up",
"marshaling",
"marshalling",
"ordering",
"organizing",
"ranging",
"regulating",
"straightening (up)",
"tidying"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run (over)":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I could run over right now if that's good for you"
],
"synonyms":[
"call",
"come by",
"come over",
"drop by",
"drop in",
"pop (in)",
"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":[]
},
"to do over and over so as to become skilled":{
"examples":[
"let's run over this dance number one more time"
],
"synonyms":[
"exercise",
"practice",
"practise",
"rehearse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"groove",
"perfect",
"refine",
"point (for)",
"prepare (for)",
"train (with)",
"drill",
"repeat",
"work (at or on)",
"review",
"study"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run down":{
"a short statement of the main points":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a rundown of the suspect's lengthy police record"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amplification",
"enlargement",
"expansion",
"addendum",
"supplement"
],
"related":[
"abbreviation",
"abridgment",
"abridgement",
"compend",
"compendium",
"condensation",
"curtailment",
"shortening",
"simplification",
"streamlining",
"rehash",
"reprise",
"conclusion",
"epilogue",
"epilog"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstract",
"breviary",
"brief",
"capsule",
"conspectus",
"digest",
"encapsulation",
"epitome",
"inventory",
"outline",
"pr\u00e9cis",
"recap",
"recapitulation",
"r\u00e9sum\u00e9",
"resume",
"resum\u00e9",
"roundup",
"run-through",
"sum",
"sum-up",
"summa",
"summarization",
"summary",
"summing-up",
"synopsis",
"wrap-up"
]
},
"showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"a run-down old house that really should be torn down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"fresh",
"new",
"cared-for",
"kept-up",
"maintained",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"smart",
"spiffy",
"spruce"
],
"related":[
"abandoned",
"unkept",
"desolate",
"forlorn",
"godforsaken",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"tired",
"worn-out",
"bedraggled",
"dingy",
"ragged",
"tattered",
"decaying",
"deteriorated",
"deteriorating",
"rackety",
"ramshackle",
"rattletrap",
"rickety",
"broken",
"damaged",
"destroyed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"ruined",
"wrecked"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat-up",
"bombed-out",
"dilapidated",
"dog-eared",
"down-at-the-heels",
"down-at-heel",
"down-at-the-heel",
"down-at-heels",
"dumpy",
"grungy",
"mangy",
"mean",
"miserable",
"moth-eaten",
"neglected",
"ratty",
"scrubby",
"scruffy",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"tacky",
"tatterdemalion",
"tatty",
"threadbare",
"timeworn",
"tumbledown"
]
},
"temporarily suffering from a disorder of the body":{
"antonyms":[
"hale",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"sound",
"well",
"whole",
"wholesome"
],
"examples":[
"I'm afraid I'll be staying home today as I'm feeling run-down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"able-bodied",
"conditioned",
"fit",
"well-conditioned",
"cured",
"better",
"convalescing",
"improved",
"mending",
"recovering",
"recuperating",
"rehabilitated",
"hardy",
"hearty",
"lusty",
"robust",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"strong",
"tough",
"blooming",
"bouncing",
"chipper",
"flourishing",
"flush",
"thriving"
],
"related":[
"symptomatic",
"cruddy",
"lousy",
"seedy",
"sickish",
"nauseated",
"nauseous",
"qualmish",
"queasy",
"queazy",
"squeamish",
"airsick",
"carsick",
"seasick",
"dizzy",
"light-headed",
"shaky",
"woozy",
"achy",
"feverish",
"diseased",
"disordered",
"decrepit",
"feeble",
"fragile",
"frail",
"infirm",
"invalid",
"sickly",
"weak",
"weakly",
"afflicted",
"troubled",
"challenged",
"debilitated",
"disabled",
"halt",
"incapacitated",
"lame",
"hypochondriac",
"hypochondriacal"
],
"synonyms":[
"ailing",
"bad",
"down",
"ill",
"indisposed",
"peaked",
"peaky",
"poorly",
"punk",
"sick",
"sickened",
"unhealthy",
"unsound",
"unwell"
]
},
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"antonyms":[
"miss",
"overlook",
"pass over"
],
"examples":[
"finally ran down the answer after hours of research"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lose",
"mislay",
"misplace",
"misset"
],
"related":[
"espy",
"sight",
"spot",
"look for",
"search (for or out)",
"seek"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertain",
"descry",
"detect",
"determine",
"dig out",
"dig up",
"discover",
"dredge (up)",
"ferret (out)",
"find",
"find out",
"get",
"hit (on or upon)",
"hunt (down or up)",
"learn",
"locate",
"nose out",
"root (out)",
"rout (out)",
"rummage",
"scare up",
"scout (up)",
"track (down)",
"turn up"
]
},
"to express scornfully one's low opinion of":{
"antonyms":[
"acclaim",
"applaud",
"exalt",
"extol",
"extoll",
"glorify",
"laud",
"magnify",
"praise"
],
"examples":[
"constantly running down the city's cultural life won't do anything to improve it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approve",
"countenance",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"favor",
"recommend",
"sanction",
"commend",
"compliment",
"eulogize"
],
"related":[
"discommend",
"abuse",
"scold",
"disapprove (of)",
"dislike",
"censure",
"condemn",
"criticize",
"denounce",
"reprehend",
"reprobate",
"asperse",
"defame",
"malign",
"rip",
"slander",
"slur",
"traduce",
"vilify",
"discredit",
"disgrace"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"cry down",
"decry",
"denigrate",
"deprecate",
"depreciate",
"derogate",
"diminish",
"dis",
"diss",
"discount",
"dismiss",
"disparage",
"kiss off",
"minimize",
"play down",
"poor-mouth",
"put down",
"talk down",
"trash",
"trash-talk",
"vilipend",
"write off"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"run-in":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I just thought I'd run in and pick up my package"
],
"synonyms":[
"call",
"come by",
"come over",
"drop by",
"drop in",
"pop (in)",
"run (over)",
"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":[]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"if we catch you shoplifting again, we're going to run you in"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehend",
"arrest",
"bust",
"collar",
"nab",
"nail",
"nick",
"pick up",
"pinch",
"pull in",
"restrain",
"seize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bag",
"capture",
"catch",
"get",
"grab",
"grapple",
"hook",
"land",
"snap (up)",
"snare",
"snatch",
"trap",
"commit",
"confine",
"detain",
"hold",
"immure",
"imprison",
"incarcerate",
"intern",
"jail",
"jug",
"lock (up)",
"bind",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel",
"rearrest",
"remand"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipate",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"release",
"spring",
"unbind",
"unchain"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharge"
]
},
"a brief clash between enemies or rivals":{
"examples":[
"the rival gangs had a bit of a run-in last night"
],
"synonyms":[
"brush",
"encounter",
"hassle",
"scrape",
"skirmish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"argument",
"fight",
"quarrel",
"row",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"battle",
"brawl",
"fray",
"wrangle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"run-up":{
"as in countdown":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"countdown",
"curtain-raiser",
"overture",
"preamble",
"preliminary",
"prelude",
"prologue",
"prolog",
"warm-up",
"lead-in",
"kickoff",
"start"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in jump , spike":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"jump",
"spike",
"accession",
"appendix",
"continuation",
"extension",
"uptrend",
"upturn",
"complement",
"accumulation",
"assemblage",
"collection",
"gathering",
"accretion",
"accrual",
"addendum",
"addition",
"augmentation",
"boost",
"expansion",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"more",
"plus",
"proliferation",
"raise",
"rise",
"step-up",
"supplement",
"uptick"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abatement",
"decline",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"depletion",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"drop-off",
"fall",
"falloff",
"lessening",
"loss",
"lowering",
"reduction",
"shrinkage",
"step-down",
"deduction",
"subtraction"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rundlet":{
"an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"the wine was transferred to rundlets for further aging in the cellar"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[
"scuttlebutt",
"cistern",
"tub",
"vat",
"can",
"drum"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"butt",
"cask",
"firkin",
"hogshead",
"keg",
"kilderkin",
"pipe",
"puncheon",
"tun"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runners":{
"a person who imports or exports goods secretly and illegally":{
"examples":[
"a drug runner"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootleggers",
"contrabandists",
"couriers",
"smugglers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coyotes",
"coyote",
"gunrunners",
"mules"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one that carries a message or does an errand":{
"examples":[
"sent a runner to tell them that all was ready for the feast"
],
"synonyms":[
"couriers",
"expresses",
"go-betweens",
"messengers",
"pages"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forerunners",
"harbingers",
"heralds",
"agents",
"ambassadors",
"delegates",
"deputies",
"emissaries",
"envoys",
"representatives",
"bearers",
"carriers",
"deliverymen",
"letter carriers",
"mail carriers",
"mailmen"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"running down":{
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"antonyms":[
"missing",
"overlooking",
"passing over"
],
"examples":[
"finally ran down the answer after hours of research"
],
"near antonyms":[
"losing",
"mislaying",
"misplacing",
"missetting",
"mis-setting"
],
"related":[
"espying",
"sighting",
"spotting",
"looking for",
"searching (for or out)",
"seeking"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertaining",
"descrying",
"detecting",
"determining",
"digging out",
"digging up",
"discovering",
"dredging (up)",
"ferreting (out)",
"finding",
"finding out",
"getting",
"hitting (on or upon)",
"hunting (down or up)",
"learning",
"locating",
"nosing out",
"rooting (out)",
"routing (out)",
"rummaging",
"scaring up",
"scouting (up)",
"tracking (down)",
"turning up"
]
},
"to express scornfully one's low opinion of":{
"antonyms":[
"acclaiming",
"applauding",
"exalting",
"extolling",
"glorifying",
"lauding",
"magnifying",
"praising"
],
"examples":[
"constantly running down the city's cultural life won't do anything to improve it"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approving",
"countenancing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"favoring",
"recommending",
"sanctioning",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"eulogizing"
],
"related":[
"discommending",
"abusing",
"scolding",
"disapproving (of)",
"disliking",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"criticizing",
"denouncing",
"reprehending",
"reprobating",
"aspersing",
"defaming",
"maligning",
"ripping",
"slandering",
"slurring",
"traducing",
"vilifying",
"discrediting",
"disgracing"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad-mouthing",
"belittling",
"crying down",
"decrying",
"denigrating",
"deprecating",
"depreciating",
"derogating",
"diminishing",
"discounting",
"dismissing",
"disparaging",
"dissing",
"kissing off",
"minimizing",
"playing down",
"poor-mouthing",
"putting down",
"talking down",
"trashing",
"trash-talking",
"vilipending",
"writing off"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"runs":{
"to go at a pace faster than a walk":{
"examples":[
"we ran all the way to the bus stop, but still missed the bus"
],
"synonyms":[
"dashes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"scampers",
"sprints",
"trips",
"trots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounds",
"canters",
"leaps",
"lopes",
"shags",
"skips",
"springs",
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"courses",
"foots (it)",
"hares",
"hastens",
"hies",
"hoofs (it)",
"hotfoots (it)",
"humps",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"jets",
"legs (it)",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"rockets",
"rushes",
"rustles",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"tears",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms",
"nips",
"patters",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"steps (along)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambles",
"saunters",
"shambles",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"crawls",
"creeps",
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"trudges",
"hobbles",
"limps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"rather than run from a black bear, it's better to hold your ground and make lots of noise"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolts",
"breaks",
"bugs out",
"flees",
"flies",
"hightails (it)",
"retreats",
"runs away",
"runs off",
"skedaddles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absconds",
"clears out",
"decamps",
"elopes",
"escapes",
"gets (away)",
"gets out",
"lams",
"lights out",
"makes off",
"mizzles",
"scarpers",
"scats",
"scrams",
"skips (out)",
"skirrs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beards",
"braves",
"confronts",
"dares",
"defies",
"faces",
"abides",
"dwells",
"hangs around",
"lingers",
"remains",
"stays",
"sticks around",
"tarries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction":{
"examples":[
"the road runs along the river for a while"
],
"synonyms":[
"bears",
"extends",
"goes",
"heads",
"leads",
"lies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crosses",
"cuts",
"passes",
"courses",
"follows",
"spans",
"traverses"
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"to occur within a continuous range of variation":{
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"the electric bill runs between 30 and 50 dollars a month"
],
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"goes",
"ranges",
"varies"
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"alternates",
"fluctuates",
"moves",
"shifts",
"changes",
"mutates",
"extends",
"reaches",
"stretches",
"sweeps"
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to move in a stream":{
"examples":[
"water running down the window"
],
"synonyms":[
"flows",
"pours",
"rolls",
"streams"
],
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"arises",
"disembogues",
"effuses",
"emanates",
"issues",
"springs",
"courses",
"races",
"rushes",
"fountains",
"gushes",
"spouts",
"spurts",
"deluges",
"engulfs",
"floods",
"inundates",
"overflows",
"overruns",
"swamps",
"cascades",
"dribbles",
"drips",
"gutters",
"riffles",
"ripples",
"sheets",
"trickles",
"flushes",
"washes out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clots",
"coagulates",
"congeals",
"gels",
"hardens",
"sets"
],
"antonyms":[
"backs up"
]
},
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"examples":[
"run and get the nurse"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bundles",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"careers",
"chases",
"courses",
"cracks (on)",
"dashes",
"drives",
"flies",
"hares",
"hastens",
"hies",
"highballs",
"hotfoots (it)",
"humps",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"jets",
"jumps",
"motors",
"nips",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"rockets",
"rushes",
"rustles",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"steps",
"tears",
"travels",
"trots",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetles",
"darts",
"flits",
"scampers",
"scuds",
"scuffles",
"stampedes",
"streaks",
"whizzes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"sprints",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"steps out",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes",
"arrows",
"beelines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"hangs (around or out)",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"ambles",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"pokes"
]
},
"to show a liking or proneness (for something)":{
"examples":[
"unfortunately, members of his family run to fatness"
],
"synonyms":[
"inclines",
"leans",
"tends",
"trends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"goes",
"gravitates",
"indicates",
"points",
"suggests"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoids",
"shies (from or away from)",
"shuns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to urge, push, or force onward":{
"examples":[
"they ran the horses hard in order to get to the ranch quickly"
],
"synonyms":[
"drives",
"herds",
"punches"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shepherds",
"wrangles",
"eggs",
"exhorts",
"flogs",
"goads",
"hounds",
"presses",
"pricks",
"prods",
"prompts",
"scourges",
"spurs",
"whips"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to control the mechanical operation of":{
"examples":[
"I know how to run that machine"
],
"synonyms":[
"handles",
"operates",
"works"
],
"near synonyms":[
"uses",
"maneuvers",
"manipulates",
"plies",
"wields",
"commands",
"controls",
"directs",
"drives",
"guides",
"pilots",
"steers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to eventually have as a state or quality":{
"examples":[
"the poor woman ran herself ragged trying to care for all those children"
],
"synonyms":[
"becomes",
"comes",
"gets",
"goes",
"grows",
"turns",
"waxes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alters",
"changes",
"metamorphoses",
"modifies",
"mutates",
"transfigures",
"transforms",
"transmutes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abides",
"continues",
"is",
"lingers",
"remains",
"stays"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go from a solid to a liquid state":{
"examples":[
"her makeup started to run when she got in the pool"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliquesces",
"fluxes",
"fuses",
"liquefies",
"liquifies",
"melts",
"thaws"
],
"near synonyms":[
"founds",
"gutters",
"tries",
"dissolves",
"renders",
"softens",
"thins"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clots",
"coagulates",
"congeals",
"gels",
"jellies",
"jells",
"thickens"
],
"antonyms":[
"hardens",
"sets",
"solidifies"
]
},
"to look after and make decisions about":{
"examples":[
"learning to run the family business"
],
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"administers",
"administrates",
"carries on",
"conducts",
"controls",
"directs",
"governs",
"guides",
"handles",
"keeps",
"manages",
"operates",
"overlooks",
"oversees",
"presides (over)",
"regulates",
"stewards",
"superintends",
"supervises",
"tends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cares (for)",
"minds",
"watches",
"leads",
"pilots",
"steers",
"guards",
"protects",
"safeguards",
"micromanages",
"stage-manages",
"codirects",
"comanages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to function":{
"examples":[
"in olden days mills were run by flowing water"
],
"synonyms":[
"activates",
"actuates",
"cranks (up)",
"drives",
"moves",
"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 have a price of":{
"examples":[
"that sort of computer runs at least several hundred dollars"
],
"synonyms":[
"brings",
"costs",
"fetches",
"goes (for)",
"sells (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lists (for)",
"amounts (to)",
"comes (to)",
"totals",
"commands",
"exacts",
"asks",
"demands"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come or be together as friends":{
"examples":[
"he's been running with a bad crowd lately"
],
"synonyms":[
"associates",
"chums",
"companies",
"consociates",
"consorts",
"fraternizes",
"hangs (around or out)",
"hobnobs",
"hooks up",
"messes around",
"pals (around)",
"sorts",
"travels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiliates",
"allies",
"attaches",
"bands",
"bonds",
"clubs",
"collaborates",
"colludes",
"confederates",
"conjoins",
"connects",
"cooperates",
"couples",
"gangs",
"gets along",
"gets on",
"groups",
"interrelates",
"joins",
"knots",
"leagues",
"links",
"mingles",
"mixes",
"rallies",
"relates",
"sides",
"socializes",
"teams",
"ties",
"weds",
"befriends",
"friends"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoids",
"cold-shoulders",
"shuns",
"snubs",
"alienates",
"estranges",
"breaks up",
"disbands",
"disperses",
"splits (up)",
"disjoins",
"dissociates",
"disunites",
"divorces",
"severs",
"splits",
"sunders"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"if that dog continues to run cars, he's going to get seriously hurt"
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dogs",
"chases",
"courses",
"dogs",
"follows",
"hounds",
"pursues",
"shadows",
"tags",
"tails",
"traces",
"tracks",
"trails"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompanies",
"chaperones",
"chaperons",
"escorts",
"hunts",
"searches (for)",
"seeks",
"eyes",
"observes",
"watches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heads"
],
"antonyms":[
"guides",
"leads",
"pilots"
]
},
"abnormally frequent intestinal evacuations with more or less fluid stools":{
"examples":[
"with weekend guests in the house, it was no time to get the runs"
],
"synonyms":[
"Delhi belly",
"diarrhea",
"flux",
"Montezuma's revenge",
"trots",
"turista"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dysentery",
"shigellosis",
"scour(s)"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"runs amok":{
"to express one's anger usually violently":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[
"The mayor acknowledged the group's right to march, but warned that they would not be allowed to run amok ."
],
"near antonyms":[
"allays",
"appeases",
"pacifies",
"soothes",
"checks",
"chokes (back)",
"collects",
"composes",
"contains",
"curbs",
"pockets",
"reins",
"represses",
"restrains",
"smothers",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"subdues",
"suppresses",
"swallows",
"moderates",
"tempers",
"tones (down)",
"eases",
"lets up",
"relaxes",
"calms",
"cools",
"hushes",
"quells",
"quiets",
"settles",
"stills"
],
"related":[
"blows up",
"flares (up)",
"flips (out)",
"blusters",
"carries on",
"fulminates",
"rampages",
"rants",
"raves",
"takes on",
"burns",
"foams",
"seethes",
"smolders",
"smoulders",
"steams",
"chafes",
"frets",
"stews"
],
"synonyms":[
"bristles",
"fumes",
"rages",
"storms"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runs into":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"They ran into a new set of problems as soon as they thought everything was fixed."
],
"synonyms":[
"chances (upon)",
"encounters",
"finds",
"happens (on or upon)",
"hits (upon)",
"lights (on or upon)",
"meets",
"pitches (upon)",
"stumbles (on or onto)",
"tumbles (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucks (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronts",
"faces",
"discovers",
"strikes",
"turns up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"The woman ran into her boss at the grocery store."
],
"synonyms":[
"catches",
"chances (upon)",
"encounters",
"happens (upon)",
"meets",
"stumbles (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accosts",
"confronts",
"faces",
"greets",
"salutes",
"collides (with)",
"crashes (into)",
"crisscrosses",
"crosses",
"passes",
"hits (upon)",
"lights (upon)",
"tumbles (to)",
"reencounters",
"remeets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoids",
"dodges",
"ducks",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"evades",
"shakes",
"shuns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runs rings around":{
"to be greater, better, or stronger than":{
"examples":[
"When it came to cooking, he ran circles around the rest of his family."
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"betters",
"eclipses",
"exceeds",
"excels",
"outclasses",
"outdistances",
"outdoes",
"outguns",
"outmatches",
"outshines",
"outstrips",
"overtops",
"surpasses",
"tops",
"towers (over)",
"transcends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"one-ups",
"outpaces",
"outraces",
"outruns",
"overpasses",
"bests",
"clobbers",
"conquers",
"crushes",
"defeats",
"drubs",
"licks",
"masters",
"outcompetes",
"outperforms",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"routs",
"shames",
"skunks",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"triumphs (over)",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"whips",
"wins (against)",
"worsts",
"outbalances",
"outweighs",
"overbears",
"overshadows",
"trumps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loses (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"The young girl ran circles around her chess opponent."
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilates",
"blows away",
"bombs",
"buries",
"clobbers",
"creams",
"drubs",
"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":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runty":{
"as in stunted , scrubby":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"runtish",
"scrubby",
"stunted",
"dwarf",
"toy",
"bitty",
"inappreciable",
"infinitesimal",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"miniaturized",
"minikin",
"minim",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pinpoint",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"weeny",
"weensy",
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"puny",
"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
"smallish",
"subnormal",
"toylike",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"bite-size",
"bite-sized",
"capsule"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping",
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"massive",
"voluminous",
"boxcar",
"Brobdingnagian",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"healthy",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"broad",
"wide",
"boundless",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"immeasurable",
"incalculable",
"infinite",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"runway":{
"as in airstrip , landing strip":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"airstrip",
"landing field",
"landing strip",
"air base",
"air park",
"helipad",
"heliport",
"jetport",
"launchpad",
"pad",
"aerodrome",
"airdrome",
"airfield",
"airport",
"field"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in road , street":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"lane",
"pass",
"passage",
"road",
"roadway",
"route",
"row",
"run",
"street",
"thoroughfare",
"cutoff",
"shortcut",
"alley",
"alleyway",
"bypath",
"byroad",
"bystreet",
"byway",
"passageway",
"walkway",
"towpath",
"bridle path",
"footpath",
"path",
"pathway",
"trace",
"track",
"trail"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runways":{
"as in airstrips , landing strips":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"as in roads , streets":{
"antonyms":[],
"examples":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"related":[],
"synonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ruse":{
"an act that is used to fool someone":{
"examples":[
"His act was just a clever ruse to get me to go out with him."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deceit",
"deception",
"delusion",
"fooling",
"fraud",
"hanky-panky",
"hoodwinking",
"sham",
"stratagem",
"subterfuge",
"trickery",
"wile",
"antic",
"caper",
"capriccio",
"dido",
"escapade",
"frolic",
"gag",
"jest",
"knavery",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"practical joke",
"prank",
"rag",
"roguery",
"shavie",
"shine(s)",
"trick",
"waggery",
"skylarking",
"adventure",
"experience",
"game",
"lark",
"time",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"play",
"roughhousing",
"rowdyism",
"shenanigan(s)",
"tomfoolery",
"joking",
"kidding",
"teasing",
"gambit",
"hoax",
"maneuver",
"ploy",
"deed",
"feat",
"mission",
"performance",
"stunt",
"caprice",
"conceit",
"fancy",
"vagary",
"whim",
"whimsy",
"whimsey"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rush":{
"to cause to move or proceed fast or faster":{
"examples":[
"I wouldn't make so many mistakes if you'd stop rushing me"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerate",
"bundle",
"fast-track",
"hasten",
"hurry",
"quicken",
"speed (up)",
"whisk"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drive",
"goad",
"prod",
"propel",
"push",
"race",
"spur",
"stir",
"urge",
"aid",
"dispatch",
"ease",
"encourage",
"expedite",
"facilitate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delay",
"encumber",
"fetter",
"hamper",
"hinder",
"hobble",
"hold back",
"hold up",
"impede",
"interfere (with)",
"manacle",
"rein (in)",
"restrain",
"shackle",
"tie up",
"trammel",
"arrest",
"check",
"stall",
"stay",
"still",
"stop"
],
"antonyms":[
"brake",
"decelerate",
"retard",
"slow (down)"
]
},
"to flow out in great quantities or with force":{
"examples":[
"in the spring the stream's rushing waters make crossing treacherous"
],
"synonyms":[
"gush",
"jet",
"pour",
"spew",
"spout",
"spurt",
"squirt",
"swoosh"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cascade",
"issue",
"roll",
"run",
"stream",
"plash",
"slosh",
"splash",
"wash",
"surge",
"swell",
"flush",
"sluice",
"deluge",
"drown",
"engulf",
"flood",
"inundate",
"overflow",
"overwhelm",
"submerge",
"submerse",
"swamp",
"fountain"
],
"near antonyms":[
"spatter",
"sprinkle",
"bleed",
"exude",
"leak",
"ooze",
"percolate",
"seep",
"strain",
"weep"
],
"antonyms":[
"dribble",
"drip",
"drop",
"trickle"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"rushing is a good way to slip and fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"belt",
"blast",
"blaze",
"blow",
"bolt",
"bomb",
"bowl",
"breeze",
"bundle",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"cannonball",
"careen",
"career",
"chase",
"course",
"crack (on)",
"dash",
"drive",
"fly",
"hare",
"hasten",
"hie",
"highball",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hump",
"hurl",
"hurry",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"jet",
"jump",
"motor",
"nip",
"pelt",
"race",
"ram",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rustle",
"scoot",
"scurry",
"scuttle",
"shoot",
"speed",
"step",
"tear",
"travel",
"trot",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetle",
"dart",
"flit",
"scamper",
"scud",
"scuffle",
"stampede",
"streak",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"gallop",
"jog",
"sprint",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"step out",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake",
"arrow",
"beeline"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"hang (around or out)",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"tarry",
"amble",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"poke"
]
},
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"one goat suddenly rushed the other and knocked it down"
],
"synonyms":[
"assail",
"assault",
"attack",
"beset",
"bushwhack",
"charge",
"descend (on or upon)",
"go in (on)",
"jump (on)",
"pounce (on or upon)",
"raid",
"set on",
"sic",
"sick",
"storm",
"strike",
"trash",
"turn (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rush",
"gang up (on)",
"mob",
"swarm",
"mug",
"rob",
"ambuscade",
"ambush",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"waylay",
"blitz",
"bomb",
"bombard",
"nuke",
"barrage",
"cannon",
"cannonade",
"bang away (at)",
"batter",
"buffet",
"plaster",
"beleaguer",
"besiege",
"press",
"harry",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"foray",
"invade",
"overrun",
"envelop",
"flank"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cover",
"defend",
"guard",
"protect",
"secure",
"shield"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"excited and often showy or disorderly speed":{
"examples":[
"what's the reason for all this rush ?"
],
"synonyms":[
"haste",
"hastiness",
"hurry",
"hustle",
"precipitation",
"precipitousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bustle",
"flurry",
"flutter",
"scurry",
"scuttle",
"stir",
"whirl",
"beeline",
"dash",
"scramble",
"stampede",
"hotheadedness",
"impetuosity",
"impetuousness",
"impulsiveness",
"impulsivity",
"rashness",
"expedition",
"expeditiousness",
"fastness",
"fleetness",
"quickness",
"rapidity",
"rapidness",
"speed",
"speediness",
"swiftness",
"velocity",
"celerity",
"dispatch",
"promptitude",
"promptness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dilatoriness",
"lateness",
"pokiness",
"procrastination",
"slowness",
"languor",
"leisureliness",
"lethargy",
"sluggishness",
"torpor",
"dormancy",
"inaction",
"inactivity",
"inertia",
"inertness",
"quiescence"
],
"antonyms":[
"deliberateness",
"deliberation"
]
},
"the act or action of setting upon with force or violence":{
"examples":[
"the regiment recaptured the hill with a single rush"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggression",
"assault",
"attack",
"attempt",
"blitz",
"blitzkrieg",
"charge",
"coup de main",
"descent",
"offense",
"offence",
"offensive",
"onset",
"onslaught",
"raid",
"strike"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ambuscade",
"ambush",
"counteraggression",
"counterassault",
"counterattack",
"counteroffensive",
"counterstrike",
"sally",
"sortie",
"envelopment",
"flanking",
"breakthrough",
"foray",
"incursion",
"invasion",
"pillage",
"ravage",
"sack",
"air raid",
"bombardment",
"bombing",
"siege",
"storm",
"barrage",
"cannonade",
"fusillade",
"hail",
"salvo",
"volley",
"whammy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defense",
"defensive",
"guard",
"shield",
"opposition",
"resistance",
"protection",
"security",
"shelter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a pleasurably intense stimulation of the feelings":{
"examples":[
"riding my motorcycle over these winding roads is always an adrenaline-pumping rush"
],
"synonyms":[
"bang",
"boot",
"charge",
"exhilaration",
"frisson",
"jollies",
"kick",
"thrill",
"titillation",
"wallop"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arousal",
"buzz",
"electrification",
"high",
"intoxication",
"jolt",
"shock",
"surprise",
"surprize",
"delectation",
"delight",
"enjoyment",
"joy",
"lift",
"pleasure",
"amusement",
"diversion",
"entertainment",
"fun",
"treat"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in impromptu , spontaneous":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"horseback",
"impromptu",
"makeshift",
"offhand",
"offhanded",
"off-the-cuff",
"slapdash",
"snap",
"spontaneous",
"spur-of-the-moment",
"quick",
"rapid",
"speedy",
"swift",
"abrupt",
"sudden",
"headstrong",
"heady",
"hotheaded",
"impatient",
"impetuous",
"impulsive",
"madcap",
"reckless",
"unadvised",
"breakneck",
"breathtaking",
"cursory",
"drive-by",
"flying",
"gadarene",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"helter-skelter",
"hurried",
"overhasty",
"pell-mell",
"precipitate",
"precipitous",
"rash",
"rushed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deliberate",
"unhurried",
"unrushed",
"calculated",
"calculating",
"measured",
"circumspect",
"foresighted",
"forethoughtful",
"drawn-out",
"extended",
"long-term",
"prolonged",
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"hesitating",
"tentative",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"laggard",
"leisurely",
"poky",
"pokey",
"shilly-shallying",
"slow"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rusted":{
"to form rust":{
"examples":[
"The old car was left to rust in the yard of the abandoned house."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"corroded",
"oxidized",
"reacted",
"crumbled",
"declined",
"degenerated",
"descended",
"deteriorated",
"dilapidated",
"sank",
"sunk",
"withered",
"broke down",
"corrupted",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"degraded",
"disintegrated",
"dissolved",
"festered",
"fouled",
"molded",
"moldered",
"perished",
"putrefied",
"rotted",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"ate",
"bit (at)",
"eroded",
"fretted",
"gnawed",
"nibbled",
"scoured",
"swept (away)",
"washed out",
"wore (away)",
"soured",
"turned",
"turned off",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"addled",
"curdled",
"fermented",
"mortified",
"drooped",
"failed",
"fell",
"flagged",
"lagged",
"languished",
"ran down",
"sagged",
"slipped",
"wasted (away)",
"weakened",
"wilted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aged",
"developed",
"grew",
"matured",
"ripened",
"refreshed",
"renewed",
"restored",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"assembled",
"composed",
"integrated",
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"improved",
"meliorated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rustical":{
"an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country":{
"antonyms":[
"cosmopolitan",
"cosmopolite",
"sophisticate"
],
"examples":[
"a rustic who was awed by the prices that city dwellers had to pay"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slicker",
"smoothy",
"smoothie",
"metropolitan",
"suburbanite",
"urbanite"
],
"related":[
"boor",
"clod",
"clown",
"gawk",
"lout",
"oaf",
"greenhorn",
"tenderfoot",
"peasant",
"peon",
"backwoodsman",
"mountaineer"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumpkin",
"chawbacon",
"churl",
"clodhopper",
"cornball",
"countryman",
"hayseed",
"hick",
"provincial",
"rube",
"yokel"
]
},
"lacking social grace and assurance":{
"antonyms":[
"graceful",
"suave",
"urbane"
],
"examples":[
"rustic yokels whose first impulse was to smirk gawkily at anyone not of their own kind"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assured",
"calm",
"collected",
"composed",
"confident",
"cool",
"placid",
"poised",
"secure",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"self-possessed",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed"
],
"related":[
"angular",
"gawky",
"lubberly",
"ungainly",
"boorish",
"clownish",
"uncouth",
"abashed",
"discomfited",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"self-conscious",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"mortified",
"nervous",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"perturbed",
"rattled",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"diffident",
"insecure",
"meek",
"modest",
"self-doubting",
"timid",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious"
],
"synonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gauche",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"rough-hewn",
"stiff",
"stilted",
"uncomfortable",
"uneasy",
"ungraceful",
"wooden"
]
},
"of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people":{
"antonyms":[
"urban"
],
"examples":[
"a rustic area that has a refreshing lack of billboards and shopping malls"
],
"near antonyms":[
"citified",
"urbanized",
"metro",
"metropolitan",
"municipal",
"nonagricultural",
"nonfarm"
],
"related":[
"backwoods",
"backwoodsy",
"countrified",
"countryfied",
"provincial",
"agrarian",
"agricultural",
"nonurban",
"semirural"
],
"synonyms":[
"bucolic",
"country",
"pastoral",
"rural"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"rustle":{
"to feed on grass or herbs":{
"examples":[
"just take the steer out to pasture and let it rustle for itself"
],
"synonyms":[
"browse",
"forage",
"graze",
"pasture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eat",
"feed",
"nibble",
"range",
"stock",
"overgraze"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"rustled around enthusiastically on the morning of the big trip"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrel",
"belt",
"blast",
"blaze",
"blow",
"bolt",
"bomb",
"bowl",
"breeze",
"bundle",
"bustle",
"buzz",
"cannonball",
"careen",
"career",
"chase",
"course",
"crack (on)",
"dash",
"drive",
"fly",
"hare",
"hasten",
"hie",
"highball",
"hotfoot (it)",
"hump",
"hurl",
"hurry",
"hurtle",
"hustle",
"jet",
"jump",
"motor",
"nip",
"pelt",
"race",
"ram",
"rip",
"rocket",
"run",
"rush",
"scoot",
"scurry",
"scuttle",
"shoot",
"speed",
"step",
"tear",
"travel",
"trot",
"whirl",
"whisk",
"zip",
"zoom"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetle",
"dart",
"flit",
"scamper",
"scud",
"scuffle",
"stampede",
"streak",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"gallop",
"jog",
"sprint",
"accelerate",
"quicken",
"step out",
"catch up",
"fast-forward",
"outpace",
"outrun",
"outstrip",
"overtake",
"arrow",
"beeline"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dally",
"dawdle",
"dillydally",
"drag",
"hang (around or out)",
"lag",
"linger",
"loiter",
"poke",
"tarry",
"amble",
"lumber",
"plod",
"saunter",
"shuffle",
"stroll",
"decelerate",
"slow (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawl",
"creep",
"poke"
]
},
"to make small sounds usually by rubbing or moving":{
"examples":[
"my pet peeve is candy wrappers rustling during a movie"
],
"synonyms":[
"crinkle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crackle",
"crepitate",
"creak",
"squeak",
"swoosh",
"whoosh",
"babble",
"gurgle",
"murmur",
"sigh",
"whisper"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in whisper , murmur":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"babble",
"coo",
"gasp",
"gurgle",
"hiss",
"moan",
"murmur",
"sigh",
"suspiration",
"susurration",
"susurrus",
"whisper",
"burr",
"buzz",
"chirr",
"churr",
"drone",
"hum",
"purr",
"thrum",
"whir",
"whirr",
"whiz",
"whizz",
"zoom",
"whish",
"zing",
"zip"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bawl",
"howl",
"roar",
"scream",
"screech",
"shriek",
"squall",
"squeal",
"yell",
"yelp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rut":{
"an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity":{
"examples":[
"I've fallen into a rut , watching television and then going to bed every night"
],
"synonyms":[
"drill",
"grind",
"groove",
"lockstep",
"pattern",
"rote",
"routine",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ruthless":{
"having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings":{
"antonyms":[
"charitable",
"compassionate",
"humane",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"merciful",
"sensitive",
"softhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warm",
"warmhearted"
],
"examples":[
"an office supervisor with a ruthless disregard for others' feelings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"benevolent",
"benignant",
"gentle",
"kind",
"clement",
"indulgent",
"lenient",
"mild",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"tolerant",
"understanding",
"affectionate",
"fond",
"loving"
],
"related":[
"boorish",
"heedless",
"inconsiderate",
"thoughtless",
"uncaring",
"unfriendly",
"unloving",
"unthinking",
"grim",
"hard-bitten",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"ironfisted",
"ironhanded",
"jackbooted",
"knock-down, drag-out",
"knock-down-and-drag-out",
"oppressive",
"rough",
"rough-and-tumble",
"severe",
"sledgehammer",
"stern",
"tough",
"ungentle",
"abusive",
"acrimonious",
"disagreeable",
"hateful",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"mean",
"rancorous",
"spiteful",
"surly",
"virulent",
"barbarous",
"bestial",
"brutal",
"brutish",
"cruel",
"evil-minded",
"savage",
"vicious",
"austere",
"cold",
"frosty"
],
"synonyms":[
"affectless",
"callous",
"case-hardened",
"cold-blooded",
"compassionless",
"desensitized",
"hard",
"hard-boiled",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"indurate",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"insensitive",
"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"obdurate",
"pachydermatous",
"pitiless",
"remorseless",
"slash-and-burn",
"soulless",
"stony",
"stoney",
"stonyhearted",
"take-no-prisoners",
"thick-skinned",
"uncharitable",
"unfeeling",
"unmerciful",
"unsparing",
"unsympathetic"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"run-of-the-mill":{
"being of the type that is encountered in the normal course of events":{
"examples":[
"just another run-of-the-mill suburb with its shopping malls and fast-food restaurants"
],
"synonyms":[
"average",
"common",
"commonplace",
"cut-and-dried",
"cut-and-dry",
"everyday",
"garden-variety",
"normal",
"ordinary",
"prosaic",
"routine",
"standard",
"standard-issue",
"unexceptional",
"unremarkable",
"usual",
"workaday"
],
"near synonyms":[
"regular",
"typical",
"unextraordinary",
"familiar",
"homely",
"plain",
"plain-Jane",
"popular",
"vulgar",
"natural",
"customary",
"wonted",
"insignificant",
"trivial",
"unimportant",
"frequent",
"habitual",
"expected",
"predictable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"curious",
"funny",
"peculiar",
"quaint",
"queer",
"aberrant",
"anomalous",
"atypical",
"irregular",
"untypical",
"rare",
"recherch\u00e9",
"scarce",
"fantastic",
"fantastical",
"phenomenal",
"bizarre",
"far-out",
"Kafkaesque",
"outrageous",
"outr\u00e9",
"wacky",
"whacky",
"way-out",
"weird",
"wild",
"eccentric",
"idiosyncratic",
"kooky",
"kookie",
"nonconformist",
"oddball",
"offbeat",
"unconventional",
"unorthodox",
"freak",
"freakish",
"conspicuous",
"notable",
"novel",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"salient",
"signal",
"striking",
"unexampled",
"unprecedented",
"singular",
"unique",
"unparalleled"
],
"antonyms":[
"abnormal",
"exceptional",
"extraordinary",
"odd",
"out-of-the-way",
"strange",
"unusual"
]
},
"of average to below average quality":{
"examples":[
"his latest offering is rather run-of-the-mill for this usually excellent novelist"
],
"synonyms":[
"common",
"fair",
"indifferent",
"mediocre",
"medium",
"middling",
"ordinary",
"passable",
"run-of-the-mine",
"run-of-mine",
"second-class",
"second-rate",
"so-so"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"alright",
"decent",
"OK",
"okay",
"reasonable",
"satisfactory",
"sufficient",
"sufficing",
"tolerable",
"moderate",
"modest",
"presentable",
"respectable",
"minimal",
"unexceptional",
"fine",
"good",
"nice"
],
"near antonyms":[
"A1",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"distinguished",
"excellent",
"exceptional",
"exquisite",
"fabulous",
"fantastic",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"matchless",
"maximum",
"nifty",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"optimal",
"optimum",
"outstanding",
"par excellence",
"peerless",
"preeminent",
"prime",
"sensational",
"special",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supreme",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unmatched",
"unparalleled",
"unsurpassed",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"wanting"
],
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},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rubbery":{
"able to revert to original size and shape after being stretched, squeezed, or twisted":{
"examples":[
"mozzarella is a rubbery cheese known to every pizza lover"
],
"synonyms":[
"bouncy",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"resilient",
"rubberlike",
"springy",
"stretch",
"stretchable",
"stretchy",
"supple",
"whippy"
],
"related":[
"adaptable",
"ductile",
"kneadable",
"malleable",
"moldable",
"plastic",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"limber",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"willowy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compact",
"firm",
"hard",
"solid",
"unyielding",
"brittle",
"crisp",
"crumbly",
"flaky",
"flakey",
"friable",
"short"
],
"antonyms":[
"inelastic",
"inflexible",
"nonelastic",
"rigid",
"stiff"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rulerships":{
"as in leaderships , generalships":{
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"generalships",
"leaderships",
"administrations",
"care",
"charges",
"conducts",
"controls",
"directions",
"governances",
"governments",
"guidance",
"handlings",
"intendances",
"managements",
"operations",
"oversights",
"presidencies",
"regulations",
"stewardships",
"superintendences",
"superintendencies",
"supervisions",
"agencies",
"aegises",
"egises",
"custodies",
"guardianships",
"laps",
"protections",
"trusts",
"tutelages",
"wards",
"logistics",
"machinations",
"manipulations",
"coadministrations",
"codirections",
"co-directions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"running off with":{
"to carry away (as a person) forcibly or unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"Several bystanders stopped the kidnapper before he could run off with the child."
],
"synonyms":[
"abducting",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capturing",
"crimping",
"impressing",
"seizing",
"shanghaiing",
"waylaying",
"absconding (with)",
"snatching",
"spiriting",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"catching",
"copping",
"stealing",
"taking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delivering",
"ransoming",
"redeeming",
"rescuing",
"restoring",
"returning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"The petty thief ran off with a backpack full of snacks and magazines from the convenience store."
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriating",
"boosting",
"filching",
"heisting",
"hooking",
"lifting",
"misappropriating",
"nicking",
"nipping",
"pilfering",
"pinching",
"pocketing",
"purloining",
"ripping off",
"snitching",
"stealing",
"swiping",
"thieving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarizing",
"knocking over",
"robbing",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"sacking",
"carjacking",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"picking",
"rifling",
"poaching",
"rustling",
"shoplifting",
"collaring",
"grabbing",
"grasping",
"nailing",
"seizing",
"snatching",
"taking",
"mooching",
"sponging",
"abducting",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"shanghaiing",
"spiriting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buying",
"purchasing",
"bestowing",
"contributing",
"donating",
"giving",
"handing over",
"presenting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rudeness":{
"rude behavior":{
"examples":[
"such rudeness will not be tolerated in this office"
],
"synonyms":[
"dis",
"diss",
"discourteousness",
"discourtesy",
"disrespect",
"disrespectfulness",
"impertinence",
"impertinency",
"impoliteness",
"impudence",
"incivility",
"inconsiderateness",
"inconsideration",
"insolence",
"ungraciousness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"audacity",
"boldness",
"brashness",
"brassiness",
"forwardness",
"sauciness",
"shamelessness",
"boorishness",
"caddishness",
"churlishness",
"clownishness",
"crudeness",
"loutishness",
"vulgarity",
"abruptness",
"bluntness",
"brusqueness",
"crustiness",
"curtness",
"gruffness",
"sharpness",
"crabbedness",
"crossness",
"disagreeableness",
"grumpiness",
"sullenness",
"surliness",
"improperness",
"impropriety",
"inappropriateness",
"incorrectness",
"indecency",
"unfitness",
"unsuitability",
"arrogance",
"conceit",
"conceitedness",
"presumption",
"pretense",
"pretence",
"pretension",
"pretentiousness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"humility",
"meekness",
"modesty",
"deference",
"dutifulness",
"respectfulness",
"submissiveness",
"acceptability",
"appropriateness",
"correctness",
"decency",
"decorousness",
"fitness",
"goodness",
"propriety",
"respectability",
"respectableness",
"rightness",
"seemliness",
"suitability",
"suitableness",
"affability",
"cordiality",
"friendliness",
"geniality",
"hospitality",
"kindness",
"felicitousness",
"grace",
"gracefulness"
],
"antonyms":[
"civility",
"considerateness",
"consideration",
"courtesy",
"genteelness",
"gentility",
"graciousness",
"politeness",
"politesse",
"thoughtfulness"
]
},
"the quality or state of lacking refinement or good taste":{
"examples":[
"the rudeness of frontier life gradually diminished with time"
],
"synonyms":[
"coarseness",
"commonness",
"crassness",
"crudeness",
"crudity",
"grossness",
"indelicacy",
"indelicateness",
"lowness",
"raffishness",
"rawness",
"roughness",
"tastelessness",
"vulgarity"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boorishness",
"brutishness",
"churlishness",
"clownishness",
"loutishness",
"rowdiness",
"rusticity",
"uncouthness",
"artlessness",
"gracelessness",
"inelegance",
"unsophistication",
"insensitiveness",
"insensitivity",
"thoughtlessness",
"kitsch",
"tackiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"courtliness",
"urbanity",
"elegance",
"grace",
"graciousness",
"consideration",
"sensitivity",
"thoughtfulness"
],
"antonyms":[
"cultivation",
"genteelness",
"gentility",
"polish",
"refinement",
"tastefulness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rust":{
"to form rust":{
"examples":[
"The old car was left to rust in the yard of the abandoned house."
],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rules":{
"a statement spelling out the proper procedure or conduct for an activity":{
"examples":[
"read the rules that are posted before you use the pool"
],
"synonyms":[
"bylaws",
"ground rules",
"regs",
"regulations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"codes",
"constitutions",
"decalogues",
"directories",
"acts",
"laws",
"ordinances",
"statutes",
"behests",
"charges",
"commandments",
"commands",
"decrees",
"dictates",
"directions",
"directives",
"edicts",
"fiats",
"instructions",
"orders",
"axioms",
"fundamentals",
"maxims",
"precepts",
"morals",
"principles",
"values",
"bans",
"interdictions",
"prohibitions",
"proscriptions",
"restrictions",
"conventions",
"customs",
"habits",
"manners",
"mores",
"practices",
"practises",
"traditions",
"ways",
"blueprints",
"canons",
"formulas",
"formulae",
"guidelines",
"guides",
"standards"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"lawful control over the affairs of a political unit (as a nation)":{
"examples":[
"the years during which Russia was under Communist rule"
],
"synonyms":[
"administrations",
"authorities",
"governances",
"governments",
"jurisdictions",
"regimens",
"regimes",
"r\u00e9gimes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reigns",
"dominions",
"powers",
"sovereignties",
"sovranties",
"supremacies",
"sways",
"commands",
"leaderships",
"directions",
"managements",
"regulations",
"superintendences",
"supervisions",
"autocracies",
"dictatorships",
"dominations",
"hegemonies",
"masteries",
"oppressions",
"subjugations",
"tyrannies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an inherited or established way of thinking, feeling, or doing":{
"examples":[
"one of the sacred rules of that ancient society was respect for the elderly"
],
"synonyms":[
"conventions",
"customs",
"heritages",
"prescriptions",
"rubrics",
"traditions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ethics",
"forms",
"modes",
"mores",
"norms",
"principles",
"standards",
"values",
"birthrights",
"inheritances",
"legacies",
"folklores",
"lores",
"superstitions",
"cultures",
"lifestyles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to exercise authority or power over":{
"examples":[
"a sea captain who ruled his ship sternly but justly"
],
"synonyms":[
"bosses",
"captains",
"commands",
"controls",
"governs",
"presides (over)",
"sways"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conducts",
"directs",
"heads",
"leads",
"administers",
"manages",
"micromanages",
"oversees",
"regulates",
"superintends",
"supervises",
"dictates",
"dominates",
"domineers",
"lords (it over)",
"masters",
"oppresses",
"reigns (over)",
"tyrannizes",
"conquers",
"subdues",
"subjugates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)":{
"examples":[
"a monarch who is known for ruling her emotions with an iron hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"bridles",
"checks",
"constrains",
"contains",
"controls",
"curbs",
"governs",
"holds",
"inhibits",
"keeps",
"measures",
"pulls in",
"regulates",
"reins (in)",
"restrains",
"tames"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottles (up)",
"chokes (back)",
"holds back",
"minces",
"muffles",
"pockets",
"represses",
"sinks",
"smothers",
"squelches",
"stifles",
"strangles",
"suppresses",
"swallows",
"arrests",
"interrupts",
"stops",
"blocks",
"hampers",
"handcuffs",
"hinders",
"impedes",
"obstructs",
"gags",
"muzzles",
"silences"
],
"near antonyms":[
"liberates",
"loosens",
"looses",
"unleashes",
"airs",
"expresses",
"takes out",
"vents"
],
"antonyms":[
"loses"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"running off":{
"to drive or force out":{
"examples":[
"the dog often ran off cats and other animals that had intruded upon his owner's property"
],
"synonyms":[
"banishing",
"booting (out)",
"bouncing",
"casting out",
"chasing",
"dismissing",
"drumming (out)",
"ejecting",
"expelling",
"extruding",
"kicking out",
"ousting",
"outing",
"routing",
"throwing out",
"turfing (out)",
"turning out"
],
"related":[
"deforcing",
"deporting",
"displacing",
"dispossessing",
"evicting",
"exiling",
"expatriating",
"ostracizing",
"reading out",
"shutting out",
"axing",
"canning",
"cashiering",
"defenestrating",
"discharging",
"firing",
"mustering out",
"pink-slipping",
"releasing",
"removing",
"retiring",
"sacking",
"terminating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"admitting",
"receiving",
"taking",
"taking in",
"welcoming",
"entertaining",
"harboring",
"housing",
"lodging",
"sheltering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get free from a dangerous or confining situation":{
"examples":[
"their rebellious daughter's run off because she was disciplined again"
],
"synonyms":[
"absconding",
"breaking out (of)",
"clearing out",
"escaping",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"getting out",
"lamming",
"running away"
],
"related":[
"avoiding",
"eluding",
"evading",
"losing",
"shunning",
"decamping",
"departing",
"eloping",
"exiting",
"going",
"leaving",
"moving",
"pulling out",
"quitting",
"sallying (forth)",
"shoving (off)",
"taking off",
"walking out",
"disentangling",
"extricating",
"bringing off",
"emancipating",
"enfranchising",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"manumitting",
"redeeming",
"releasing",
"rescuing",
"springing",
"unbinding",
"uncaging",
"unchaining",
"unfettering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"hanging around",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying",
"coming back",
"returning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"the mouse ran off as soon as it saw us"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolting",
"breaking",
"bugging out",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"hightailing (it)",
"retreating",
"running",
"running away",
"skedaddling"
],
"related":[
"absconding",
"clearing out",
"decamping",
"eloping",
"escaping",
"getting (away)",
"getting out",
"lamming",
"lighting out",
"making off",
"mizzling",
"scarpering",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping (out)",
"skirring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"facing",
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"hanging around",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"running away":{
"as in exit , departure":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"departure",
"egress",
"exit",
"exiting",
"exodus",
"going",
"leaving",
"quitting",
"farewell",
"leave-taking",
"parting",
"separation",
"decamping",
"decampment",
"flight",
"withdrawal",
"abandonment",
"desertion",
"forsaking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"reunion",
"arrival",
"greeting",
"salutation",
"welcome",
"gathering",
"joining",
"meeting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to get free from a dangerous or confining situation":{
"examples":[
"ran away from an unhappy marriage"
],
"synonyms":[
"absconding",
"breaking out (of)",
"clearing out",
"escaping",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"getting out",
"lamming",
"running off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoiding",
"eluding",
"evading",
"losing",
"shunning",
"decamping",
"departing",
"eloping",
"exiting",
"going",
"leaving",
"moving",
"pulling out",
"quitting",
"sallying (forth)",
"shoving (off)",
"taking off",
"walking out",
"disentangling",
"extricating",
"bringing off",
"emancipating",
"enfranchising",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"manumitting",
"redeeming",
"releasing",
"rescuing",
"springing",
"unbinding",
"uncaging",
"unchaining",
"unfettering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"hanging around",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying",
"coming back",
"returning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"the child runs away from large dogs"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolting",
"breaking",
"bugging out",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"hightailing (it)",
"retreating",
"running",
"running off",
"skedaddling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absconding",
"clearing out",
"decamping",
"eloping",
"escaping",
"getting (away)",
"getting out",
"lamming",
"lighting out",
"making off",
"mizzling",
"scarpering",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping (out)",
"skirring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"facing",
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"hanging around",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"ruck":{
"as in fold , crease":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"related":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rumbles":{
"to make a low heavy rolling sound":{
"examples":[
"when thunder rumbled in the distant sky, we wisely began packing up our picnic"
],
"synonyms":[
"growls",
"grumbles",
"lumbers",
"rolls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"booms",
"drums",
"thunders",
"bellows"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in rumblings , murmurs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mumbles",
"murmurs",
"rumblings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clamors",
"howls",
"hubbubs",
"hue and cries",
"hullabaloos",
"noises",
"outcries",
"roars",
"tumults",
"uproars",
"vociferations",
"clangors",
"dins",
"jangle",
"rackets",
"cris de coeur",
"outbursts",
"protests"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rubbers":{
"as in runoffs , round-robins":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"round-robins",
"runoffs",
"sudden deaths",
"rallies",
"volleys",
"dead heats",
"photo finishes",
"seesaws",
"heats",
"rounds",
"runs",
"sets",
"classics",
"marathons",
"races",
"ultramarathons",
"biathlons",
"decathlons",
"heptathlons",
"pentathlons",
"triathlons",
"derbies",
"field days",
"gymkhanas",
"outings",
"finals",
"nightcaps",
"play-offs",
"semifinals",
"championships",
"nationals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rubicund":{
"having a healthy reddish skin tone":{
"examples":[
"the rubicund face of a man who clearly got a lot of fresh air and exercise"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooming",
"florid",
"flush",
"full-blooded",
"glowing",
"red",
"rosy",
"ruddy",
"sanguine"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bronzed",
"brown",
"suntanned",
"tanned",
"bloomy",
"blowsy",
"blowzy",
"blushing",
"flushed",
"pink",
"pinkish",
"warm",
"cherubic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"waxen",
"waxy",
"blanched",
"white",
"whitened",
"anemic",
"sick",
"sickly",
"bloodless",
"cadaverous",
"whey-faced",
"white-faced"
],
"antonyms":[
"ashen",
"ashy",
"doughy",
"livid",
"lurid",
"mealy",
"pale",
"paled",
"palish",
"pallid",
"pasty",
"peaked",
"peaky",
"sallow",
"sallowish",
"wan"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ruinous":{
"bringing about ruin or misfortune":{
"examples":[
"a ruinous miscalculation of the financial markets left them bankrupt"
],
"synonyms":[
"calamitous",
"cataclysmal",
"cataclysmic",
"catastrophic",
"damning",
"destructive",
"disastrous",
"fatal",
"fateful",
"unfortunate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"apocalyptic",
"apocalyptical",
"hapless",
"ill-fated",
"ill-starred",
"luckless",
"adverse",
"baleful",
"baneful",
"damaging",
"deleterious",
"detrimental",
"evil",
"harmful",
"hurtful",
"ill",
"injurious",
"noxious",
"pernicious",
"prejudicial"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fluky",
"flukey",
"fortuitous",
"fortunate",
"happy",
"lucky",
"providential",
"auspicious",
"bright",
"encouraging",
"fair",
"golden",
"heartening",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"promising",
"propitious",
"rose-colored",
"rosy",
"upbeat"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"causing or tending to cause destruction":{
"examples":[
"a ruinous windstorm destroyed the crops"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilatory",
"calamitous",
"cataclysmal",
"cataclysmic",
"destructive",
"devastating",
"devastative",
"disastrous"
],
"near synonyms":[
"antibiotic",
"biocidal",
"baleful",
"deadly",
"deathly",
"fatal",
"fell",
"killer",
"lethal",
"mortal",
"murderous",
"pestilent",
"poisonous",
"virulent",
"vital",
"deleterious",
"detrimental",
"harmful",
"pernicious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"preservative",
"protective",
"constructive",
"creative",
"formative",
"productive",
"harmless",
"innocent",
"innocuous",
"inoffensive",
"ameliorative",
"helpful",
"useful",
"healthful",
"healthy",
"nonfatal",
"nonlethal",
"salubrious",
"wholesome"
],
"antonyms":[
"nondestructive"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rusher":{
"as in speeder , hurrier":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hurrier",
"speeder",
"go-getter",
"hustler",
"scrambler",
"speedster"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crawler",
"dallier",
"dawdler",
"dragger",
"laggard",
"lagger",
"lingerer",
"loiterer",
"plodder",
"slowpoke",
"snail",
"straggler",
"latecomer",
"idler",
"lazybones",
"loafer",
"lounger",
"slouch",
"slug",
"sluggard"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"running circles around":{
"to be greater, better, or stronger than":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"excelling",
"outclassing",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outgunning",
"outmatching",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"towering (over)",
"transcending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"one-upping",
"outpacing",
"outracing",
"outrunning",
"overpassing",
"besting",
"clobbering",
"conquering",
"crushing",
"defeating",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"mastering",
"outcompeting",
"outperforming",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"routing",
"shaming",
"skunking",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"triumphing (over)",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"whipping",
"winning (against)",
"worsting",
"outbalancing",
"outweighing",
"overbearing",
"overshadowing",
"trumping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"losing (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"annihilating",
"blowing away",
"bombing",
"burying",
"clobbering",
"creaming",
"drubbing",
"dusting",
"flattening",
"pasting",
"routing",
"shellacking",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"smoking",
"smothering",
"snowing under",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"tromping",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"waxing",
"whipping",
"whomping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweeping",
"upsetting",
"beating",
"besting",
"conquering",
"dispatching",
"hurdling",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"taking",
"throwing",
"triumphing (over)",
"winning (against)",
"worsting",
"crushing",
"knocking off",
"knocking over",
"overpowering",
"overthrowing",
"overwhelming",
"subjugating",
"upending",
"vanquishing",
"acing (out)",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outfighting",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"transcending",
"edging (out)",
"nosing out",
"pipping",
"capping",
"excelling",
"flourishing",
"scoring",
"succeeding",
"breaking",
"destroying",
"doing in",
"finishing",
"sinking",
"slaughtering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"ruffles":{
"a strip of fabric gathered or pleated on one edge and used as trimming":{
"examples":[
"likes lace curtains without ruffles and chintz curtains with ruffles"
],
"synonyms":[
"flounces",
"frills",
"furbelows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"borders",
"edgings",
"fringes",
"trims",
"plaits",
"pleats",
"ruffs",
"buntings",
"skirtings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that is a source of irritation":{
"examples":[
"a spouse's snoring is one ruffle that many couples must eventually come to terms with"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravations",
"aggros",
"annoyances",
"botherations",
"bothers",
"bugbears",
"exasperations",
"frustrations",
"hair shirts",
"hassles",
"headaches",
"inconveniences",
"irks",
"irritants",
"nuisances",
"peeves",
"pests",
"rubs",
"thorns",
"trials",
"vexations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discomforts",
"fleabites",
"pinpricks",
"affronts",
"insults",
"offenses",
"offences",
"upsets",
"worries",
"afflictions",
"albatross",
"albatrosses",
"burdens",
"crosses",
"curses",
"menaces",
"millstones",
"plagues",
"sores",
"anxieties",
"plights",
"predicaments",
"tribulations",
"troubles",
"hang-ups",
"pet peeves",
"problems",
"annoyers",
"disturbers",
"harassers",
"mischiefs",
"offenders",
"pandora's boxes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delights",
"joys",
"pleasures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"the stream of minor complaints finally ruffled him into snapping, \"If you don't like the way I'm doing it, do it yourself!\""
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravates",
"annoys",
"bothers",
"bugs",
"burns (up)",
"chafes",
"eats",
"exasperates",
"frosts",
"galls",
"gets",
"grates",
"gripes",
"hacks (off)",
"irks",
"irritates",
"itches",
"narks",
"nettles",
"peeves",
"persecutes",
"piques",
"puts out",
"rasps",
"riles",
"spites",
"vexes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassles",
"heckles",
"nags",
"inflames",
"enflames",
"provokes",
"rouses",
"badgers",
"baits",
"bullyrags",
"ballyrags",
"devils",
"hagrides",
"harasses",
"harries",
"pesters",
"plagues",
"teases",
"angers",
"antagonizes",
"enrages",
"incenses",
"infuriates",
"maddens",
"rankles",
"roils",
"agitates",
"discomforts",
"discomposes",
"disquiets",
"distresses",
"exercises",
"freaks (out)",
"frets",
"perturbs",
"undoes",
"unhinges",
"unsettles",
"upsets",
"worries",
"affronts",
"insults",
"miffs",
"offends",
"outrages"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeases",
"conciliates",
"mollifies",
"obliges",
"pacifies",
"placates",
"propitiates",
"delights",
"gladdens",
"gratifies",
"pleases",
"satisfies",
"assures",
"cheers",
"comforts",
"consoles",
"contents",
"quiets",
"reassures",
"solaces",
"soothes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rutted":{
"as in undulating , wavy":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rutty",
"undulating",
"undulatory",
"wavy",
"inexact",
"unaligned",
"pitted",
"pocked",
"lopsided",
"unbalanced",
"knobbly",
"knobby",
"knurled",
"knurly",
"nubbly",
"nubby",
"broken",
"bumpy",
"coarse",
"irregular",
"jagged",
"lumpy",
"pebbly",
"ragged",
"rough",
"roughened",
"rugged",
"scraggy",
"uneven",
"burred",
"harsh",
"sandpapery",
"scraggly",
"scratchy",
"nonuniform"
],
"near antonyms":[
"even",
"flat",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth",
"exact",
"uniform",
"aligned",
"alined",
"regular",
"true",
"horizontal",
"tabular",
"plumb",
"straight",
"vertical",
"flush"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"runlet":{
"a natural body of running water smaller than a river":{
"examples":[
"weather forecasters warned that the heavy rains might cause the area's runlets to overflow"
],
"synonyms":[
"beck",
"bourn",
"bourne",
"brook",
"brooklet",
"burn",
"creek",
"gill",
"rill",
"rivulet",
"run",
"runnel",
"streamlet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arroyo",
"billabong",
"fresh",
"freshet",
"runoff",
"bayou",
"coulee",
"slough",
"slew",
"slue",
"stream",
"wash",
"canal",
"channel",
"cut",
"cutoff",
"gut",
"kill",
"millrace",
"millstream",
"race",
"watercourse",
"waterway",
"affluent",
"branch",
"confluent",
"distributary",
"influent",
"tributary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rubberneck":{
"a person who travels for pleasure":{
"examples":[
"every year raucous rubbernecks by the busload descend upon the city for its famed Mardi Gras"
],
"synonyms":[
"excursionist",
"rubbernecker",
"sightseer",
"tourist",
"traveler",
"traveller",
"tripper"
],
"near synonyms":[
"holidayer",
"holidaymaker",
"vacationer",
"vacationist",
"guest",
"hosteler",
"hosteller",
"visitor",
"transient",
"journeyer",
"pilgrim",
"wayfarer",
"snowbird",
"sunseeker"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to look long and hard in wonder or surprise":{
"examples":[
"thoughtless drivers pausing on the highway to rubberneck at the accident"
],
"synonyms":[
"blink",
"gape",
"gawk",
"gawp",
"gaze",
"goggle",
"peer",
"stare"
],
"near synonyms":[
"glare",
"gloat",
"glower",
"consider",
"eye",
"fixate",
"observe",
"regard",
"watch",
"leer",
"ogle",
"peruse",
"pore (over)",
"study",
"outface",
"outstare",
"stare down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glance",
"glimpse",
"peek",
"peep",
"browse",
"dip (into)",
"scan",
"wink (at)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"running":{
"being in effective operation":{
"examples":[
"the car has been running for almost an entire day"
],
"synonyms":[
"active",
"alive",
"functional",
"functioning",
"going",
"live",
"living",
"on",
"operating",
"operational",
"operative",
"working"
],
"near synonyms":[
"effective",
"effectual",
"employable",
"operable",
"usable",
"useable",
"viable",
"workable",
"performing",
"producing",
"productive",
"serving",
"useful",
"yielding",
"astir",
"bustling",
"busy",
"dynamic",
"flourishing",
"humming",
"roaring",
"thriving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deactivated",
"decommissioned",
"ineffective",
"ineffectual",
"useless",
"inoperable",
"unusable",
"unworkable",
"arrested",
"asleep",
"dormant",
"fallow",
"idle",
"inert",
"latent",
"lifeless",
"nonproductive",
"quiescent",
"sleepy",
"stagnating",
"unproductive",
"vegetating"
],
"antonyms":[
"broken",
"dead",
"inactive",
"inoperative",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"nonactivated",
"nonfunctional",
"nonfunctioning",
"nonoperating",
"nonoperational",
"nonoperative"
]
},
"going on and on without any interruptions":{
"examples":[
"a running struggle just to make ends meet"
],
"synonyms":[
"ceaseless",
"continual",
"continued",
"continuing",
"continuous",
"incessant",
"nonstop",
"perpetual",
"unbroken",
"unceasing",
"uninterrupted",
"unremitting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dateless",
"deathless",
"endless",
"eternal",
"everlasting",
"immortal",
"interminable",
"permanent",
"undying",
"unending",
"changeless",
"constant",
"stable",
"steady",
"unchanging",
"unvarying",
"durable",
"enduring",
"lasting",
"persistent",
"imperishable",
"indestructible"
],
"near antonyms":[
"intermittent",
"periodic",
"periodical",
"recurrent",
"recurring",
"alternate",
"alternating",
"cyclic",
"cyclical",
"rhythmic",
"rhythmical",
"seasonal",
"serial",
"erratic",
"fitful",
"irregular",
"occasional",
"spasmodic",
"sporadic",
"spotty",
"unsteady"
],
"antonyms":[
"discontinuous",
"noncontinuous"
]
},
"the act or activity of looking after and making decisions about something":{
"examples":[
"left the running of the corporation to his subordinates"
],
"synonyms":[
"administration",
"care",
"charge",
"conduct",
"control",
"direction",
"governance",
"government",
"guidance",
"handling",
"intendance",
"management",
"operation",
"oversight",
"presidency",
"regulation",
"stewardship",
"superintendence",
"superintendency",
"supervision"
],
"near synonyms":[
"generalship",
"leadership",
"rulership",
"agency",
"aegis",
"egis",
"custody",
"guardianship",
"keeping",
"lap",
"protection",
"safekeeping",
"trust",
"tutelage",
"ward",
"engineering",
"logistics",
"machination",
"manipulation",
"coadministration",
"codirection",
"comanagement"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"in succession without others coming in between":{
"examples":[
"he won the championship five times running"
],
"synonyms":[
"back-to-back",
"consecutively",
"hand running",
"sequentially",
"seriatim",
"successionally",
"successively",
"together"
],
"near synonyms":[
"serially",
"constantly",
"continually",
"continuingly",
"continuously",
"night and day",
"repeatedly",
"unceasingly",
"uninterruptedly",
"subsequently"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discontinuously",
"intermittently",
"interruptedly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go at a pace faster than a walk":{
"examples":[
"we ran all the way to the bus stop, but still missed the bus"
],
"synonyms":[
"dashing",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"scampering",
"sprinting",
"tripping",
"trotting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bounding",
"cantering",
"leaping",
"loping",
"shagging",
"skipping",
"springing",
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"coursing",
"footing (it)",
"haring",
"hastening",
"hoofing (it)",
"hotfooting (it)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"hying",
"hieing",
"jetting",
"legging (it)",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"rushing",
"rustling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"tearing",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming",
"nipping",
"pattering",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"stepping (along)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ambling",
"sauntering",
"shambling",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"trudging",
"hobbling",
"limping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"rather than run from a black bear, it's better to hold your ground and make lots of noise"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolting",
"breaking",
"bugging out",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"hightailing (it)",
"retreating",
"running away",
"running off",
"skedaddling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absconding",
"clearing out",
"decamping",
"eloping",
"escaping",
"getting (away)",
"getting out",
"lamming",
"lighting out",
"making off",
"mizzling",
"scarpering",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping (out)",
"skirring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bearding",
"braving",
"confronting",
"daring",
"defying",
"facing",
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"hanging around",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying",
"sticking around",
"tarrying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain direction":{
"examples":[
"the road runs along the river for a while"
],
"synonyms":[
"bearing",
"extending",
"going",
"heading",
"leading",
"lying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crossing",
"cutting",
"passing",
"coursing",
"following",
"spanning",
"traversing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to occur within a continuous range of variation":{
"examples":[
"the electric bill runs between 30 and 50 dollars a month"
],
"synonyms":[
"going",
"ranging",
"varying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"alternating",
"fluctuating",
"moving",
"shifting",
"changing",
"mutating",
"extending",
"reaching",
"stretching",
"sweeping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to move in a stream":{
"examples":[
"water running down the window"
],
"synonyms":[
"flowing",
"pouring",
"rolling",
"streaming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arising",
"disemboguing",
"effusing",
"emanating",
"issuing",
"springing",
"coursing",
"racing",
"rushing",
"fountaining",
"gushing",
"spouting",
"spurting",
"deluging",
"engulfing",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"overrunning",
"swamping",
"cascading",
"dribbling",
"dripping",
"guttering",
"riffling",
"rippling",
"sheeting",
"trickling",
"flushing",
"washing out"
],
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"clotting",
"coagulating",
"congealing",
"gelling",
"hardening",
"setting"
],
"antonyms":[
"backing up"
]
},
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"examples":[
"run and get the nurse"
],
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"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bundling",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"careering",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"cracking (on)",
"dashing",
"driving",
"flying",
"haring",
"hastening",
"highballing",
"hotfooting (it)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"hying",
"hieing",
"jetting",
"jumping",
"motoring",
"nipping",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"rushing",
"rustling",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"stepping",
"tearing",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"trotting",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetling",
"darting",
"flitting",
"scampering",
"scudding",
"scuffling",
"stampeding",
"streaking",
"whizzing",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"sprinting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"stepping out",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking",
"arrowing",
"beelining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"hanging (around or out)",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)"
],
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"crawling",
"creeping",
"poking"
]
},
"to show a liking or proneness (for something)":{
"examples":[
"unfortunately, members of his family run to fatness"
],
"synonyms":[
"inclining",
"leaning",
"tending",
"trending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"going",
"gravitating",
"indicating",
"pointing",
"suggesting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"shunning",
"shying (from or away from)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to urge, push, or force onward":{
"examples":[
"they ran the horses hard in order to get to the ranch quickly"
],
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"driving",
"herding",
"punching"
],
"near synonyms":[
"shepherding",
"wrangling",
"egging",
"exhorting",
"flogging",
"goading",
"hounding",
"pressing",
"pricking",
"prodding",
"prompting",
"scourging",
"spurring",
"whipping"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to control the mechanical operation of":{
"examples":[
"I know how to run that machine"
],
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"handling",
"operating",
"working"
],
"near synonyms":[
"using",
"maneuvering",
"manipulating",
"plying",
"wielding",
"commanding",
"controlling",
"directing",
"driving",
"guiding",
"piloting",
"steering"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"to eventually have as a state or quality":{
"examples":[
"the poor woman ran herself ragged trying to care for all those children"
],
"synonyms":[
"becoming",
"coming",
"getting",
"going",
"growing",
"turning",
"waxing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"altering",
"changing",
"metamorphosing",
"modifying",
"mutating",
"transfiguring",
"transforming",
"transmuting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"being",
"continuing",
"lingering",
"remaining",
"staying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go from a solid to a liquid state":{
"examples":[
"her makeup started to run when she got in the pool"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliquescing",
"fluxing",
"fusing",
"liquefying",
"liquifying",
"melting",
"thawing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"founding",
"guttering",
"trying",
"dissolving",
"rendering",
"softening",
"thinning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clotting",
"coagulating",
"congealing",
"gelling",
"jelling",
"jellying",
"thickening"
],
"antonyms":[
"hardening",
"setting",
"solidifying"
]
},
"to look after and make decisions about":{
"examples":[
"learning to run the family business"
],
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"administering",
"administrating",
"carrying on",
"conducting",
"controlling",
"directing",
"governing",
"guiding",
"handling",
"keeping",
"managing",
"operating",
"overlooking",
"overseeing",
"presiding (over)",
"regulating",
"stewarding",
"superintending",
"supervising",
"tending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caring (for)",
"minding",
"watching",
"leading",
"piloting",
"steering",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"safeguarding",
"micromanaging",
"stage-managing",
"codirecting",
"co-directing",
"comanaging",
"co-managing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to function":{
"examples":[
"in olden days mills were run by flowing water"
],
"synonyms":[
"activating",
"actuating",
"cranking (up)",
"driving",
"moving",
"setting off",
"sparking",
"starting",
"touching off",
"triggering",
"turning on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kicking over",
"turning over",
"charging",
"electrifying",
"energizing",
"firing",
"fueling",
"fuelling",
"generating",
"powering",
"pushing",
"discharging",
"launching",
"releasing",
"switching",
"tripping",
"reactivating",
"recharging",
"arousing",
"exciting",
"jump-starting",
"kick-starting",
"stimulating",
"vitalizing",
"igniting",
"inciting",
"instigating",
"provoking",
"quickening",
"stirring up",
"accelerating",
"catalyzing",
"speeding (up)",
"stepping up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"arresting",
"braking",
"checking",
"cutting off",
"drawing up",
"halting",
"jamming",
"stalling",
"sticking",
"stopping",
"decelerating",
"repressing",
"slowing",
"stunting",
"suppressing"
],
"antonyms":[
"cutting",
"cutting out",
"deactivating",
"killing",
"shutting off",
"turning off"
]
},
"to have a price of":{
"examples":[
"that sort of computer runs at least several hundred dollars"
],
"synonyms":[
"bringing",
"costing",
"fetching",
"going (for)",
"selling (for)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"listing (for)",
"amounting (to)",
"coming (to)",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"commanding",
"exacting",
"asking",
"demanding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come or be together as friends":{
"examples":[
"he's been running with a bad crowd lately"
],
"synonyms":[
"associating",
"chumming",
"companying",
"consociating",
"consorting",
"fraternizing",
"hanging (around or out)",
"hobnobbing",
"hooking up",
"messing around",
"palling (around)",
"sorting",
"traveling",
"travelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiliating",
"allying",
"attaching",
"banding",
"bonding",
"clubbing",
"collaborating",
"colluding",
"confederating",
"conjoining",
"connecting",
"cooperating",
"coupling",
"ganging",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"grouping",
"interrelating",
"joining",
"knotting",
"leaguing",
"linking",
"mingling",
"mixing",
"rallying",
"relating",
"siding",
"socializing",
"teaming",
"tying",
"tieing",
"wedding",
"befriending",
"friending"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"cold-shouldering",
"shunning",
"snubbing",
"alienating",
"estranging",
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"dispersing",
"splitting (up)",
"disjoining",
"dissociating",
"disuniting",
"divorcing",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"if that dog continues to run cars, he's going to get seriously hurt"
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dogging",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"dogging",
"following",
"hounding",
"pursuing",
"shadowing",
"tagging",
"tailing",
"tracing",
"tracking",
"trailing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompanying",
"chaperoning",
"escorting",
"hunting",
"searching (for)",
"seeking",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"observing",
"watching"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heading"
],
"antonyms":[
"guiding",
"leading",
"piloting"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rums":{
"a distilled beverage that can make a person drunk":{
"examples":[
"a fiery sermon on the evils of demon rum"
],
"synonyms":[
"alcohols",
"aqua vitaes",
"ardent spirits",
"boozes",
"bottles",
"drinks",
"firewaters",
"grogs",
"hooches",
"inebriants",
"intoxicants",
"John Barleycorns",
"juices",
"liquors",
"lushes",
"moonshines",
"potables",
"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"
]
},
"ruinated":{
"as in destroyed , ruined":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"flattened",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"pulled down",
"pulverized",
"razed",
"ruined",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"wrecked",
"demounted",
"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"dismembered",
"knocked down",
"struck",
"took down",
"tore down",
"blew up",
"exploded",
"detached",
"disengaged",
"disconnected",
"disjoined",
"disunited",
"divided",
"separated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assembled",
"built",
"confected",
"constructed",
"erected",
"fabricated",
"made",
"made up",
"pieced",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up",
"carpentered",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"framed",
"hammered",
"handcrafted",
"manufactured",
"molded",
"produced",
"shaped",
"prefabricated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rueful":{
"expressing or suggesting mourning":{
"examples":[
"the rueful faces of friends and family who had gathered to pay their last respects"
],
"synonyms":[
"aching",
"agonized",
"anguished",
"bemoaning",
"bewailing",
"bitter",
"deploring",
"doleful",
"dolesome",
"dolorous",
"funeral",
"grieving",
"heartbroken",
"lamentable",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"plangent",
"regretful",
"sorrowful",
"sorry",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"woeful"
],
"near synonyms":[
"dirgelike",
"elegiac",
"elegiacal",
"melancholy",
"dejected",
"depressed",
"despondent",
"disconsolate",
"dispirited",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"heartsick",
"heartsore",
"inconsolable",
"tearful",
"brokenhearted",
"careworn",
"crestfallen",
"downcast",
"downhearted",
"forlorn",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"low-spirited",
"miserable",
"sad",
"triste",
"unhappy",
"woebegone",
"bawling",
"crying",
"groaning",
"howling",
"keening",
"moaning",
"yammering",
"bleeding",
"suffering",
"black",
"bleak",
"cheerless",
"comfortless",
"dark",
"darkening",
"desolate",
"dismal",
"dreary",
"funereal",
"gloomy",
"glum",
"gray",
"grey",
"joyless",
"low",
"miserable",
"moody",
"morbid",
"morose",
"pathetic",
"pessimistic",
"piteous",
"saturnine",
"somber",
"sombre",
"sullen",
"wretched"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delighted",
"exulting",
"glorying",
"happy",
"joyful",
"rejoicing",
"triumphant",
"bright",
"cheerful",
"cheering",
"cheery",
"laughing",
"smiling",
"blissful",
"blithe",
"blithesome",
"buoyant",
"jocund",
"jolly",
"joyous",
"lighthearted",
"merry",
"mirthful",
"encouraging",
"hopeful",
"optimistic",
"ecstatic",
"elated",
"euphoric",
"exhilarated",
"giddy",
"heady",
"rapturous",
"rhapsodic",
"rhapsodical"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"feeling sorrow for a wrong that one has done":{
"examples":[
"a rueful youth who had come to ask for forgiveness for online bullying"
],
"synonyms":[
"apologetic",
"compunctious",
"contrite",
"penitent",
"regretful",
"remorseful",
"repentant",
"sorry"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ashamed",
"shamefaced",
"sheepish",
"dolorous",
"grieving",
"lugubrious",
"mournful",
"plaintive",
"sorrowful",
"wailing",
"weeping",
"woeful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compassionless",
"cruel",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"unmerciful",
"shameless",
"unashamed"
],
"antonyms":[
"impenitent",
"remorseless",
"unapologetic",
"unrepentant"
]
},
"deserving of one's pity":{
"examples":[
"the rueful , desperate poverty of people in parts of the Third World"
],
"synonyms":[
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"miserable",
"pathetic",
"piteous",
"pitiable",
"pitiful",
"poor",
"sorry",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deplorable",
"lamentable",
"regrettable",
"emotional",
"impressive",
"inspiring",
"affecting",
"moving",
"poignant",
"stirring",
"touching",
"awful",
"horrible",
"terrible",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"upsetting",
"grievous",
"mournful",
"sad",
"sorrowful",
"woeful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"unimpressive",
"uninspiring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"run off":{
"to drive or force out":{
"examples":[
"the dog often ran off cats and other animals that had intruded upon his owner's property"
],
"synonyms":[
"banish",
"boot (out)",
"bounce",
"cast out",
"chase",
"dismiss",
"drum (out)",
"eject",
"expel",
"extrude",
"kick out",
"oust",
"out",
"rout",
"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":[]
},
"to get free from a dangerous or confining situation":{
"examples":[
"their rebellious daughter's run off because she was disciplined again"
],
"synonyms":[
"abscond",
"break out (of)",
"clear out",
"escape",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"lam",
"run away"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoid",
"elude",
"evade",
"lose",
"shun",
"decamp",
"depart",
"elope",
"exit",
"go",
"leave",
"move",
"pull out",
"quit",
"sally (forth)",
"shove (off)",
"take off",
"walk out",
"disentangle",
"extricate",
"bring off",
"emancipate",
"enfranchise",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"manumit",
"redeem",
"release",
"rescue",
"spring",
"unbind",
"uncage",
"unchain",
"unfetter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"hang around",
"linger",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry",
"come back",
"return"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"the mouse ran off as soon as it saw us"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolt",
"break",
"bug out",
"flee",
"fly",
"hightail (it)",
"retreat",
"run",
"run away",
"skedaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abscond",
"clear out",
"decamp",
"elope",
"escape",
"get (away)",
"get out",
"lam",
"light out",
"make off",
"mizzle",
"scarper",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip (out)",
"skirr"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"abide",
"dwell",
"hang around",
"linger",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in arroyo , freshet":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arroyo",
"billabong",
"fresh",
"freshet",
"beck",
"bourn",
"bourne",
"brook",
"brooklet",
"burn",
"creek",
"gill",
"rill",
"rivulet",
"run",
"runlet",
"runnel",
"streamlet",
"bayou",
"coulee",
"slough",
"slew",
"slue",
"stream",
"wash",
"canal",
"channel",
"cut",
"cutoff",
"gut",
"kill",
"millrace",
"millstream",
"race",
"watercourse",
"waterway",
"affluent",
"branch",
"confluent",
"distributary",
"influent",
"tributary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"run-throughs":{
"a short statement of the main points":{
"examples":[
"could you give me a quick run-through of what the referendum question is all about?"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstracts",
"breviaries",
"briefs",
"capsules",
"conspectuses",
"digests",
"encapsulations",
"epitomes",
"inventories",
"outlines",
"pr\u00e9cis",
"recapitulations",
"recaps",
"r\u00e9sum\u00e9s",
"resumes",
"resum\u00e9s",
"roundups",
"rundowns",
"summae",
"summaries",
"summarizations",
"summings-up",
"sums",
"sum-ups",
"synopses",
"wrap-ups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abbreviations",
"abridgments",
"abridgements",
"compendiums",
"compendia",
"compends",
"condensations",
"curtailments",
"shortenings",
"simplifications",
"rehashes",
"reprises",
"conclusions",
"epilogues",
"epilogs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amplifications",
"enlargements",
"expansions",
"addenda",
"addendums",
"supplements"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rubs shoulders":{
"to take part in social activities":{
"examples":[
"regularly rubs elbows with celebrities",
"The fundraiser was an opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the most influential innovators in the industry."
],
"synonyms":[
"associates",
"fraternizes",
"goes out",
"hobnobs",
"mingles",
"mixes",
"socializes",
"steps out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carouses",
"parties",
"revels",
"circulates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoids",
"eschews",
"shuns",
"slights",
"snubs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runs across":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"She ran across an old friend at lunch."
],
"synonyms":[
"chances (upon)",
"encounters",
"finds",
"happens (on or upon)",
"hits (upon)",
"lights (on or upon)",
"meets",
"pitches (upon)",
"stumbles (on or onto)",
"tumbles (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucks (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronts",
"faces",
"discovers",
"strikes",
"turns up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"They ran across a bear while camping in the woods."
],
"synonyms":[
"catches",
"chances (upon)",
"encounters",
"happens (upon)",
"meets",
"stumbles (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accosts",
"confronts",
"faces",
"greets",
"salutes",
"collides (with)",
"crashes (into)",
"crisscrosses",
"crosses",
"passes",
"hits (upon)",
"lights (upon)",
"tumbles (to)",
"reencounters",
"remeets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoids",
"dodges",
"ducks",
"eludes",
"escapes",
"evades",
"shakes",
"shuns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"ruin":{
"to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts":{
"examples":[
"after he was ruined by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the industrialist was forced to sell his mansion and start all over again"
],
"synonyms":[
"bankrupt",
"break",
"bust"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beggar",
"impoverish",
"pauperize",
"reduce",
"straiten",
"clean (out)",
"wipe out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enrich",
"richen"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring destruction to (something) through violent action":{
"examples":[
"tornadoes ruined a wide swath of the county"
],
"synonyms":[
"destroy",
"devastate",
"ravage",
"scourge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"despoil",
"foray",
"harry",
"loot",
"maraud",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"sack",
"strip",
"annihilate",
"desolate",
"eradicate",
"expunge",
"extinguish",
"extirpate",
"nuke",
"obliterate",
"rub out",
"shatter",
"smash",
"total",
"vaporize",
"waste",
"wipe out",
"wrack",
"wreck",
"decimate",
"mow",
"demolish",
"raze",
"crush",
"overpower",
"overrun",
"overthrow",
"overwhelm"
],
"near antonyms":[
"recondition",
"recover",
"redeem",
"rehabilitate",
"restore",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"repair",
"revamp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"a huge fire that ruined an entire city block"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilate",
"cream",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"do in",
"extinguish",
"nuke",
"pull down",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"rub out",
"shatter",
"smash",
"tear down",
"total",
"vaporize",
"waste",
"wrack",
"wreck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beat",
"best",
"clobber",
"conquer",
"crush",
"defeat",
"drub",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"rout",
"scotch",
"skunk",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"thrash",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"whip",
"win (against)",
"blast",
"blow up",
"break",
"cripple",
"damage",
"deface",
"deteriorate",
"disfigure",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"dynamite",
"harm",
"impair",
"injure",
"mangle",
"mar",
"mutilate",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"erode",
"scour",
"sweep (away)",
"wash out",
"wear (away)",
"dilapidate",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"gut",
"take down",
"unbuild",
"undo",
"unmake",
"blot out",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"remove",
"root (out)",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"wipe out",
"despoil",
"havoc",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"trample",
"trash",
"vandalize",
"assassinate",
"butcher",
"cut down",
"dispatch",
"execute",
"fell",
"kill",
"kill off",
"massacre",
"mow (down)",
"murder",
"slaughter",
"slay",
"take out",
"zap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctor",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"recondition",
"repair",
"revamp",
"create",
"invent",
"assemble",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"mold",
"produce",
"shape",
"bring about",
"constitute",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"rebuild",
"reconstruct",
"remodel",
"renovate",
"restore"
],
"antonyms":[
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
]
},
"the state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless":{
"examples":[
"a vicious bombardment that left the building in ruins"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilation",
"decimation",
"demolishment",
"demolition",
"desolation",
"destruction",
"devastation",
"extermination",
"extinction",
"havoc",
"loss",
"mincemeat",
"obliteration",
"ruination",
"wastage",
"wreckage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depredation",
"despoilment",
"despoliation",
"breakup",
"collapse",
"disintegration",
"dissolution",
"assassination",
"execution",
"killing",
"massacre",
"slaughter",
"dismantlement",
"effacement",
"eradication"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rescue",
"salvage",
"salvation",
"saving",
"conservation",
"preservation",
"protection",
"reclamation",
"reconstruction",
"re-creation",
"refurbishment",
"regeneracy",
"remodeling",
"renovation",
"restoration"
],
"antonyms":[
"building",
"construction",
"erection",
"raising"
]
},
"the portion or bits of something left over or behind after it has been destroyed":{
"examples":[
"the ruins of an abandoned abbey"
],
"synonyms":[
"ashes",
"debris",
"detritus",
"flotsam",
"remains",
"residue",
"rubble",
"wreck",
"wreckage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jetsam",
"leavings",
"remnant",
"chaff",
"deadwood",
"dross",
"dust",
"garbage",
"junk",
"litter",
"refuse",
"riffraff",
"rubbish",
"scrap",
"trash",
"waste"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the inability to pay one's debts":{
"examples":[
"the family faces ruin if the chief breadwinner doesn't find another job very soon"
],
"synonyms":[
"bankruptcy",
"failure",
"insolvency"
],
"near synonyms":[
"Chapter 11"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"something that is the cause of one's ultimate failure or loss of life":{
"examples":[
"the politician's eventual ruin would be a sexual indiscretion"
],
"synonyms":[
"death",
"destruction",
"downfall",
"ruination",
"undoing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bane",
"curse",
"torment",
"Achilles' heel",
"tragic flaw"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rundlets":{
"an enclosed wooden vessel for holding beverages":{
"examples":[
"the wine was transferred to rundlets for further aging in the cellar"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"butts",
"casks",
"firkins",
"hogsheads",
"kegs",
"kilderkins",
"pipes",
"puncheons",
"tuns"
],
"near synonyms":[
"scuttlebutt",
"cisterns",
"tubs",
"vats",
"cans",
"drums"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rulers":{
"one who rules over a people with a sole, supreme, and usually hereditary authority":{
"examples":[
"the aging ruler agonized over the choice of an heir"
],
"synonyms":[
"autocrats",
"monarchs",
"potentates",
"sovereigns",
"sovrans"
],
"near synonyms":[
"corulers",
"co-rulers",
"Caesars",
"czars",
"tsars",
"tzars",
"emirs",
"amirs",
"ameers",
"emperors",
"empresses",
"kaisers",
"khans",
"khedives",
"kings",
"lords",
"mikados",
"moguls",
"princes",
"queens",
"satraps",
"shahs",
"sultans",
"suzerains",
"authoritarians",
"Big Brothers",
"despots",
"dictators",
"f\u00fchrers",
"fuehrers",
"monocrats",
"overlords",
"paramounts",
"tyrants"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runnels":{
"a natural body of running water smaller than a river":{
"examples":[
"the fugitive made use of local runnels to throw the bloodhounds off his scent"
],
"synonyms":[
"becks",
"bourns",
"bournes",
"brooklets",
"brooks",
"burns",
"creeks",
"gills",
"rills",
"rivulets",
"runlets",
"runs",
"streamlets"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arroyos",
"billabongs",
"freshes",
"freshets",
"runoffs",
"bayous",
"coulees",
"sloughs",
"slews",
"slues",
"streams",
"washes",
"canals",
"channels",
"cutoffs",
"cuts",
"guts",
"kills",
"millraces",
"millstreams",
"races",
"watercourses",
"waterways",
"affluents",
"branches",
"confluents",
"distributaries",
"influents",
"tributaries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rutty":{
"as in rutted , undulating":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rutted",
"undulating",
"undulatory",
"wavy",
"inexact",
"unaligned",
"pitted",
"pocked",
"lopsided",
"unbalanced",
"knobbly",
"knobby",
"knurled",
"knurly",
"nubbly",
"nubby",
"broken",
"bumpy",
"coarse",
"irregular",
"jagged",
"lumpy",
"pebbly",
"ragged",
"rough",
"roughened",
"rugged",
"scraggy",
"uneven",
"burred",
"harsh",
"sandpapery",
"scraggly",
"scratchy",
"nonuniform"
],
"near antonyms":[
"even",
"flat",
"level",
"plane",
"smooth",
"exact",
"uniform",
"aligned",
"alined",
"regular",
"true",
"horizontal",
"tabular",
"plumb",
"straight",
"vertical",
"flush"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"runs on":{
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"examples":[
"we were just running on about how neither of us has aged a bit after all these years"
],
"synonyms":[
"babbles",
"blabs",
"cackles",
"chaffers",
"chats",
"chatters",
"chins",
"converses",
"gabbles",
"gabs",
"gases",
"gasses",
"jabbers",
"jaws",
"kibitzes",
"kibbitzes",
"natters",
"palavers",
"patters",
"prates",
"prattles",
"raps",
"rattles",
"schmoozes",
"shmoozes",
"talks",
"twitters",
"visits"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gossips",
"tattles",
"descants",
"discusses",
"expatiates",
"yaks",
"yacks",
"yammers",
"yaps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state":{
"examples":[
"allow the savings account to run on for now"
],
"synonyms":[
"abides",
"bides",
"continues",
"endures",
"holds on",
"holds up",
"keeps up",
"lasts",
"perdures",
"persists",
"remains"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lingers",
"stays",
"sticks around",
"tarries",
"carries through",
"prevails",
"survives"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abates",
"dies (down)",
"ebbs",
"lets up",
"moderates",
"subsides",
"wanes"
],
"antonyms":[
"ceases",
"closes",
"concludes",
"desists",
"dies",
"discontinues",
"ends",
"expires",
"finishes",
"lapses",
"leaves off",
"passes",
"quits",
"stops",
"terminates",
"winds up"
]
},
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"she's very sweet, but she does tend to run on"
],
"synonyms":[
"blathers (on)",
"goes on",
"maunders",
"rambles",
"rattles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviates",
"digresses",
"strays",
"wanders",
"sidetracks",
"blabbers",
"blabs",
"blithers",
"bumbles",
"burbles",
"chats",
"chatters",
"drivels",
"drools",
"gabbles",
"gabs",
"gibbers",
"jabbers",
"patters",
"prates",
"prattles",
"waffles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"running past":{
"to put before another for acceptance or consideration":{
"examples":[
"When you have a chance, I'd love to run some new ideas by you."
],
"synonyms":[
"extending",
"giving",
"offering",
"proffering",
"tendering",
"trotting out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"posing",
"proposing",
"holding out",
"giving in",
"submitting",
"volunteering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepting",
"receiving",
"taking",
"accrediting",
"approbating",
"approving",
"authorizing",
"clearing",
"confirming",
"finalizing",
"formalizing",
"homologating",
"OK'ing",
"okaying",
"ratifying",
"sanctioning",
"warranting",
"declining",
"denying",
"disallowing",
"disapproving",
"negativing",
"rejecting",
"turning down",
"vetoing",
"rebuffing",
"rebutting",
"refusing",
"spurning",
"retracting",
"withdrawing",
"disregarding",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"running rings around":{
"to be greater, better, or stronger than":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"excelling",
"outclassing",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outgunning",
"outmatching",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"towering (over)",
"transcending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"one-upping",
"outpacing",
"outracing",
"outrunning",
"overpassing",
"besting",
"clobbering",
"conquering",
"crushing",
"defeating",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"mastering",
"outcompeting",
"outperforming",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"routing",
"shaming",
"skunking",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"triumphing (over)",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"whipping",
"winning (against)",
"worsting",
"outbalancing",
"outweighing",
"overbearing",
"overshadowing",
"trumping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"losing (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"annihilating",
"blowing away",
"bombing",
"burying",
"clobbering",
"creaming",
"drubbing",
"dusting",
"flattening",
"pasting",
"routing",
"shellacking",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"smoking",
"smothering",
"snowing under",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"tromping",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"waxing",
"whipping",
"whomping",
"whopping",
"whapping",
"whupping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweeping",
"upsetting",
"beating",
"besting",
"conquering",
"dispatching",
"hurdling",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"taking",
"throwing",
"triumphing (over)",
"winning (against)",
"worsting",
"crushing",
"knocking off",
"knocking over",
"overpowering",
"overthrowing",
"overwhelming",
"subjugating",
"upending",
"vanquishing",
"acing (out)",
"bettering",
"eclipsing",
"exceeding",
"outdistancing",
"outdoing",
"outfighting",
"outshining",
"outstripping",
"overtopping",
"surpassing",
"topping",
"transcending",
"edging (out)",
"nosing out",
"pipping",
"capping",
"excelling",
"flourishing",
"scoring",
"succeeding",
"breaking",
"destroying",
"doing in",
"finishing",
"sinking",
"slaughtering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"rub shoulders (with)":{
"to come or be together as friends":{
"examples":[
"She had the opportunity to rub elbows with some of the world's greatest chefs at the annual conference."
],
"synonyms":[
"associate",
"chum",
"company",
"consociate",
"consort",
"fraternize",
"hang (around or out)",
"hobnob",
"hook up",
"mess around",
"pal (around)",
"run",
"sort",
"travel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiliate",
"ally",
"attach",
"band",
"bond",
"club",
"collaborate",
"collude",
"confederate",
"conjoin",
"connect",
"cooperate",
"couple",
"gang",
"get along",
"get on",
"group",
"interrelate",
"join",
"knot",
"league",
"link",
"mingle",
"mix",
"rally",
"relate",
"side",
"socialize",
"team",
"tie",
"wed",
"befriend",
"friend"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"cold-shoulder",
"shun",
"snub",
"alienate",
"estrange",
"break up",
"disband",
"disperse",
"split (up)",
"disjoin",
"dissociate",
"disunite",
"divorce",
"sever",
"split",
"sunder"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rummage sale":{
"as in jumble sale":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"jumble sale",
"garage sale",
"tag sale",
"yard sale"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rusts":{
"to form rust":{
"examples":[
"The old car was left to rust in the yard of the abandoned house."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"corrodes",
"oxidizes",
"reacts",
"crumbles",
"declines",
"degenerates",
"descends",
"deteriorates",
"dilapidates",
"sinks",
"withers",
"breaks down",
"corrupts",
"decays",
"decomposes",
"degrades",
"disintegrates",
"dissolves",
"festers",
"fouls",
"molders",
"molds",
"perishes",
"putrefies",
"rots",
"spoils",
"bites (at)",
"eats",
"erodes",
"frets",
"gnaws",
"nibbles",
"scours",
"sweeps (away)",
"washes out",
"wears (away)",
"sours",
"turns",
"turns off",
"contaminates",
"defiles",
"pollutes",
"taints",
"addles",
"curdles",
"ferments",
"mortifies",
"droops",
"fails",
"falls",
"flags",
"lags",
"languishes",
"runs down",
"sags",
"slips",
"wastes (away)",
"weakens",
"wilts"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ages",
"develops",
"grows",
"matures",
"ripens",
"refreshes",
"renews",
"restores",
"cleanses",
"purifies",
"assembles",
"composes",
"integrates",
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"improves",
"meliorates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rudely":{
"as in inconsiderately , tactlessly":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"impolitely",
"inconsiderately",
"tactlessly",
"abruptly",
"bluntly",
"brusquely",
"curtly",
"gruffly",
"point-blank",
"sharply",
"truthfully",
"veraciously",
"artlessly",
"earnestly",
"simply",
"sincerely",
"baldly",
"bluffly",
"candidly",
"frankly",
"honestly",
"openheartedly",
"openly",
"unguardedly",
"unreservedly",
"directly",
"forthrightly",
"foursquare",
"plain",
"plainly",
"straight",
"straightforward",
"straightforwards",
"straightforwardly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"long-windedly",
"verbosely",
"wordily",
"civilly",
"courteously",
"diplomatically",
"politely",
"tactfully",
"deceitfully",
"mendaciously",
"untruthfully",
"erroneously",
"fallaciously",
"falsely",
"hypocritically",
"insincerely",
"ambiguously",
"circuitously",
"equivocally",
"evasively",
"indirectly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"ruff":{
"as in pleat , plait":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"plait",
"pleat",
"border",
"edging",
"fringe",
"trim",
"bunting",
"skirting",
"flounce",
"frill",
"furbelow",
"ruffle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"run upon":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"The boy ran upon a small house while exploring the woods."
],
"synonyms":[
"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"find",
"happen (on or upon)",
"hit (upon)",
"light (on or upon)",
"meet",
"pitch (upon)",
"stumble (on or onto)",
"tumble (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luck (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confront",
"face",
"discover",
"strike",
"turn up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"We ran upon our neighbor in the grocery store."
],
"synonyms":[
"catch",
"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"happen (upon)",
"meet",
"stumble (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accost",
"confront",
"face",
"greet",
"salute",
"collide (with)",
"crash (into)",
"crisscross",
"cross",
"pass",
"hit (upon)",
"light (upon)",
"tumble (to)",
"reencounter",
"remeet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"shake",
"shun"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"ruthlessly":{
"as in mercilessly , callously":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"callously",
"cold-bloodedly",
"hard-heartedly",
"heartlessly",
"inhumanely",
"inhumanly",
"insensately",
"insensitively",
"mercilessly",
"obdurately",
"pitilessly",
"tyrannically",
"uncharitably",
"unfeelingly",
"unmercifully",
"unsparingly",
"brutally",
"hard",
"hardly",
"harshly",
"ill",
"oppressively",
"roughly",
"severely",
"sternly",
"stiffly",
"abusively",
"brutishly",
"savagely",
"viciously",
"aggressively",
"assertively",
"decidedly",
"determinedly",
"firmly",
"grimly",
"gruffly",
"resolutely",
"strongly",
"toughly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clemently",
"gently",
"leniently",
"lightly",
"mildly",
"softly",
"benevolently",
"benignantly",
"considerately",
"cordially",
"graciously",
"kindly",
"lovingly",
"tenderly",
"charitably",
"compassionately",
"humanely",
"mercifully",
"softheartedly",
"sympathetically",
"tolerantly",
"understandingly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"run into":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"They ran into a new set of problems as soon as they thought everything was fixed."
],
"synonyms":[
"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"find",
"happen (on or upon)",
"hit (upon)",
"light (on or upon)",
"meet",
"pitch (upon)",
"stumble (on or onto)",
"tumble (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luck (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confront",
"face",
"discover",
"strike",
"turn up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"The woman ran into her boss at the grocery store."
],
"synonyms":[
"catch",
"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"happen (upon)",
"meet",
"stumble (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accost",
"confront",
"face",
"greet",
"salute",
"collide (with)",
"crash (into)",
"crisscross",
"cross",
"pass",
"hit (upon)",
"light (upon)",
"tumble (to)",
"reencounter",
"remeet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"shake",
"shun"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runts":{
"a living thing much smaller than others of its kind":{
"examples":[
"one kitten was definitely the runt , weighing only six ounces at birth"
],
"synonyms":[
"diminutives",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"midgets",
"mites",
"peewees",
"pygmies",
"pigmies",
"scrubs",
"shrimp",
"shrimps",
"Tom Thumbs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"nubbins",
"miniatures",
"minis",
"bantams",
"homunculi",
"hop-o'-my-thumbs",
"manikins",
"mannikins",
"half-pints"
],
"near antonyms":[
"whales",
"whoppers"
],
"antonyms":[
"behemoths",
"colossi",
"giants",
"jumbos",
"leviathans",
"mammoths",
"monsters",
"titans"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runs in":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I just thought I'd run in and pick up my package"
],
"synonyms":[
"calls",
"comes by",
"comes over",
"drops by",
"drops in",
"pops (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":[]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"if we catch you shoplifting again, we're going to run you in"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehends",
"arrests",
"busts",
"collars",
"nabs",
"nails",
"nicks",
"picks up",
"pinches",
"pulls in",
"restrains",
"seizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bags",
"captures",
"catches",
"gets",
"grabs",
"grapples",
"hooks",
"lands",
"snaps (up)",
"snares",
"snatches",
"traps",
"commits",
"confines",
"detains",
"holds",
"immures",
"imprisons",
"incarcerates",
"interns",
"jails",
"jugs",
"locks (up)",
"binds",
"enchains",
"fetters",
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"trammels",
"rearrests",
"remands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipates",
"frees",
"liberates",
"loosens",
"looses",
"releases",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"unchains"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharges"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rulings":{
"a decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard":{
"examples":[
"the controversial ruling by the state's supreme court caused an uproar"
],
"synonyms":[
"dooms",
"findings",
"holdings",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"sentences"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inquests",
"verdicts",
"authorities",
"decrees",
"edicts",
"injunctions",
"orders",
"arbitraments",
"awards",
"declarations",
"deliverances",
"dicta",
"dictums",
"pronouncements",
"conclusions",
"decisions",
"determinations",
"opinions",
"resolutions",
"disciplines",
"penalties",
"punishments"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an order publicly issued by an authority":{
"examples":[
"the FCC's ruling regarding the broadcasting of obscenities"
],
"synonyms":[
"bulls",
"decrees",
"diktats",
"directives",
"edicts",
"fiats",
"rescripts",
"ukases"
],
"near synonyms":[
"calls",
"conclusions",
"decisions",
"deliverances",
"determinations",
"diagnoses",
"judgments",
"judgements",
"opinions",
"resolutions",
"verdicts",
"announcements",
"declarations",
"dicta",
"dictums",
"manifestos",
"manifestoes",
"proclamations",
"pronouncements",
"canons",
"encyclicals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ruminates":{
"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"examples":[
"the minister hoped that the congregation would spend the remainder of the week ruminating the message of his sermon"
],
"synonyms":[
"chews over",
"cogitates",
"considers",
"contemplates",
"debates",
"deliberates",
"entertains",
"eyes",
"kicks around",
"meditates",
"mulls (over)",
"perpends",
"ponders",
"pores (over)",
"questions",
"revolves",
"studies",
"thinks (about or over)",
"turns",
"weighs",
"wrestles (with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"muses (upon)",
"reflects (on or upon)",
"reminisces",
"analyzes",
"explores",
"reviews",
"concludes",
"reasons",
"second-guesses",
"speculates (about)",
"broods (about or over)",
"dwells (on or upon)",
"fixates (on or upon)",
"frets (about or over)",
"obsesses (about or over)",
"believes",
"conceives",
"opines",
"absorbs",
"assimilates",
"digests",
"drinks (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregards",
"ignores",
"overlooks",
"slights",
"dismisses",
"pooh-poohs",
"poohs",
"rejects"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rubbed shoulders (with)":{
"to come or be together as friends":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"associated",
"chummed",
"companied",
"consociated",
"consorted",
"fraternized",
"hobnobbed",
"hooked up",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"messed around",
"palled (around)",
"ran",
"run",
"sorted",
"traveled",
"travelled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiliated",
"allied",
"attached",
"banded",
"bonded",
"clubbed",
"collaborated",
"colluded",
"confederated",
"conjoined",
"connected",
"cooperated",
"coupled",
"ganged",
"got along",
"got on",
"grouped",
"interrelated",
"joined",
"knotted",
"leagued",
"linked",
"mingled",
"mixed",
"rallied",
"related",
"sided",
"socialized",
"teamed",
"tied",
"wedded",
"wed",
"befriended",
"friended"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoided",
"cold-shouldered",
"shunned",
"snubbed",
"alienated",
"estranged",
"broke up",
"disbanded",
"dispersed",
"split (up)",
"disjoined",
"dissociated",
"disunited",
"divorced",
"severed",
"split",
"sundered"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"rubs out":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"aerial bombs rubbed out the oil refinery"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilates",
"creams",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"desolates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"does in",
"extinguishes",
"nukes",
"pulls down",
"pulverizes",
"razes",
"ruins",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"tears down",
"totals",
"vaporizes",
"wastes",
"wracks",
"wrecks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beats",
"bests",
"clobbers",
"conquers",
"crushes",
"defeats",
"drubs",
"licks",
"masters",
"overbears",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"routs",
"scotches",
"skunks",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"triumphs (over)",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"whips",
"wins (against)",
"blasts",
"blows up",
"breaks",
"cripples",
"damages",
"defaces",
"deteriorates",
"disfigures",
"disintegrates",
"dissolves",
"dynamites",
"harms",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mangles",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"erodes",
"scours",
"sweeps (away)",
"washes out",
"wears (away)",
"dilapidates",
"disassembles",
"dismantles",
"guts",
"takes down",
"unbuilds",
"undoes",
"unmakes",
"blots out",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"expunges",
"exterminates",
"extirpates",
"liquidates",
"obliterates",
"removes",
"roots (out)",
"snuffs (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"wipes out",
"despoils",
"havocs",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ravages",
"sacks",
"tramples",
"trashes",
"vandalizes",
"assassinates",
"butchers",
"cuts down",
"dispatches",
"executes",
"fells",
"kills",
"kills off",
"massacres",
"mows (down)",
"murders",
"slaughters",
"slays",
"takes out",
"zaps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctors",
"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"repairs",
"revamps",
"creates",
"invents",
"assembles",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forges",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"molds",
"produces",
"shapes",
"brings about",
"constitutes",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"rebuilds",
"reconstructs",
"remodels",
"renovates",
"restores"
],
"antonyms":[
"builds",
"constructs",
"erects",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up"
]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"an elaborate setup to rub out rival mobsters"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinates",
"bumps off",
"croaks",
"dispatches",
"does in",
"executes",
"gets",
"ices",
"knocks off",
"liquidates",
"murders",
"neutralizes",
"offs",
"puts away",
"slays",
"snuffs",
"takes out",
"terminates",
"whacks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blows away",
"shoots",
"shoots down",
"blots out",
"carries off",
"claims",
"cuts down",
"destroys",
"fells",
"kills",
"smites",
"zaps",
"butchers",
"massacres",
"mows (down)",
"slaughters",
"annihilates",
"eliminates",
"eradicates",
"exterminates",
"wipes out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animates",
"raises",
"restores",
"resurrects",
"resuscitates",
"revives"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"a promise to rub out the city's drug trade"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolishes",
"annihilates",
"blacks out",
"blots out",
"cancels",
"cleans (up)",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"erases",
"expunges",
"exterminates",
"extirpates",
"liquidates",
"obliterates",
"roots (out)",
"snuffs (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"sweeps (away)",
"wipes out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"ravages",
"dismantles",
"flattens",
"mows (down)",
"razes",
"tears down",
"ruins",
"totals",
"wastes",
"wrecks",
"blasts",
"blows up",
"dashes",
"dynamites",
"smashes",
"atomizes",
"consumes",
"devours",
"dissolves",
"fragments",
"powders",
"pulverizes",
"shatters",
"splinters",
"dooms",
"finishes",
"kills",
"kills off",
"terminates",
"zaps",
"cuts",
"discards",
"ditches",
"ejects",
"excises",
"expels",
"jettisons",
"ousts",
"throws out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserves",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"builds",
"constructs",
"creates",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forges",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"shapes",
"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"rebuilds",
"reconditions",
"reconstructs",
"renews",
"renovates",
"repairs",
"restores",
"revamps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ruler":{
"one who rules over a people with a sole, supreme, and usually hereditary authority":{
"examples":[
"the aging ruler agonized over the choice of an heir"
],
"synonyms":[
"autocrat",
"monarch",
"potentate",
"sovereign",
"sovran"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coruler",
"Caesar",
"czar",
"tsar",
"tzar",
"emir",
"amir",
"ameer",
"emperor",
"empress",
"kaiser",
"khan",
"khedive",
"king",
"lord",
"mikado",
"mogul",
"prince",
"queen",
"satrap",
"shah",
"sultan",
"suzerain",
"authoritarian",
"Big Brother",
"despot",
"dictator",
"f\u00fchrer",
"fuehrer",
"monocrat",
"overlord",
"paramount",
"tyrant"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"running mate":{
"a person frequently seen in the company of another":{
"examples":[
"inseparable running mates who first met when they were in elementary school"
],
"synonyms":[
"associate",
"cohort",
"companion",
"compatriot",
"compeer",
"comrade",
"crony",
"fellow",
"hobnobber",
"mate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"colleague",
"coworker",
"equal",
"peer",
"workmate",
"accomplice",
"affiliate",
"ally",
"collaborator",
"confederate",
"half",
"partner",
"buddy",
"chum",
"confidant",
"familiar",
"friend",
"hearty",
"intimate",
"pal",
"countryman",
"classmate",
"housemate",
"messmate",
"playfellow",
"playmate",
"roommate",
"roomie",
"schoolmate",
"shipmate",
"teammate",
"attendant",
"escort",
"hanger-on",
"leech",
"parasite"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rumblings":{
"as in rumbles , murmurs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mumbles",
"murmurs",
"rumbles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clamors",
"howls",
"hubbubs",
"hue and cries",
"hullabaloos",
"noises",
"outcries",
"roars",
"tumults",
"uproars",
"vociferations",
"clangors",
"dins",
"jangle",
"rackets",
"cris de coeur",
"outbursts",
"protests"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rudimental":{
"of or relating to the simplest facts or theories of a subject":{
"examples":[
"learned the rudimental concepts of math at an early age"
],
"synonyms":[
"abecedarian",
"basal",
"basic",
"beginning",
"elemental",
"elementary",
"essential",
"fundamental",
"introductory",
"meat-and-potatoes",
"rudimentary",
"underlying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"primal",
"primary",
"prime",
"simple",
"crude",
"primeval",
"primitive",
"primordial",
"rude",
"uncomplicated",
"preliminary",
"preparatory",
"crucial",
"important",
"key"
],
"near antonyms":[
"complex",
"sophisticated",
"complicated",
"convoluted",
"detailed",
"elaborate",
"extensive",
"intricate",
"developed",
"evolved",
"high",
"higher",
"refined"
],
"antonyms":[
"advanced"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ruinating":{
"as in destroying , ruining":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"demolishing",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"flattening",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"pulling down",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"ruining",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"wrecking",
"demounting",
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"dismembering",
"knocking down",
"striking",
"taking down",
"tearing down",
"blowing up",
"exploding",
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"disconnecting",
"disjoining",
"disuniting",
"dividing",
"separating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assembling",
"building",
"confecting",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"fabricating",
"making",
"making up",
"piecing",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up",
"carpentering",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"framing",
"hammering",
"handcrafting",
"manufacturing",
"molding",
"producing",
"shaping",
"prefabricating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ruled out":{
"as in shut out , excluded":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"excluded",
"shut out",
"precluded",
"prevented",
"stopped",
"blocked",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed",
"repressed",
"suppressed",
"refused",
"rejected",
"revoked",
"unsanctioned",
"vetoed",
"disallowed",
"disapproved",
"discouraged",
"objectionable",
"unseemly",
"unsuitable",
"ineffable",
"unmentionable",
"illegal",
"illegitimate",
"illicit",
"improper",
"inappropriate",
"unauthorized",
"unlawful",
"unlicensed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allowable",
"permissible",
"permissive",
"sufferable",
"acceptable",
"bearable",
"endurable",
"tolerable",
"accepted",
"accredited",
"allowed",
"appropriate",
"approved",
"authorized",
"certified",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"lawful",
"legal",
"legitimate",
"licensed",
"OK",
"okay",
"permitted",
"warranted",
"accorded",
"granted",
"sanctioned",
"vouchsafed",
"brooked",
"condoned",
"countenanced",
"encouraged",
"promoted",
"supported",
"commanded",
"mandatory",
"ordered",
"required",
"proper",
"seemly",
"suitable",
"tolerated",
"unobjectionable"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of":{
"examples":[
"another loss would rule them out of the tournament"
],
"synonyms":[
"banned",
"barred",
"closed out",
"counted (out)",
"debarred",
"eliminated",
"excepted",
"excluded",
"froze out",
"shut out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackballed",
"blacklisted",
"excommunicated",
"ostracized",
"banished",
"deported",
"exiled",
"expelled",
"ousted",
"threw out",
"obviated",
"precluded",
"prevented",
"prohibited",
"blocked",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed",
"ceased",
"discontinued",
"halted",
"suspended",
"deterred",
"staved off",
"warded (off)",
"checked off",
"disregarded",
"combed (out)",
"weeded (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepted",
"embraced",
"entertained",
"received",
"took in",
"welcomed",
"unbanned"
],
"antonyms":[
"admitted",
"included"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"rued":{
"to feel sorry or dissatisfied about":{
"examples":[
"I rue the day I agreed to this stupid plan"
],
"synonyms":[
"bemoaned",
"deplored",
"lamented",
"regretted",
"repented"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ached (for)",
"bewailed",
"grieved (for)",
"mourned",
"sorrowed (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delighted (in)",
"enjoyed",
"relished",
"reveled (in)",
"revelled (in)",
"savored",
"savoured"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"running to seed":{
"to become worse or of less value":{
"examples":[
"They've really let the house go to seed and probably won't be able to sell it."
],
"synonyms":[
"atrophying",
"crumbling",
"decaying",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"descending",
"deteriorating",
"devolving",
"ebbing",
"regressing",
"retrograding",
"rotting",
"sinking",
"worsening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abating",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"receding",
"waning",
"breaking down",
"corrupting",
"decomposing",
"degrading",
"dilapidating",
"disintegrating",
"moldering",
"putrefying",
"souring",
"spoiling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reducing",
"debilitating",
"undermining",
"drooping",
"failing",
"falling",
"flagging",
"lagging",
"languishing",
"running down",
"sagging",
"slipping",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bettering",
"upgrading",
"enhancing",
"enriching",
"fortifying",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"strengthening",
"advancing",
"developing",
"marching",
"proceeding",
"progressing"
],
"antonyms":[
"ameliorating",
"improving",
"meliorating"
]
},
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"When we returned from vacation, everything in our refrigerator had gone to seed ."
],
"synonyms":[
"breaking down",
"corrupting",
"decaying",
"decomposing",
"disintegrating",
"festering",
"fouling",
"moldering",
"molding",
"perishing",
"putrefying",
"rotting",
"spoiling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"souring",
"turning",
"turning off",
"contaminating",
"defiling",
"polluting",
"tainting",
"addling",
"curdling",
"fermenting",
"mortifying",
"rusting",
"crumbling",
"declining",
"degenerating",
"descending",
"deteriorating",
"dilapidating",
"sinking",
"withering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aging",
"ageing",
"developing",
"growing",
"maturing",
"ripening",
"refreshing",
"renewing",
"restoring",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"assembling",
"composing",
"integrating",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"improving",
"meliorating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"running (over)":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I could run over right now if that's good for you"
],
"synonyms":[
"calling",
"coming by",
"coming over",
"dropping by",
"dropping in",
"popping (in)",
"running in",
"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":[]
},
"to do over and over so as to become skilled":{
"examples":[
"let's run over this dance number one more time"
],
"synonyms":[
"exercising",
"practicing",
"practising",
"rehearsing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"grooving",
"perfecting",
"refining",
"pointing (for)",
"preparing (for)",
"training (with)",
"drilling",
"repeating",
"working (at or on)",
"reviewing",
"studying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rung":{
"the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement":{
"examples":[
"the greasy spoon restaurant was several rungs below the kind of establishment in which we usually dined"
],
"synonyms":[
"degree",
"echelon",
"footing",
"level",
"place",
"position",
"rank",
"ranking",
"reach(es)",
"situation",
"standing",
"station",
"status",
"stratum"
],
"near synonyms":[
"condition",
"estate",
"order",
"walk",
"capacity",
"function",
"rating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment":{
"examples":[
"the watchman usually carried a stout oak rung"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"bat",
"baton",
"billy",
"billy club",
"bludgeon",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"nightstick",
"rod",
"sap",
"shillelagh",
"shillalah",
"staff",
"truncheon",
"waddy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackjack",
"knobkerrie",
"mace",
"birch",
"crabstick",
"hickory",
"rattan",
"stave",
"switch",
"beetle",
"gavel",
"hammer",
"mallet",
"maul",
"sledgehammer",
"crook",
"crosier",
"crozier",
"walking stick",
"whangee"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates":{
"examples":[
"I didn't hear the doorbell ring"
],
"synonyms":[
"bonged",
"chimed",
"knelled",
"pealed",
"tolled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chinked",
"clanged",
"clanked",
"clashed",
"clinked",
"ding-donged",
"dinged",
"gonged",
"jangled",
"jingled",
"pinged",
"plinked",
"plunked",
"plonked",
"tanged",
"tingled",
"tinkled",
"echoed",
"resonated",
"resounded",
"reverberated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rustling":{
"as in poaching":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"poaching",
"despoilment",
"despoliation",
"looting",
"pillage",
"plundering",
"rapine",
"spoliation",
"black marketeering",
"smuggling",
"abduction",
"carjacking",
"hijacking",
"highjacking",
"kidnapping",
"kidnaping",
"shanghaiing",
"banditry",
"piracy",
"filching",
"pilferage",
"pilfering",
"purloining",
"shoplifting",
"petit larceny",
"petty larceny",
"embezzlement",
"embezzling",
"graft",
"misapplication",
"misappropriation",
"peculation",
"burglary",
"housebreaking",
"larceny",
"robbery",
"stealing",
"theft",
"thievery"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to feed on grass or herbs":{
"examples":[
"just take the steer out to pasture and let it rustle for itself"
],
"synonyms":[
"browsing",
"foraging",
"grazing",
"pasturing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eating",
"feeding",
"nibbling",
"ranging",
"stocking",
"overgrazing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"rustled around enthusiastically on the morning of the big trip"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bundling",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"careering",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"cracking (on)",
"dashing",
"driving",
"flying",
"haring",
"hastening",
"highballing",
"hotfooting (it)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"hying",
"hieing",
"jetting",
"jumping",
"motoring",
"nipping",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rushing",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"stepping",
"tearing",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"trotting",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetling",
"darting",
"flitting",
"scampering",
"scudding",
"scuffling",
"stampeding",
"streaking",
"whizzing",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"sprinting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"stepping out",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking",
"arrowing",
"beelining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"hanging (around or out)",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"poking"
]
},
"to make small sounds usually by rubbing or moving":{
"examples":[
"my pet peeve is candy wrappers rustling during a movie"
],
"synonyms":[
"crinkling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crackling",
"crepitating",
"creaking",
"squeaking",
"swooshing",
"whooshing",
"babbling",
"gurgling",
"murmuring",
"sighing",
"whispering"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rummage sales":{
"as in jumble sales":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"jumble sales",
"garage sales",
"tag sales",
"yard sales"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rugs":{
"a headpiece made of natural or synthetic hair usually worn to cover a bald area":{
"examples":[
"get a load of that bald guy's rug \u2014who does he think he's fooling?"
],
"synonyms":[
"hairpieces",
"toupees",
"wigs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fright wigs",
"extensions",
"falls",
"postiches",
"switches",
"wiglets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"running across":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"She ran across an old friend at lunch."
],
"synonyms":[
"chancing (upon)",
"encountering",
"finding",
"happening (on or upon)",
"hitting (upon)",
"lighting (on or upon)",
"meeting",
"pitching (upon)",
"stumbling (on or onto)",
"tumbling (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucking (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronting",
"facing",
"discovering",
"striking",
"turning up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"They ran across a bear while camping in the woods."
],
"synonyms":[
"catching",
"chancing (upon)",
"encountering",
"happening (upon)",
"meeting",
"stumbling (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accosting",
"confronting",
"facing",
"greeting",
"saluting",
"colliding (with)",
"crashing (into)",
"crisscrossing",
"crossing",
"passing",
"hitting (upon)",
"lighting (upon)",
"tumbling (to)",
"reencountering",
"re-encountering",
"remeeting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"shaking",
"shunning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rubberlike":{
"able to revert to original size and shape after being stretched, squeezed, or twisted":{
"examples":[
"a rubberlike material that is used for household products"
],
"synonyms":[
"bouncy",
"elastic",
"flexible",
"resilient",
"rubbery",
"springy",
"stretch",
"stretchable",
"stretchy",
"supple",
"whippy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"adaptable",
"ductile",
"kneadable",
"malleable",
"moldable",
"plastic",
"pliable",
"pliant",
"limber",
"lissome",
"lissom",
"lithe",
"lithesome",
"willowy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"compact",
"firm",
"hard",
"solid",
"unyielding",
"brittle",
"crisp",
"crumbly",
"flaky",
"flakey",
"friable",
"short"
],
"antonyms":[
"inelastic",
"inflexible",
"nonelastic",
"rigid",
"stiff"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"runs one's mouth":{
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"There goes Joe, running his mouth again about stuff that doesn't really matter."
],
"synonyms":[
"blathers (on)",
"goes on",
"maunders",
"rambles",
"rattles",
"runs on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviates",
"digresses",
"strays",
"wanders",
"sidetracks",
"blabbers",
"blabs",
"blithers",
"bumbles",
"burbles",
"chats",
"chatters",
"drivels",
"drools",
"gabbles",
"gabs",
"gibbers",
"jabbers",
"patters",
"prates",
"prattles",
"waffles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runs out":{
"as in throws out , kicks out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"casts out",
"dismisses",
"ejects",
"eliminates",
"evicts",
"excludes",
"expels",
"expulses",
"kicks out",
"ousts",
"throws out",
"banishes",
"deports",
"displaces",
"exiles",
"expatriates",
"relegates",
"transports",
"excommunicates",
"ostracizes",
"rejects",
"repudiates",
"spurns",
"dispossesses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"naturalizes",
"repatriates",
"accepts",
"admits",
"receives",
"takes in",
"entertains",
"harbors",
"houses",
"shelters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"runabout":{
"as in sedan , cruiser":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cabin cruiser",
"cruiser",
"hydrofoil",
"motor sailer",
"sedan",
"sportfisherman",
"motorboat",
"powerboat",
"speedboat",
"stinkpot"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ruing":{
"to feel sorry or dissatisfied about":{
"examples":[
"I rue the day I agreed to this stupid plan"
],
"synonyms":[
"bemoaning",
"deploring",
"lamenting",
"regretting",
"repenting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aching (for)",
"bewailing",
"grieving (for)",
"mourning",
"sorrowing (for)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delighting (in)",
"enjoying",
"relishing",
"reveling (in)",
"revelling (in)",
"savoring",
"savouring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rubs elbows":{
"to take part in social activities":{
"examples":[
"regularly rubs elbows with celebrities",
"The fundraiser was an opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the most influential innovators in the industry."
],
"synonyms":[
"associates",
"fraternizes",
"goes out",
"hobnobs",
"mingles",
"mixes",
"socializes",
"steps out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carouses",
"parties",
"revels",
"circulates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoids",
"eschews",
"shuns",
"slights",
"snubs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"ruby":{
"as in red , crimson":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bloodred",
"carmine",
"crimson",
"incarnadine",
"red",
"reddish",
"sanguine",
"sanguineous",
"bloodstained",
"bloody",
"gory",
"sanguinary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rubber stamp":{
"a person who adopts the appearance or behavior of another especially in an obvious way":{
"examples":[
"an author who was ultimately just another rubber stamp of Hemingway"
],
"synonyms":[
"aper",
"copycat",
"copyist",
"echo",
"follower",
"imitator",
"wannabe",
"wannabee"
],
"near synonyms":[
"parrot",
"ape",
"emulator",
"impersonator",
"impressionist",
"mimic"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in sign , initial":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"initial",
"sign",
"sign off (on)",
"bless",
"canonize",
"sanctify",
"allow",
"enable",
"legalize",
"license",
"licence",
"pass",
"permit",
"certify",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"validate",
"reapprove",
"accept",
"acknowledge",
"affirm",
"accredit",
"approbate",
"approve",
"authorize",
"clear",
"confirm",
"finalize",
"formalize",
"homologate",
"OK",
"okay",
"ratify",
"sanction",
"warrant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decline",
"deny",
"disallow",
"disapprove",
"negative",
"reject",
"turn down",
"veto",
"ban",
"enjoin",
"forbid",
"illegalize",
"interdict",
"prohibit",
"proscribe",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"rebuff",
"rebut",
"refuse",
"spurn"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"ruination":{
"something that is the cause of one's ultimate failure or loss of life":{
"examples":[
"neglect and indifference have proved to be the ruination of more than one marriage"
],
"synonyms":[
"death",
"destruction",
"downfall",
"ruin",
"undoing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bane",
"curse",
"torment",
"Achilles' heel",
"tragic flaw"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless":{
"examples":[
"although this is a setback, it isn't complete ruination for the company"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilation",
"decimation",
"demolishment",
"demolition",
"desolation",
"destruction",
"devastation",
"extermination",
"extinction",
"havoc",
"loss",
"mincemeat",
"obliteration",
"ruin",
"wastage",
"wreckage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depredation",
"despoilment",
"despoliation",
"breakup",
"collapse",
"disintegration",
"dissolution",
"assassination",
"execution",
"killing",
"massacre",
"slaughter",
"dismantlement",
"effacement",
"eradication"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rescue",
"salvage",
"salvation",
"saving",
"conservation",
"preservation",
"protection",
"reclamation",
"reconstruction",
"re-creation",
"refurbishment",
"regeneracy",
"remodeling",
"renovation",
"restoration"
],
"antonyms":[
"building",
"construction",
"erection",
"raising"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"run to seed":{
"showing signs of advanced wear and tear and neglect":{
"examples":[
"That old, rusted car has gone to seed ."
],
"synonyms":[
"beat-up",
"bombed-out",
"dilapidated",
"dog-eared",
"down-at-the-heels",
"down-at-heel",
"down-at-the-heel",
"down-at-heels",
"dumpy",
"grungy",
"mangy",
"mean",
"miserable",
"moth-eaten",
"neglected",
"ratty",
"run-down",
"scrubby",
"scruffy",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"sleazy",
"tacky",
"tatterdemalion",
"tatty",
"threadbare",
"timeworn",
"tumbledown"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abandoned",
"unkept",
"desolate",
"forlorn",
"godforsaken",
"broken-down",
"decrepit",
"tired",
"worn-out",
"bedraggled",
"dingy",
"ragged",
"tattered",
"decaying",
"deteriorated",
"deteriorating",
"rackety",
"ramshackle",
"rattletrap",
"rickety",
"tumbledown",
"broken",
"damaged",
"destroyed",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"ruined",
"wrecked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brand-new",
"fresh",
"new",
"cared-for",
"kept-up",
"maintained",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"smart",
"spiffy",
"spruce"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to become worse or of less value":{
"examples":[
"They've really let the house go to seed and probably won't be able to sell it."
],
"synonyms":[
"atrophied",
"crumbled",
"decayed",
"declined",
"degenerated",
"descended",
"deteriorated",
"devolved",
"ebbed",
"regressed",
"retrograded",
"rotted",
"sunk",
"worsened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abated",
"de-escalated",
"diminished",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"receded",
"waned",
"broken down",
"corrupted",
"decomposed",
"degraded",
"dilapidated",
"disintegrated",
"moldered",
"putrefied",
"soured",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"lessened",
"lowered",
"reduced",
"debilitated",
"undermined",
"drooped",
"failed",
"fallen",
"flagged",
"lagged",
"languished",
"run down",
"sagged",
"slipped",
"wasted (away)",
"weakened",
"wilted"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bettered",
"upgraded",
"enhanced",
"enriched",
"fortified",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"strengthened",
"advanced",
"developed",
"marched",
"proceeded",
"progressed"
],
"antonyms":[
"ameliorated",
"improved",
"meliorated"
]
},
"to go through decomposition":{
"examples":[
"When we returned from vacation, everything in our refrigerator had gone to seed ."
],
"synonyms":[
"broken down",
"corrupted",
"decayed",
"decomposed",
"disintegrated",
"festered",
"fouled",
"molded",
"moldered",
"perished",
"putrefied",
"rotted",
"spoiled",
"spoilt"
],
"near synonyms":[
"soured",
"turned",
"turned off",
"contaminated",
"defiled",
"polluted",
"tainted",
"addled",
"curdled",
"fermented",
"mortified",
"rusted",
"crumbled",
"declined",
"degenerated",
"descended",
"deteriorated",
"dilapidated",
"sunk",
"withered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"aged",
"developed",
"grown",
"matured",
"ripened",
"refreshed",
"renewed",
"restored",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"assembled",
"composed",
"integrated",
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"improved",
"meliorated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"running against":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"It surprised her that she ran against some resistance when she presented her plan for the company."
],
"synonyms":[
"chancing (upon)",
"encountering",
"finding",
"happening (on or upon)",
"hitting (upon)",
"lighting (on or upon)",
"meeting",
"pitching (upon)",
"stumbling (on or onto)",
"tumbling (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucking (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronting",
"facing",
"discovering",
"striking",
"turning up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"ruffianly":{
"as in riotous , rowdyish":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"callithumpian",
"carnival",
"carnivalesque",
"larrikin",
"raffish",
"rampageous",
"riotous",
"rowdyish",
"boisterous",
"hell-raising",
"knockabout",
"rambunctious",
"raucous",
"robustious",
"roisterous",
"rollicking",
"rowdy",
"rumbustious",
"stormy",
"tempestuous",
"turbulent",
"violent",
"headstrong",
"intractable",
"obstreperous",
"recalcitrant",
"uncontrollable",
"uncontrolled",
"undisciplined",
"ungovernable",
"uninhibited",
"unmanageable",
"unreserved",
"unrestrained",
"unruly",
"wild",
"willful",
"wilful",
"bubbly",
"buoyant",
"effervescent",
"exuberant",
"high-spirited",
"impassioned",
"lively",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"clamorous",
"loudmouthed",
"noisy",
"openmouthed",
"rackety",
"strident",
"vociferous",
"howling",
"screaming",
"yelling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"orderly",
"sedate",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"staid",
"decorous",
"dignified",
"proper",
"seemly",
"calm",
"hushed",
"noiseless",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"restrained",
"serene",
"silent",
"soundless",
"tranquil",
"collected",
"composed",
"constrained",
"controlled",
"imperturbable",
"inhibited",
"repressed",
"self-controlled",
"unflappable",
"unruffled",
"moderate",
"reasonable",
"subdued",
"temperate",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"stolid",
"depressed",
"aloof",
"detached",
"indifferent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"ruffs":{
"as in pleats , plaits":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"plaits",
"pleats",
"borders",
"edgings",
"fringes",
"trims",
"buntings",
"skirtings",
"flounces",
"frills",
"furbelows",
"ruffles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rural deliveries":{
"as in special deliveries , registered mails":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"airmails",
"airposts",
"certified mails",
"registered mails",
"rural free deliveries",
"special deliveries",
"special handlings",
"correspondences",
"mails",
"matters",
"parcel posts",
"posts",
"snail mail",
"direct mails",
"junk mails",
"mailers",
"cards",
"dispatches",
"epistles",
"letters",
"messages",
"missives",
"notes",
"postal cards",
"postcards",
"printed matters",
"bundles",
"packages",
"shipments"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rubbed out":{
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"aerial bombs rubbed out the oil refinery"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilated",
"creamed",
"decimated",
"demolished",
"desolated",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"did in",
"extinguished",
"nuked",
"pulled down",
"pulverized",
"razed",
"ruined",
"shattered",
"smashed",
"tore down",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"vaporized",
"wasted",
"wracked",
"wrecked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beat",
"bested",
"clobbered",
"conquered",
"crushed",
"defeated",
"drubbed",
"licked",
"mastered",
"overbore",
"overcame",
"overmatched",
"prevailed (over)",
"routed",
"scotched",
"skunked",
"subdued",
"surmounted",
"thrashed",
"trimmed",
"triumphed (over)",
"trounced",
"walloped",
"whipped",
"won (against)",
"blasted",
"blew up",
"broke",
"crippled",
"damaged",
"defaced",
"deteriorated",
"disfigured",
"disintegrated",
"dissolved",
"dynamited",
"harmed",
"impaired",
"injured",
"mangled",
"marred",
"mutilated",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"vitiated",
"eroded",
"scoured",
"swept (away)",
"washed out",
"wore (away)",
"dilapidated",
"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"gutted",
"took down",
"unbuilt",
"undid",
"unmade",
"blotted out",
"effaced",
"eradicated",
"expunged",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"liquidated",
"obliterated",
"removed",
"rooted (out)",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"wiped out",
"despoiled",
"havocked",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravaged",
"sacked",
"trampled",
"trashed",
"vandalized",
"assassinated",
"butchered",
"cut down",
"dispatched",
"executed",
"felled",
"killed",
"killed off",
"massacred",
"mowed (down)",
"murdered",
"slaughtered",
"slew",
"took out",
"zapped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctored",
"fixed",
"mended",
"patched",
"reconditioned",
"repaired",
"revamped",
"created",
"invented",
"assembled",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"formed",
"framed",
"made",
"manufactured",
"molded",
"produced",
"shaped",
"brought about",
"constituted",
"established",
"fathered",
"founded",
"instituted",
"organized",
"conserved",
"preserved",
"protected",
"saved",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"remodeled",
"renovated",
"restored"
],
"antonyms":[
"built",
"constructed",
"erected",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up"
]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"an elaborate setup to rub out rival mobsters"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinated",
"bumped off",
"croaked",
"did in",
"dispatched",
"executed",
"got",
"iced",
"knocked off",
"liquidated",
"murdered",
"neutralized",
"offed",
"put away",
"slew",
"snuffed",
"terminated",
"took out",
"whacked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blew away",
"shot",
"shot down",
"blotted out",
"carried off",
"claimed",
"cut down",
"destroyed",
"felled",
"killed",
"smote",
"zapped",
"butchered",
"massacred",
"mowed (down)",
"slaughtered",
"annihilated",
"eliminated",
"eradicated",
"exterminated",
"wiped out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animated",
"raised",
"restored",
"resurrected",
"resuscitated",
"revived"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"a promise to rub out the city's drug trade"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolished",
"annihilated",
"blacked out",
"blotted out",
"canceled",
"cancelled",
"cleaned (up)",
"effaced",
"eradicated",
"erased",
"expunged",
"exterminated",
"extirpated",
"liquidated",
"obliterated",
"rooted (out)",
"snuffed (out)",
"stamped (out)",
"swept (away)",
"wiped out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decimated",
"demolished",
"destroyed",
"devastated",
"ravaged",
"dismantled",
"flattened",
"mowed (down)",
"razed",
"tore down",
"ruined",
"totaled",
"totalled",
"wasted",
"wrecked",
"blasted",
"blew up",
"dashed",
"dynamited",
"smashed",
"atomized",
"consumed",
"devoured",
"dissolved",
"fragmented",
"powdered",
"pulverized",
"shattered",
"splintered",
"doomed",
"finished",
"killed",
"killed off",
"terminated",
"zapped",
"cut",
"discarded",
"ditched",
"ejected",
"excised",
"expelled",
"jettisoned",
"ousted",
"threw out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserved",
"preserved",
"protected",
"saved",
"built",
"constructed",
"created",
"fabricated",
"fashioned",
"forged",
"formed",
"framed",
"made",
"manufactured",
"shaped",
"fixed",
"mended",
"patched",
"rebuilt",
"reconditioned",
"reconstructed",
"renewed",
"renovated",
"repaired",
"restored",
"revamped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run the risk of":{
"to take a chance on":{
"examples":[
"If you don't use your turn signal when driving, you run the risk of causing an accident."
],
"synonyms":[
"adventure",
"chance",
"gamble (on)",
"hazard",
"risk",
"tempt",
"venture"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"brazen",
"breast",
"challenge",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"outbrave",
"compromise",
"endanger",
"imperil",
"jeopardize",
"menace",
"expose",
"subject",
"bet (on)",
"wager"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rubbed the wrong way":{
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"ate",
"bothered",
"bugged",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"chafed",
"exasperated",
"frosted",
"galled",
"got",
"grated",
"griped",
"hacked (off)",
"irked",
"irritated",
"itched",
"narked",
"nettled",
"peeved",
"persecuted",
"piqued",
"put out",
"rasped",
"riled",
"ruffled",
"spited",
"vexed",
"vext"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassled",
"heckled",
"nagged",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"provoked",
"roused",
"badgered",
"baited",
"bullyragged",
"ballyragged",
"deviled",
"devilled",
"hagrode",
"harassed",
"harried",
"pestered",
"plagued",
"teased",
"angered",
"antagonized",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"infuriated",
"maddened",
"rankled",
"roiled",
"agitated",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"exercised",
"freaked (out)",
"fretted",
"perturbed",
"undid",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"worried",
"affronted",
"insulted",
"miffed",
"offended",
"outraged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"obliged",
"pacified",
"placated",
"propitiated",
"delighted",
"gladdened",
"gratified",
"pleased",
"satisfied",
"assured",
"cheered",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"contented",
"quieted",
"reassured",
"solaced",
"soothed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make angry":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"angered",
"enraged",
"incensed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"infuriated",
"ired",
"madded",
"maddened",
"outraged",
"rankled",
"riled",
"roiled",
"steamed up",
"ticked off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affronted",
"aggravated",
"annoyed",
"burned (up)",
"burnt (up)",
"crossed",
"exasperated",
"got",
"huffed",
"irritated",
"miffed",
"nettled",
"offended",
"peeved",
"piqued",
"provoked",
"put out",
"ruffled",
"vexed",
"vext",
"antagonized",
"embittered",
"envenomed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allayed",
"assuaged",
"relieved",
"comforted",
"consoled",
"soothed",
"appeased",
"conciliated",
"mollified",
"pacified",
"placated",
"calmed",
"lulled",
"quieted",
"settled",
"beguiled",
"bewitched",
"captivated",
"charmed",
"disarmed",
"enchanted"
],
"antonyms":[
"delighted",
"gratified",
"pleased"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"rustler":{
"as in smuggler , poacher":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"poacher",
"smuggler",
"despoiler",
"looter",
"pillager",
"plunderer",
"ransacker",
"ravisher",
"bandit",
"footpad",
"highwayman",
"pirate",
"abductor",
"carjacker",
"hijacker",
"kidnapper",
"kidnaper",
"skyjacker",
"mugger",
"cutpurse",
"dip",
"pickpocket",
"pilferer",
"shoplifter",
"sneak thief",
"klepto",
"kleptomaniac",
"embezzler",
"grafter",
"burglar",
"cat burglar",
"cracksman",
"housebreaker",
"picklock",
"safecracker"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rubbed":{
"having a shiny surface or finish":{
"examples":[
"the rubbed brass of the wall sconce showed my reflection"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffed",
"burnished",
"glistening",
"glossy",
"lustrous",
"polished",
"satin",
"satiny",
"sleek"
],
"near synonyms":[
"brushed",
"eggshell",
"semigloss",
"semilustrous",
"silken",
"silky",
"slick",
"slippery",
"glassy",
"glazed",
"lacquered",
"shellacked",
"varnished",
"gleaming",
"glittering",
"reflective",
"shining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lackluster",
"unvarnished"
],
"antonyms":[
"dim",
"dull",
"flat",
"lusterless",
"matte",
"mat",
"matt"
]
},
"to damage or diminish by continued friction":{
"examples":[
"the brake pads were rubbed away as a result of years of use"
],
"synonyms":[
"abraded",
"chafed",
"corraded",
"eroded",
"frayed",
"frazzled",
"fretted",
"galled",
"rasped",
"wore"
],
"near synonyms":[
"filed",
"gnawed",
"grated",
"grazed",
"ground",
"nibbled",
"sandblasted",
"sandpapered",
"scoured",
"scraped",
"scuffed",
"shaved",
"erased",
"reduced",
"rubbed out",
"wiped (away)",
"wore out",
"ate",
"bit",
"broke down",
"broke up",
"chewed",
"corroded",
"decomposed",
"disintegrated",
"dissolved",
"honed",
"sharpened",
"whetted"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth by friction":{
"examples":[
"the furniture restorer rubbed the board perfectly smooth with sandpaper"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffed",
"filed",
"ground",
"honed",
"rasped",
"sanded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"planed",
"scraped",
"sandblasted",
"scoured",
"burnished",
"dressed",
"glossed",
"polished",
"shone",
"shined",
"smoothed",
"edged",
"sharpened",
"stropped",
"whetted",
"reground"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarsened",
"roughed (up)",
"roughened",
"scuffed"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"the butler rubbed the silver tea set until it gleamed"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffed",
"burnished",
"dressed",
"furbished",
"glossed",
"ground",
"polished",
"shone",
"shined",
"smoothed",
"smoothened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleeked",
"slicked",
"coated",
"glazed",
"japanned",
"lacquered",
"varnished",
"faced",
"finished",
"veneered",
"brightened",
"filed",
"rasped",
"sandblasted",
"sanded",
"sandpapered",
"scoured",
"scraped",
"scrubbed",
"bobbed",
"boned",
"lapped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"roughed (up)",
"roughened",
"ruffled",
"scuffed (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"rubbing shoulders":{
"to take part in social activities":{
"examples":[
"regularly rubs elbows with celebrities",
"The fundraiser was an opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the most influential innovators in the industry."
],
"synonyms":[
"associating",
"fraternizing",
"going out",
"hobnobbing",
"mingling",
"mixing",
"socializing",
"stepping out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carousing",
"partying",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"circulating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"eschewing",
"shunning",
"slighting",
"snubbing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"ruffians":{
"a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang":{
"examples":[
"a gang of ruffians preying upon people who ventured into that section of town"
],
"synonyms":[
"bullies",
"gangbangers",
"gangstas",
"gangsters",
"goons",
"gorillas",
"hoodlums",
"hoods",
"hooligans",
"mobsters",
"mugs",
"plug-uglies",
"punks",
"roughnecks",
"rowdies",
"thugs",
"toughies",
"toughs",
"yobbos",
"yobboes",
"yobs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cutthroats",
"scoundrels",
"villains",
"assassins",
"bandits",
"bravos",
"bravoes",
"brigands",
"criminals",
"crooks",
"desperadoes",
"desperados",
"felons",
"gunmen",
"highwaymen",
"lawbreakers",
"mafiosi",
"malefactors",
"offenders",
"outlaws",
"perpetrators",
"perps",
"pirates",
"pickpockets",
"racketeers",
"robbers",
"swindlers",
"thieves",
"vandals",
"juvenile delinquents",
"tearaways"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runtish":{
"as in stunted , scrubby":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"runty",
"scrubby",
"stunted",
"dwarf",
"toy",
"bitty",
"inappreciable",
"infinitesimal",
"little bitty",
"micro",
"microscopic",
"microscopical",
"mini",
"miniature",
"miniaturized",
"minikin",
"minim",
"minuscule",
"minute",
"pinpoint",
"teensy",
"teensy-weensy",
"teeny",
"teeny-weeny",
"tiny",
"wee",
"weeny",
"weensy",
"bantam",
"diminutive",
"dinky",
"dwarfish",
"fine",
"half-pint",
"Lilliputian",
"little",
"pint-size",
"pint-sized",
"pocket",
"pocket-size",
"pocket-sized",
"puny",
"pygmy",
"shrimpy",
"slight",
"small",
"smallish",
"subnormal",
"toylike",
"undersized",
"undersize",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"skimp",
"skimpy",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"sparse",
"stingy",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"wanting",
"bite-size",
"bite-sized",
"capsule"
],
"near antonyms":[
"big",
"biggish",
"considerable",
"goodly",
"grand",
"great",
"handsome",
"husky",
"king-size",
"king-sized",
"large",
"largish",
"outsize",
"outsized",
"overscale",
"overscaled",
"oversize",
"oversized",
"sizable",
"sizeable",
"substantial",
"tidy",
"whacking",
"whopping",
"bulky",
"hefty",
"hulking",
"massive",
"voluminous",
"boxcar",
"Brobdingnagian",
"Bunyanesque",
"cavernous",
"colossal",
"cyclopean",
"elephantine",
"enormous",
"galactic",
"gargantuan",
"giant",
"gigantic",
"gross",
"herculean",
"heroic",
"heroical",
"Himalayan",
"huge",
"humongous",
"humungous",
"immense",
"jumbo",
"leviathan",
"mammoth",
"monolithic",
"monstrous",
"monumental",
"mountainous",
"pharaonic",
"prodigious",
"staggering",
"stupendous",
"titanic",
"tremendous",
"vast",
"abundant",
"ample",
"appreciable",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"generous",
"healthy",
"liberal",
"plenteous",
"plentiful",
"fat",
"thick",
"broad",
"wide",
"boundless",
"cosmic",
"cosmical",
"immeasurable",
"incalculable",
"infinite",
"adequate",
"enough",
"sufficient"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"runs out on":{
"as in walks out on , goes back on":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"goes back on",
"jumps ship",
"walks out on",
"defects (from)",
"deserts",
"rats (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adheres (to)",
"clings (to)",
"sticks (to or with)",
"cherishes",
"cultivates",
"fosters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rummaged":{
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"at the last minute she rummaged a costume from the attic"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertained",
"descried",
"detected",
"determined",
"discovered",
"dredged (up)",
"dug out",
"dug up",
"ferreted (out)",
"found",
"found out",
"got",
"hit (on or upon)",
"hunted (down or up)",
"learned",
"located",
"nosed out",
"ran down",
"rooted (out)",
"routed (out)",
"scared up",
"scouted (up)",
"tracked (down)",
"turned up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espied",
"sighted",
"spotted",
"looked for",
"searched (for or out)",
"sought"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lost",
"mislaid",
"misplaced",
"misset",
"mis-set"
],
"antonyms":[
"missed",
"overlooked",
"passed over"
]
},
"to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something":{
"examples":[
"he rummaged the desk drawer trying to find the spare keys"
],
"synonyms":[
"combed",
"dredged",
"dug (through)",
"hunted (through)",
"raked",
"ransacked",
"rifled",
"scoured",
"searched",
"sorted (through)",
"trolled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frisked",
"patted down",
"shook down",
"audited",
"checked (out)",
"examined",
"inspected",
"investigated",
"reviewed",
"scanned",
"scrutinized",
"surveyed",
"ascertained",
"descried",
"detected",
"determined",
"discovered",
"ferreted (out)",
"found",
"found out",
"got",
"hit (on or upon)",
"learned",
"located",
"ran down",
"scared up",
"tracked (down)",
"grubbed (about)",
"poked (around)",
"explored",
"probed",
"prospected",
"skirmished",
"snooped",
"browsed",
"glanced (over)",
"looked over",
"perused",
"studied"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hid",
"abandoned",
"lost",
"ignored",
"neglected"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rub the wrong way":{
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[
"Those customers really rubbed their server the wrong way ."
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"bother",
"bug",
"burn (up)",
"chafe",
"eat",
"exasperate",
"frost",
"gall",
"get",
"grate",
"gripe",
"hack (off)",
"irk",
"irritate",
"itch",
"nark",
"nettle",
"peeve",
"persecute",
"pique",
"put out",
"rasp",
"rile",
"ruffle",
"spite",
"vex"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassle",
"heckle",
"nag",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"provoke",
"rouse",
"badger",
"bait",
"bullyrag",
"ballyrag",
"devil",
"hagride",
"harass",
"harry",
"pester",
"plague",
"tease",
"anger",
"antagonize",
"enrage",
"incense",
"infuriate",
"madden",
"rankle",
"roil",
"agitate",
"discomfort",
"discompose",
"disquiet",
"distress",
"exercise",
"freak (out)",
"fret",
"perturb",
"undo",
"unhinge",
"unsettle",
"upset",
"worry",
"affront",
"insult",
"miff",
"offend",
"outrage"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"oblige",
"pacify",
"placate",
"propitiate",
"delight",
"gladden",
"gratify",
"please",
"satisfy",
"assure",
"cheer",
"comfort",
"console",
"content",
"quiet",
"reassure",
"solace",
"soothe"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make angry":{
"examples":[
"The whole situation just rubbed him the wrong way and he began to shout."
],
"synonyms":[
"anger",
"enrage",
"incense",
"inflame",
"enflame",
"infuriate",
"ire",
"mad",
"madden",
"outrage",
"rankle",
"rile",
"roil",
"steam up",
"tick off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affront",
"aggravate",
"annoy",
"burn (up)",
"cross",
"exasperate",
"get",
"huff",
"irritate",
"miff",
"nettle",
"offend",
"peeve",
"pique",
"provoke",
"put out",
"ruffle",
"vex",
"antagonize",
"embitter",
"envenom"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allay",
"assuage",
"relieve",
"comfort",
"console",
"soothe",
"appease",
"conciliate",
"mollify",
"pacify",
"placate",
"calm",
"lull",
"quiet",
"settle",
"beguile",
"bewitch",
"captivate",
"charm",
"disarm",
"enchant"
],
"antonyms":[
"delight",
"gratify",
"please"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rumormongers":{
"as in gossipmongers , snitchers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blabbermouths",
"gossipers",
"gossipmongers",
"gossips",
"informants",
"informers",
"rats",
"snitchers",
"snitches",
"squealers",
"stool pigeons",
"talebearers",
"talkers",
"tattlers",
"tattletales",
"telltales",
"defectors",
"deserters",
"renegades",
"coconspirators",
"co-conspirators",
"conspirators",
"intriguers",
"plotters",
"schemers",
"accommodationists",
"collaborationists",
"collaborators",
"sellouts",
"subversives",
"subverters",
"apostates",
"backstabbers",
"betrayers",
"double-crossers",
"double-dealers",
"Judases",
"quislings",
"recreants",
"serpents",
"snakes",
"traitors",
"turncoats"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ruins":{
"to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts":{
"examples":[
"after he was ruined by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the industrialist was forced to sell his mansion and start all over again"
],
"synonyms":[
"bankrupts",
"breaks",
"busts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beggars",
"impoverishes",
"pauperizes",
"reduces",
"straitens",
"cleans (out)",
"wipes out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enriches",
"richens"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring destruction to (something) through violent action":{
"examples":[
"tornadoes ruined a wide swath of the county"
],
"synonyms":[
"destroys",
"devastates",
"ravages",
"scourges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"despoils",
"forays",
"harries",
"loots",
"marauds",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"sacks",
"strips",
"annihilates",
"desolates",
"eradicates",
"expunges",
"extinguishes",
"extirpates",
"nukes",
"obliterates",
"rubs out",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"totals",
"vaporizes",
"wastes",
"wipes out",
"wracks",
"wrecks",
"decimates",
"mows",
"demolishes",
"razes",
"crushes",
"overpowers",
"overruns",
"overthrows",
"overwhelms"
],
"near antonyms":[
"reconditions",
"recovers",
"redeems",
"rehabilitates",
"restores",
"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"repairs",
"revamps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"a huge fire that ruined an entire city block"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilates",
"creams",
"decimates",
"demolishes",
"desolates",
"destroys",
"devastates",
"does in",
"extinguishes",
"nukes",
"pulls down",
"pulverizes",
"razes",
"rubs out",
"shatters",
"smashes",
"tears down",
"totals",
"vaporizes",
"wastes",
"wracks",
"wrecks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beats",
"bests",
"clobbers",
"conquers",
"crushes",
"defeats",
"drubs",
"licks",
"masters",
"overbears",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"routs",
"scotches",
"skunks",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"triumphs (over)",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"whips",
"wins (against)",
"blasts",
"blows up",
"breaks",
"cripples",
"damages",
"defaces",
"deteriorates",
"disfigures",
"disintegrates",
"dissolves",
"dynamites",
"harms",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mangles",
"mars",
"mutilates",
"spoils",
"vitiates",
"erodes",
"scours",
"sweeps (away)",
"washes out",
"wears (away)",
"dilapidates",
"disassembles",
"dismantles",
"guts",
"takes down",
"unbuilds",
"undoes",
"unmakes",
"blots out",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"expunges",
"exterminates",
"extirpates",
"liquidates",
"obliterates",
"removes",
"roots (out)",
"snuffs (out)",
"stamps (out)",
"wipes out",
"despoils",
"havocs",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"ravages",
"sacks",
"tramples",
"trashes",
"vandalizes",
"assassinates",
"butchers",
"cuts down",
"dispatches",
"executes",
"fells",
"kills",
"kills off",
"massacres",
"mows (down)",
"murders",
"slaughters",
"slays",
"takes out",
"zaps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctors",
"fixes",
"mends",
"patches",
"reconditions",
"repairs",
"revamps",
"creates",
"invents",
"assembles",
"fabricates",
"fashions",
"forges",
"forms",
"frames",
"makes",
"manufactures",
"molds",
"produces",
"shapes",
"brings about",
"constitutes",
"establishes",
"fathers",
"founds",
"institutes",
"organizes",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"rebuilds",
"reconstructs",
"remodels",
"renovates",
"restores"
],
"antonyms":[
"builds",
"constructs",
"erects",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up"
]
},
"the portion or bits of something left over or behind after it has been destroyed":{
"examples":[
"the ruins of an abandoned abbey"
],
"synonyms":[
"ashes",
"debris",
"detritus",
"flotsam",
"remains",
"residue",
"rubble",
"wreck",
"wreckage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jetsam",
"leavings",
"remnant",
"chaff",
"deadwood",
"dross",
"dust",
"garbage",
"junk",
"litter",
"refuse",
"riffraff",
"rubbish",
"scrap",
"trash",
"waste"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rub out":{
"the intentional and unlawful taking of another person's life":{
"examples":[
"the mafia boss ordered a rubout as casually as you might order a pizza"
],
"synonyms":[
"blood",
"foul play",
"homicide",
"murder",
"slaying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chance-medley",
"killing",
"manslaughter",
"bloodshed",
"butchery",
"carnage",
"decimation",
"destruction",
"massacre",
"slaughter",
"assassination",
"execution",
"hit",
"euthanasia",
"mercy killing",
"filicide",
"fratricide",
"matricide",
"parricide",
"patricide",
"regicide",
"uxoricide"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"aerial bombs rubbed out the oil refinery"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilate",
"cream",
"decimate",
"demolish",
"desolate",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"do in",
"extinguish",
"nuke",
"pull down",
"pulverize",
"raze",
"ruin",
"shatter",
"smash",
"tear down",
"total",
"vaporize",
"waste",
"wrack",
"wreck"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beat",
"best",
"clobber",
"conquer",
"crush",
"defeat",
"drub",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"rout",
"scotch",
"skunk",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"thrash",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"whip",
"win (against)",
"blast",
"blow up",
"break",
"cripple",
"damage",
"deface",
"deteriorate",
"disfigure",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"dynamite",
"harm",
"impair",
"injure",
"mangle",
"mar",
"mutilate",
"spoil",
"vitiate",
"erode",
"scour",
"sweep (away)",
"wash out",
"wear (away)",
"dilapidate",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"gut",
"take down",
"unbuild",
"undo",
"unmake",
"blot out",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"remove",
"root (out)",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"wipe out",
"despoil",
"havoc",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"ravage",
"sack",
"trample",
"trash",
"vandalize",
"assassinate",
"butcher",
"cut down",
"dispatch",
"execute",
"fell",
"kill",
"kill off",
"massacre",
"mow (down)",
"murder",
"slaughter",
"slay",
"take out",
"zap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctor",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"recondition",
"repair",
"revamp",
"create",
"invent",
"assemble",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"mold",
"produce",
"shape",
"bring about",
"constitute",
"establish",
"father",
"found",
"institute",
"organize",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"rebuild",
"reconstruct",
"remodel",
"renovate",
"restore"
],
"antonyms":[
"build",
"construct",
"erect",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
]
},
"to put to death deliberately":{
"examples":[
"an elaborate setup to rub out rival mobsters"
],
"synonyms":[
"assassinate",
"bump off",
"croak",
"dispatch",
"do in",
"execute",
"get",
"ice",
"knock off",
"liquidate",
"murder",
"neutralize",
"off",
"put away",
"slay",
"snuff",
"take out",
"terminate",
"whack"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blow away",
"shoot",
"shoot down",
"blot out",
"carry off",
"claim",
"cut down",
"destroy",
"fell",
"kill",
"smite",
"zap",
"butcher",
"massacre",
"mow (down)",
"slaughter",
"annihilate",
"eliminate",
"eradicate",
"exterminate",
"wipe out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"animate",
"raise",
"restore",
"resurrect",
"resuscitate",
"revive"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to destroy all traces of":{
"examples":[
"a promise to rub out the city's drug trade"
],
"synonyms":[
"abolish",
"annihilate",
"black out",
"blot out",
"cancel",
"clean (up)",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"erase",
"expunge",
"exterminate",
"extirpate",
"liquidate",
"obliterate",
"root (out)",
"snuff (out)",
"stamp (out)",
"sweep (away)",
"wipe out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"decimate",
"demolish",
"destroy",
"devastate",
"ravage",
"dismantle",
"flatten",
"mow (down)",
"raze",
"tear down",
"ruin",
"total",
"waste",
"wreck",
"blast",
"blow up",
"dash",
"dynamite",
"smash",
"atomize",
"consume",
"devour",
"dissolve",
"fragment",
"powder",
"pulverize",
"shatter",
"splinter",
"doom",
"finish",
"kill",
"kill off",
"terminate",
"zap",
"cut",
"discard",
"ditch",
"eject",
"excise",
"expel",
"jettison",
"oust",
"throw out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conserve",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"build",
"construct",
"create",
"fabricate",
"fashion",
"forge",
"form",
"frame",
"make",
"manufacture",
"shape",
"fix",
"mend",
"patch",
"rebuild",
"recondition",
"reconstruct",
"renew",
"renovate",
"repair",
"restore",
"revamp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rub shoulders":{
"to take part in social activities":{
"examples":[
"regularly rubs elbows with celebrities",
"The fundraiser was an opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the most influential innovators in the industry."
],
"synonyms":[
"associate",
"fraternize",
"go out",
"hobnob",
"mingle",
"mix",
"socialize",
"step out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carouse",
"party",
"revel",
"circulate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"eschew",
"shun",
"slight",
"snub"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rubbing shoulders (with)":{
"to come or be together as friends":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"associating",
"chumming",
"companying",
"consociating",
"consorting",
"fraternizing",
"hanging (around or out)",
"hobnobbing",
"hooking up",
"messing around",
"palling (around)",
"running",
"sorting",
"traveling",
"travelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiliating",
"allying",
"attaching",
"banding",
"bonding",
"clubbing",
"collaborating",
"colluding",
"confederating",
"conjoining",
"connecting",
"cooperating",
"coupling",
"ganging",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"grouping",
"interrelating",
"joining",
"knotting",
"leaguing",
"linking",
"mingling",
"mixing",
"rallying",
"relating",
"siding",
"socializing",
"teaming",
"tying",
"tieing",
"wedding",
"befriending",
"friending"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"cold-shouldering",
"shunning",
"snubbing",
"alienating",
"estranging",
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"dispersing",
"splitting (up)",
"disjoining",
"dissociating",
"disuniting",
"divorcing",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"ruminated":{
"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"examples":[
"the minister hoped that the congregation would spend the remainder of the week ruminating the message of his sermon"
],
"synonyms":[
"chewed over",
"cogitated",
"considered",
"contemplated",
"debated",
"deliberated",
"entertained",
"eyed",
"kicked around",
"meditated",
"mulled (over)",
"perpended",
"pondered",
"pored (over)",
"questioned",
"revolved",
"studied",
"thought (about or over)",
"turned",
"weighed",
"wrestled (with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"mused (upon)",
"reflected (on or upon)",
"reminisced",
"analyzed",
"explored",
"reviewed",
"concluded",
"reasoned",
"second-guessed",
"speculated (about)",
"brooded (about or over)",
"dwelled (on or upon)",
"dwelt (on or upon)",
"fixated (on or upon)",
"fretted (about or over)",
"obsessed (about or over)",
"believed",
"conceived",
"opined",
"absorbed",
"assimilated",
"digested",
"drank (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregarded",
"ignored",
"overlooked",
"slighted",
"dismissed",
"pooh-poohed",
"poohed",
"rejected"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rupturing":{
"to cause to develop a hole, crack, or tear often in a sudden and forceful or violent way":{
"examples":[
"She was out for the rest of the season after she ruptured a tendon."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"breaking",
"fracturing",
"pulling",
"rending",
"rifting",
"ripping",
"riving",
"tearing",
"cutting",
"gashing",
"incising",
"lacerating",
"notching",
"slashing",
"slitting",
"penetrating",
"perforating",
"puncturing",
"breaking down",
"decomposing",
"disassembling",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"bifurcating",
"bisecting",
"cleaving",
"dichotomizing",
"dissecting",
"fractionalizing",
"fractionating",
"halving",
"partitioning",
"quartering",
"segmenting",
"subdividing",
"trisecting",
"fragmentating",
"fragmenting",
"fragmentizing",
"detaching",
"disengaging",
"disentangling",
"unraveling",
"untying",
"untieing",
"breaking up",
"decoupling",
"disassociating",
"disconnecting",
"disjoining",
"disjointing",
"dissevering",
"dissociating",
"disuniting",
"dividing",
"divorcing",
"parting",
"ramifying",
"resolving",
"separating",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering",
"uncoupling",
"unlinking",
"unyoking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"closing",
"darning",
"filling",
"healing",
"knitting",
"mending",
"patching",
"plugging",
"repairing",
"sealing",
"sewing",
"stitching",
"suturing",
"accumulating",
"agglutinating",
"attaching",
"binding",
"cementing",
"fastening",
"fusing",
"sticking",
"welding",
"combining",
"connecting",
"consolidating",
"coupling",
"joining",
"linking",
"merging",
"unifying",
"uniting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to develop a hole, crack, or tear often in a sudden and forceful or violent way":{
"examples":[
"The pipeline ruptured , leaking thousands of gallons of oil.",
"The fault could rupture during the next major earthquake.",
"High blood pressure caused the blood vessels to rupture ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blowing",
"breaking",
"cleaving",
"splitting",
"rending",
"ripping",
"riving",
"shredding",
"tattering",
"tearing",
"blowing up",
"bursting",
"crumping",
"detonating",
"exploding",
"going off",
"popping",
"fragmenting",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"splintering",
"breaking up",
"dissevering",
"parting",
"sectioning",
"separating",
"severing",
"unlinking",
"ballooning",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"mushrooming",
"cracking",
"snapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"imploding",
"collapsing",
"associating",
"coalescing",
"combining",
"conjoining",
"conjugating",
"connecting",
"coupling",
"fusing",
"interfusing",
"joining",
"knitting",
"linking (up)",
"marrying",
"unifying",
"uniting",
"mating",
"yoking",
"assembling",
"blending",
"mingling",
"mixing",
"chaining",
"compounding",
"hitching",
"hooking",
"splicing",
"recombining",
"reconnecting",
"rejoining",
"reunifying",
"reuniting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"running dogs":{
"as in slaves , lackeys":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"henchmen",
"lackeys",
"lapdogs",
"minions",
"satellites",
"slaves",
"stooges",
"hangers-on",
"leeches",
"parasites",
"spongers",
"sponges",
"admirers",
"cultists",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fans",
"grovelers",
"idolaters",
"idolators",
"worshippers",
"worshipers",
"zealots",
"apparatchiks",
"apparatchiki",
"company men",
"adherents",
"camp followers",
"converts",
"disciples",
"followers",
"me-tooers",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"pupils",
"votaries",
"yes-men",
"apple-polishers",
"bootlickers",
"brownnosers",
"fawners",
"flunkies",
"flunkeys",
"lickspittles",
"suck-ups",
"sycophants",
"toadies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runny":{
"having an overly soft liquid consistency":{
"examples":[
"runny scrambled eggs"
],
"synonyms":[
"soupy",
"watery"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flowing",
"fluent",
"fluid",
"liquefied",
"dilute",
"diluted",
"thin",
"thinned",
"watered-down",
"weak",
"weakened",
"sloshy",
"slushy",
"soggy",
"waterlogged",
"wet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ropy",
"ropey",
"syrupy",
"viscid",
"viscous",
"creamy",
"heavy",
"thick",
"thickened",
"thickish",
"gelatinous",
"gluey",
"glutinous",
"gooey",
"gummy",
"sticky"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"running through":{
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"before I knew what was happening, the thug had run through me with a knife"
],
"synonyms":[
"goring",
"harpooning",
"impaling",
"jabbing",
"lancing",
"pecking",
"picking",
"piercing",
"pinking",
"puncturing",
"skewering",
"spearing",
"spiking",
"spitting",
"stabbing",
"sticking",
"transfixing",
"transpiercing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindling",
"perforating",
"riddling",
"bayoneting",
"bayonetting",
"dirking",
"gimleting",
"piking",
"poniarding",
"pronging",
"quilling",
"pinpricking",
"poking",
"pricking",
"punching",
"thrusting",
"cutting",
"knifing",
"slicing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to use up carelessly":{
"examples":[
"how did you manage to run through $300 in one day?"
],
"synonyms":[
"blowing",
"dissipating",
"fiddling away",
"frittering (away)",
"lavishing",
"losing",
"misspending",
"spending",
"squandering",
"throwing away",
"trifling (away)",
"wasting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"splurging",
"consuming",
"depleting",
"exhausting",
"impoverishing",
"overspending",
"shooting",
"indulging",
"overindulging",
"disbursing",
"expending",
"laying out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"economizing",
"scrimping",
"skimping",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"hoarding",
"laying up"
],
"antonyms":[
"conserving"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ruining":{
"to cause to lose one's fortune and become unable to pay one's debts":{
"examples":[
"after he was ruined by the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the industrialist was forced to sell his mansion and start all over again"
],
"synonyms":[
"bankrupting",
"breaking",
"busting"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beggaring",
"impoverishing",
"pauperizing",
"reducing",
"straitening",
"cleaning (out)",
"wiping out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"enriching",
"richening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring destruction to (something) through violent action":{
"examples":[
"tornadoes ruined a wide swath of the county"
],
"synonyms":[
"destroying",
"devastating",
"ravaging",
"scourging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"despoiling",
"foraying",
"harrying",
"looting",
"marauding",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"sacking",
"stripping",
"annihilating",
"desolating",
"eradicating",
"expunging",
"extinguishing",
"extirpating",
"nuking",
"obliterating",
"rubbing out",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"vaporizing",
"wasting",
"wiping out",
"wracking",
"wrecking",
"decimating",
"mowing",
"demolishing",
"razing",
"crushing",
"overpowering",
"overrunning",
"overthrowing",
"overwhelming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"reconditioning",
"recovering",
"redeeming",
"rehabilitating",
"restoring",
"fixing",
"mending",
"patching",
"repairing",
"revamping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring to a complete end the physical soundness, existence, or usefulness of":{
"examples":[
"a huge fire that ruined an entire city block"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilating",
"creaming",
"decimating",
"demolishing",
"desolating",
"destroying",
"devastating",
"doing in",
"extinguishing",
"nuking",
"pulling down",
"pulverizing",
"razing",
"rubbing out",
"shattering",
"smashing",
"tearing down",
"totaling",
"totalling",
"vaporizing",
"wasting",
"wracking",
"wrecking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beating",
"besting",
"clobbering",
"conquering",
"crushing",
"defeating",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"mastering",
"overbearing",
"overcoming",
"overmatching",
"prevailing (over)",
"routing",
"scotching",
"skunking",
"subduing",
"surmounting",
"thrashing",
"trimming",
"triumphing (over)",
"trouncing",
"walloping",
"whipping",
"winning (against)",
"blasting",
"blowing up",
"breaking",
"crippling",
"damaging",
"defacing",
"deteriorating",
"disfiguring",
"disintegrating",
"dissolving",
"dynamiting",
"harming",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"mangling",
"marring",
"mutilating",
"spoiling",
"vitiating",
"eroding",
"scouring",
"sweeping (away)",
"washing out",
"wearing (away)",
"dilapidating",
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"gutting",
"taking down",
"unbuilding",
"undoing",
"unmaking",
"blotting out",
"effacing",
"eradicating",
"expunging",
"exterminating",
"extirpating",
"liquidating",
"obliterating",
"removing",
"rooting (out)",
"snuffing (out)",
"stamping (out)",
"wiping out",
"despoiling",
"havocking",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"ravaging",
"sacking",
"trampling",
"trashing",
"vandalizing",
"assassinating",
"butchering",
"cutting down",
"dispatching",
"executing",
"felling",
"killing",
"killing off",
"massacring",
"mowing (down)",
"murdering",
"slaughtering",
"slaying",
"taking out",
"zapping"
],
"near antonyms":[
"doctoring",
"fixing",
"mending",
"patching",
"reconditioning",
"repairing",
"revamping",
"creating",
"inventing",
"assembling",
"fabricating",
"fashioning",
"forging",
"forming",
"framing",
"making",
"manufacturing",
"molding",
"producing",
"shaping",
"bringing about",
"constituting",
"establishing",
"fathering",
"founding",
"instituting",
"organizing",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"protecting",
"saving",
"rebuilding",
"reconstructing",
"remodeling",
"renovating",
"restoring"
],
"antonyms":[
"building",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"ruminate":{
"to give serious and careful thought to":{
"examples":[
"the minister hoped that the congregation would spend the remainder of the week ruminating the message of his sermon"
],
"synonyms":[
"chew over",
"cogitate",
"consider",
"contemplate",
"debate",
"deliberate",
"entertain",
"eye",
"kick around",
"meditate",
"mull (over)",
"perpend",
"ponder",
"pore (over)",
"question",
"revolve",
"study",
"think (about or over)",
"turn",
"weigh",
"wrestle (with)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"muse (upon)",
"reflect (on or upon)",
"reminisce",
"analyze",
"explore",
"review",
"conclude",
"reason",
"second-guess",
"speculate (about)",
"brood (about or over)",
"dwell (on or upon)",
"fixate (on or upon)",
"fret (about or over)",
"obsess (about or over)",
"believe",
"conceive",
"opine",
"absorb",
"assimilate",
"digest",
"drink (in)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disregard",
"ignore",
"overlook",
"slight",
"dismiss",
"pooh-pooh",
"pooh",
"reject"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run circles around":{
"to be greater, better, or stronger than":{
"examples":[
"When it came to cooking, he ran circles around the rest of his family."
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"better",
"eclipse",
"exceed",
"excel",
"outclass",
"outdistance",
"outdo",
"outgun",
"outmatch",
"outshine",
"outstrip",
"overtop",
"surpass",
"top",
"tower (over)",
"transcend"
],
"near synonyms":[
"one-up",
"outpace",
"outrace",
"outrun",
"overpass",
"best",
"clobber",
"conquer",
"crush",
"defeat",
"drub",
"lick",
"master",
"outcompete",
"outperform",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"rout",
"shame",
"skunk",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"thrash",
"trim",
"triumph (over)",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"whip",
"win (against)",
"worst",
"outbalance",
"outweigh",
"overbear",
"overshadow",
"trump"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lose (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"The young girl ran circles around her chess opponent."
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilate",
"blow away",
"bomb",
"bury",
"clobber",
"cream",
"drub",
"dust",
"flatten",
"paste",
"rout",
"shellac",
"skin",
"skunk",
"smoke",
"smother",
"snow under",
"thrash",
"trim",
"tromp",
"trounce",
"wallop",
"wax",
"whip",
"whomp",
"whop",
"whap",
"whup"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sweep",
"upset",
"beat",
"best",
"conquer",
"dispatch",
"hurdle",
"lick",
"master",
"overbear",
"overcome",
"overmatch",
"prevail (over)",
"subdue",
"surmount",
"take",
"throw",
"triumph (over)",
"win (against)",
"worst",
"crush",
"knock off",
"knock over",
"overpower",
"overthrow",
"overwhelm",
"subjugate",
"upend",
"vanquish",
"ace (out)",
"better",
"eclipse",
"exceed",
"outdistance",
"outdo",
"outfight",
"outshine",
"outstrip",
"overtop",
"surpass",
"top",
"transcend",
"edge (out)",
"nose out",
"pip",
"cap",
"excel",
"flourish",
"score",
"succeed",
"break",
"destroy",
"do in",
"finish",
"sink",
"slaughter"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rusticity":{
"as in boorishness , rowdiness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boorishness",
"brutishness",
"churlishness",
"clownishness",
"loutishness",
"rowdiness",
"uncouthness",
"coarseness",
"commonness",
"crassness",
"crudeness",
"crudity",
"grossness",
"indelicacy",
"indelicateness",
"lowness",
"raffishness",
"rawness",
"roughness",
"rudeness",
"tastelessness",
"vulgarity",
"artlessness",
"gracelessness",
"inelegance",
"unsophistication",
"insensitiveness",
"insensitivity",
"thoughtlessness",
"kitsch",
"tackiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cultivation",
"genteelness",
"gentility",
"polish",
"refinement",
"tastefulness",
"courtliness",
"urbanity",
"elegance",
"grace",
"graciousness",
"consideration",
"sensitivity",
"thoughtfulness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"running after":{
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"She ran after the puppy that escaped from the yard."
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dogging",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"dogging",
"following",
"hounding",
"pursuing",
"running",
"shadowing",
"tagging",
"tailing",
"tracing",
"tracking",
"trailing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompanying",
"chaperoning",
"escorting",
"hunting",
"searching (for)",
"seeking",
"eyeing",
"eying",
"observing",
"watching"
],
"near antonyms":[
"heading"
],
"antonyms":[
"guiding",
"leading",
"piloting"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rustics":{
"an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country":{
"examples":[
"a rustic who was awed by the prices that city dwellers had to pay"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumpkins",
"chawbacons",
"churls",
"clodhoppers",
"cornballs",
"countrymen",
"hayseed",
"hayseeds",
"hicks",
"provincials",
"rubes",
"yokels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boors",
"clods",
"clowns",
"gawks",
"louts",
"oafs",
"greenhorns",
"tenderfeet",
"tenderfoots",
"peasants",
"peons",
"peones",
"backwoodsmen",
"mountaineers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slickers",
"smoothies",
"metropolitans",
"suburbanites",
"urbanites"
],
"antonyms":[
"cosmopolitans",
"cosmopolites",
"sophisticates"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runs (in)":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I just thought I'd run in and pick up my package"
],
"synonyms":[
"calls",
"comes by",
"comes over",
"drops by",
"drops in",
"pops (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":[]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"if we catch you shoplifting again, we're going to run you in"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehends",
"arrests",
"busts",
"collars",
"nabs",
"nails",
"nicks",
"picks up",
"pinches",
"pulls in",
"restrains",
"seizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bags",
"captures",
"catches",
"gets",
"grabs",
"grapples",
"hooks",
"lands",
"snaps (up)",
"snares",
"snatches",
"traps",
"commits",
"confines",
"detains",
"holds",
"immures",
"imprisons",
"incarcerates",
"interns",
"jails",
"jugs",
"locks (up)",
"binds",
"enchains",
"fetters",
"handcuffs",
"manacles",
"shackles",
"trammels",
"rearrests",
"remands"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipates",
"frees",
"liberates",
"loosens",
"looses",
"releases",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"unchains"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharges"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"running hands":{
"as in prints , cursives":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"backhands",
"copperplates",
"cursives",
"prints",
"hands",
"handwritings",
"penmanships",
"scripts",
"cacographies",
"hen scratches",
"hen tracks",
"scratches",
"scrawls",
"scribbles",
"autographs",
"John Hancocks",
"John Henrys",
"signatures"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rumble":{
"to make a low heavy rolling sound":{
"examples":[
"when thunder rumbled in the distant sky, we wisely began packing up our picnic"
],
"synonyms":[
"growl",
"grumble",
"lumber",
"roll"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boom",
"drum",
"thunder",
"bellow"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in rumbling , murmur":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"mumble",
"mumbling",
"murmur",
"murmuring",
"rumbling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"clamor",
"howl",
"hubbub",
"hue and cry",
"hullabaloo",
"noise",
"outcry",
"roar",
"tumult",
"uproar",
"vociferation",
"clangor",
"din",
"jangle",
"racket",
"cri de coeur",
"outburst",
"protest"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rushing":{
"as in running , hurrying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"barreling",
"bolting",
"breakneck",
"breathless",
"brisk",
"careering",
"dizzy",
"fast",
"fleet",
"flying",
"hasty",
"hurrying",
"lightning",
"meteoric",
"quick",
"racing",
"rapid",
"rocketing",
"running",
"scooting",
"scudding",
"scurrying",
"snappy",
"speeding",
"speedy",
"swift",
"warp-speed",
"whirling",
"whirlwind",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"expeditious",
"prompt",
"ready",
"accelerated",
"hastened",
"quickened",
"hurried",
"rushed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dilatory",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"laggard",
"lagging",
"languid",
"leisurely",
"poking",
"poky",
"pokey",
"slow",
"sluggish",
"snaillike",
"snail-paced",
"tardy",
"unhurried",
"deliberate",
"measured",
"inactive",
"inert",
"lethargic",
"loafing",
"lounging"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to move or proceed fast or faster":{
"examples":[
"I wouldn't make so many mistakes if you'd stop rushing me"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerating",
"bundling",
"fast-tracking",
"hastening",
"hurrying",
"quickening",
"speeding (up)",
"whisking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"driving",
"goading",
"prodding",
"propelling",
"pushing",
"racing",
"spurring",
"stirring",
"urging",
"aiding",
"dispatching",
"easing",
"encouraging",
"expediting",
"facilitating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delaying",
"encumbering",
"fettering",
"hampering",
"hindering",
"hobbling",
"holding back",
"holding up",
"impeding",
"interfering (with)",
"manacling",
"reining (in)",
"restraining",
"shackling",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"tying up",
"tieing up",
"arresting",
"checking",
"stalling",
"staying",
"stilling",
"stopping"
],
"antonyms":[
"braking",
"decelerating",
"retarding",
"slowing (down)"
]
},
"to flow out in great quantities or with force":{
"examples":[
"in the spring the stream's rushing waters make crossing treacherous"
],
"synonyms":[
"gushing",
"jetting",
"pouring",
"spewing",
"spouting",
"spurting",
"squirting",
"swooshing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cascading",
"issuing",
"rolling",
"running",
"streaming",
"plashing",
"sloshing",
"splashing",
"washing",
"surging",
"swelling",
"flushing",
"sluicing",
"deluging",
"drowning",
"engulfing",
"flooding",
"inundating",
"overflowing",
"overwhelming",
"submerging",
"submersing",
"swamping",
"fountaining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"spattering",
"sprinkling",
"bleeding",
"exuding",
"leaking",
"oozing",
"percolating",
"seeping",
"straining",
"weeping"
],
"antonyms":[
"dribbling",
"dripping",
"dropping",
"trickling"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"rushing is a good way to slip and fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreling",
"barrelling",
"belting",
"blasting",
"blazing",
"blowing",
"bolting",
"bombing",
"bowling",
"breezing",
"bundling",
"bustling",
"buzzing",
"cannonballing",
"careening",
"careering",
"chasing",
"coursing",
"cracking (on)",
"dashing",
"driving",
"flying",
"haring",
"hastening",
"highballing",
"hotfooting (it)",
"humping",
"hurling",
"hurrying",
"hurtling",
"hustling",
"hying",
"hieing",
"jetting",
"jumping",
"motoring",
"nipping",
"pelting",
"racing",
"ramming",
"ripping",
"rocketing",
"running",
"rustling",
"scooting",
"scurrying",
"scuttling",
"shooting",
"speeding",
"stepping",
"tearing",
"traveling",
"travelling",
"trotting",
"whirling",
"whisking",
"zipping",
"zooming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetling",
"darting",
"flitting",
"scampering",
"scudding",
"scuffling",
"stampeding",
"streaking",
"whizzing",
"galloping",
"jogging",
"sprinting",
"accelerating",
"quickening",
"stepping out",
"catching up",
"fast-forwarding",
"outpacing",
"outrunning",
"outstripping",
"overtaking",
"arrowing",
"beelining"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"dillydallying",
"dragging",
"hanging (around or out)",
"lagging",
"lingering",
"loitering",
"poking",
"tarrying",
"ambling",
"lumbering",
"plodding",
"sauntering",
"shuffling",
"strolling",
"decelerating",
"slowing (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawling",
"creeping",
"poking"
]
},
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"one goat suddenly rushed the other and knocked it down"
],
"synonyms":[
"assailing",
"assaulting",
"attacking",
"besetting",
"bushwhacking",
"charging",
"descending (on or upon)",
"going in (on)",
"jumping (on)",
"pouncing (on or upon)",
"raiding",
"setting on",
"siccing",
"sicking",
"storming",
"striking",
"trashing",
"turning (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushing",
"ganging up (on)",
"mobbing",
"swarming",
"mugging",
"robbing",
"ambuscading",
"ambushing",
"surprising",
"surprizing",
"waylaying",
"blitzing",
"bombarding",
"bombing",
"nuking",
"barraging",
"cannonading",
"cannoning",
"banging away (at)",
"battering",
"buffeting",
"plastering",
"beleaguering",
"besieging",
"pressing",
"harrying",
"looting",
"pillaging",
"plundering",
"ravaging",
"sacking",
"foraying",
"invading",
"overrunning",
"enveloping",
"flanking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covering",
"defending",
"guarding",
"protecting",
"securing",
"shielding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"run on":{
"to engage in casual or rambling conversation":{
"examples":[
"we were just running on about how neither of us has aged a bit after all these years"
],
"synonyms":[
"babble",
"blab",
"cackle",
"chaffer",
"chat",
"chatter",
"chin",
"converse",
"gab",
"gabble",
"gas",
"jabber",
"jaw",
"kibitz",
"kibbitz",
"natter",
"palaver",
"patter",
"prate",
"prattle",
"rap",
"rattle",
"schmooze",
"shmooze",
"talk",
"twitter",
"visit"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gossip",
"tattle",
"descant",
"discuss",
"expatiate",
"yak",
"yack",
"yammer",
"yap"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remain indefinitely in existence or in the same state":{
"examples":[
"allow the savings account to run on for now"
],
"synonyms":[
"abide",
"bide",
"continue",
"endure",
"hold on",
"hold up",
"keep up",
"last",
"perdure",
"persist",
"remain"
],
"near synonyms":[
"linger",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry",
"carry through",
"prevail",
"survive"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abate",
"die (down)",
"ebb",
"let up",
"moderate",
"subside",
"wane"
],
"antonyms":[
"cease",
"close",
"conclude",
"desist",
"die",
"discontinue",
"end",
"expire",
"finish",
"lapse",
"leave off",
"pass",
"quit",
"stop",
"terminate",
"wind up"
]
},
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"she's very sweet, but she does tend to run on"
],
"synonyms":[
"blather (on)",
"go on",
"maunder",
"ramble",
"rattle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviate",
"digress",
"stray",
"wander",
"sidetrack",
"blab",
"blabber",
"blither",
"bumble",
"burble",
"chat",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"drool",
"gab",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"jabber",
"patter",
"prate",
"prattle",
"waffle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run along":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"I'd love to stay longer, but I must be running along"
],
"synonyms":[
"bail",
"bail out",
"begone",
"book",
"bug off",
"bug out",
"bugger off",
"buzz (off)",
"clear off",
"clear out",
"cut out",
"depart",
"dig out",
"exit",
"get",
"get off",
"go",
"go off",
"move",
"pack (up or off)",
"part",
"peel off",
"pike (out or off)",
"pull out",
"push off",
"push on",
"quit",
"sally (forth)",
"scarper",
"shove (off)",
"step (along)",
"take off",
"vamoose",
"walk out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"set out",
"start",
"strike out",
"abscond",
"decamp",
"escape",
"evacuate",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"mizzle",
"run away",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip",
"go out",
"light out",
"step out",
"abandon",
"desert",
"forsake",
"vacate",
"emigrate",
"adjourn",
"remove",
"retire",
"retreat",
"withdraw"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"lodge",
"remain",
"settle",
"stay",
"tarry",
"approach",
"close",
"near",
"hit",
"land",
"reach"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrive",
"come",
"show up",
"turn up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rulership":{
"as in leadership , generalship":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"generalship",
"leadership",
"administration",
"care",
"charge",
"conduct",
"control",
"direction",
"governance",
"government",
"guidance",
"handling",
"intendance",
"management",
"operation",
"oversight",
"presidency",
"regulation",
"running",
"stewardship",
"superintendence",
"superintendency",
"supervision",
"agency",
"aegis",
"egis",
"custody",
"guardianship",
"keeping",
"lap",
"protection",
"safekeeping",
"trust",
"tutelage",
"ward",
"engineering",
"logistics",
"machination",
"manipulation",
"coadministration",
"codirection",
"comanagement"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rummage":{
"an unorganized collection or mixture of various things":{
"examples":[
"a rummage of textbooks, notebooks, and old school papers all over the desk"
],
"synonyms":[
"agglomerate",
"agglomeration",
"alphabet soup",
"assortment",
"botch",
"clutter",
"collage",
"crazy quilt",
"farrago",
"gallimaufry",
"grab bag",
"gumbo",
"hash",
"hodgepodge",
"hotchpotch",
"jambalaya",
"jumble",
"jungle",
"litter",
"mac\u00e9doine",
"medley",
"m\u00e9lange",
"menagerie",
"miscellanea",
"miscellany",
"mishmash",
"mixed bag",
"montage",
"motley",
"muddle",
"olio",
"olla podrida",
"omnium-gatherum",
"pastiche",
"patchwork",
"patchwork quilt",
"potpourri",
"ragbag",
"ragout",
"salad",
"salmagundi",
"scramble",
"shuffle",
"smorgasbord",
"stew",
"tumble",
"variety",
"welter"
],
"near synonyms":[
"detritus",
"notions",
"oddments",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"accumulation",
"aggregate",
"aggregation",
"conglomerate",
"conglomeration",
"catchall",
"admixture",
"alloy",
"amalgam",
"blend",
"combination",
"commixture",
"composite",
"compound",
"fusion",
"intermixture",
"mix-up",
"bollix",
"chaos",
"confusion",
"disarrangement",
"disarray",
"disorder",
"dog's breakfast",
"mess",
"morass",
"shambles",
"imbroglio",
"knot",
"snarl",
"tangle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"at the last minute she rummaged a costume from the attic"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertain",
"descry",
"detect",
"determine",
"dig out",
"dig up",
"discover",
"dredge (up)",
"ferret (out)",
"find",
"find out",
"get",
"hit (on or upon)",
"hunt (down or up)",
"learn",
"locate",
"nose out",
"root (out)",
"rout (out)",
"run down",
"scare up",
"scout (up)",
"track (down)",
"turn up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"espy",
"sight",
"spot",
"look for",
"search (for or out)",
"seek"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lose",
"mislay",
"misplace",
"misset"
],
"antonyms":[
"miss",
"overlook",
"pass over"
]
},
"to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something":{
"examples":[
"he rummaged the desk drawer trying to find the spare keys"
],
"synonyms":[
"comb",
"dig (through)",
"dredge",
"hunt (through)",
"rake",
"ransack",
"rifle",
"scour",
"search",
"sort (through)",
"troll"
],
"near synonyms":[
"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"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hide",
"abandon",
"lose",
"ignore",
"neglect"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"run out of":{
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"They ran out of printer paper and had to order more."
],
"synonyms":[
"absorb",
"burn",
"consume",
"deplete",
"devour",
"drain",
"draw down",
"exhaust",
"expend",
"play out",
"spend",
"use up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abate",
"decrease",
"de-escalate",
"diminish",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"lower",
"reduce",
"eat",
"use",
"bankrupt",
"clean (out)",
"impoverish",
"cripple",
"debilitate",
"disable",
"enfeeble",
"sap",
"undermine",
"weaken",
"dry up",
"empty",
"blow",
"dissipate",
"fritter (away)",
"guzzle",
"lavish",
"misspend",
"run through",
"squander",
"throw away",
"waste"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augment",
"enlarge",
"increase",
"bolster",
"enforce",
"fortify",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"strengthen",
"rebuild",
"repair",
"restore",
"revive",
"conserve",
"preserve",
"save"
],
"antonyms":[
"renew",
"replace"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rules out":{
"to prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of":{
"examples":[
"another loss would rule them out of the tournament"
],
"synonyms":[
"bans",
"bars",
"closes out",
"counts (out)",
"debars",
"eliminates",
"excepts",
"excludes",
"freezes out",
"shuts out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackballs",
"blacklists",
"excommunicates",
"ostracizes",
"banishes",
"deports",
"exiles",
"expels",
"ousts",
"throws out",
"obviates",
"precludes",
"prevents",
"prohibits",
"blocks",
"hinders",
"impedes",
"obstructs",
"ceases",
"discontinues",
"halts",
"suspends",
"deters",
"staves off",
"wards (off)",
"checks off",
"disregards",
"combs (out)",
"weeds (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accepts",
"embraces",
"entertains",
"receives",
"takes in",
"welcomes",
"unbans"
],
"antonyms":[
"admits",
"includes"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rubric":{
"a word or series of words often in larger letters placed at the beginning of a passage or at the top of a page in order to introduce or categorize":{
"examples":[
"the rubrics at the beginning of the chapters are intended to be humorous"
],
"synonyms":[
"caption",
"head",
"header",
"heading",
"headline",
"title"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banner",
"streamer",
"catchword",
"guide word",
"running head",
"greeting",
"salutation",
"superscript",
"superscription",
"subhead",
"subheading",
"subtitle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an inherited or established way of thinking, feeling, or doing":{
"examples":[
"the rubric , popular among jewelers anyway, that a man should spend a month's salary on his fianc\u00e9e's engagement ring"
],
"synonyms":[
"convention",
"custom",
"heritage",
"prescription",
"rule",
"tradition"
],
"near synonyms":[
"ethic",
"form",
"mode",
"mores",
"norm",
"principles",
"standards",
"values",
"birthright",
"inheritance",
"legacy",
"folklore",
"lore",
"superstition",
"culture",
"lifestyle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one of the units into which a whole is divided on the basis of a common characteristic":{
"examples":[
"all of these books with their conspiracy theories fall under the rubric of speculative fiction"
],
"synonyms":[
"bracket",
"category",
"class",
"classification",
"division",
"family",
"genus",
"grade",
"group",
"kind",
"league",
"order",
"rank(s)",
"set",
"species",
"tier",
"type"
],
"near synonyms":[
"description",
"feather",
"ilk",
"kidney",
"like",
"manner",
"nature",
"sort",
"branch",
"section",
"speciality",
"specialty",
"subclass",
"subdivision",
"subgroup",
"subspecies",
"variety",
"breed",
"race",
"generation",
"heading",
"label",
"title"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"running upon":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"The boy ran upon a small house while exploring the woods."
],
"synonyms":[
"chancing (upon)",
"encountering",
"finding",
"happening (on or upon)",
"hitting (upon)",
"lighting (on or upon)",
"meeting",
"pitching (upon)",
"stumbling (on or onto)",
"tumbling (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucking (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronting",
"facing",
"discovering",
"striking",
"turning up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"We ran upon our neighbor in the grocery store."
],
"synonyms":[
"catching",
"chancing (upon)",
"encountering",
"happening (upon)",
"meeting",
"stumbling (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accosting",
"confronting",
"facing",
"greeting",
"saluting",
"colliding (with)",
"crashing (into)",
"crisscrossing",
"crossing",
"passing",
"hitting (upon)",
"lighting (upon)",
"tumbling (to)",
"reencountering",
"re-encountering",
"remeeting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"shaking",
"shunning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rundowns":{
"a short statement of the main points":{
"examples":[
"a rundown of the suspect's lengthy police record"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstracts",
"breviaries",
"briefs",
"capsules",
"conspectuses",
"digests",
"encapsulations",
"epitomes",
"inventories",
"outlines",
"pr\u00e9cis",
"recapitulations",
"recaps",
"r\u00e9sum\u00e9s",
"resumes",
"resum\u00e9s",
"roundups",
"run-throughs",
"summae",
"summaries",
"summarizations",
"summings-up",
"sums",
"sum-ups",
"synopses",
"wrap-ups"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abbreviations",
"abridgments",
"abridgements",
"compendiums",
"compendia",
"compends",
"condensations",
"curtailments",
"shortenings",
"simplifications",
"rehashes",
"reprises",
"conclusions",
"epilogues",
"epilogs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amplifications",
"enlargements",
"expansions",
"addenda",
"addendums",
"supplements"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"running with":{
"as in beating the drum (for or about)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beating the drum (for or about)",
"advertising",
"announcing",
"annunciating",
"blaring",
"blazing",
"blazoning",
"broadcasting",
"declaring",
"enunciating",
"flashing",
"giving out",
"heralding",
"placarding",
"posting",
"proclaiming",
"promulgating",
"publicizing",
"publishing",
"releasing",
"sounding",
"trumpeting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"concealing",
"hushing (up)",
"silencing",
"suppressing",
"withholding",
"recalling",
"recanting",
"retracting",
"revoking"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run past":{
"to put before another for acceptance or consideration":{
"examples":[
"When you have a chance, I'd love to run some new ideas by you."
],
"synonyms":[
"extend",
"give",
"offer",
"proffer",
"tender",
"trot out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pose",
"propose",
"hold out",
"give in",
"submit",
"volunteer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"receive",
"take",
"accredit",
"approbate",
"approve",
"authorize",
"clear",
"confirm",
"finalize",
"formalize",
"homologate",
"OK",
"okay",
"ratify",
"sanction",
"warrant",
"decline",
"deny",
"disallow",
"disapprove",
"negative",
"reject",
"turn down",
"veto",
"rebuff",
"rebut",
"refuse",
"spurn",
"retract",
"withdraw",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rural free deliveries":{
"as in special deliveries , registered mails":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"airmails",
"airposts",
"certified mails",
"registered mails",
"rural deliveries",
"special deliveries",
"special handlings",
"correspondences",
"mails",
"matters",
"parcel posts",
"posts",
"snail mail",
"direct mails",
"junk mails",
"mailers",
"cards",
"dispatches",
"epistles",
"letters",
"messages",
"missives",
"notes",
"postal cards",
"postcards",
"printed matters",
"bundles",
"packages",
"shipments"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"rumbustious":{
"being rough or noisy in a high-spirited way":{
"examples":[
"while American university debates tend to be sedate affairs, their counterparts in Oxford are wholeheartedly rumbustious"
],
"synonyms":[
"boisterous",
"hell-raising",
"knockabout",
"rambunctious",
"raucous",
"robustious",
"roisterous",
"rollicking",
"rowdy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"callithumpian",
"carnival",
"carnivalesque",
"larrikin",
"raffish",
"rampageous",
"riotous",
"rowdyish",
"ruffianly",
"stormy",
"tempestuous",
"turbulent",
"violent",
"headstrong",
"intractable",
"obstreperous",
"recalcitrant",
"uncontrollable",
"uncontrolled",
"undisciplined",
"ungovernable",
"uninhibited",
"unmanageable",
"unreserved",
"unrestrained",
"unruly",
"wild",
"willful",
"wilful",
"bubbly",
"buoyant",
"effervescent",
"exuberant",
"high-spirited",
"impassioned",
"lively",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"clamorous",
"loudmouthed",
"noisy",
"openmouthed",
"rackety",
"strident",
"vociferous",
"howling",
"screaming",
"yelling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"sedate",
"sober",
"solemn",
"somber",
"sombre",
"staid",
"decorous",
"dignified",
"proper",
"seemly",
"calm",
"hushed",
"noiseless",
"peaceful",
"placid",
"quiet",
"restrained",
"serene",
"silent",
"soundless",
"tranquil",
"collected",
"composed",
"constrained",
"controlled",
"imperturbable",
"inhibited",
"repressed",
"self-controlled",
"unflappable",
"unruffled",
"moderate",
"reasonable",
"subdued",
"temperate",
"impassive",
"phlegmatic",
"stoic",
"stoical",
"stolid",
"depressed",
"aloof",
"detached",
"indifferent"
],
"antonyms":[
"orderly"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rug":{
"a headpiece made of natural or synthetic hair usually worn to cover a bald area":{
"examples":[
"get a load of that bald guy's rug \u2014who does he think he's fooling?"
],
"synonyms":[
"hairpiece",
"toupee",
"wig"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fright wig",
"extension",
"fall",
"postiche",
"switch",
"wiglet"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"running one's mouth":{
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"There goes Joe, running his mouth again about stuff that doesn't really matter."
],
"synonyms":[
"blathering (on)",
"going on",
"maundering",
"rambling",
"rattling",
"running on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviating",
"digressing",
"straying",
"wandering",
"sidetracking",
"blabbering",
"blabbing",
"blithering",
"bumbling",
"burbling",
"chattering",
"chatting",
"driveling",
"drivelling",
"drooling",
"gabbing",
"gabbling",
"gibbering",
"jabbering",
"pattering",
"prating",
"prattling",
"waffling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"ruiners":{
"as in destroyers , saboteurs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"demolishers",
"desecraters",
"desecrators",
"despoilers",
"destroyers",
"ravagers",
"saboteurs",
"wasters",
"wreckers",
"defacers",
"vandals",
"graffitists",
"taggers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conservers",
"preservers",
"protectors",
"savers",
"conservators",
"preservationists"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runoffs":{
"as in arroyos , freshets":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arroyos",
"billabongs",
"freshes",
"freshets",
"becks",
"bourns",
"bournes",
"brooklets",
"brooks",
"burns",
"creeks",
"gills",
"rills",
"rivulets",
"runlets",
"runnels",
"runs",
"streamlets",
"bayous",
"coulees",
"sloughs",
"slews",
"slues",
"streams",
"washes",
"canals",
"channels",
"cutoffs",
"cuts",
"guts",
"kills",
"millraces",
"millstreams",
"races",
"watercourses",
"waterways",
"affluents",
"branches",
"confluents",
"distributaries",
"influents",
"tributaries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"running hand":{
"as in print , cursive":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"backhand",
"copperplate",
"cursive",
"print",
"hand",
"handwriting",
"penmanship",
"script",
"cacography",
"hen scratch",
"hen track",
"scratch",
"scrawl",
"scribble",
"autograph",
"John Hancock",
"John Henry",
"signature"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runs riot":{
"to behave badly":{
"examples":[
"Students were running riot at yesterday's tailgate."
],
"synonyms":[
"acts out",
"acts up",
"carries on",
"misbehaves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misconducts",
"disobeys",
"rebels",
"clowns (around)",
"cuts up",
"fools around",
"horses around",
"kids (around)",
"shows off",
"roughhouses"
],
"near antonyms":[
"obeys",
"acquits",
"acts",
"bears",
"comports",
"conducts",
"demeans",
"deports",
"quits",
"complies",
"conforms",
"checks",
"collects",
"composes",
"constrains",
"contains",
"controls",
"curbs",
"handles",
"inhibits",
"moves",
"quiets",
"represses",
"restrains"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"ruthlessness":{
"as in mercilessness , pitilessness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hard-heartedness",
"mercilessness",
"pitilessness",
"unfeelingness",
"atrociousness",
"atrocity",
"barbarity",
"barbarousness",
"brutality",
"cruelness",
"cruelty",
"fiendishness",
"heartlessness",
"inhumanity",
"inhumanness",
"sadism",
"savageness",
"savagery",
"truculence",
"viciousness",
"wantonness",
"fellness",
"ferociousness",
"ferocity",
"fierceness",
"grimness",
"bloodlust",
"bloodthirstiness",
"murderousness",
"sanguineness",
"sanguinity",
"cattiness",
"despitefulness",
"hatefulness",
"malevolence",
"maliciousness",
"malignity",
"meanness",
"nastiness",
"spitefulness",
"hardhandedness",
"harshness",
"heavy-handedness",
"oppressiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"benignity",
"compassion",
"good-heartedness",
"humaneness",
"humanity",
"kindheartedness",
"kindness",
"sympathy",
"tenderheartedness",
"tenderness",
"warmheartedness",
"warmness",
"warmth",
"charitableness",
"clemency",
"leniency",
"mercifulness",
"mercy",
"pity"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ruts":{
"an established and often automatic or monotonous series of actions followed when engaging in some activity":{
"examples":[
"I've fallen into a rut , watching television and then going to bed every night"
],
"synonyms":[
"drills",
"grinds",
"grooves",
"locksteps",
"patterns",
"rotes",
"routines",
"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":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ruling (on)":{
"to give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute)":{
"examples":[
"the coach ruled on the question of whether an off-campus bar fight ought to disqualify someone from the team"
],
"synonyms":[
"adjudging",
"adjudicating",
"arbitrating",
"deciding",
"determining",
"judging",
"refereeing",
"settling",
"umpiring"
],
"near synonyms":[
"considering",
"deeming",
"deliberating",
"hearing",
"pondering",
"weighing",
"sizing up",
"mediating",
"moderating",
"negotiating",
"prosecuting",
"trying",
"finding (for or against)",
"concluding",
"resolving",
"redetermining",
"rejudging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"equivocating",
"hedging",
"pussyfooting",
"skirting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rule out":{
"to prevent the participation, consideration, or inclusion of":{
"examples":[
"another loss would rule them out of the tournament"
],
"synonyms":[
"ban",
"bar",
"close out",
"count (out)",
"debar",
"eliminate",
"except",
"exclude",
"freeze out",
"shut out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackball",
"blacklist",
"excommunicate",
"ostracize",
"banish",
"deport",
"exile",
"expel",
"oust",
"throw out",
"obviate",
"preclude",
"prevent",
"prohibit",
"block",
"hinder",
"impede",
"obstruct",
"cease",
"discontinue",
"halt",
"suspend",
"deter",
"stave off",
"ward (off)",
"check off",
"disregard",
"comb (out)",
"weed (out)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"embrace",
"entertain",
"receive",
"take in",
"welcome",
"unban"
],
"antonyms":[
"admit",
"include"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rushed":{
"acting or done with excessive or careless speed":{
"examples":[
"a rushed job with a number of errors"
],
"synonyms":[
"cursory",
"drive-by",
"flying",
"gadarene",
"hasty",
"headlong",
"helter-skelter",
"hurried",
"overhasty",
"pell-mell",
"precipitate",
"precipitous",
"rash"
],
"near synonyms":[
"breakneck",
"breathtaking",
"headstrong",
"heady",
"hotheaded",
"impatient",
"impetuous",
"impulsive",
"madcap",
"reckless",
"unadvised",
"quick",
"rapid",
"speedy",
"swift",
"horseback",
"impromptu",
"makeshift",
"offhand",
"offhanded",
"off-the-cuff",
"rush",
"slapdash",
"snap",
"spontaneous",
"spur-of-the-moment",
"abrupt",
"sudden"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calculated",
"calculating",
"measured",
"circumspect",
"foresighted",
"forethoughtful",
"drawn-out",
"extended",
"long-term",
"prolonged",
"faltering",
"hesitant",
"hesitating",
"tentative",
"dallying",
"dawdling",
"laggard",
"leisurely",
"poky",
"pokey",
"shilly-shallying",
"slow"
],
"antonyms":[
"deliberate",
"unhurried",
"unrushed"
]
},
"to cause to move or proceed fast or faster":{
"examples":[
"I wouldn't make so many mistakes if you'd stop rushing me"
],
"synonyms":[
"accelerated",
"bundled",
"fast-tracked",
"hastened",
"hurried",
"quickened",
"sped (up)",
"speeded (up)",
"whisked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drove",
"goaded",
"prodded",
"propelled",
"pushed",
"raced",
"spurred",
"stirred",
"urged",
"aided",
"dispatched",
"eased",
"encouraged",
"expedited",
"facilitated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delayed",
"encumbered",
"fettered",
"hampered",
"held back",
"held up",
"hindered",
"hobbled",
"impeded",
"interfered (with)",
"manacled",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"shackled",
"tied up",
"trammeled",
"trammelled",
"arrested",
"checked",
"stalled",
"stayed",
"stilled",
"stopped"
],
"antonyms":[
"braked",
"decelerated",
"retarded",
"slowed (down)"
]
},
"to flow out in great quantities or with force":{
"examples":[
"in the spring the stream's rushing waters make crossing treacherous"
],
"synonyms":[
"gushed",
"jetted",
"poured",
"spewed",
"spouted",
"spurted",
"squirted",
"swooshed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cascaded",
"issued",
"ran",
"run",
"rolled",
"streamed",
"plashed",
"sloshed",
"splashed",
"washed",
"surged",
"swelled",
"flushed",
"sluiced",
"deluged",
"drowned",
"engulfed",
"flooded",
"inundated",
"overflowed",
"overwhelmed",
"submerged",
"submersed",
"swamped",
"fountained"
],
"near antonyms":[
"spattered",
"sprinkled",
"bled",
"exuded",
"leaked",
"oozed",
"percolated",
"seeped",
"strained",
"wept"
],
"antonyms":[
"dribbled",
"dripped",
"dropped",
"trickled"
]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"rushing is a good way to slip and fall"
],
"synonyms":[
"barreled",
"barrelled",
"belted",
"blasted",
"blazed",
"blew",
"bolted",
"bombed",
"bowled",
"breezed",
"bundled",
"bustled",
"buzzed",
"cannonballed",
"careened",
"careered",
"chased",
"coursed",
"cracked (on)",
"dashed",
"drove",
"flew",
"hared",
"hastened",
"hied",
"highballed",
"hotfooted (it)",
"humped",
"hurled",
"hurried",
"hurtled",
"hustled",
"jetted",
"jumped",
"motored",
"nipped",
"pelted",
"raced",
"rammed",
"ran",
"run",
"ripped",
"rocketed",
"rustled",
"scooted",
"scurried",
"scuttled",
"shot",
"sped",
"speeded",
"stepped",
"tore",
"traveled",
"travelled",
"trotted",
"whirled",
"whisked",
"zipped",
"zoomed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetled",
"darted",
"flitted",
"scampered",
"scudded",
"scuffled",
"stampeded",
"streaked",
"whizzed",
"galloped",
"jogged",
"sprinted",
"accelerated",
"quickened",
"stepped out",
"caught up",
"fast-forwarded",
"outpaced",
"outran",
"outstripped",
"overtook",
"arrowed",
"beelined"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallied",
"dawdled",
"dillydallied",
"dragged",
"hung (around or out)",
"hanged (around or out)",
"lagged",
"lingered",
"loitered",
"poked",
"tarried",
"ambled",
"lumbered",
"plodded",
"sauntered",
"shuffled",
"strolled",
"decelerated",
"slowed (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawled",
"crept",
"poked"
]
},
"to take sudden, violent action against":{
"examples":[
"one goat suddenly rushed the other and knocked it down"
],
"synonyms":[
"assailed",
"assaulted",
"attacked",
"beset",
"bushwhacked",
"charged",
"descended (on or upon)",
"jumped (on)",
"pounced (on or upon)",
"raided",
"set on",
"sicced",
"sicked",
"stormed",
"struck",
"trashed",
"turned (on)",
"went in (on)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bum-rushed",
"ganged up (on)",
"mobbed",
"swarmed",
"mugged",
"robbed",
"ambuscaded",
"ambushed",
"surprised",
"surprized",
"waylaid",
"blitzed",
"bombarded",
"bombed",
"nuked",
"barraged",
"cannonaded",
"cannoned",
"banged away (at)",
"battered",
"buffeted",
"plastered",
"beleaguered",
"besieged",
"pressed",
"harried",
"looted",
"pillaged",
"plundered",
"ravaged",
"sacked",
"forayed",
"invaded",
"overran",
"enveloped",
"flanked"
],
"near antonyms":[
"covered",
"defended",
"guarded",
"protected",
"secured",
"shielded"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"rumps":{
"the part of the body upon which someone sits":{
"examples":[
"she plopped down on her rump to listen to the campfire story"
],
"synonyms":[
"backsides",
"behinds",
"booties",
"bottoms",
"breeches",
"bums",
"buns",
"buttocks",
"butts",
"cabooses",
"cans",
"cheeks",
"derrieres",
"derri\u00e8res",
"duffs",
"fannies",
"fundaments",
"hams",
"haunches",
"heinies",
"hunkers",
"keisters",
"keesters",
"nates",
"posteriors",
"rear ends",
"rears",
"seats",
"tail ends",
"tails",
"tushes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beams",
"sterns",
"moons"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rubbing the wrong way":{
"to disturb the peace of mind of (someone) especially by repeated disagreeable acts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"bothering",
"bugging",
"burning (up)",
"chafing",
"eating",
"exasperating",
"frosting",
"galling",
"getting",
"grating",
"griping",
"hacking (off)",
"irking",
"irritating",
"itching",
"narking",
"nettling",
"peeving",
"persecuting",
"piquing",
"putting out",
"rasping",
"riling",
"ruffling",
"spiting",
"vexing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"hassling",
"heckling",
"nagging",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"provoking",
"rousing",
"badgering",
"baiting",
"bullyragging",
"ballyragging",
"deviling",
"devilling",
"hagriding",
"harassing",
"harrying",
"pestering",
"plaguing",
"teasing",
"angering",
"antagonizing",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"infuriating",
"maddening",
"rankling",
"roiling",
"agitating",
"discomforting",
"discomposing",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"exercising",
"freaking (out)",
"fretting",
"perturbing",
"undoing",
"unhinging",
"unsettling",
"upsetting",
"worrying",
"affronting",
"insulting",
"miffing",
"offending",
"outraging"
],
"near antonyms":[
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"obliging",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"propitiating",
"delighting",
"gladdening",
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"satisfying",
"assuring",
"cheering",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"contenting",
"quieting",
"reassuring",
"solacing",
"soothing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make angry":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"angering",
"enraging",
"incensing",
"inflaming",
"enflaming",
"infuriating",
"iring",
"maddening",
"madding",
"outraging",
"rankling",
"riling",
"roiling",
"steaming up",
"ticking off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affronting",
"aggravating",
"annoying",
"burning (up)",
"crossing",
"exasperating",
"getting",
"huffing",
"irritating",
"miffing",
"nettling",
"offending",
"peeving",
"piquing",
"provoking",
"putting out",
"ruffling",
"vexing",
"antagonizing",
"embittering",
"envenoming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allaying",
"assuaging",
"relieving",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"soothing",
"appeasing",
"conciliating",
"mollifying",
"pacifying",
"placating",
"calming",
"lulling",
"quieting",
"settling",
"beguiling",
"bewitching",
"captivating",
"charming",
"disarming",
"enchanting"
],
"antonyms":[
"delighting",
"gratifying",
"pleasing"
]
},
"type":[]
},
"runs against":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"It surprised her that she ran against some resistance when she presented her plan for the company."
],
"synonyms":[
"chances (upon)",
"encounters",
"finds",
"happens (on or upon)",
"hits (upon)",
"lights (on or upon)",
"meets",
"pitches (upon)",
"stumbles (on or onto)",
"tumbles (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucks (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronts",
"faces",
"discovers",
"strikes",
"turns up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"ruggedness":{
"as in strength , toughness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"hardiness",
"lustiness",
"robustiousness",
"stamina",
"strength",
"toughness",
"vigor",
"vigorousness",
"vitality",
"cleanliness",
"hygiene",
"bloom",
"flush",
"flushness",
"fettle",
"shape",
"activeness",
"agility",
"liveliness",
"spryness",
"fitness",
"health",
"healthiness",
"heartiness",
"robustness",
"sap",
"soundness",
"verdure",
"wellness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness",
"weal",
"welfare",
"well-being"
],
"near antonyms":[
"illness",
"sickness",
"unhealthiness",
"unsoundness",
"debility",
"decrepitude",
"feebleness",
"frailness",
"infirmity",
"lameness",
"sickliness",
"weakness",
"ailment",
"condition",
"disease",
"disorder",
"malady",
"trouble"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runs out of":{
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"They ran out of printer paper and had to order more."
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbs",
"burns",
"consumes",
"depletes",
"devours",
"drains",
"draws down",
"exhausts",
"expends",
"plays out",
"spends",
"uses up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"diminishes",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"lowers",
"reduces",
"eats",
"uses",
"bankrupts",
"cleans (out)",
"impoverishes",
"cripples",
"debilitates",
"disables",
"enfeebles",
"saps",
"undermines",
"weakens",
"dries up",
"empties",
"blows",
"dissipates",
"fritters (away)",
"guzzles",
"lavishes",
"misspends",
"runs through",
"squanders",
"throws away",
"wastes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augments",
"enlarges",
"increases",
"bolsters",
"enforces",
"fortifies",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"strengthens",
"rebuilds",
"repairs",
"restores",
"revives",
"conserves",
"preserves",
"saves"
],
"antonyms":[
"renews",
"replaces"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"run across":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"She ran across an old friend at lunch."
],
"synonyms":[
"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"find",
"happen (on or upon)",
"hit (upon)",
"light (on or upon)",
"meet",
"pitch (upon)",
"stumble (on or onto)",
"tumble (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"luck (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confront",
"face",
"discover",
"strike",
"turn up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"They ran across a bear while camping in the woods."
],
"synonyms":[
"catch",
"chance (upon)",
"encounter",
"happen (upon)",
"meet",
"stumble (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accost",
"confront",
"face",
"greet",
"salute",
"collide (with)",
"crash (into)",
"crisscross",
"cross",
"pass",
"hit (upon)",
"light (upon)",
"tumble (to)",
"reencounter",
"remeet"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoid",
"dodge",
"duck",
"elude",
"escape",
"evade",
"shake",
"shun"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"run off with":{
"to carry away (as a person) forcibly or unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"Several bystanders stopped the kidnapper before he could run off with the child."
],
"synonyms":[
"abduct",
"kidnap"
],
"near synonyms":[
"capture",
"crimp",
"impress",
"seize",
"shanghai",
"waylay",
"abscond (with)",
"snatch",
"spirit",
"hijack",
"highjack",
"catch",
"cop",
"steal",
"take"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deliver",
"ransom",
"redeem",
"rescue",
"restore",
"return"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"The petty thief ran off with a backpack full of snacks and magazines from the convenience store."
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriate",
"boost",
"filch",
"heist",
"hook",
"lift",
"misappropriate",
"nick",
"nip",
"pilfer",
"pinch",
"pocket",
"purloin",
"rip off",
"snitch",
"steal",
"swipe",
"thieve"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarize",
"knock over",
"rob",
"loot",
"pillage",
"plunder",
"sack",
"carjack",
"hijack",
"highjack",
"pick",
"rifle",
"poach",
"rustle",
"shoplift",
"collar",
"grab",
"grasp",
"nail",
"seize",
"snatch",
"take",
"mooch",
"sponge",
"abduct",
"kidnap",
"shanghai",
"spirit"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buy",
"purchase",
"bestow",
"contribute",
"donate",
"give",
"hand over",
"present"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"runs off with":{
"to carry away (as a person) forcibly or unlawfully":{
"examples":[
"Several bystanders stopped the kidnapper before he could run off with the child."
],
"synonyms":[
"abducts",
"kidnaps"
],
"near synonyms":[
"captures",
"crimps",
"impresses",
"seizes",
"shanghais",
"waylays",
"absconds (with)",
"snatches",
"spirits",
"hijacks",
"highjacks",
"catches",
"cops",
"steals",
"takes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delivers",
"ransoms",
"redeems",
"rescues",
"restores",
"returns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take (something) without right and with an intent to keep":{
"examples":[
"The petty thief ran off with a backpack full of snacks and magazines from the convenience store."
],
"synonyms":[
"appropriates",
"boosts",
"filches",
"heists",
"hooks",
"lifts",
"misappropriates",
"nicks",
"nips",
"pilfers",
"pinches",
"pockets",
"purloins",
"rips off",
"snitches",
"steals",
"swipes",
"thieves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"burglarizes",
"knocks over",
"robs",
"loots",
"pillages",
"plunders",
"sacks",
"carjacks",
"hijacks",
"highjacks",
"picks",
"rifles",
"poaches",
"rustles",
"shoplifts",
"collars",
"grabs",
"grasps",
"nails",
"seizes",
"snatches",
"takes",
"mooches",
"sponges",
"abducts",
"kidnaps",
"shanghais",
"spirits"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buys",
"purchases",
"bestows",
"contributes",
"donates",
"gives",
"hands over",
"presents"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"ruminations":{
"as in meditations , contemplations":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cogitations",
"contemplations",
"meditations",
"accounts",
"advisements",
"considerations",
"debates",
"deliberations",
"reflections",
"studies",
"thoughts",
"introspections",
"hesitations",
"indecisions",
"premeditations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rumbled":{
"to make a low heavy rolling sound":{
"examples":[
"when thunder rumbled in the distant sky, we wisely began packing up our picnic"
],
"synonyms":[
"growled",
"grumbled",
"lumbered",
"rolled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boomed",
"drummed",
"thundered",
"bellowed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rucks":{
"as in folds , creases":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"corrugates",
"creases",
"crimps",
"folds",
"pleats",
"puckers",
"crinkles",
"crumples",
"rumples",
"scrunches",
"wrinkles",
"crisps",
"ripples",
"ruffles",
"contracts",
"furrows",
"knits",
"messes (up)",
"musses (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flattens",
"irons out",
"smoothens",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"uncrumples",
"evens",
"irons",
"presses",
"straightens",
"unfolds",
"neatens",
"tidies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rubbishy":{
"of low quality":{
"examples":[
"rubbishy merchandise that is mainly bought by tourists"
],
"synonyms":[
"bad",
"bargain-basement",
"bum",
"cheap",
"cheapjack",
"cheesy",
"coarse",
"common",
"crappy",
"cut-rate",
"el cheapo",
"execrable",
"gimcrack",
"inferior",
"junky",
"lousy",
"low-grade",
"low-rent",
"mediocre",
"miserable",
"poor",
"rotten",
"schlock",
"schlocky",
"shlock",
"shlocky",
"second-rate",
"shoddy",
"sleazy",
"terrible",
"trashy",
"trumpery",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"useless",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"indifferent",
"lackluster",
"second-class",
"brummagem",
"flashy",
"garish",
"gaudy",
"glitzy",
"kitsch",
"kitschy",
"meretricious",
"ostentatious",
"showy",
"splashy",
"swank",
"swanky",
"tawdry",
"seedy",
"shabby",
"tacky",
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"phony",
"phoney",
"sham",
"supercheap",
"ultracheap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"elegant",
"handsome",
"tasteful",
"handcrafted",
"polished",
"refined"
],
"antonyms":[
"excellent",
"fine",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"good",
"high-grade",
"superior",
"top-notch"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rural delivery":{
"as in special delivery , registered mail":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"airmail",
"airpost",
"certified mail",
"registered mail",
"rural free delivery",
"special delivery",
"special handling",
"correspondence",
"mail",
"matter",
"parcel post",
"post",
"snail mail",
"direct mail",
"junk mail",
"mailer",
"card",
"dispatch",
"epistle",
"letter",
"message",
"missive",
"note",
"postal card",
"postcard",
"printed matter",
"bundle",
"package",
"shipment"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"running (in)":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I just thought I'd run in and pick up my package"
],
"synonyms":[
"calling",
"coming by",
"coming over",
"dropping by",
"dropping in",
"popping (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":[]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"if we catch you shoplifting again, we're going to run you in"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehending",
"arresting",
"busting",
"collaring",
"nabbing",
"nailing",
"nicking",
"picking up",
"pinching",
"pulling in",
"restraining",
"seizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bagging",
"capturing",
"catching",
"getting",
"grabbing",
"grappling",
"hooking",
"landing",
"snapping (up)",
"snaring",
"snatching",
"trapping",
"committing",
"confining",
"detaining",
"holding",
"immuring",
"imprisoning",
"incarcerating",
"interning",
"jailing",
"jugging",
"locking (up)",
"binding",
"enchaining",
"fettering",
"handcuffing",
"manacling",
"shackling",
"trammeling",
"trammelling",
"rearresting",
"remanding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipating",
"freeing",
"liberating",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"releasing",
"springing",
"unbinding",
"unchaining"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharging"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run-ins":{
"a brief clash between enemies or rivals":{
"examples":[
"the rival gangs had a bit of a run-in last night"
],
"synonyms":[
"brushes",
"encounters",
"hassles",
"scrapes",
"skirmishes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arguments",
"fights",
"quarrels",
"rows",
"spats",
"squabbles",
"tiffs",
"battles",
"brawls",
"frays",
"wrangles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runoff":{
"to drive or force out":{
"examples":[
"the dog often ran off cats and other animals that had intruded upon his owner's property"
],
"synonyms":[
"banish",
"boot (out)",
"bounce",
"cast out",
"chase",
"dismiss",
"drum (out)",
"eject",
"expel",
"extrude",
"kick out",
"oust",
"out",
"rout",
"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":[]
},
"to get free from a dangerous or confining situation":{
"examples":[
"their rebellious daughter's run off because she was disciplined again"
],
"synonyms":[
"abscond",
"break out (of)",
"clear out",
"escape",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"lam",
"run away"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoid",
"elude",
"evade",
"lose",
"shun",
"decamp",
"depart",
"elope",
"exit",
"go",
"leave",
"move",
"pull out",
"quit",
"sally (forth)",
"shove (off)",
"take off",
"walk out",
"disentangle",
"extricate",
"bring off",
"emancipate",
"enfranchise",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"manumit",
"redeem",
"release",
"rescue",
"spring",
"unbind",
"uncage",
"unchain",
"unfetter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"hang around",
"linger",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry",
"come back",
"return"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"the mouse ran off as soon as it saw us"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolt",
"break",
"bug out",
"flee",
"fly",
"hightail (it)",
"retreat",
"run",
"run away",
"skedaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abscond",
"clear out",
"decamp",
"elope",
"escape",
"get (away)",
"get out",
"lam",
"light out",
"make off",
"mizzle",
"scarper",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip (out)",
"skirr"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"abide",
"dwell",
"hang around",
"linger",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in arroyo , freshet":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"arroyo",
"billabong",
"fresh",
"freshet",
"beck",
"bourn",
"bourne",
"brook",
"brooklet",
"burn",
"creek",
"gill",
"rill",
"rivulet",
"run",
"runlet",
"runnel",
"streamlet",
"bayou",
"coulee",
"slough",
"slew",
"slue",
"stream",
"wash",
"canal",
"channel",
"cut",
"cutoff",
"gut",
"kill",
"millrace",
"millstream",
"race",
"watercourse",
"waterway",
"affluent",
"branch",
"confluent",
"distributary",
"influent",
"tributary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"run over":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I could run over right now if that's good for you"
],
"synonyms":[
"call",
"come by",
"come over",
"drop by",
"drop in",
"pop (in)",
"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":[]
},
"to do over and over so as to become skilled":{
"examples":[
"let's run over this dance number one more time"
],
"synonyms":[
"exercise",
"practice",
"practise",
"rehearse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"groove",
"perfect",
"refine",
"point (for)",
"prepare (for)",
"train (with)",
"drill",
"repeat",
"work (at or on)",
"review",
"study"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rummy":{
"a person who makes a habit of getting drunk":{
"examples":[
"most mornings a dazed old rummy sits on the steps with a bottle in a paper bag"
],
"synonyms":[
"alcoholic",
"alkie",
"alky",
"boozehound",
"boozer",
"dipsomaniac",
"drinker",
"drunk",
"drunkard",
"inebriate",
"juicehead",
"juicer",
"lush",
"soak",
"soaker",
"sot",
"souse",
"tippler",
"toper",
"tosspot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swigger",
"swiller",
"wino"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstainer",
"nondrinker",
"teetotaler",
"teetotaller",
"teetotalist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rubs":{
"something that is a source of irritation":{
"examples":[
"even what seems to be a dream job usually turns out to have its fair share of rubs"
],
"synonyms":[
"aggravations",
"aggros",
"annoyances",
"botherations",
"bothers",
"bugbears",
"exasperations",
"frustrations",
"hair shirts",
"hassles",
"headaches",
"inconveniences",
"irks",
"irritants",
"nuisances",
"peeves",
"pests",
"ruffles",
"thorns",
"trials",
"vexations"
],
"near synonyms":[
"discomforts",
"fleabites",
"pinpricks",
"affronts",
"insults",
"offenses",
"offences",
"upsets",
"worries",
"afflictions",
"albatross",
"albatrosses",
"burdens",
"crosses",
"curses",
"menaces",
"millstones",
"plagues",
"sores",
"anxieties",
"plights",
"predicaments",
"tribulations",
"troubles",
"hang-ups",
"pet peeves",
"problems",
"annoyers",
"disturbers",
"harassers",
"mischiefs",
"offenders",
"pandora's boxes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delights",
"joys",
"pleasures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to damage or diminish by continued friction":{
"examples":[
"the brake pads were rubbed away as a result of years of use"
],
"synonyms":[
"abrades",
"chafes",
"corrades",
"erodes",
"frays",
"frazzles",
"frets",
"galls",
"rasps",
"wears"
],
"near synonyms":[
"files",
"gnaws",
"grates",
"grazes",
"grinds",
"nibbles",
"sandblasts",
"sandpapers",
"scours",
"scrapes",
"scuffs",
"shaves",
"erases",
"reduces",
"rubs out",
"wears out",
"wipes (away)",
"bites",
"breaks down",
"breaks up",
"chews",
"corrodes",
"decomposes",
"disintegrates",
"dissolves",
"eats",
"hones",
"sharpens",
"whets"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth by friction":{
"examples":[
"the furniture restorer rubbed the board perfectly smooth with sandpaper"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffs",
"files",
"grinds",
"hones",
"rasps",
"sands"
],
"near synonyms":[
"planes",
"scrapes",
"sandblasts",
"scours",
"burnishes",
"dresses",
"glosses",
"polishes",
"shines",
"smooths",
"smoothes",
"edges",
"sharpens",
"strops",
"whets",
"regrinds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coarsens",
"roughens",
"roughs (up)",
"scuffs"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make smooth or glossy usually by repeatedly applying surface pressure":{
"examples":[
"the butler rubbed the silver tea set until it gleamed"
],
"synonyms":[
"buffs",
"burnishes",
"dresses",
"furbishes",
"glosses",
"grinds",
"polishes",
"shines",
"smoothens",
"smooths",
"smoothes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sleeks",
"slicks",
"coats",
"glazes",
"japans",
"lacquers",
"varnishes",
"faces",
"finishes",
"veneers",
"brightens",
"files",
"rasps",
"sandblasts",
"sandpapers",
"sands",
"scours",
"scrapes",
"scrubs",
"bobs",
"bones",
"laps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"roughens",
"roughs (up)",
"ruffles",
"scuffs (up)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rumor":{
"information or opinion that is widely disseminated without any authority or confirmation of accuracy":{
"examples":[
"rumor has it that she's planning to shut down the company"
],
"synonyms":[
"buzz",
"dish",
"gossip",
"hearsay",
"noise",
"report",
"scuttlebutt",
"talk",
"tattle",
"word"
],
"near synonyms":[
"tale",
"whisper",
"whispering",
"hint",
"intimation",
"rumbling",
"disinformation",
"propaganda",
"urban legend",
"urban myth",
"dirt",
"scandal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make (as a piece of information) the subject of common talk without any authority or confirmation of accuracy":{
"examples":[
"for years people have been rumoring the CEO's imminent retirement"
],
"synonyms":[
"bruit (about)",
"circulate",
"noise (about or abroad)",
"whisper"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bandy (about)",
"blab",
"dish",
"gossip",
"tattle",
"bare",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"expose",
"let on (about)",
"report",
"reveal",
"spill",
"tell",
"hint",
"imply",
"insinuate",
"intimate",
"suggest",
"blaze",
"broadcast",
"proclaim",
"promulgate",
"propagate",
"publicize",
"spread"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rumors":{
"to make (as a piece of information) the subject of common talk without any authority or confirmation of accuracy":{
"examples":[
"for years people have been rumoring the CEO's imminent retirement"
],
"synonyms":[
"bruits (about)",
"circulates",
"noises (about or abroad)",
"whispers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bandies (about)",
"blabs",
"dishes",
"gossips",
"tattles",
"bares",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"exposes",
"lets on (about)",
"reports",
"reveals",
"spills",
"tells",
"hints",
"implies",
"insinuates",
"intimates",
"suggests",
"blazes",
"broadcasts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"propagates",
"publicizes",
"spreads"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rug rats":{
"as in schoolchildren , preschoolers":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"kindergartners",
"kindergarteners",
"preschoolers",
"schoolboys",
"schoolchildren",
"schoolgirls",
"schoolkids",
"adolescents",
"minors",
"babes",
"babies",
"bantlings",
"infants",
"neonates",
"nestlings",
"newborn",
"newborns",
"toddlers",
"tots",
"tykes",
"tikes",
"weanlings",
"bairns",
"bambinos",
"bambini",
"buds",
"chaps",
"chicks",
"children",
"cubs",
"juveniles",
"kiddies",
"kiddos",
"kids",
"moppets",
"sprats",
"sprat",
"sprouts",
"squirts",
"whelps",
"younglings",
"youngsters",
"youths",
"devils",
"hellions",
"imps",
"jackanapeses",
"mischiefs",
"monkeys",
"rapscallions",
"rascals",
"rogues",
"urchins",
"whippersnappers",
"cherubs",
"cherubim",
"preteen-agers",
"preteens",
"subteens",
"teenagers",
"teeners",
"teens",
"teenyboppers",
"tweens",
"lads",
"nippers",
"shavers",
"striplings",
"tads",
"bobby-soxers",
"hoydens",
"tomboys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adults",
"grown-ups",
"middle-agers",
"ancients",
"elders",
"golden-agers",
"oldsters",
"old-timers",
"senior citizens",
"seniors"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runs along":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"I'd love to stay longer, but I must be running along"
],
"synonyms":[
"bails",
"bails out",
"books",
"buggers off",
"bugs off",
"bugs out",
"buzzes (off)",
"clears off",
"clears out",
"cuts out",
"departs",
"digs out",
"exits",
"gets",
"gets off",
"goes",
"goes off",
"moves",
"packs (up or off)",
"parts",
"peels off",
"pikes (out or off)",
"pulls out",
"pushes off",
"pushes on",
"quits",
"sallies (forth)",
"scarpers",
"shoves (off)",
"steps (along)",
"takes off",
"vamooses",
"walks out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sets out",
"starts",
"strikes out",
"absconds",
"decamps",
"escapes",
"evacuates",
"flees",
"flies",
"gets out",
"mizzles",
"runs away",
"scats",
"scrams",
"skips",
"goes out",
"lights out",
"steps out",
"abandons",
"deserts",
"forsakes",
"vacates",
"emigrates",
"adjourns",
"removes",
"retires",
"retreats",
"withdraws"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abides",
"dwells",
"lodges",
"remains",
"settles",
"stays",
"tarries",
"approaches",
"closes",
"nears",
"hits",
"lands",
"reaches"
],
"antonyms":[
"arrives",
"comes",
"shows up",
"turns up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"runs through":{
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"before I knew what was happening, the thug had run through me with a knife"
],
"synonyms":[
"gores",
"harpoons",
"impales",
"jabs",
"lances",
"pecks",
"picks",
"pierces",
"pinks",
"punctures",
"skewers",
"spears",
"spikes",
"spits",
"stabs",
"sticks",
"transfixes",
"transpierces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindles",
"perforates",
"riddles",
"bayonets",
"dirks",
"gimlets",
"pikes",
"poniards",
"prongs",
"quills",
"pinpricks",
"pokes",
"pricks",
"punches",
"thrusts",
"cuts",
"knifes",
"slices"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to use up carelessly":{
"examples":[
"how did you manage to run through $300 in one day?"
],
"synonyms":[
"blows",
"dissipates",
"fiddles away",
"fritters (away)",
"lavishes",
"loses",
"misspends",
"spends",
"squanders",
"throws away",
"trifles (away)",
"wastes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"splurges",
"consumes",
"depletes",
"exhausts",
"impoverishes",
"overspends",
"shoots",
"indulges",
"overindulges",
"disburses",
"expends",
"lays out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"economizes",
"scrimps",
"skimps",
"preserves",
"protects",
"saves",
"hoards",
"lays up"
],
"antonyms":[
"conserves"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run after":{
"to go after or on the track of":{
"examples":[
"She ran after the puppy that escaped from the yard."
],
"synonyms":[
"bird-dog",
"chase",
"course",
"dog",
"follow",
"hound",
"pursue",
"run",
"shadow",
"tag",
"tail",
"trace",
"track",
"trail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accompany",
"chaperone",
"chaperon",
"escort",
"hunt",
"search (for)",
"seek",
"eye",
"observe",
"watch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"head"
],
"antonyms":[
"guide",
"lead",
"pilot"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rubbernecks":{
"a person who travels for pleasure":{
"examples":[
"every year raucous rubbernecks by the busload descend upon the city for its famed Mardi Gras"
],
"synonyms":[
"excursionists",
"rubberneckers",
"sightseers",
"tourists",
"travelers",
"travellers",
"trippers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"holidayers",
"holidaymakers",
"vacationers",
"vacationists",
"guests",
"hostelers",
"hostellers",
"visitors",
"transients",
"journeyers",
"pilgrims",
"wayfarers",
"snowbirds",
"sunseekers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to look long and hard in wonder or surprise":{
"examples":[
"thoughtless drivers pausing on the highway to rubberneck at the accident"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinks",
"gapes",
"gawks",
"gawps",
"gazes",
"goggles",
"peers",
"stares"
],
"near synonyms":[
"glares",
"gloats",
"glowers",
"considers",
"eyes",
"fixates",
"observes",
"regards",
"watches",
"leers",
"ogles",
"peruses",
"pores (over)",
"studies",
"outfaces",
"outstares",
"stares down"
],
"near antonyms":[
"glances",
"glimpses",
"peeks",
"peeps",
"browses",
"dips (into)",
"scans",
"winks (at)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"runs away":{
"to get free from a dangerous or confining situation":{
"examples":[
"ran away from an unhappy marriage"
],
"synonyms":[
"absconds",
"breaks out (of)",
"clears out",
"escapes",
"flees",
"flies",
"gets out",
"lams",
"runs off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoids",
"eludes",
"evades",
"loses",
"shuns",
"decamps",
"departs",
"elopes",
"exits",
"goes",
"leaves",
"moves",
"pulls out",
"quits",
"sallies (forth)",
"shoves (off)",
"takes off",
"walks out",
"disentangles",
"extricates",
"brings off",
"emancipates",
"enfranchises",
"frees",
"liberates",
"loosens",
"looses",
"manumits",
"redeems",
"releases",
"rescues",
"springs",
"unbinds",
"uncages",
"unchains",
"unfetters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abides",
"dwells",
"hangs around",
"lingers",
"remains",
"stays",
"sticks around",
"tarries",
"comes back",
"returns"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"the child runs away from large dogs"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolts",
"breaks",
"bugs out",
"flees",
"flies",
"hightails (it)",
"retreats",
"runs",
"runs off",
"skedaddles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absconds",
"clears out",
"decamps",
"elopes",
"escapes",
"gets (away)",
"gets out",
"lams",
"lights out",
"makes off",
"mizzles",
"scarpers",
"scats",
"scrams",
"skips (out)",
"skirrs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beards",
"braves",
"confronts",
"dares",
"defies",
"faces",
"abides",
"dwells",
"hangs around",
"lingers",
"remains",
"stays",
"sticks around",
"tarries"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rucked":{
"as in folded , creased":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"corrugated",
"creased",
"crimped",
"folded",
"pleated",
"puckered",
"crinkled",
"crumpled",
"rumpled",
"scrunched",
"wrinkled",
"crisped",
"rippled",
"ruffled",
"contracted",
"furrowed",
"knit",
"knitted",
"messed (up)",
"mussed (up)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flattened",
"ironed out",
"smoothed",
"smoothened",
"uncrumpled",
"evened",
"ironed",
"pressed",
"straightened",
"unfolded",
"neatened",
"tidied"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run (in)":{
"to make a brief visit":{
"examples":[
"I just thought I'd run in and pick up my package"
],
"synonyms":[
"call",
"come by",
"come over",
"drop by",
"drop in",
"pop (in)",
"run (over)",
"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":[]
},
"to take or keep under one's control by authority of law":{
"examples":[
"if we catch you shoplifting again, we're going to run you in"
],
"synonyms":[
"apprehend",
"arrest",
"bust",
"collar",
"nab",
"nail",
"nick",
"pick up",
"pinch",
"pull in",
"restrain",
"seize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bag",
"capture",
"catch",
"get",
"grab",
"grapple",
"hook",
"land",
"snap (up)",
"snare",
"snatch",
"trap",
"commit",
"confine",
"detain",
"hold",
"immure",
"imprison",
"incarcerate",
"intern",
"jail",
"jug",
"lock (up)",
"bind",
"enchain",
"fetter",
"handcuff",
"manacle",
"shackle",
"trammel",
"rearrest",
"remand"
],
"near antonyms":[
"emancipate",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"release",
"spring",
"unbind",
"unchain"
],
"antonyms":[
"discharge"
]
},
"a brief clash between enemies or rivals":{
"examples":[
"the rival gangs had a bit of a run-in last night"
],
"synonyms":[
"brush",
"encounter",
"hassle",
"scrape",
"skirmish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"argument",
"fight",
"quarrel",
"row",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"battle",
"brawl",
"fray",
"wrangle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rubble":{
"the portion or bits of something left over or behind after it has been destroyed":{
"examples":[
"clearing the rubble after the earthquake"
],
"synonyms":[
"ashes",
"debris",
"detritus",
"flotsam",
"remains",
"residue",
"ruins",
"wreck",
"wreckage"
],
"near synonyms":[
"jetsam",
"leavings",
"remnant",
"chaff",
"deadwood",
"dross",
"dust",
"garbage",
"junk",
"litter",
"refuse",
"riffraff",
"rubbish",
"scrap",
"trash",
"waste"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rubbing elbows (with)":{
"to come or be together as friends":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[
"associating",
"chumming",
"companying",
"consociating",
"consorting",
"fraternizing",
"hanging (around or out)",
"hobnobbing",
"hooking up",
"messing around",
"palling (around)",
"running",
"sorting",
"traveling",
"travelling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affiliating",
"allying",
"attaching",
"banding",
"bonding",
"clubbing",
"collaborating",
"colluding",
"confederating",
"conjoining",
"connecting",
"cooperating",
"coupling",
"ganging",
"getting along",
"getting on",
"grouping",
"interrelating",
"joining",
"knotting",
"leaguing",
"linking",
"mingling",
"mixing",
"rallying",
"relating",
"siding",
"socializing",
"teaming",
"tying",
"tieing",
"wedding",
"befriending",
"friending"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"cold-shouldering",
"shunning",
"snubbing",
"alienating",
"estranging",
"breaking up",
"disbanding",
"dispersing",
"splitting (up)",
"disjoining",
"dissociating",
"disuniting",
"divorcing",
"severing",
"splitting",
"sundering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[]
},
"run out on":{
"as in walk out on , go back on":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"go back on",
"jump ship",
"walk out on",
"defect (from)",
"desert",
"rat (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adhere (to)",
"cling (to)",
"stick (to or with)",
"cherish",
"cultivate",
"foster"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rummages":{
"an unorganized collection or mixture of various things":{
"examples":[
"a rummage of textbooks, notebooks, and old school papers all over the desk"
],
"synonyms":[
"agglomerates",
"agglomerations",
"alphabet soups",
"assortments",
"botches",
"clutters",
"collages",
"crazy quilts",
"farragoes",
"gallimaufries",
"grab bags",
"gumbos",
"hashes",
"hodgepodges",
"hotchpotches",
"jambalayas",
"jumbles",
"jungles",
"litters",
"mac\u00e9doines",
"medleys",
"m\u00e9langes",
"menageries",
"miscellanea",
"miscellanies",
"mishmashes",
"mixed bags",
"montages",
"motleys",
"muddles",
"olios",
"olla podridas",
"ollas podridas",
"omnium-gatherums",
"pastiches",
"patchwork quilts",
"patchworks",
"potpourris",
"ragbags",
"ragouts",
"salads",
"salmagundis",
"scrambles",
"shuffles",
"smorgasbords",
"stews",
"tumbles",
"varieties",
"welters"
],
"near synonyms":[
"detritus",
"notions",
"oddments",
"odds and ends",
"sundries",
"accumulations",
"aggregates",
"aggregations",
"conglomerates",
"conglomerations",
"catchalls",
"admixtures",
"alloys",
"amalgams",
"blends",
"combinations",
"commixtures",
"composites",
"compounds",
"fusions",
"intermixtures",
"mix-ups",
"bollixes",
"chaoses",
"confusions",
"disarrangements",
"disarrays",
"disorders",
"dog's breakfasts",
"messes",
"morasses",
"shambles",
"imbroglios",
"knots",
"snarls",
"tangles"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon after searching, study, or effort":{
"examples":[
"at the last minute she rummaged a costume from the attic"
],
"synonyms":[
"ascertains",
"descries",
"detects",
"determines",
"digs out",
"digs up",
"discovers",
"dredges (up)",
"ferrets (out)",
"finds",
"finds out",
"gets",
"hits (on or upon)",
"hunts (down or up)",
"learns",
"locates",
"noses out",
"roots (out)",
"routs (out)",
"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"
]
},
"to look through (as a place) carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something":{
"examples":[
"he rummaged the desk drawer trying to find the spare keys"
],
"synonyms":[
"combs",
"digs (through)",
"dredges",
"hunts (through)",
"rakes",
"ransacks",
"rifles",
"scours",
"searches",
"sorts (through)",
"trolls"
],
"near synonyms":[
"frisks",
"pats down",
"shakes down",
"audits",
"checks (out)",
"examines",
"inspects",
"investigates",
"reviews",
"scans",
"scrutinizes",
"surveys",
"ascertains",
"descries",
"detects",
"determines",
"discovers",
"ferrets (out)",
"finds",
"finds out",
"gets",
"hits (on or upon)",
"learns",
"locates",
"runs down",
"scares up",
"tracks (down)",
"grubs (about)",
"pokes (around)",
"explores",
"probes",
"prospects",
"skirmishes",
"snoops",
"browses",
"glances (over)",
"looks over",
"peruses",
"studies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hides",
"abandons",
"loses",
"ignores",
"neglects"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rupture":{
"an opening caused by the sudden tearing or breaking of something":{
"examples":[
"The earthquake created a rupture that spanned several miles.",
"Doctors identified a rupture in his aorta."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"break",
"crack",
"fissure",
"fracture",
"rift",
"split",
"tear",
"cut",
"gash",
"incision",
"laceration",
"notch",
"rent",
"rip",
"slash",
"slit",
"breach",
"gap",
"opening",
"check",
"chink",
"cleft",
"cranny",
"crevice",
"snag",
"gouge",
"groove",
"hollow",
"abyss",
"chasm",
"gulf",
"vacuity",
"vacuum",
"void",
"burrow",
"cave",
"cavern",
"ditch",
"excavation",
"furrow",
"gutter",
"trench",
"trough",
"cavity",
"concavity",
"dent",
"depression",
"dint",
"hole",
"indentation",
"indenture",
"pit",
"recess",
"canyon",
"ca\u00f1on",
"combe",
"coombe",
"coomb",
"dell",
"dingle",
"glen",
"gorge",
"gulch",
"gully",
"gulley",
"kloof",
"ravine",
"rift valley",
"borehole",
"chuckhole",
"crater",
"posthole",
"pothole",
"sinkhole",
"wallow",
"water hole",
"well",
"blast",
"blowup",
"burst",
"bursting",
"detonation",
"eruption",
"explosion",
"outburst",
"abrasion",
"score",
"scrape",
"scratch",
"injury",
"wound",
"perforation",
"pinhole",
"pinprick",
"prick",
"punch",
"puncture",
"stab"
],
"near antonyms":[
"closing",
"darning",
"filling",
"healing",
"knitting",
"mending",
"repair",
"patching",
"plugging",
"sealing",
"sewing",
"stitching",
"suturing",
"combination",
"combining",
"connecting",
"connection",
"consolidation",
"coupling",
"joining",
"junction",
"linking",
"merger",
"merging",
"unification",
"union",
"uniting",
"hill",
"mound",
"rise",
"bump",
"bunch",
"hump",
"lump",
"pimple",
"swell",
"swelling",
"tumor",
"bulge",
"camber",
"convexity",
"jut",
"projection",
"protrusion",
"protuberance"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the loss of good relations":{
"examples":[
"The incident caused a diplomatic rupture between the two countries.",
"They've been working to mend the rupture in their relationship."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bifurcation",
"breach",
"breakup",
"cleavage",
"dissolution",
"disunion",
"division",
"divorce",
"fractionalization",
"fractionation",
"partition",
"rift",
"schism",
"separation",
"severance",
"split",
"sundering",
"alienation",
"disaffection",
"disgruntlement",
"estrangement",
"souring",
"antagonism",
"embitterment",
"envenoming",
"animosity",
"antipathy",
"bitterness",
"hostility",
"jaundice",
"rancor",
"feud",
"vendetta",
"altercation",
"argle-bargle",
"argument",
"argy-bargy",
"battle royal",
"bicker",
"brawl",
"contretemps",
"controversy",
"cross fire",
"disagreement",
"dispute",
"donnybrook",
"falling-out",
"fight",
"hassle",
"imbroglio",
"kickup",
"misunderstanding",
"quarrel",
"rhubarb",
"row",
"scrap",
"set-to",
"spat",
"squabble",
"tiff",
"wrangle",
"aggravation",
"furor",
"fury",
"incensing",
"indignation",
"infuriation",
"ire",
"outrage",
"rage",
"spleen",
"wrath",
"disenchantment",
"disillusionment"
],
"near antonyms":[
"endearment",
"ingratiation",
"appeasement",
"conciliation",
"mollification",
"pacification",
"propitiation",
"reconcilement",
"reconciliation",
"accord",
"agreement",
"consensus",
"harmony",
"unanimity",
"unification",
"union",
"coalescing",
"fusion",
"integration",
"merging",
"merger"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to cause to develop a hole, crack, or tear often in a sudden and forceful or violent way":{
"examples":[
"She was out for the rest of the season after she ruptured a tendon."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"break",
"fracture",
"pull",
"rend",
"rift",
"rip",
"rive",
"tear",
"cut",
"gash",
"incise",
"lacerate",
"notch",
"slash",
"slit",
"penetrate",
"perforate",
"puncture",
"break down",
"decompose",
"disassemble",
"disintegrate",
"dissolve",
"bifurcate",
"bisect",
"cleave",
"dichotomize",
"dissect",
"fractionalize",
"fractionate",
"halve",
"partition",
"quarter",
"segment",
"subdivide",
"trisect",
"fragment",
"fragmentate",
"fragmentize",
"detach",
"disengage",
"disentangle",
"unravel",
"untie",
"break up",
"decouple",
"disassociate",
"disconnect",
"disjoin",
"disjoint",
"dissever",
"dissociate",
"disunite",
"divide",
"divorce",
"part",
"ramify",
"resolve",
"separate",
"sever",
"split",
"sunder",
"uncouple",
"unlink",
"unyoke"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fill",
"close",
"darn",
"heal",
"knit",
"mend",
"repair",
"patch",
"plug",
"seal",
"sew",
"stitch",
"suture",
"accumulate",
"agglutinate",
"attach",
"bind",
"cement",
"fasten",
"fuse",
"stick",
"weld",
"combine",
"connect",
"consolidate",
"couple",
"join",
"link",
"merge",
"unify",
"unite"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to develop a hole, crack, or tear often in a sudden and forceful or violent way":{
"examples":[
"The pipeline ruptured , leaking thousands of gallons of oil.",
"The fault could rupture during the next major earthquake.",
"High blood pressure caused the blood vessels to rupture ."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blow",
"break",
"cleave",
"split",
"rend",
"rip",
"rive",
"shred",
"tatter",
"tear",
"blow up",
"burst",
"crump",
"detonate",
"explode",
"go off",
"pop",
"fragment",
"shatter",
"smash",
"splinter",
"break up",
"dissever",
"part",
"section",
"separate",
"sever",
"unlink",
"balloon",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"mushroom",
"crack",
"snap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"implode",
"collapse",
"associate",
"coalesce",
"combine",
"conjoin",
"conjugate",
"connect",
"couple",
"fuse",
"interfuse",
"join",
"knit",
"link (up)",
"marry",
"unify",
"unite",
"mate",
"yoke",
"assemble",
"blend",
"mingle",
"mix",
"chain",
"compound",
"hitch",
"hook",
"splice",
"recombine",
"reconnect",
"rejoin",
"reunify",
"reunite"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rustles":{
"to feed on grass or herbs":{
"examples":[
"just take the steer out to pasture and let it rustle for itself"
],
"synonyms":[
"browses",
"forages",
"grazes",
"pastures"
],
"near synonyms":[
"eats",
"feeds",
"nibbles",
"ranges",
"stocks",
"overgrazes"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to proceed or move quickly":{
"examples":[
"rustled around enthusiastically on the morning of the big trip"
],
"synonyms":[
"barrels",
"belts",
"blasts",
"blazes",
"blows",
"bolts",
"bombs",
"bowls",
"breezes",
"bundles",
"bustles",
"buzzes",
"cannonballs",
"careens",
"careers",
"chases",
"courses",
"cracks (on)",
"dashes",
"drives",
"flies",
"hares",
"hastens",
"hies",
"highballs",
"hotfoots (it)",
"humps",
"hurls",
"hurries",
"hurtles",
"hustles",
"jets",
"jumps",
"motors",
"nips",
"pelts",
"races",
"rams",
"rips",
"rockets",
"runs",
"rushes",
"scoots",
"scurries",
"scuttles",
"shoots",
"speeds",
"steps",
"tears",
"travels",
"trots",
"whirls",
"whisks",
"zips",
"zooms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beetles",
"darts",
"flits",
"scampers",
"scuds",
"scuffles",
"stampedes",
"streaks",
"whizzes",
"gallops",
"jogs",
"sprints",
"accelerates",
"quickens",
"steps out",
"catches up",
"fast-forwards",
"outpaces",
"outruns",
"outstrips",
"overtakes",
"arrows",
"beelines"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dallies",
"dawdles",
"dillydallies",
"drags",
"hangs (around or out)",
"lags",
"lingers",
"loiters",
"pokes",
"tarries",
"ambles",
"lumbers",
"plods",
"saunters",
"shuffles",
"strolls",
"decelerates",
"slows (down or up)"
],
"antonyms":[
"crawls",
"creeps",
"pokes"
]
},
"to make small sounds usually by rubbing or moving":{
"examples":[
"my pet peeve is candy wrappers rustling during a movie"
],
"synonyms":[
"crinkles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"crackles",
"crepitates",
"creaks",
"squeaks",
"swooshes",
"whooshes",
"babbles",
"gurgles",
"murmurs",
"sighs",
"whispers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in whispers , murmurs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"babbles",
"coos",
"gasps",
"gurgles",
"hisses",
"moans",
"murmurs",
"sighs",
"suspirations",
"susurrations",
"susurruses",
"whispers",
"burrs",
"buzzes",
"chirrs",
"churrs",
"drones",
"hums",
"purrs",
"thrums",
"whirs",
"whirrs",
"whizzes",
"zooms",
"whishes",
"zings",
"zips"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bawls",
"howls",
"roars",
"screams",
"screeches",
"shrieks",
"squalls",
"squeals",
"yells",
"yelps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"ruled":{
"to exercise authority or power over":{
"examples":[
"a sea captain who ruled his ship sternly but justly"
],
"synonyms":[
"bossed",
"captained",
"commanded",
"controlled",
"governed",
"presided (over)",
"swayed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conducted",
"directed",
"headed",
"led",
"administered",
"managed",
"micromanaged",
"oversaw",
"regulated",
"superintended",
"supervised",
"dictated",
"dominated",
"domineered",
"lorded (it over)",
"mastered",
"oppressed",
"reigned (over)",
"tyrannized",
"conquered",
"subdued",
"subjugated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)":{
"examples":[
"a monarch who is known for ruling her emotions with an iron hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"bridled",
"checked",
"constrained",
"contained",
"controlled",
"curbed",
"governed",
"held",
"inhibited",
"kept",
"measured",
"pulled in",
"regulated",
"reined (in)",
"restrained",
"tamed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottled (up)",
"choked (back)",
"held back",
"minced",
"muffled",
"pocketed",
"repressed",
"sank",
"sunk",
"smothered",
"squelched",
"stifled",
"strangled",
"suppressed",
"swallowed",
"arrested",
"interrupted",
"stopped",
"blocked",
"hampered",
"handcuffed",
"hindered",
"impeded",
"obstructed",
"gagged",
"muzzled",
"silenced"
],
"near antonyms":[
"liberated",
"loosed",
"loosened",
"unleashed",
"aired",
"expressed",
"took out",
"vented"
],
"antonyms":[
"lost"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"runs with":{
"as in beats the drum (for or about)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"beats the drum (for or about)",
"advertises",
"announces",
"annunciates",
"blares",
"blazes",
"blazons",
"broadcasts",
"declares",
"enunciates",
"flashes",
"gives out",
"heralds",
"placards",
"posts",
"proclaims",
"promulgates",
"publicizes",
"publishes",
"releases",
"sounds",
"trumpets"
],
"near antonyms":[
"conceals",
"hushes (up)",
"silences",
"suppresses",
"withholds",
"recalls",
"recants",
"retracts",
"revokes"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rubberneckers":{
"a person who travels for pleasure":{
"examples":[
"a shop selling the kind of tacky souvenirs that rubberneckers can't seem to get enough of"
],
"synonyms":[
"excursionists",
"rubbernecks",
"sightseers",
"tourists",
"travelers",
"travellers",
"trippers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"holidayers",
"holidaymakers",
"vacationers",
"vacationists",
"guests",
"hostelers",
"hostellers",
"visitors",
"transients",
"journeyers",
"pilgrims",
"wayfarers",
"snowbirds",
"sunseekers"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"run out":{
"as in throw out , kick out":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"cast out",
"dismiss",
"eject",
"eliminate",
"evict",
"exclude",
"expel",
"expulse",
"kick out",
"oust",
"throw out",
"banish",
"deport",
"displace",
"exile",
"expatriate",
"relegate",
"transport",
"excommunicate",
"ostracize",
"reject",
"repudiate",
"spurn",
"dispossess"
],
"near antonyms":[
"naturalize",
"repatriate",
"accept",
"admit",
"receive",
"take in",
"entertain",
"harbor",
"house",
"shelter"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"runs circles around":{
"to be greater, better, or stronger than":{
"examples":[
"When it came to cooking, he ran circles around the rest of his family."
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"betters",
"eclipses",
"exceeds",
"excels",
"outclasses",
"outdistances",
"outdoes",
"outguns",
"outmatches",
"outshines",
"outstrips",
"overtops",
"surpasses",
"tops",
"towers (over)",
"transcends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"one-ups",
"outpaces",
"outraces",
"outruns",
"overpasses",
"bests",
"clobbers",
"conquers",
"crushes",
"defeats",
"drubs",
"licks",
"masters",
"outcompetes",
"outperforms",
"overcomes",
"overmatches",
"prevails (over)",
"routs",
"shames",
"skunks",
"subdues",
"surmounts",
"thrashes",
"trims",
"triumphs (over)",
"trounces",
"wallops",
"whips",
"wins (against)",
"worsts",
"outbalances",
"outweighs",
"overbears",
"overshadows",
"trumps"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loses (to)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to defeat by a large margin":{
"examples":[
"The young girl ran circles around her chess opponent."
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilates",
"blows away",
"bombs",
"buries",
"clobbers",
"creams",
"drubs",
"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":[
"phrase"
]
},
"run-of-mine":{
"of average to below average quality":{
"examples":[
"so far, the job posting has attracted only run-of-the-mine applicants"
],
"synonyms":[
"common",
"fair",
"indifferent",
"mediocre",
"medium",
"middling",
"ordinary",
"passable",
"run-of-the-mill",
"second-class",
"second-rate",
"so-so"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"alright",
"decent",
"OK",
"okay",
"reasonable",
"satisfactory",
"sufficient",
"sufficing",
"tolerable",
"moderate",
"modest",
"presentable",
"respectable",
"minimal",
"unexceptional",
"fine",
"good",
"nice"
],
"near antonyms":[
"A1",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"distinguished",
"excellent",
"exceptional",
"exquisite",
"fabulous",
"fantastic",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"matchless",
"maximum",
"nifty",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"optimal",
"optimum",
"outstanding",
"par excellence",
"peerless",
"preeminent",
"prime",
"sensational",
"special",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supreme",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unmatched",
"unparalleled",
"unsurpassed",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"wanting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rune":{
"a composition using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect":{
"examples":[
"wrote many mournful runes after her lover's untimely death"
],
"synonyms":[
"lyric",
"poem",
"song",
"verse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rhyme",
"rime",
"ballad",
"lay",
"anacreontic",
"clerihew",
"dithyramb",
"eclogue",
"elegy",
"English sonnet",
"epic",
"epigram",
"epode",
"epopee",
"epos",
"georgic",
"idyll",
"idyl",
"jingle",
"lament",
"limerick",
"madrigal",
"ode",
"pastoral",
"pastorale",
"psalm",
"rondeau",
"rondel",
"rondelle",
"rondelet",
"sonnet",
"triolet",
"villanelle",
"haiku",
"senryu",
"tanka",
"blank verse",
"free verse",
"minstrelsy",
"poesy",
"poetry",
"versification",
"vers libre"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ruinations":{
"something that is the cause of one's ultimate failure or loss of life":{
"examples":[
"neglect and indifference have proved to be the ruination of more than one marriage"
],
"synonyms":[
"deaths",
"destructions",
"downfalls",
"ruins",
"undoings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"banes",
"curses",
"torments",
"Achilles' heels",
"tragic flaws"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the state or fact of being rendered nonexistent, physically unsound, or useless":{
"examples":[
"although this is a setback, it isn't complete ruination for the company"
],
"synonyms":[
"annihilations",
"decimations",
"demolishments",
"demolitions",
"desolations",
"destructions",
"devastations",
"exterminations",
"extinctions",
"havoc",
"losses",
"mincemeats",
"obliterations",
"ruins",
"wastages",
"wreckages"
],
"near synonyms":[
"depredations",
"despoilments",
"despoliations",
"breakups",
"collapses",
"disintegrations",
"dissolutions",
"assassinations",
"executions",
"killings",
"massacres",
"slaughters",
"dismantlements",
"effacements",
"eradications"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rescues",
"salvages",
"salvations",
"savings",
"conservations",
"preservations",
"protections",
"reclamations",
"reconstructions",
"re-creations",
"refurbishments",
"regeneracies",
"renovations",
"restorations"
],
"antonyms":[
"buildings",
"constructions",
"erections"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"run-through":{
"to penetrate or hold (something) with a pointed object":{
"examples":[
"before I knew what was happening, the thug had run through me with a knife"
],
"synonyms":[
"gore",
"harpoon",
"impale",
"jab",
"lance",
"peck",
"pick",
"pierce",
"pink",
"puncture",
"skewer",
"spear",
"spike",
"spit",
"stab",
"stick",
"transfix",
"transpierce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"spindle",
"perforate",
"riddle",
"bayonet",
"dirk",
"gimlet",
"pike",
"poniard",
"prong",
"quill",
"pinprick",
"poke",
"prick",
"punch",
"thrust",
"cut",
"knife",
"slice"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to use up carelessly":{
"examples":[
"how did you manage to run through $300 in one day?"
],
"synonyms":[
"blow",
"dissipate",
"fiddle away",
"fritter (away)",
"lavish",
"lose",
"misspend",
"spend",
"squander",
"throw away",
"trifle (away)",
"waste"
],
"near synonyms":[
"splurge",
"consume",
"deplete",
"exhaust",
"impoverish",
"overspend",
"shoot",
"indulge",
"overindulge",
"disburse",
"expend",
"lay out"
],
"near antonyms":[
"economize",
"scrimp",
"skimp",
"preserve",
"protect",
"save",
"hoard",
"lay up"
],
"antonyms":[
"conserve"
]
},
"a short statement of the main points":{
"examples":[
"could you give me a quick run-through of what the referendum question is all about?"
],
"synonyms":[
"abstract",
"breviary",
"brief",
"capsule",
"conspectus",
"digest",
"encapsulation",
"epitome",
"inventory",
"outline",
"pr\u00e9cis",
"recap",
"recapitulation",
"r\u00e9sum\u00e9",
"resume",
"resum\u00e9",
"roundup",
"rundown",
"sum",
"sum-up",
"summa",
"summarization",
"summary",
"summing-up",
"synopsis",
"wrap-up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abbreviation",
"abridgment",
"abridgement",
"compend",
"compendium",
"condensation",
"curtailment",
"shortening",
"simplification",
"streamlining",
"rehash",
"reprise",
"conclusion",
"epilogue",
"epilog"
],
"near antonyms":[
"amplification",
"enlargement",
"expansion",
"addendum",
"supplement"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"running riot":{
"to behave badly":{
"examples":[
"Students were running riot at yesterday's tailgate."
],
"synonyms":[
"acting out",
"acting up",
"carrying on",
"misbehaving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"misconducting",
"disobeying",
"rebelling",
"clowning (around)",
"cutting up",
"fooling around",
"horsing around",
"kidding (around)",
"showing off",
"roughhousing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"obeying",
"acquitting",
"acting",
"bearing",
"comporting",
"conducting",
"demeaning",
"deporting",
"quitting",
"complying",
"conforming",
"checking",
"collecting",
"composing",
"constraining",
"containing",
"controlling",
"curbing",
"handling",
"inhibiting",
"moving",
"quieting",
"repressing",
"restraining"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rural":{
"of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people":{
"examples":[
"grew up in a rural community where more than half the people were farmers",
"a painter noted for his rural landscapes"
],
"synonyms":[
"bucolic",
"country",
"pastoral",
"rustic",
"rustical"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backwoods",
"backwoodsy",
"countrified",
"countryfied",
"provincial",
"agrarian",
"agricultural",
"nonurban",
"semirural"
],
"near antonyms":[
"citified",
"urbanized",
"metro",
"metropolitan",
"municipal",
"nonagricultural",
"nonfarm"
],
"antonyms":[
"urban"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"run one's mouth":{
"to talk at length without sticking to a topic or getting to a point":{
"examples":[
"There goes Joe, running his mouth again about stuff that doesn't really matter."
],
"synonyms":[
"blather (on)",
"go on",
"maunder",
"ramble",
"rattle",
"run on"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deviate",
"digress",
"stray",
"wander",
"sidetrack",
"blab",
"blabber",
"blither",
"bumble",
"burble",
"chat",
"chatter",
"drivel",
"drool",
"gab",
"gabble",
"gibber",
"jabber",
"patter",
"prate",
"prattle",
"waffle"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"ruddiness":{
"as in redness , sanguineness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pinkness",
"reddishness",
"redness",
"rosiness",
"sanguineness",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"glow",
"bloom",
"blush",
"color",
"flush"
],
"near antonyms":[
"paleness",
"pallidness",
"pallor",
"pastiness",
"wanness",
"whiteness",
"greenishness",
"greenness",
"sallowness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rumbustiousness":{
"as in rowdiness , boisterousness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"boisterousness",
"rambunctiousness",
"rowdiness",
"rowdyism",
"childishness",
"clownishness",
"foolishness",
"funning",
"jesting",
"joking",
"nonsense",
"silliness",
"waggery",
"devilry",
"deviltry",
"impishness",
"knavery",
"mischief",
"mischievousness",
"prankishness",
"rascality",
"roguery",
"roguishness",
"trickery",
"buffoonery",
"clownery",
"clowning",
"foolery",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplay",
"horsing around",
"monkey business",
"monkeying",
"monkeyshine(s)",
"roughhouse",
"roughhousing",
"shenanigan(s)",
"skylarking",
"slapstick",
"tomfoolery",
"cavorting",
"frivolity",
"frolicking",
"gamboling",
"gambolling",
"merrymaking",
"playfulness",
"revelry",
"roistering",
"romping",
"sporting",
"sportiveness"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rubouts":{
"the intentional and unlawful taking of another person's life":{
"examples":[
"the mafia boss ordered a rubout as casually as you might order a pizza"
],
"synonyms":[
"blood",
"foul play",
"homicides",
"murders",
"slayings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"chance-medleys",
"killings",
"manslaughters",
"bloodsheds",
"butcheries",
"carnages",
"decimations",
"destructions",
"massacres",
"slaughters",
"assassinations",
"executions",
"hits",
"euthanasias",
"mercy killings",
"filicides",
"fratricides",
"matricides",
"parricides",
"patricides",
"regicides",
"uxoricides"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Rubenesque":{
"as in buxom , zaftig":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"ample",
"bosomy",
"built",
"busty",
"buxom",
"chesty",
"corn-fed",
"curvaceous",
"curvy",
"full-figured",
"ripe",
"shapely",
"stacked",
"voluptuous",
"well-endowed",
"zaftig",
"zoftig",
"blubbery",
"chubby",
"corpulent",
"fat",
"fleshy",
"full",
"gross",
"lardy",
"obese",
"overweight",
"plump",
"podgy",
"portly",
"pudgy",
"replete",
"roly-poly",
"rotund",
"round",
"tubby",
"Junoesque",
"statuesque",
"beefy",
"bulky",
"chunky",
"heavy",
"heavyset",
"plumpish",
"stocky",
"stout",
"thick",
"thickset",
"weighty",
"brawny",
"burly",
"hefty",
"husky",
"dumpy",
"squat",
"stubby",
"hippy",
"paunchy",
"potbellied",
"flabby",
"soft",
"endomorphic"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angular",
"bony",
"boney",
"gaunt",
"lank",
"lanky",
"rawboned",
"sinewy",
"cadaverous",
"emaciated",
"haggard",
"pinched",
"skeletal",
"wasted",
"puny",
"scraggy",
"scrawny",
"slight",
"rangy",
"reedy",
"spindling",
"spindly",
"stringy",
"svelte",
"sylphlike",
"twiggy",
"waspish",
"weedy",
"willowy",
"ectomorphic",
"anorexic",
"lean",
"skinny",
"slender",
"slim",
"spare",
"thin"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rumormonger":{
"as in gossipmonger , snitcher":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blabbermouth",
"gossip",
"gossiper",
"gossipmonger",
"informant",
"informer",
"rat",
"snitch",
"snitcher",
"squealer",
"stool pigeon",
"talebearer",
"talker",
"tattler",
"tattletale",
"telltale",
"defector",
"deserter",
"renegade",
"coconspirator",
"conspirator",
"intriguer",
"plotter",
"schemer",
"accommodationist",
"collaborationist",
"collaborator",
"sellout",
"subversive",
"subverter",
"apostate",
"backstabber",
"betrayer",
"double-crosser",
"double-dealer",
"Judas",
"quisling",
"recreant",
"serpent",
"snake",
"traitor",
"turncoat"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"ruses":{
"an act that is used to fool someone":{
"examples":[
"His act was just a clever ruse to get me to go out with him."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deceits",
"deceptions",
"delusions",
"frauds",
"hanky-pankies",
"shams",
"stratagems",
"subterfuges",
"trickeries",
"wiles",
"antics",
"capers",
"capriccios",
"didoes",
"didos",
"escapades",
"frolics",
"gags",
"jests",
"knaveries",
"monkeyshines",
"practical jokes",
"pranks",
"rags",
"rogueries",
"shavies",
"shines",
"tricks",
"waggeries",
"adventures",
"experiences",
"games",
"larks",
"times",
"high jinks",
"hijinks",
"horseplays",
"plays",
"rowdyisms",
"shenanigans",
"tomfooleries",
"gambits",
"hoaxes",
"maneuvers",
"ploys",
"deeds",
"feats",
"missions",
"performances",
"stunts",
"caprices",
"conceits",
"fancies",
"vagaries",
"whims",
"whimsies",
"whimseys"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rubes":{
"an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country":{
"examples":[
"rural voters were tired of being treated as rubes by state officials, who showed interest in them only at election time"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumpkins",
"chawbacons",
"churls",
"clodhoppers",
"cornballs",
"countrymen",
"hayseed",
"hayseeds",
"hicks",
"provincials",
"rustics",
"yokels"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boors",
"clods",
"clowns",
"gawks",
"louts",
"oafs",
"greenhorns",
"tenderfeet",
"tenderfoots",
"peasants",
"peons",
"peones",
"backwoodsmen",
"mountaineers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slickers",
"smoothies",
"metropolitans",
"suburbanites",
"urbanites"
],
"antonyms":[
"cosmopolitans",
"cosmopolites",
"sophisticates"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"runaway":{
"to get free from a dangerous or confining situation":{
"examples":[
"ran away from an unhappy marriage"
],
"synonyms":[
"abscond",
"break out (of)",
"clear out",
"escape",
"flee",
"fly",
"get out",
"lam",
"run off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avoid",
"elude",
"evade",
"lose",
"shun",
"decamp",
"depart",
"elope",
"exit",
"go",
"leave",
"move",
"pull out",
"quit",
"sally (forth)",
"shove (off)",
"take off",
"walk out",
"disentangle",
"extricate",
"bring off",
"emancipate",
"enfranchise",
"free",
"liberate",
"loose",
"loosen",
"manumit",
"redeem",
"release",
"rescue",
"spring",
"unbind",
"uncage",
"unchain",
"unfetter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abide",
"dwell",
"hang around",
"linger",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry",
"come back",
"return"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening":{
"examples":[
"the child runs away from large dogs"
],
"synonyms":[
"bolt",
"break",
"bug out",
"flee",
"fly",
"hightail (it)",
"retreat",
"run",
"run off",
"skedaddle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abscond",
"clear out",
"decamp",
"elope",
"escape",
"get (away)",
"get out",
"lam",
"light out",
"make off",
"mizzle",
"scarper",
"scat",
"scram",
"skip (out)",
"skirr"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beard",
"brave",
"confront",
"dare",
"defy",
"face",
"abide",
"dwell",
"hang around",
"linger",
"remain",
"stay",
"stick around",
"tarry"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"showing no signs of being under control":{
"examples":[
"a region plagued by runaway suburban sprawl"
],
"synonyms":[
"abandoned",
"intemperate",
"rampant",
"raw",
"unbounded",
"unbridled",
"unchecked",
"uncontrolled",
"unhampered",
"unhindered",
"unrestrained"
],
"near synonyms":[
"uncontrollable",
"ungovernable",
"barbaric",
"hog wild",
"riotous",
"uninhibited",
"wild"
],
"near antonyms":[
"moderate",
"tempered"
],
"antonyms":[
"bridled",
"checked",
"constrained",
"controlled",
"curbed",
"governed",
"hampered",
"hindered",
"restrained",
"temperate"
]
},
"as in sweep , landslide":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"blowout",
"landslide",
"laugher",
"romp",
"shutout",
"sweep",
"walkaway",
"walkover",
"capture",
"conquest",
"mastery",
"subjugation",
"vanquishing",
"squeaker",
"palm",
"triumph",
"victory",
"win",
"success",
"takeover"
],
"near antonyms":[
"beating",
"defeat",
"drubbing",
"licking",
"loss",
"overthrow",
"rout",
"shellacking",
"trimming",
"whipping",
"upset",
"collapse",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"disaster",
"failure",
"fizzle",
"flop",
"nonsuccess",
"washout",
"decline",
"slip",
"slump",
"wane",
"lurch",
"setback"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"runner":{
"a person who imports or exports goods secretly and illegally":{
"examples":[
"a drug runner"
],
"synonyms":[
"bootlegger",
"contrabandist",
"courier",
"smuggler"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coyote",
"gunrunner",
"mule"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"one that carries a message or does an errand":{
"examples":[
"sent a runner to tell them that all was ready for the feast"
],
"synonyms":[
"courier",
"express",
"go-between",
"messenger",
"page"
],
"near synonyms":[
"forerunner",
"harbinger",
"herald",
"agent",
"ambassador",
"delegate",
"deputy",
"emissary",
"envoy",
"representative",
"bearer",
"carrier",
"deliveryman",
"letter carrier",
"mail carrier",
"mailman"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rules (on)":{
"to give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute)":{
"examples":[
"the coach ruled on the question of whether an off-campus bar fight ought to disqualify someone from the team"
],
"synonyms":[
"adjudges",
"adjudicates",
"arbitrates",
"decides",
"determines",
"judges",
"referees",
"settles",
"umpires"
],
"near synonyms":[
"considers",
"deems",
"deliberates",
"hears",
"ponders",
"weighs",
"sizes up",
"mediates",
"moderates",
"negotiates",
"prosecutes",
"tries",
"finds (for or against)",
"concludes",
"resolves",
"redetermines",
"rejudges"
],
"near antonyms":[
"equivocates",
"hedges",
"pussyfoots",
"skirts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"running along":{
"to leave a place often for another":{
"examples":[
"I'd love to stay longer, but I must be running along"
],
"synonyms":[
"bailing",
"bailing out",
"booking",
"buggering off",
"bugging off",
"bugging out",
"buzzing (off)",
"clearing off",
"clearing out",
"cutting out",
"departing",
"digging out",
"exiting",
"getting",
"getting off",
"going",
"going off",
"moving",
"packing (up or off)",
"parting",
"peeling off",
"piking (out or off)",
"pulling out",
"pushing off",
"pushing on",
"quitting",
"sallying (forth)",
"scarpering",
"shoving (off)",
"stepping (along)",
"taking off",
"vamoosing",
"walking out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"setting out",
"starting",
"striking out",
"absconding",
"decamping",
"escaping",
"evacuating",
"fleeing",
"flying",
"getting out",
"mizzling",
"running away",
"scatting",
"scramming",
"skipping",
"going out",
"lighting out",
"stepping out",
"abandoning",
"deserting",
"forsaking",
"vacating",
"emigrating",
"adjourning",
"removing",
"retiring",
"retreating",
"withdrawing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abiding",
"dwelling",
"lodging",
"remaining",
"settling",
"staying",
"tarrying",
"approaching",
"closing",
"nearing",
"hitting",
"landing",
"reaching"
],
"antonyms":[
"arriving",
"coming",
"showing up",
"turning up"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"run by":{
"to put before another for acceptance or consideration":{
"examples":[
"When you have a chance, I'd love to run some new ideas by you."
],
"synonyms":[
"extend",
"give",
"offer",
"proffer",
"tender",
"trot out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pose",
"propose",
"hold out",
"give in",
"submit",
"volunteer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accept",
"receive",
"take",
"accredit",
"approbate",
"approve",
"authorize",
"clear",
"confirm",
"finalize",
"formalize",
"homologate",
"OK",
"okay",
"ratify",
"sanction",
"warrant",
"decline",
"deny",
"disallow",
"disapprove",
"negative",
"reject",
"turn down",
"veto",
"rebuff",
"rebut",
"refuse",
"spurn",
"retract",
"withdraw",
"disregard",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"running out on":{
"as in walking out on , going back on":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"going back on",
"jumping ship",
"walking out on",
"defecting (from)",
"deserting",
"ratting (on)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adhering (to)",
"clinging (to)",
"sticking (to or with)",
"cherishing",
"cultivating",
"fostering"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"running into":{
"to come upon unexpectedly or by chance":{
"examples":[
"They ran into a new set of problems as soon as they thought everything was fixed."
],
"synonyms":[
"chancing (upon)",
"encountering",
"finding",
"happening (on or upon)",
"hitting (upon)",
"lighting (on or upon)",
"meeting",
"pitching (upon)",
"stumbling (on or onto)",
"tumbling (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lucking (out, on, onto, or into)",
"confronting",
"facing",
"discovering",
"striking",
"turning up"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to come upon face-to-face or as if face-to-face":{
"examples":[
"The woman ran into her boss at the grocery store."
],
"synonyms":[
"catching",
"chancing (upon)",
"encountering",
"happening (upon)",
"meeting",
"stumbling (upon)"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accosting",
"confronting",
"facing",
"greeting",
"saluting",
"colliding (with)",
"crashing (into)",
"crisscrossing",
"crossing",
"passing",
"hitting (upon)",
"lighting (upon)",
"tumbling (to)",
"reencountering",
"re-encountering",
"remeeting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"dodging",
"ducking",
"eluding",
"escaping",
"evading",
"shaking",
"shunning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"ruthful":{
"as in moving , touching":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"affecting",
"doleful",
"moving",
"piteous",
"poignant",
"touching",
"troublesome",
"vexatious",
"awful",
"dire",
"dreadful",
"fearful",
"severe",
"terrible",
"deplorable",
"distressful",
"distressing",
"grievous",
"heartbreaking",
"heartrending",
"lamentable",
"regrettable",
"tragic",
"tragical",
"unfortunate",
"unlucky",
"woeful",
"alarming",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"traumatic",
"unsettling",
"crushing",
"excruciating",
"harrowing",
"horrible",
"horrifying",
"intolerable",
"overwhelming",
"shocking",
"sickening",
"unbearable",
"miserable",
"pitiful",
"sad",
"wretched",
"calamitous",
"disastrous",
"painful",
"raging",
"sharp"
],
"near antonyms":[
"gratifying",
"pleasing",
"rewarding",
"satisfying",
"comforting",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"cheering",
"heartwarming",
"inspiring",
"fortunate",
"happy",
"lucky"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in pitying":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pitying",
"clement",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"tolerant",
"congenial",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"good-natured",
"good-tempered",
"gracious",
"well-disposed",
"benevolent",
"benignant",
"bighearted",
"charitable",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"kindly",
"largehearted",
"magnanimous",
"affectionate",
"loving",
"considerate",
"gentle",
"softhearted",
"tender",
"tenderhearted",
"warm",
"warmhearted",
"feeling",
"perceptive",
"sensitive",
"commiserative",
"compassionate",
"empathetic",
"empathic",
"humane",
"sympathetic",
"understanding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callous",
"cold-blooded",
"coldhearted",
"hard",
"hard-hearted",
"heartless",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"insensate",
"obdurate",
"unfeeling",
"unsympathetic",
"inconsiderate",
"insensitive",
"thoughtless",
"unthinking",
"aloof",
"cool",
"indifferent",
"uncaring",
"uninterested",
"unaffectionate",
"unfriendly",
"unloving",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"bigoted",
"blinkered",
"narrow-minded",
"small-minded",
"brutal",
"grim",
"hard-bitten",
"hard-boiled",
"harsh",
"oppressive",
"rough",
"severe",
"stern",
"tough",
"ungentle",
"unrelenting",
"abusive",
"acrimonious",
"disagreeable",
"hateful",
"hostile",
"ill-natured",
"ill-tempered",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"mean",
"rancorous",
"spiteful",
"surly",
"unkind",
"virulent"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"rungs":{
"the placement of someone or something in relation to others in a vertical arrangement":{
"examples":[
"the greasy spoon restaurant was several rungs below the kind of establishment in which we usually dined"
],
"synonyms":[
"degrees",
"echelons",
"footings",
"levels",
"places",
"positions",
"rankings",
"ranks",
"reaches",
"situations",
"standings",
"stations",
"statuses",
"strata"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conditions",
"estates",
"orders",
"walks",
"capacities",
"functions",
"ratings"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment":{
"examples":[
"the watchman usually carried a stout oak rung"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batons",
"bats",
"billies",
"billy clubs",
"bludgeons",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"nightsticks",
"rods",
"saps",
"shillelaghs",
"shillalahs",
"staffs",
"staves",
"truncheons",
"waddies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blackjacks",
"knobkerries",
"maces",
"birches",
"crabsticks",
"hickories",
"rattans",
"staves",
"switches",
"beetles",
"gavels",
"hammers",
"mallets",
"mauls",
"sledgehammers",
"crooks",
"crosiers",
"croziers",
"walking sticks",
"whangees"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rural free delivery":{
"as in special delivery , registered mail":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"airmail",
"airpost",
"certified mail",
"registered mail",
"rural delivery",
"special delivery",
"special handling",
"correspondence",
"mail",
"matter",
"parcel post",
"post",
"snail mail",
"direct mail",
"junk mail",
"mailer",
"card",
"dispatch",
"epistle",
"letter",
"message",
"missive",
"note",
"postal card",
"postcard",
"printed matter",
"bundle",
"package",
"shipment"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"rung up":{
"to make a telephone call to":{
"examples":[
"our friend rang us up to see if we wanted to go to a cricket match"
],
"synonyms":[
"called",
"dialed",
"dialled",
"phoned",
"telephoned"
],
"near synonyms":[
"beeped",
"buzzed",
"called in",
"cold-called"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to obtain (as a goal) through effort":{
"examples":[
"touted the many diplomatic triumphs that the president supposedly rang up in his first term"
],
"synonyms":[
"achieved",
"attained",
"bagged",
"chalked up",
"clocked (up)",
"gained",
"hit",
"logged",
"made",
"notched (up)",
"racked up",
"scored",
"won"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquired",
"captured",
"carried",
"drawn",
"garnered",
"got",
"gotten",
"landed",
"obtained",
"procured",
"realized",
"secured",
"amounted (to)",
"approached",
"equaled",
"equalled",
"matched",
"measured up (to)",
"met",
"rivaled",
"rivalled",
"tied",
"touched",
"beaten",
"beat",
"excelled",
"outdone",
"surpassed",
"topped"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fallen short (of)",
"missed",
"failed (at)",
"lost"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rubbing elbows":{
"to take part in social activities":{
"examples":[
"regularly rubs elbows with celebrities",
"The fundraiser was an opportunity to rub shoulders with some of the most influential innovators in the industry."
],
"synonyms":[
"associating",
"fraternizing",
"going out",
"hobnobbing",
"mingling",
"mixing",
"socializing",
"stepping out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"carousing",
"partying",
"reveling",
"revelling",
"circulating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"avoiding",
"eschewing",
"shunning",
"slighting",
"snubbing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rustic":{
"an awkward or simple person especially from a small town or the country":{
"examples":[
"a rustic who was awed by the prices that city dwellers had to pay"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumpkin",
"chawbacon",
"churl",
"clodhopper",
"cornball",
"countryman",
"hayseed",
"hick",
"provincial",
"rube",
"yokel"
],
"near synonyms":[
"boor",
"clod",
"clown",
"gawk",
"lout",
"oaf",
"greenhorn",
"tenderfoot",
"peasant",
"peon",
"backwoodsman",
"mountaineer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"slicker",
"smoothy",
"smoothie",
"metropolitan",
"suburbanite",
"urbanite"
],
"antonyms":[
"cosmopolitan",
"cosmopolite",
"sophisticate"
]
},
"lacking social grace and assurance":{
"examples":[
"rustic yokels whose first impulse was to smirk gawkily at anyone not of their own kind"
],
"synonyms":[
"awkward",
"clumsy",
"gauche",
"graceless",
"inelegant",
"rough-hewn",
"stiff",
"stilted",
"uncomfortable",
"uneasy",
"ungraceful",
"wooden"
],
"near synonyms":[
"angular",
"gawky",
"lubberly",
"ungainly",
"boorish",
"clownish",
"uncouth",
"abashed",
"discomfited",
"discomforted",
"discomposed",
"disconcerted",
"discountenanced",
"embarrassed",
"self-conscious",
"agitated",
"bothered",
"chagrined",
"dismayed",
"disquieted",
"distressed",
"disturbed",
"fazed",
"flustered",
"jittery",
"jumpy",
"mortified",
"nervous",
"nonplussed",
"nonplused",
"perturbed",
"rattled",
"unhinged",
"unsettled",
"upset",
"diffident",
"insecure",
"meek",
"modest",
"self-doubting",
"timid",
"unassertive",
"unassuming",
"unpretentious"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assured",
"calm",
"collected",
"composed",
"confident",
"cool",
"placid",
"poised",
"secure",
"self-assured",
"self-confident",
"self-possessed",
"serene",
"tranquil",
"undisturbed",
"unperturbed"
],
"antonyms":[
"graceful",
"suave",
"urbane"
]
},
"of, relating to, associated with, or typical of open areas with few buildings or people":{
"examples":[
"a rustic area that has a refreshing lack of billboards and shopping malls"
],
"synonyms":[
"bucolic",
"country",
"pastoral",
"rural"
],
"near synonyms":[
"backwoods",
"backwoodsy",
"countrified",
"countryfied",
"provincial",
"agrarian",
"agricultural",
"nonurban",
"semirural"
],
"near antonyms":[
"citified",
"urbanized",
"metro",
"metropolitan",
"municipal",
"nonagricultural",
"nonfarm"
],
"antonyms":[
"urban"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"run-of-the-mine":{
"of average to below average quality":{
"examples":[
"so far, the job posting has attracted only run-of-the-mine applicants"
],
"synonyms":[
"common",
"fair",
"indifferent",
"mediocre",
"medium",
"middling",
"ordinary",
"passable",
"run-of-the-mill",
"second-class",
"second-rate",
"so-so"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acceptable",
"adequate",
"all right",
"alright",
"decent",
"OK",
"okay",
"reasonable",
"satisfactory",
"sufficient",
"sufficing",
"tolerable",
"moderate",
"modest",
"presentable",
"respectable",
"minimal",
"unexceptional",
"fine",
"good",
"nice"
],
"near antonyms":[
"A1",
"capital",
"choice",
"classic",
"distinguished",
"excellent",
"exceptional",
"exquisite",
"fabulous",
"fantastic",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"grand",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"matchless",
"maximum",
"nifty",
"number one",
"No. 1",
"optimal",
"optimum",
"outstanding",
"par excellence",
"peerless",
"preeminent",
"prime",
"sensational",
"special",
"splendid",
"stellar",
"sterling",
"superb",
"superior",
"superlative",
"supreme",
"swell",
"terrific",
"tip-top",
"top",
"top-notch",
"unmatched",
"unparalleled",
"unsurpassed",
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"unacceptable",
"unsatisfactory",
"wanting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"running out of":{
"to make complete use of":{
"examples":[
"They ran out of printer paper and had to order more."
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbing",
"burning",
"consuming",
"depleting",
"devouring",
"draining",
"drawing down",
"exhausting",
"expending",
"playing out",
"spending",
"using up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abating",
"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"diminishing",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"lowering",
"reducing",
"eating",
"using",
"bankrupting",
"cleaning (out)",
"impoverishing",
"crippling",
"debilitating",
"disabling",
"enfeebling",
"sapping",
"undermining",
"weakening",
"drying up",
"emptying",
"blowing",
"dissipating",
"frittering (away)",
"guzzling",
"lavishing",
"misspending",
"running through",
"squandering",
"throwing away",
"wasting"
],
"near antonyms":[
"augmenting",
"enlarging",
"increasing",
"bolstering",
"enforcing",
"fortifying",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"strengthening",
"rebuilding",
"repairing",
"restoring",
"reviving",
"conserving",
"preserving",
"saving"
],
"antonyms":[
"renewing",
"replacing"
]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"ruling":{
"a decision made by a court or tribunal regarding a case it has heard":{
"examples":[
"the controversial ruling by the state's supreme court caused an uproar"
],
"synonyms":[
"doom",
"finding",
"holding",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"sentence"
],
"near synonyms":[
"inquest",
"verdict",
"authority",
"decree",
"edict",
"injunction",
"order",
"arbitrament",
"award",
"declaration",
"deliverance",
"dictum",
"pronouncement",
"conclusion",
"decision",
"determination",
"opinion",
"resolution",
"discipline",
"penalty",
"punishment"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an order publicly issued by an authority":{
"examples":[
"the FCC's ruling regarding the broadcasting of obscenities"
],
"synonyms":[
"bull",
"decree",
"diktat",
"directive",
"edict",
"fiat",
"rescript",
"ukase"
],
"near synonyms":[
"call",
"conclusion",
"decision",
"deliverance",
"determination",
"diagnosis",
"judgment",
"judgement",
"opinion",
"resolution",
"verdict",
"announcement",
"declaration",
"dictum",
"manifesto",
"proclamation",
"pronouncement",
"canon",
"encyclical"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"held by or applicable to a majority of the people":{
"examples":[
"the ruling opinion on premarital sex"
],
"synonyms":[
"common",
"general",
"majority",
"overall",
"popular",
"prevailing",
"public",
"received",
"vulgar"
],
"near synonyms":[
"unanimous",
"universal",
"pop",
"everyday",
"familiar",
"household",
"usual",
"well-known",
"contemporary",
"current",
"present",
"dominant",
"predominant",
"preponderant",
"characteristic",
"typical",
"pandemic",
"pervasive",
"prevalent",
"rife",
"widespread",
"communal",
"shared"
],
"near antonyms":[
"rare",
"strange",
"unknown",
"unusual",
"distinctive",
"especial",
"idiosyncratic",
"peculiar",
"special",
"unique",
"individual",
"separate",
"singular",
"nonpublic",
"personal",
"private"
],
"antonyms":[
"uncommon",
"unpopular"
]
},
"to exercise authority or power over":{
"examples":[
"a sea captain who ruled his ship sternly but justly"
],
"synonyms":[
"bossing",
"captaining",
"commanding",
"controlling",
"governing",
"presiding (over)",
"swaying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"conducting",
"directing",
"heading",
"leading",
"administering",
"managing",
"micromanaging",
"overseeing",
"regulating",
"superintending",
"supervising",
"dictating",
"dominating",
"domineering",
"lording (it over)",
"mastering",
"oppressing",
"reigning (over)",
"tyrannizing",
"conquering",
"subduing",
"subjugating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression)":{
"examples":[
"a monarch who is known for ruling her emotions with an iron hand"
],
"synonyms":[
"bridling",
"checking",
"constraining",
"containing",
"controlling",
"curbing",
"governing",
"holding",
"inhibiting",
"keeping",
"measuring",
"pulling in",
"regulating",
"reining (in)",
"restraining",
"taming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottling (up)",
"choking (back)",
"holding back",
"mincing",
"muffling",
"pocketing",
"repressing",
"sinking",
"smothering",
"squelching",
"stifling",
"strangling",
"suppressing",
"swallowing",
"arresting",
"interrupting",
"stopping",
"blocking",
"hampering",
"handcuffing",
"hindering",
"impeding",
"obstructing",
"gagging",
"muzzling",
"silencing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"liberating",
"loosening",
"loosing",
"unleashing",
"airing",
"expressing",
"taking out",
"venting"
],
"antonyms":[
"losing"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"rug rat":{
"as in schoolchild , preschooler":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"kindergartner",
"kindergartener",
"preschooler",
"schoolboy",
"schoolchild",
"schoolgirl",
"schoolkid",
"adolescent",
"minor",
"babe",
"baby",
"bantling",
"infant",
"neonate",
"nestling",
"newborn",
"toddler",
"tot",
"tyke",
"tike",
"weanling",
"bairn",
"bambino",
"bud",
"chap",
"chick",
"child",
"cub",
"juvenile",
"kid",
"kiddie",
"kiddy",
"kiddo",
"moppet",
"sprat",
"sprout",
"squirt",
"whelp",
"youngling",
"youngster",
"youth",
"devil",
"hellion",
"imp",
"jackanapes",
"mischief",
"monkey",
"rapscallion",
"rascal",
"rogue",
"urchin",
"whippersnapper",
"cherub",
"preteen",
"preteen-ager",
"subteen",
"teen",
"teenager",
"teener",
"teenybopper",
"tween",
"lad",
"nipper",
"shaver",
"stripling",
"tad",
"bobby-soxer",
"hoyden",
"tomboy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adult",
"grown-up",
"middle-ager",
"ancient",
"elder",
"golden-ager",
"oldster",
"old-timer",
"senior",
"senior citizen"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"run amuck":{
"to express one's anger usually violently":{
"examples":[
"The mayor acknowledged the group's right to march, but warned that they would not be allowed to run amok ."
],
"synonyms":[
"bristle",
"fume",
"rage",
"storm"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blow up",
"flare (up)",
"flip (out)",
"bluster",
"carry on",
"fulminate",
"rampage",
"rant",
"rave",
"take on",
"burn",
"foam",
"seethe",
"smolder",
"smoulder",
"steam",
"chafe",
"fret",
"stew"
],
"near antonyms":[
"allay",
"appease",
"pacify",
"soothe",
"check",
"choke (back)",
"collect",
"compose",
"contain",
"curb",
"pocket",
"rein",
"repress",
"restrain",
"smother",
"stifle",
"strangle",
"subdue",
"suppress",
"swallow",
"moderate",
"temper",
"tone (down)",
"ease",
"let up",
"relax",
"calm",
"cool",
"hush",
"quell",
"quiet",
"settle",
"still"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"phrase"
]
},
"rummies":{
"a person who makes a habit of getting drunk":{
"examples":[
"most mornings a dazed old rummy sits on the steps with a bottle in a paper bag"
],
"synonyms":[
"alcoholics",
"alkies",
"boozehounds",
"boozers",
"dipsomaniacs",
"drinkers",
"drunkards",
"drunks",
"inebriates",
"juiceheads",
"juicers",
"lushes",
"soakers",
"soaks",
"sots",
"souses",
"tipplers",
"topers",
"tosspots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"swiggers",
"swillers",
"winos"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abstainers",
"nondrinkers",
"teetotalers",
"teetotallers",
"teetotalists"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
}
}
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