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{
"red-blooded":{
"having active strength of body or mind":{
"examples":[
"a red-blooded rugby player who always plays to win"
],
"synonyms":[
"dynamic",
"energetic",
"flush",
"gingery",
"lusty",
"peppy",
"robust",
"vigorous",
"vital"
],
"near synonyms":[
"animated",
"brisk",
"dashing",
"kinetic",
"lively",
"punchy",
"spirited",
"sprightly",
"vivacious",
"energized",
"enlivened",
"invigorated",
"vitalized",
"firm",
"fortified",
"mettlesome",
"mighty",
"powerful",
"puissant",
"strong",
"refreshed",
"rejuvenated",
"revitalized",
"able-bodied",
"athletic",
"beefy",
"brawny",
"burly",
"fit",
"hardy",
"husky",
"muscular",
"robustious",
"rugged",
"stalwart",
"stout",
"strapping",
"sturdy",
"tough",
"virile",
"hale",
"healthy",
"hearty",
"sound",
"capable",
"competent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"delicate",
"effete",
"enervated",
"faint",
"feeble",
"frail",
"infirm",
"wan",
"weak",
"weakened",
"impotent",
"powerless",
"prostrate",
"prostrated",
"sapped",
"tired",
"indolent",
"lackadaisical",
"languid",
"lazy",
"invertebrate",
"nerveless",
"soft",
"spineless",
"wimpy",
"ill",
"unhealthy",
"unsound",
"unwell",
"broken-down",
"debilitated",
"decrepit",
"disabled",
"wasted",
"worn-out"
],
"antonyms":[
"dull",
"lethargic",
"listless",
"sluggish",
"torpid"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"redacted":{
"to make changes to (something written) so as to remove or obscure information":{
"examples":[
"Because the victims were minors, their full names were redacted from public court records.",
"The declassified documents were heavily redacted before they were released."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bowdlerized",
"censored",
"cleaned (up)",
"expurgated",
"laundered",
"red-penciled",
"blue-penciled",
"canceled",
"cancelled",
"crossed (out)",
"deled",
"deleted",
"edited (out)",
"elided",
"killed",
"scratched (out)",
"stroked (out)",
"struck (out)",
"x-ed (out)",
"x'd (out)",
"xed (out)",
"blotted out",
"effaced",
"eradicated",
"erased",
"expunged",
"obliterated",
"rooted (out)",
"rubbed out",
"wiped out",
"bleeped",
"blipped",
"clipped",
"cut",
"excised",
"removed",
"abbreviated",
"cropped",
"shortened",
"blacked out",
"repressed",
"silenced",
"suppressed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redd (up or out)":{
"to make neat":{
"examples":[
"it's time to redd up the garage and get rid of a lot of the junk we've accumulated"
],
"synonyms":[
"neaten",
"pick up",
"spruce (up)",
"straighten (up or out)",
"tidy (up)",
"trim"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arrange",
"array",
"classify",
"codify",
"dispose",
"draw up",
"marshal",
"marshall",
"order",
"organize",
"range",
"systematize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disarrange",
"disarray",
"discompose",
"dishevel",
"disorder",
"disorganize",
"disrupt",
"disturb",
"jumble",
"mess (up)",
"mix (up)",
"muddle",
"muss",
"rumple",
"scramble",
"shuffle",
"tousle",
"tumble",
"upset"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reddened":{
"to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)":{
"examples":[
"his face reddened when she flashed him a dazzling smile"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloomed",
"blushed",
"colored",
"crimsoned",
"flushed",
"glowed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incarnadined",
"rouged",
"ruddled",
"abashed",
"chagrined",
"discomfited",
"disconcerted",
"embarrassed",
"fazed",
"humiliated",
"mortified"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reddening":{
"to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)":{
"examples":[
"his face reddened when she flashed him a dazzling smile"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooming",
"blushing",
"coloring",
"crimsoning",
"flushing",
"glowing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incarnadining",
"rouging",
"ruddling",
"abashing",
"chagrining",
"discomfiting",
"disconcerting",
"embarrassing",
"fazing",
"humiliating",
"mortifying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redecorated":{
"as in redid":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"redid",
"diamonded",
"gemmed",
"impearled",
"jeweled",
"jewelled",
"pearled",
"appliqu\u00e9d",
"gilded",
"gilt",
"painted",
"braided",
"embroidered",
"feathered",
"figured",
"filigreed",
"filleted",
"flounced",
"frilled",
"fringed",
"furbelowed",
"garlanded",
"hung",
"hanged",
"laced",
"ribboned",
"swagged",
"wreathed",
"bossed",
"chased",
"brightened",
"freshened",
"smartened",
"spruced (up)",
"accessorized",
"dressed up",
"trapped",
"tricked (out)",
"adorned",
"arrayed",
"beautified",
"bedecked",
"bedizened",
"blazoned",
"caparisoned",
"decked",
"decorated",
"did",
"did up",
"dolled up",
"draped",
"dressed",
"embellished",
"emblazed",
"embossed",
"enriched",
"fancied up",
"fancified",
"festooned",
"garnished",
"glitzed (up)",
"graced",
"gussied up",
"ornamented",
"prettied (up)",
"trimmed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemished",
"defaced",
"disfigured",
"marred",
"scarred",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"simplified",
"streamlined",
"bared",
"denuded",
"dismantled",
"displayed",
"divested",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"stripped",
"stript",
"uncovered",
"uglified"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redeemer":{
"one that saves from danger or destruction":{
"examples":[
"the rescued hostages profusely thanked their camouflage-clad redeemers"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliverer",
"rescuer",
"saver",
"savior",
"saviour"
],
"near synonyms":[
"custodian",
"defender",
"guard",
"guardian",
"keeper",
"lookout",
"protector",
"sentinel",
"sentry",
"warden",
"warder",
"watch",
"watcher",
"watchman",
"ransomer",
"salvager",
"salvor"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redefined":{
"to consider again especially with the possibility of change or reversal":{
"examples":[
"learning that he had been adopted forced him to completely redefine his identity"
],
"synonyms":[
"readdressed",
"reanalyzed",
"reconceived",
"reconsidered",
"reevaluated",
"re-evaluated",
"reexamined",
"re-examined",
"reexplored",
"re-explored",
"rethought",
"reviewed",
"revisited",
"reweighed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reheard",
"reconceptualized",
"reenvisioned",
"re-envisioned",
"reimagined",
"reappraised",
"reassessed",
"reinvestigated",
"restudied",
"amended",
"corrected",
"emended",
"rectified",
"reformed",
"remedied",
"revised"
],
"near antonyms":[
"asserted",
"defended",
"maintained",
"upheld"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redeliver":{
"as in recommit , retransmit":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"recommit",
"retransfer",
"retransmit",
"furnish",
"supply",
"advance",
"lend",
"loan",
"bequeath",
"hand down",
"hand on",
"will",
"hand in",
"release",
"relinquish",
"submit",
"surrender",
"turn in",
"yield",
"assign",
"deal (out)",
"dispense",
"disperse",
"distribute",
"divide",
"confer",
"grant",
"commend",
"commit",
"confide",
"consign",
"delegate",
"deliver",
"entrust",
"intrust",
"give",
"give over",
"hand",
"hand over",
"leave",
"pass",
"recommend",
"repose",
"transfer",
"transmit",
"trust",
"turn over",
"vest"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hold",
"keep",
"retain",
"detain",
"hold back",
"reserve",
"withhold",
"own",
"possess",
"accept",
"receive",
"take in",
"occupy",
"take",
"take over"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redelivers":{
"as in recommits , retransmits":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"recommits",
"retransfers",
"retransmits",
"furnishes",
"supplies",
"advances",
"lends",
"loans",
"bequeaths",
"hands down",
"hands on",
"wills",
"hands in",
"releases",
"relinquishes",
"submits",
"surrenders",
"turns in",
"yields",
"assigns",
"deals (out)",
"dispenses",
"disperses",
"distributes",
"divides",
"confers",
"grants",
"commends",
"commits",
"confides",
"consigns",
"delegates",
"delivers",
"entrusts",
"intrusts",
"gives",
"gives over",
"hands",
"hands over",
"leaves",
"passes",
"recommends",
"reposes",
"transfers",
"transmits",
"trusts",
"turns over",
"vests"
],
"near antonyms":[
"holds",
"keeps",
"retains",
"detains",
"holds back",
"reserves",
"withholds",
"owns",
"possesses",
"accepts",
"receives",
"takes in",
"occupies",
"takes",
"takes over"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redemption":{
"freedom from guilt or blame for having done something wrong":{
"examples":[
"Redemption for your actions will only come after a lot of apologizing."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"grace",
"salvation",
"rebirth",
"regeneration",
"restoration",
"absolution",
"forgiveness",
"remission",
"acquittal",
"clearance",
"clearing",
"exoneration",
"vindication",
"atonement",
"expiation",
"cleansing",
"purification",
"sanctification"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blasphemy",
"defilement",
"desecration",
"profanation",
"violation",
"corruption",
"debasement",
"perversion",
"contamination",
"pollution",
"sullying",
"tarnishing"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act of releasing (someone) from servitude to another":{
"examples":[
"The redemption of slaves was a major issue in the Civil War."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deliverance",
"salvation",
"autonomy",
"freedom",
"independence",
"independency",
"liberty",
"self-government",
"sovereignty",
"sovranty",
"emancipation",
"enfranchisement",
"freeing",
"liberation",
"manumission"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bondage",
"serfdom",
"servitude",
"thralldom",
"thraldom",
"yoke",
"captivity",
"enchainment",
"imprisonment",
"incarceration",
"internment",
"conquest",
"subjugation",
"enslavement"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redesign":{
"to change the design of (something)":{
"examples":[
"The book's cover has been redesigned for the new edition.",
"We're redesigning our kitchen.",
"a newly redesigned website"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alter",
"convert",
"make over",
"modify",
"recast",
"reclaim",
"recycle",
"redevelop",
"redo",
"reengineer",
"refashion",
"refigure",
"refit",
"refocus",
"reinvent",
"rejigger",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"transform",
"acclimate",
"acclimatize",
"accommodate",
"adapt",
"adjust",
"condition",
"conform",
"doctor",
"edit",
"fashion",
"fit",
"put",
"shape",
"suit",
"tailor",
"readapt",
"readjust",
"customize",
"gear",
"match",
"model",
"pattern",
"attune",
"correct",
"harmonize",
"square",
"tune",
"establish",
"root",
"settle",
"acquaint",
"familiarize",
"orient",
"orientate",
"equip",
"prepare",
"prime",
"rehearse",
"harden",
"inure",
"season",
"toughen",
"accustom",
"condition",
"habilitate",
"habituate",
"naturalize",
"ready",
"season",
"bend",
"fiddle (with)",
"fine-tune",
"phase",
"register",
"regulate",
"rig"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjust"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in overhaul , revamping":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"overhaul",
"reconstruction",
"reconversion",
"redo",
"redoing",
"refashioning",
"reformation",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revision",
"reworking",
"variation",
"shift",
"transition",
"adjustment",
"alteration",
"change",
"difference",
"modification",
"tweak",
"deformation",
"disfigurement",
"distortion",
"mutation",
"transmutation",
"displacement",
"replacement",
"substitution",
"supplantation",
"changeover",
"conversion",
"metamorphosis",
"transfiguration",
"transformation"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fixation",
"stabilization"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"redetermined":{
"as in rejudged":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rejudged",
"concluded",
"resolved",
"found (for or against)",
"prosecuted",
"tried",
"mediated",
"moderated",
"negotiated",
"sized up",
"considered",
"deemed",
"deliberated",
"heard",
"pondered",
"weighed",
"adjudged",
"adjudicated",
"arbitrated",
"decided",
"determined",
"judged",
"refereed",
"ruled (on)",
"settled",
"umpired"
],
"near antonyms":[
"equivocated",
"hedged",
"pussyfooted",
"skirted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redistributed":{
"to divide (something) among a group in a different way":{
"examples":[
"Unused federal funds will be redistributed to other states.",
"We need to redistribute the duties among ourselves; some of us are working too hard, and others are hardly working at all."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"admeasured",
"allotted",
"allowed",
"appropriated",
"assigned",
"dished out",
"divided",
"divvied (up)",
"dolloped (out)",
"lotted",
"measured (out)",
"parted",
"proportioned",
"rationed",
"set",
"shared (out)",
"split",
"administered",
"allocated",
"apportioned",
"dealt (out)",
"dispensed",
"distributed",
"doled out",
"handed out",
"meted (out)",
"parceled (out)",
"parcelled (out)",
"portioned",
"prorated",
"bestowed",
"disbursed",
"furnished",
"issued",
"provided",
"shared",
"supplied",
"circulated",
"dispersed",
"disseminated",
"scattered",
"spread",
"chipped in",
"contributed",
"donated",
"pledged",
"reallocated",
"reapportioned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrudged",
"declined",
"denied",
"deprived (of)",
"disallowed",
"refused",
"rejected",
"withheld",
"niggled (out)",
"pinched",
"skimped",
"stinted",
"misallocated"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redness":{
"as in pinkness , rosiness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pinkness",
"reddishness",
"rosiness",
"ruddiness",
"sanguineness",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"glow",
"bloom",
"blush",
"color",
"flush"
],
"near antonyms":[
"paleness",
"pallidness",
"pallor",
"pastiness",
"wanness",
"whiteness",
"greenishness",
"greenness",
"sallowness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redoes":{
"to make different in some way":{
"examples":[
"desperately wanted to redo the red living room in soothing shades of green"
],
"synonyms":[
"alters",
"changes",
"makes over",
"modifies",
"recasts",
"refashions",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"varies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deforms",
"metamorphoses",
"mutates",
"regenerates",
"revolutionizes",
"transfigures",
"transforms",
"transmutes",
"commutes",
"converts",
"exchanges",
"rejiggers",
"retools"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fixes",
"freezes",
"sets",
"stabilizes"
]
},
"to make or do again":{
"examples":[
"the conductor kept asking the violinist to redo that passage until he was completely satisfied"
],
"synonyms":[
"duplicates",
"reduplicates",
"reiterates",
"remakes",
"renews",
"repeats",
"replicates",
"reprises"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recreates",
"reenacts",
"reinvents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redoubled":{
"to make markedly greater in measure or degree":{
"examples":[
"rescuers redoubled their efforts to reach the people buried in the rubble after unexpectedly hearing someone call for help"
],
"synonyms":[
"accentuated",
"amped (up)",
"amplified",
"beefed (up)",
"boosted",
"consolidated",
"deepened",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"magnified",
"stepped up",
"strengthened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broadened",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"accelerated",
"hastened",
"quickened",
"emphasized",
"pointed (up)",
"sharpened",
"stressed",
"augmented",
"enforced",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"restrengthened",
"supplemented",
"maximized",
"enlivened",
"jazzed (up)",
"aggravated",
"exacerbated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreased",
"diminished",
"lessened",
"let up (on)",
"reduced",
"subdued",
"toned (down)",
"weakened",
"dwindled",
"receded",
"subsided",
"tapered (off)",
"waned",
"alleviated",
"eased",
"lightened"
],
"antonyms":[
"abated",
"moderated"
]
},
"to make twice as great or as many":{
"examples":[
"if we redouble the recipe, we'll have enough cookies for everyone"
],
"synonyms":[
"doubled",
"duplicated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compounded",
"multiplied",
"accumulated",
"ballooned",
"built (up)",
"burgeoned",
"bourgeoned",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"increased",
"mounted",
"mushroomed",
"proliferated",
"rose",
"snowballed",
"swelled",
"waxed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redoubles":{
"to make markedly greater in measure or degree":{
"examples":[
"rescuers redoubled their efforts to reach the people buried in the rubble after unexpectedly hearing someone call for help"
],
"synonyms":[
"accentuates",
"amplifies",
"amps (up)",
"beefs (up)",
"boosts",
"consolidates",
"deepens",
"enhances",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"magnifies",
"steps up",
"strengthens"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broadens",
"enlarges",
"expands",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"accelerates",
"hastens",
"quickens",
"emphasizes",
"points (up)",
"sharpens",
"stresses",
"augments",
"enforces",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"restrengthens",
"supplements",
"maximizes",
"enlivens",
"jazzes (up)",
"aggravates",
"exacerbates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreases",
"diminishes",
"lessens",
"lets up (on)",
"reduces",
"subdues",
"tones (down)",
"weakens",
"dwindles",
"recedes",
"subsides",
"tapers (off)",
"wanes",
"alleviates",
"eases",
"lightens"
],
"antonyms":[
"abates",
"moderates"
]
},
"to make twice as great or as many":{
"examples":[
"if we redouble the recipe, we'll have enough cookies for everyone"
],
"synonyms":[
"doubles",
"duplicates"
],
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"compounds",
"multiplies",
"accumulates",
"balloons",
"builds (up)",
"burgeons",
"bourgeons",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"increases",
"mounts",
"mushrooms",
"proliferates",
"rises",
"snowballs",
"swells",
"waxes"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redraft":{
"to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating":{
"examples":[
"if you redraft that paper and include more recent data, I think we could publish it"
],
"synonyms":[
"edit",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework"
],
"near synonyms":[
"perfect",
"polish",
"touch up",
"copyedit",
"read",
"sub",
"subedit",
"reedit",
"amend",
"annotate",
"correct",
"emend",
"rectify",
"fact-check",
"anthologize",
"collect",
"compile",
"get out",
"issue",
"print",
"publish",
"abridge",
"blue-pencil",
"redact",
"red-pencil",
"engross",
"recopy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redraws":{
"as in revises , rewrites":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"redrafts",
"restyles",
"revises",
"reworks",
"rewrites",
"amends",
"corrects",
"debugs",
"emends",
"rectifies",
"red-pencils",
"reforms",
"remedies",
"blue-pencils",
"cuts",
"shortens",
"redresses",
"rights",
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"improves",
"perfects",
"polishes",
"touches up",
"fixes",
"mends",
"repairs",
"adjusts",
"modulates",
"regulates",
"alters",
"changes",
"modifies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damages",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mars",
"spoils",
"aggravates",
"worsens"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redresses":{
"payment to another for a loss or injury":{
"examples":[
"the new skis were certainly an adequate redress for the lost snowboard"
],
"synonyms":[
"compensations",
"damages",
"indemnifications",
"indemnities",
"quittances",
"recompenses",
"recoupments",
"remunerations",
"reparations",
"reprisals",
"requitals",
"restitutions",
"satisfactions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"punitive damages",
"solatia",
"amends",
"atonements",
"expiations",
"refunds",
"reimbursements",
"repayments",
"adjustments",
"settlements",
"punishments",
"retaliations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to punish in kind the wrongdoer responsible for":{
"examples":[
"the belief that redressing a murder with another murder, even if carried out by the state, is not morally justified"
],
"synonyms":[
"avenges",
"requites",
"retaliates",
"revenges",
"venges"
],
"near synonyms":[
"castigates",
"fixes",
"gets",
"penalizes",
"punishes",
"scourges",
"chastens",
"chastises",
"corrects",
"disciplines",
"rights",
"compensates",
"pays (back)",
"recompenses",
"repays"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absolves",
"condones",
"excuses",
"forgives",
"pardons",
"remits"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"reduce":{
"to bring to a lower grade or rank":{
"examples":[
"was reduced from team captain to team member as punishment for his misbehavior on the court"
],
"synonyms":[
"break",
"bust",
"degrade",
"demote",
"disrate",
"downgrade"
],
"near synonyms":[
"can",
"cashier",
"dismiss",
"downsize",
"fire",
"lay off",
"sack",
"abase",
"debase",
"demean",
"humble",
"humiliate",
"lower"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hire"
],
"antonyms":[
"advance",
"elevate",
"promote",
"raise"
]
},
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
"examples":[
"you'll have to reduce the amount of money you spend on unnecessary purchases if you want to have any money left for retirement"
],
"synonyms":[
"abate",
"de-escalate",
"decrease",
"dent",
"deplete",
"diminish",
"downscale",
"downsize",
"drop",
"dwindle",
"ease",
"knock down",
"lessen",
"lower"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compress",
"condense",
"constrict",
"contract",
"abbreviate",
"abridge",
"clip",
"crop",
"curtail",
"cut",
"cut back",
"cut down",
"dock",
"nick",
"pare",
"prune",
"retrench",
"shorten",
"slash",
"trim",
"truncate",
"whittle",
"deflate",
"shrink",
"minimize",
"moderate",
"modify",
"modulate",
"qualify"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blow up",
"dilate",
"distend",
"inflate",
"swell",
"elongate",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"prolong",
"protract",
"add (to)",
"complement",
"supplement",
"enhance",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"redouble"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"boost",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"increase",
"raise"
]
},
"to diminish the price or value of":{
"examples":[
"a mortgage crisis that reduced homes to their lowest level in a decade"
],
"synonyms":[
"attenuate",
"break",
"cheapen",
"depreciate",
"depress",
"devaluate",
"devalue",
"downgrade",
"lower",
"mark down",
"sink",
"write down",
"write off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debase",
"demonetize",
"underestimate",
"underprice",
"underrate",
"undervalue",
"abridge",
"compress",
"contract",
"de-escalate",
"deflate",
"downsize",
"dwindle",
"lessen",
"moderate",
"shrink"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bloat",
"blow up",
"inflate",
"overestimate",
"overprice",
"overrate",
"overvalue",
"add",
"aggrandize",
"amplify",
"augment",
"balloon",
"boost",
"compound",
"dilate",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"extend",
"heighten",
"increase",
"maximize",
"multiply",
"raise",
"swell",
"up"
],
"antonyms":[
"appreciate",
"enhance",
"mark up",
"upgrade"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reduplication":{
"something that is made to look exactly like something else":{
"examples":[
"that old-looking colonial mansion is actually a 20th-century reduplication of the original, which was destroyed many years ago"
],
"synonyms":[
"carbon",
"carbon copy",
"clone",
"copy",
"dummy",
"dupe",
"duplicate",
"duplication",
"facsimile",
"imitation",
"mock",
"replica",
"replication",
"reproduction"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"forgery",
"knockoff",
"phony",
"phoney",
"rip-off",
"rubber stamp",
"sham",
"miniature",
"mock-up",
"simulation",
"reconstruction",
"re-creation",
"image",
"likeness",
"semblance",
"shadow",
"impression",
"imprint",
"print",
"approximation",
"reincarnation",
"version",
"extra",
"reserve",
"spare"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"archetype",
"original",
"prototype"
]
},
"the act of saying or doing over again":{
"examples":[
"ever since I was forced to do a reduplication of a day's work, I've been more conscientious about hitting my computer's \"save\" button"
],
"synonyms":[
"duplication",
"iteration",
"redo",
"reiteration",
"renewal",
"repeat",
"repetition",
"replay",
"replication",
"reprise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rebroadcast",
"rerun",
"recitation",
"rehearsal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redolent":{
"having a pleasant smell":{
"examples":[
"my grandmother's house always seemed to be redolent with the aroma of baking bread"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambrosial",
"aromatic",
"fragrant",
"perfumed",
"savory",
"savoury",
"scented",
"sweet"
],
"near synonyms":[
"flowery",
"fruity",
"pungent",
"spicy",
"odiferous",
"odored",
"odoriferous",
"odorous",
"clean",
"fresh",
"pure"
],
"near antonyms":[
"odorless",
"unscented",
"fusty",
"musty",
"stale",
"gamy",
"gamey"
],
"antonyms":[
"fetid",
"foul",
"malodorous",
"noisome",
"putrid",
"rancid",
"rank",
"reeking",
"reeky",
"skunky",
"smelly",
"stenchful",
"stenchy",
"stinking",
"stinky",
"strong"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"redeeming":{
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
"examples":[
"the Little League coach redeemed his promise to take the players out for ice cream if they improved their fielding over the season"
],
"synonyms":[
"answering",
"completing",
"complying (with)",
"filling",
"fulfilling",
"keeping",
"meeting",
"satisfying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concluding",
"consummating",
"finalizing",
"finishing",
"perfecting",
"accomplishing",
"achieving",
"bringing about",
"bringing off",
"carrying out",
"effecting",
"committing",
"compassing",
"discharging",
"executing",
"following through (with)",
"making",
"performing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defaulting (on)",
"disregarding",
"forgetting",
"ignoring",
"neglecting",
"overlooking",
"overpassing",
"passing over",
"slighting"
],
"antonyms":[
"breaching",
"breaking",
"transgressing",
"violating"
]
},
"to free from captivity or punishment by paying a price":{
"examples":[
"the government has consistently refused to redeem hostages captured by terrorists"
],
"synonyms":[
"ransoming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bailing",
"delivering",
"rescuing",
"saving",
"emancipating",
"liberating",
"getting back",
"recovering",
"regaining",
"retrieving",
"releasing",
"buying",
"salvaging"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to free from the penalties or consequences of sin":{
"examples":[
"the belief that sinners are redeemed by their faith in God"
],
"synonyms":[
"delivering",
"saving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reclaiming",
"reforming",
"forgiving",
"pardoning",
"remitting",
"shriving",
"blessing",
"hallowing",
"consecrating",
"purifying",
"sanctifying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make better in behavior or character":{
"examples":[
"the unfaithful husband made a determined effort to redeem himself in the eyes of his wife and children"
],
"synonyms":[
"habilitating",
"reclaiming",
"reforming",
"regenerating",
"rehabilitating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reeducating",
"amending",
"improving",
"refining",
"cleansing",
"purifying",
"restoring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abasing",
"cankering",
"corrupting",
"debauching",
"degrading",
"demeaning",
"demoralizing",
"depraving",
"lowering",
"perverting",
"poisoning",
"profaning",
"prostituting",
"subverting",
"warping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make up for (an offense)":{
"examples":[
"quickly redeemed the offending remark with a sincere and unconditional apology"
],
"synonyms":[
"atoning (for)",
"expiating",
"mending"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compensating",
"recompensing",
"reimbursing",
"remunerating",
"repaying",
"amending",
"correcting",
"rectifying",
"redressing",
"propitiating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"red-penciled":{
"to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from":{
"examples":[
"the magazine claims that every article is red-penciled by a team of fact checkers before it ever sees the light of print"
],
"synonyms":[
"amended",
"corrected",
"debugged",
"emended",
"rectified",
"reformed",
"remedied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"redrafted",
"redrew",
"restyled",
"revised",
"reworked",
"rewrote",
"blue-penciled",
"cut",
"shortened",
"redressed",
"righted",
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"improved",
"perfected",
"polished",
"touched up",
"fixed",
"mended",
"repaired",
"adjusted",
"modulated",
"regulated",
"altered",
"changed",
"modified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damaged",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"marred",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"aggravated",
"worsened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove objectionable parts from":{
"examples":[
"a television script that had been heavily red-penciled in abject surrender to political correctness"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowdlerized",
"censored",
"cleaned (up)",
"expurgated",
"laundered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleansed",
"purged",
"purified",
"abbreviated",
"blue-penciled",
"edited",
"shortened",
"bleeped",
"blipped",
"cut (out)",
"deleted",
"excised",
"expunged",
"gutted",
"x-ed (out)",
"x'd (out)",
"xed (out)",
"blacked out",
"repressed",
"silenced",
"suppressed",
"censured",
"condemned",
"denounced",
"examined",
"reviewed",
"screened",
"scrutinized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approved",
"authorized",
"sanctioned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redeveloping":{
"as in revamping , revising":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"recasting",
"redesigning",
"redoing",
"reengineering",
"refashioning",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"contemporizing",
"modernizing",
"streamlining",
"updating"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in rebuilding , reconstructing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reassembling",
"rebuilding",
"reconstructing",
"reedifying",
"retrofitting",
"assembling",
"building",
"confecting",
"constructing",
"erecting",
"fabricating",
"making",
"making up",
"piecing",
"putting up",
"raising",
"rearing",
"setting up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demounting",
"disassembling",
"dismantling",
"dismembering",
"knocking down",
"striking",
"taking down",
"tearing down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redecorate":{
"as in redo":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"redo",
"diamond",
"gem",
"impearl",
"jewel",
"pearl",
"appliqu\u00e9",
"gild",
"paint",
"braid",
"embroider",
"feather",
"figure",
"filigree",
"fillet",
"flounce",
"frill",
"fringe",
"furbelow",
"garland",
"hang",
"lace",
"ribbon",
"swag",
"wreathe",
"boss",
"chase",
"brighten",
"freshen",
"smarten",
"spruce (up)",
"accessorize",
"dress up",
"trap",
"trick (out)",
"adorn",
"array",
"beautify",
"bedeck",
"bedizen",
"blazon",
"caparison",
"deck",
"decorate",
"do",
"doll up",
"do up",
"drape",
"dress",
"embellish",
"emblaze",
"emboss",
"enrich",
"fancify",
"fancy up",
"festoon",
"garnish",
"glitz (up)",
"grace",
"gussy up",
"ornament",
"pretty (up)",
"trim"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemish",
"deface",
"disfigure",
"mar",
"scar",
"spoil",
"simplify",
"streamline",
"bare",
"denude",
"dismantle",
"display",
"divest",
"expose",
"reveal",
"strip",
"uncover",
"uglify"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reduplicated":{
"as in reproduced , transcribed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"duplicated",
"photocopied",
"reproduced",
"transcribed",
"artificial",
"bogus",
"factitious",
"fake",
"false",
"imitation",
"man-made",
"mock",
"sham",
"simulated",
"substitute",
"synthetic",
"backup",
"copied",
"cribbed",
"plagiarized",
"counterfeit",
"deceptive",
"forged",
"fraudulent",
"misleading",
"apish",
"canned",
"emulative",
"epigonic",
"epigonous",
"formulaic",
"imitative",
"mimetic",
"mimic",
"slavish",
"unoriginal",
"cut-and-dried",
"cut-and-dry",
"perfunctory",
"routine",
"uninspired"
],
"near antonyms":[
"archetypal",
"archetypical",
"original",
"authentic",
"bona fide",
"legitimate",
"true",
"genuine",
"natural",
"real",
"classic",
"ideal",
"model"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make an exact likeness of":{
"examples":[
"reduplicate a recording of the concert for my friend"
],
"synonyms":[
"cloned",
"copied",
"copycatted",
"duplicated",
"imitated",
"rendered",
"replicated",
"reproduced"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterfeited",
"faked",
"forged",
"knocked off",
"ripped off",
"mimicked",
"simulated",
"reconstructed",
"re-created",
"recreated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"created",
"imagined",
"initiated",
"invented"
],
"antonyms":[
"originated"
]
},
"to make or do again":{
"examples":[
"found out halfway through the project that I was reduplicating another team member's efforts, so we had to figure out who was going to do what"
],
"synonyms":[
"duplicated",
"redid",
"reiterated",
"remade",
"renewed",
"repeated",
"replicated",
"reprised"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recreated",
"reenacted",
"reinvented"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"redistribute":{
"to divide (something) among a group in a different way":{
"examples":[
"Unused federal funds will be redistributed to other states.",
"We need to redistribute the duties among ourselves; some of us are working too hard, and others are hardly working at all."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"admeasure",
"allot",
"allow",
"appropriate",
"assign",
"dish out",
"divide",
"divvy (up)",
"dollop (out)",
"lot",
"measure (out)",
"part",
"proportion",
"ration",
"set",
"share (out)",
"split",
"administer",
"allocate",
"apportion",
"deal (out)",
"dispense",
"distribute",
"dole out",
"hand out",
"mete (out)",
"parcel (out)",
"portion",
"prorate",
"bestow",
"disburse",
"furnish",
"issue",
"provide",
"share",
"supply",
"circulate",
"disperse",
"disseminate",
"scatter",
"spread",
"chip in",
"contribute",
"donate",
"pledge",
"reallocate",
"reapportion"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrudge",
"decline",
"deny",
"deprive (of)",
"disallow",
"refuse",
"reject",
"withhold",
"niggle (out)",
"pinch",
"skimp",
"stint",
"misallocate"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redressed":{
"to punish in kind the wrongdoer responsible for":{
"examples":[
"the belief that redressing a murder with another murder, even if carried out by the state, is not morally justified"
],
"synonyms":[
"avenged",
"requited",
"retaliated",
"revenged",
"venged"
],
"near synonyms":[
"castigated",
"fixed",
"got",
"penalized",
"punished",
"scourged",
"chastened",
"chastised",
"corrected",
"disciplined",
"righted",
"compensated",
"paid (back)",
"recompensed",
"repaid"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absolved",
"condoned",
"excused",
"forgave",
"pardoned",
"remitted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rediscovery":{
"as in discovery , unearthing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"detection",
"discovery",
"finding",
"spotting",
"unearthing",
"disclosure",
"exposure",
"revelation",
"uncovering",
"unveiling",
"creation",
"invention",
"awareness",
"espial",
"notice",
"exploration"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disappearance",
"loss",
"concealment",
"hiding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redoing":{
"the act, process, or result of making different":{
"examples":[
"some residents objected to the redoing of the historic school building"
],
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"change",
"difference",
"modification",
"refashioning",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"review",
"revise",
"revision",
"reworking",
"variation"
],
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"amendment",
"correction",
"rectification",
"reform",
"conversion",
"deformation",
"distortion",
"metamorphosis",
"mutation",
"transfiguration",
"transformation",
"fluctuation",
"oscillation",
"shift",
"displacement",
"replacement",
"substitution",
"adjustment",
"modulation",
"regulation",
"tweak",
"redesign",
"redo"
],
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"fixation",
"stabilization"
]
},
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"examples":[
"desperately wanted to redo the red living room in soothing shades of green"
],
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"changing",
"making over",
"modifying",
"recasting",
"refashioning",
"remaking",
"remodeling",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking",
"varying"
],
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"deforming",
"metamorphosing",
"mutating",
"regenerating",
"revolutionizing",
"transfiguring",
"transforming",
"transmuting",
"commuting",
"converting",
"exchanging",
"rejiggering",
"retooling"
],
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"fixing",
"freezing",
"setting",
"stabilizing"
]
},
"to make or do again":{
"examples":[
"the conductor kept asking the violinist to redo that passage until he was completely satisfied"
],
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"duplicating",
"reduplicating",
"reiterating",
"remaking",
"renewing",
"repeating",
"replicating",
"reprising"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recreating",
"reenacting",
"reinventing"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
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"to change the design of (something)":{
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"The book's cover has been redesigned for the new edition.",
"We're redesigning our kitchen.",
"a newly redesigned website"
],
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"converting",
"making over",
"modifying",
"recasting",
"reclaiming",
"recycling",
"redeveloping",
"redoing",
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"refashioning",
"refiguring",
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"reinventing",
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"remaking",
"remodeling",
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"revising",
"reworking",
"transforming",
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"acclimatizing",
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"adapting",
"adjusting",
"conditioning",
"conforming",
"doctoring",
"editing",
"fashioning",
"fitting",
"putting",
"shaping",
"suiting",
"tailoring",
"readapting",
"readjusting",
"customizing",
"gearing",
"matching",
"modeling",
"modelling",
"patterning",
"attuning",
"correcting",
"harmonizing",
"squaring",
"tuning",
"establishing",
"rooting",
"settling",
"acquainting",
"familiarizing",
"orientating",
"orienting",
"equipping",
"preparing",
"priming",
"rehearsing",
"hardening",
"inuring",
"seasoning",
"toughening",
"accustoming",
"conditioning",
"habilitating",
"habituating",
"naturalizing",
"readying",
"seasoning",
"bending",
"fiddling (with)",
"fine-tuning",
"phasing",
"registering",
"regulating",
"rigging"
],
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"misadjusting"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redrawing":{
"as in revising , rewriting":{
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"restyling",
"revising",
"reworking",
"rewriting",
"amending",
"correcting",
"debugging",
"emending",
"rectifying",
"red-penciling",
"reforming",
"remedying",
"blue-penciling",
"cutting",
"shortening",
"redressing",
"righting",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"improving",
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"polishing",
"touching up",
"fixing",
"mending",
"repairing",
"adjusting",
"modulating",
"regulating",
"altering",
"changing",
"modifying"
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"damaging",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"marring",
"spoiling",
"aggravating",
"worsening"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"as in revise , rewrite":{
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"redraft",
"restyle",
"revise",
"rework",
"rewrite",
"amend",
"correct",
"debug",
"emend",
"rectify",
"red-pencil",
"reform",
"remedy",
"blue-pencil",
"cut",
"shorten",
"redress",
"right",
"ameliorate",
"better",
"improve",
"perfect",
"polish",
"touch up",
"fix",
"mend",
"repair",
"adjust",
"modulate",
"regulate",
"alter",
"change",
"modify"
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"damage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"mar",
"spoil",
"aggravate",
"worsen"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redelivering":{
"as in recommitting , retransmitting":{
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"recommitting",
"retransferring",
"retransmitting",
"furnishing",
"supplying",
"advancing",
"lending",
"loaning",
"bequeathing",
"handing down",
"handing on",
"willing",
"handing in",
"releasing",
"relinquishing",
"submitting",
"surrendering",
"turning in",
"yielding",
"assigning",
"dealing (out)",
"dispensing",
"dispersing",
"distributing",
"dividing",
"conferring",
"granting",
"commending",
"committing",
"confiding",
"consigning",
"delegating",
"delivering",
"entrusting",
"intrusting",
"giving",
"giving over",
"handing",
"handing over",
"leaving",
"passing",
"recommending",
"reposing",
"transferring",
"transmitting",
"trusting",
"turning over",
"vesting"
],
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"holding",
"keeping",
"retaining",
"detaining",
"holding back",
"reserving",
"withholding",
"owning",
"possessing",
"accepting",
"receiving",
"taking in",
"occupying",
"taking",
"taking over"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redoubts":{
"a structure or place from which one can resist attack":{
"examples":[
"a massive stone redoubt at the entrance of the bay guarded the city"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastions",
"castles",
"citadels",
"fortifications",
"fortresses",
"forts",
"holds",
"strongholds"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battlements",
"breastworks",
"bulwarks",
"earthworks",
"embattlements",
"parapets",
"ramparts",
"bunkers",
"dugouts",
"blockhouses",
"garrison houses",
"alcazars",
"casbahs",
"kasbahs"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reduplicate":{
"to make an exact likeness of":{
"examples":[
"reduplicate a recording of the concert for my friend"
],
"synonyms":[
"clone",
"copy",
"copycat",
"duplicate",
"imitate",
"render",
"replicate",
"reproduce"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterfeit",
"fake",
"forge",
"knock off",
"rip off",
"mimic",
"simulate",
"reconstruct",
"re-create"
],
"near antonyms":[
"create",
"imagine",
"initiate",
"invent"
],
"antonyms":[
"originate"
]
},
"to make or do again":{
"examples":[
"found out halfway through the project that I was reduplicating another team member's efforts, so we had to figure out who was going to do what"
],
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"duplicate",
"redo",
"reiterate",
"remake",
"renew",
"repeat",
"replicate",
"reprise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recreate",
"reenact",
"reinvent"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"red hots":{
"one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause":{
"examples":[
"the inflammatory language favored by the red hots is simply polarizing voters and stifling all dialogue"
],
"synonyms":[
"crusaders",
"fanatics",
"ideologues",
"idealogues",
"militants",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"true believers",
"zealots"
],
"near synonyms":[
"activists",
"dreamers",
"idealists",
"visionaries",
"cultists",
"disciples",
"followers",
"hangers-on",
"idolizers",
"votaries",
"addicts",
"aficionados",
"afficionados",
"buffs",
"bugs",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fanciers",
"fans",
"fiends",
"fools",
"freaks",
"habitu\u00e9s",
"habitues",
"heads",
"hounds",
"junkies",
"lovers",
"maniacs",
"mavens",
"mavins",
"nuts",
"suckers",
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"champions",
"evangelists",
"patrons",
"promoters",
"stalwarts",
"supporters",
"boosters",
"rooters",
"well-wishers",
"faddists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dabblers",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonmilitants"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"red meats":{
"as in games , variety meats":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"games",
"poultries",
"variety meats",
"flesh",
"meats"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redolences":{
"a sweet or pleasant smell":{
"examples":[
"breathed in the redolence of the apple orchard"
],
"synonyms":[
"aromas",
"attars",
"ottos",
"balms",
"bouquets",
"fragrances",
"fragrancies",
"incenses",
"perfumes",
"scents",
"spices"
],
"near synonyms":[
"essences",
"odors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fetors",
"malodors",
"reeks",
"stenches",
"stinks"
]
},
"the quality of a thing that makes it perceptible to the sense organs in the nose":{
"examples":[
"the redolence of fir trees always reminds me of Christmas"
],
"synonyms":[
"aromas",
"odors",
"scents",
"smells",
"sniffs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"whiffs",
"attars",
"ottos",
"bouquets",
"fragrances",
"fragrancies",
"perfumes",
"ambrosias",
"savors",
"savours",
"spices",
"tangs",
"fetors",
"funks",
"malodors",
"rancidities",
"reeks",
"stenches",
"stinks",
"aromaticities",
"incenses",
"musks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redevelops":{
"as in revamps , revises":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"recasts",
"redesigns",
"redoes",
"reengineers",
"refashions",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"contemporizes",
"modernizes",
"streamlines",
"updates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in rebuilds , reconstructs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reassembles",
"rebuilds",
"reconstructs",
"reedifies",
"retrofits",
"assembles",
"builds",
"confects",
"constructs",
"erects",
"fabricates",
"makes",
"makes up",
"pieces",
"puts up",
"raises",
"rears",
"sets up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demounts",
"disassembles",
"dismantles",
"dismembers",
"knocks down",
"strikes",
"takes down",
"tears down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redacts":{
"to make changes to (something written) so as to remove or obscure information":{
"examples":[
"Because the victims were minors, their full names were redacted from public court records.",
"The declassified documents were heavily redacted before they were released."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bowdlerizes",
"censors",
"cleans (up)",
"expurgates",
"launders",
"red-pencils",
"blue-pencils",
"cancels",
"crosses (out)",
"deles",
"deletes",
"edits (out)",
"elides",
"kills",
"scratches (out)",
"strikes (out)",
"strokes (out)",
"x's (out)",
"blots out",
"effaces",
"eradicates",
"erases",
"expunges",
"obliterates",
"roots (out)",
"rubs out",
"wipes out",
"bleeps",
"blips",
"clips",
"cuts",
"excises",
"removes",
"abbreviates",
"crops",
"shortens",
"blacks out",
"represses",
"silences",
"suppresses"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redescribing":{
"as in reimaging":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reimaging",
"summarizing",
"summing up",
"touching off",
"drafting",
"outlining",
"silhouetting",
"tracing",
"vignetting",
"hinting",
"suggesting",
"displaying",
"exhibiting",
"showing",
"narrating",
"reciting",
"recounting",
"rehearsing",
"relating",
"reporting",
"telling",
"demonstrating",
"illustrating",
"characterizing",
"defining",
"labeling",
"labelling",
"qualifying",
"representing",
"delineating",
"depicting",
"describing",
"drawing",
"imaging",
"limning",
"painting",
"picturing",
"portraying",
"rendering",
"setting out",
"sketching"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coloring",
"distorting",
"falsifying",
"garbling",
"misdescribing",
"misrepresenting",
"misstating",
"perverting",
"twisting",
"warping"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redesigned":{
"to change the design of (something)":{
"examples":[
"The book's cover has been redesigned for the new edition.",
"We're redesigning our kitchen.",
"a newly redesigned website"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"altered",
"converted",
"made over",
"modified",
"recast",
"reclaimed",
"recycled",
"redeveloped",
"redid",
"reengineered",
"refashioned",
"refigured",
"refitted",
"refocused",
"reinvented",
"rejiggered",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"transformed",
"acclimated",
"acclimatized",
"accommodated",
"adapted",
"adjusted",
"conditioned",
"conformed",
"doctored",
"edited",
"fashioned",
"fitted",
"fit",
"put",
"shaped",
"suited",
"tailored",
"readapted",
"readjusted",
"customized",
"geared",
"matched",
"modeled",
"modelled",
"patterned",
"attuned",
"corrected",
"harmonized",
"squared",
"tuned",
"established",
"rooted",
"settled",
"acquainted",
"familiarized",
"orientated",
"oriented",
"equipped",
"prepared",
"primed",
"rehearsed",
"hardened",
"inured",
"seasoned",
"toughened",
"accustomed",
"conditioned",
"habilitated",
"habituated",
"naturalized",
"readied",
"seasoned",
"bent",
"fiddled (with)",
"fine-tuned",
"phased",
"registered",
"regulated",
"rigged"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusted"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redirects":{
"to change the course or direction of (something)":{
"examples":[
"upon hearing the noise, he redirected his gaze to the window"
],
"synonyms":[
"deflects",
"diverts",
"swings",
"turns",
"veers",
"wheels",
"whips"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averts",
"deviates",
"moves",
"rechannels",
"shifts",
"shunts",
"sidetracks",
"swerves",
"switches",
"transfers",
"swivels",
"twists",
"whirls",
"zigzags",
"bends",
"curves",
"sways",
"reverses",
"turns back"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redos":{
"the act of saying or doing over again":{
"examples":[
"as a way of celebrating our silver wedding anniversary, we're planning a redo of the trip we took on our honeymoon"
],
"synonyms":[
"duplications",
"iterations",
"reduplications",
"reiterations",
"renewals",
"repeats",
"repetitions",
"replays",
"replications",
"reprises"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rebroadcasts",
"reruns",
"recitations",
"rehearsals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redoubtable":{
"causing fear":{
"examples":[
"his next opponent, the reigning champion, would be by far the most redoubtable adversary the young boxer had ever faced"
],
"synonyms":[
"alarming",
"dire",
"direful",
"dread",
"dreadful",
"fearful",
"fearsome",
"forbidding",
"formidable",
"frightening",
"frightful",
"ghastly",
"hair-raising",
"horrendous",
"horrible",
"horrifying",
"intimidating",
"scary",
"shocking",
"spine-chilling",
"terrible",
"terrifying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"daunting",
"demoralizing",
"disconcerting",
"discouraging",
"dismaying",
"disquieting",
"distressing",
"disturbing",
"perturbing",
"startling",
"threatening",
"troubling",
"trying",
"unnerving",
"bone-chilling",
"creepy",
"eerie",
"eery",
"weird",
"appalling",
"atrocious",
"awful",
"grisly",
"gruesome",
"grewsome",
"hideous",
"horrid",
"macabre",
"monstrous",
"nightmarish"
],
"near antonyms":[
"calming",
"comforting",
"consoling",
"inviting",
"lulling",
"pacifying",
"quieting",
"reassuring",
"relaxing",
"soothing",
"tranquilizing",
"tranquillizing",
"nonintimidating",
"nonthreatening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"standing above others in rank, importance, or achievement":{
"examples":[
"a surprising discovery by one of the most redoubtable figures in Egyptian archaeology"
],
"synonyms":[
"astral",
"bright",
"distinguished",
"eminent",
"illustrious",
"luminous",
"noble",
"notable",
"noteworthy",
"outstanding",
"preeminent",
"prestigious",
"signal",
"star",
"superior"
],
"near synonyms":[
"celebrated",
"exalted",
"famed",
"famous",
"glorious",
"honored",
"renowned",
"reputable",
"infamous",
"notorious",
"dominant",
"paramount",
"predominant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"insignificant",
"minor",
"unimportant",
"average",
"inferior",
"mediocre",
"obscure",
"uncelebrated",
"unsung"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"redescribe":{
"as in reimage":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reimage",
"summarize",
"sum up",
"touch off",
"draft",
"outline",
"silhouette",
"trace",
"vignette",
"hint",
"suggest",
"display",
"exhibit",
"show",
"narrate",
"recite",
"recount",
"rehearse",
"relate",
"report",
"tell",
"demonstrate",
"illustrate",
"characterize",
"define",
"label",
"qualify",
"represent",
"delineate",
"depict",
"describe",
"draw",
"image",
"limn",
"paint",
"picture",
"portray",
"render",
"set out",
"sketch"
],
"near antonyms":[
"color",
"distort",
"falsify",
"garble",
"misdescribe",
"misrepresent",
"misstate",
"pervert",
"twist",
"warp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reds":{
"a person who rises up against authority":{
"examples":[
"the reds demanded a violent overthrow of the government"
],
"synonyms":[
"insurgents",
"insurrectionaries",
"insurrectionists",
"mutineers",
"rebels",
"revolters",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challengers",
"defiers",
"insubordinates",
"oppositionists",
"recusants",
"refusers",
"resistants",
"resisters",
"anarchists",
"anarchs",
"discontents",
"extremists",
"malcontents",
"radicals"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loyalists",
"patriots",
"supporters",
"counterinsurgents",
"counterrevolutionaries",
"counterrevolutionists"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an adherent or advocate of an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state":{
"examples":[
"the story of John Reed, the only American Red buried within the Kremlin"
],
"synonyms":[
"commies",
"communists",
"comrades",
"socialists"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lefties",
"leftists",
"pinkos",
"pinkoes",
"pinks",
"social democrats",
"Bolsheviks",
"Bolsheviki",
"Leninists",
"Leninites",
"Maoists",
"Marxists",
"Stalinists",
"Trotskyists",
"Trotskyites",
"extremists",
"radicals",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists"
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"noun"
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"barbaric",
"barbarous",
"brutal",
"brute",
"butcherly",
"cruel",
"fiendish",
"heartless",
"inhuman",
"inhumane",
"sadistic",
"savage",
"truculent",
"vicious",
"wanton"
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"ironhearted",
"merciless",
"pitiless",
"ruthless",
"stonyhearted",
"unfeeling",
"fell",
"ferocious",
"grim",
"bloodthirsty",
"cutthroat",
"murderous",
"sanguinary",
"sanguine",
"catty",
"despiteful",
"hateful",
"malevolent",
"malicious",
"malign",
"malignant",
"mean",
"nasty",
"spiteful",
"vindictive",
"draconian",
"draconic",
"hardhanded",
"harsh",
"heavy-handed",
"oppressive"
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"warm",
"warmhearted",
"charitable",
"clement",
"lenient",
"merciful",
"pitying",
"pacific",
"peaceable",
"peaceful"
],
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"benignant",
"compassionate",
"good-hearted",
"humane",
"kind",
"kindhearted",
"sympathetic",
"tenderhearted"
]
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"summarized",
"summed up",
"touched off",
"drafted",
"outlined",
"silhouetted",
"traced",
"vignetted",
"hinted",
"suggested",
"displayed",
"exhibited",
"showed",
"narrated",
"recited",
"recounted",
"rehearsed",
"related",
"reported",
"told",
"demonstrated",
"illustrated",
"characterized",
"defined",
"labeled",
"labelled",
"qualified",
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"described",
"drew",
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"limned",
"painted",
"pictured",
"portrayed",
"rendered",
"set out",
"sketched"
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"distorted",
"falsified",
"garbled",
"misdescribed",
"misrepresented",
"misstated",
"perverted",
"twisted",
"warped"
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"to make changes to (something written) so as to remove or obscure information":{
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"Because the victims were minors, their full names were redacted from public court records.",
"The declassified documents were heavily redacted before they were released."
],
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"bowdlerize",
"censor",
"clean (up)",
"expurgate",
"launder",
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"blue-pencil",
"cancel",
"cross (out)",
"dele",
"delete",
"edit (out)",
"elide",
"kill",
"scratch (out)",
"strike (out)",
"stroke (out)",
"x (out)",
"blot out",
"efface",
"eradicate",
"erase",
"expunge",
"obliterate",
"root (out)",
"rub out",
"wipe out",
"bleep",
"blip",
"clip",
"cut",
"excise",
"remove",
"abbreviate",
"crop",
"shorten",
"black out",
"repress",
"silence",
"suppress"
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"verb"
]
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"to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating":{
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"if you redraft that paper and include more recent data, I think we could publish it"
],
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"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks"
],
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"polishes",
"touches up",
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"subs",
"reedits",
"amends",
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"corrects",
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"fact-checks",
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"prints",
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"red-pencils",
"engrosses",
"recopies"
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},
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"verb"
]
},
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"to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from":{
"examples":[
"the magazine claims that every article is red-penciled by a team of fact checkers before it ever sees the light of print"
],
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"amend",
"correct",
"debug",
"emend",
"rectify",
"reform",
"remedy"
],
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"redraw",
"restyle",
"revise",
"rework",
"rewrite",
"blue-pencil",
"cut",
"shorten",
"redress",
"right",
"ameliorate",
"better",
"improve",
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"touch up",
"fix",
"mend",
"repair",
"adjust",
"modulate",
"regulate",
"alter",
"change",
"modify"
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"damage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"impair",
"injure",
"mar",
"spoil",
"aggravate",
"worsen"
],
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"a television script that had been heavily red-penciled in abject surrender to political correctness"
],
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"bowdlerize",
"censor",
"clean (up)",
"expurgate",
"launder"
],
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"purge",
"purify",
"abbreviate",
"blue-pencil",
"edit",
"shorten",
"bleep",
"blip",
"cut (out)",
"delete",
"excise",
"expunge",
"gut",
"x (out)",
"black out",
"repress",
"silence",
"suppress",
"censure",
"condemn",
"denounce",
"examine",
"review",
"screen",
"scrutinize"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approve",
"authorize",
"sanction"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"red meat":{
"as in game , variety meat":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"game",
"poultry",
"variety meat",
"flesh",
"meat"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redrafted":{
"to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating":{
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"if you redraft that paper and include more recent data, I think we could publish it"
],
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"edited",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked"
],
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"perfected",
"polished",
"touched up",
"copyedited",
"read",
"subbed",
"subedited",
"reedited",
"amended",
"annotated",
"corrected",
"emended",
"rectified",
"fact-checked",
"anthologized",
"collected",
"compiled",
"got out",
"issued",
"printed",
"published",
"abridged",
"blue-penciled",
"redacted",
"red-penciled",
"engrossed",
"recopied"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redrawn":{
"as in revised , rewritten":{
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"synonyms":[],
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"redrafted",
"restyled",
"revised",
"reworked",
"rewritten",
"amended",
"corrected",
"debugged",
"emended",
"rectified",
"red-penciled",
"reformed",
"remedied",
"blue-penciled",
"cut",
"shortened",
"redressed",
"righted",
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"improved",
"perfected",
"polished",
"touched up",
"fixed",
"mended",
"repaired",
"adjusted",
"modulated",
"regulated",
"altered",
"changed",
"modified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damaged",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"marred",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"aggravated",
"worsened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
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"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"redoes",
"diamonds",
"gems",
"impearls",
"jewels",
"pearls",
"appliqu\u00e9s",
"gilds",
"paints",
"braids",
"embroiders",
"feathers",
"figures",
"filigrees",
"fillets",
"flounces",
"frills",
"fringes",
"furbelows",
"garlands",
"hangs",
"laces",
"ribbons",
"swags",
"wreathes",
"bosses",
"chases",
"brightens",
"freshens",
"smartens",
"spruces (up)",
"accessorizes",
"dresses up",
"traps",
"tricks (out)",
"adorns",
"arrays",
"beautifies",
"bedecks",
"bedizens",
"blazons",
"caparisons",
"decks",
"decorates",
"does",
"does up",
"dolls up",
"drapes",
"dresses",
"embellishes",
"emblazes",
"embosses",
"enriches",
"fancies up",
"fancifies",
"festoons",
"garnishes",
"glitzes (up)",
"graces",
"gussies up",
"ornaments",
"pretties (up)",
"trims"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemishes",
"defaces",
"disfigures",
"mars",
"scars",
"spoils",
"simplifies",
"streamlines",
"bares",
"denudes",
"dismantles",
"displays",
"divests",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"strips",
"uncovers",
"uglifies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"red giants":{
"as in neutron stars , white dwarfs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"binary stars",
"brown dwarfs",
"brown dwarves",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"fixed stars",
"gassers",
"giant stars",
"lodestars",
"loadstars",
"neutron stars",
"novas",
"novae",
"pulsars",
"quasars",
"red dwarfs",
"red stars",
"subdwarfs",
"superclusters",
"supergiants",
"supernovas",
"supernovae",
"variables",
"variable stars",
"white dwarfs",
"luminaries",
"spheres",
"suns",
"clusters",
"constellations",
"galaxies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"red":{
"having a healthy reddish skin tone":{
"examples":[
"the merry, red , smiling face of Santa Claus"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooming",
"florid",
"flush",
"full-blooded",
"glowing",
"rosy",
"rubicund",
"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"
]
},
"having a notably high temperature":{
"examples":[
"the streams of red lava were especially spectacular at night"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardent",
"boiling",
"broiling",
"burning",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"fiery",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sultry",
"superheated",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"ultrahot",
"white-hot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazing",
"glowing",
"igneous",
"molten",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"heated",
"overheated",
"reheated",
"warmed",
"snug",
"toasty",
"warm",
"warmish",
"feverish",
"flushed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"canicular",
"muggy",
"steamy",
"summerlike",
"summery",
"tropical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chill",
"chilly",
"coldish",
"cool",
"coolish",
"nippy",
"snappy",
"blizzardly",
"frosty",
"snowy",
"subfreezing",
"subzero",
"wintry",
"wintery",
"chilled",
"cooled",
"refrigerated",
"unheated",
"benumbed",
"numb",
"shivering"
],
"antonyms":[
"algid",
"arctic",
"bitter",
"bone-chilling",
"cold",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frozen",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"iced",
"icy"
]
},
"a person who rises up against authority":{
"examples":[
"the reds demanded a violent overthrow of the government"
],
"synonyms":[
"insurgent",
"insurrectionary",
"insurrectionist",
"mutineer",
"rebel",
"revolter",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenger",
"defier",
"insubordinate",
"oppositionist",
"recusant",
"refuser",
"resistant",
"resister",
"anarch",
"anarchist",
"discontent",
"extremist",
"malcontent",
"radical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loyalist",
"patriot",
"supporter",
"counterinsurgent",
"counterrevolutionary",
"counterrevolutionist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an adherent or advocate of an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state":{
"examples":[
"the story of John Reed, the only American Red buried within the Kremlin"
],
"synonyms":[
"commie",
"communist",
"comrade",
"socialist"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leftist",
"lefty",
"pink",
"pinko",
"social democrat",
"Bolshevik",
"Leninist",
"Leninite",
"Maoist",
"Marxist",
"Stalinist",
"Trotskyist",
"Trotskyite",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"capitalist"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"redefine":{
"to consider again especially with the possibility of change or reversal":{
"examples":[
"learning that he had been adopted forced him to completely redefine his identity"
],
"synonyms":[
"readdress",
"reanalyze",
"reconceive",
"reconsider",
"reevaluate",
"reexamine",
"reexplore",
"rethink",
"review",
"revisit",
"reweigh"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rehear",
"reconceptualize",
"reenvision",
"reimagine",
"reappraise",
"reassess",
"reinvestigate",
"restudy",
"amend",
"correct",
"emend",
"rectify",
"reform",
"remedy",
"revise"
],
"near antonyms":[
"assert",
"defend",
"maintain",
"uphold"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"red stars":{
"as in neutron stars , white dwarfs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"binary stars",
"brown dwarfs",
"brown dwarves",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"fixed stars",
"gassers",
"giant stars",
"lodestars",
"loadstars",
"neutron stars",
"novas",
"novae",
"pulsars",
"quasars",
"red dwarfs",
"red giants",
"subdwarfs",
"superclusters",
"supergiants",
"supernovas",
"supernovae",
"variables",
"variable stars",
"white dwarfs",
"luminaries",
"spheres",
"suns",
"clusters",
"constellations",
"galaxies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reduced":{
"as in discounted , lowered":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"discount",
"discounted",
"fire-sale",
"lowered",
"cheapish",
"moderate",
"wholesale",
"affordable",
"bargain-basement",
"budget",
"cheap",
"cheapie",
"cheapo",
"chintzy",
"cut-price",
"cut-rate",
"dime-store",
"dirt cheap",
"el cheapo",
"inexpensive",
"low",
"low-end",
"popular",
"reasonable",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"supercheap",
"ultracheap"
],
"near antonyms":[
"costly",
"dear",
"deluxe",
"expensive",
"high",
"high-ticket",
"precious",
"premium",
"pricey",
"pricy",
"spendy",
"valuable",
"increased",
"inflated",
"exorbitant",
"extravagant",
"overpriced",
"prohibitive",
"prohibitory",
"steep",
"stiff",
"superexpensive",
"ultraexpensive",
"unreasonable",
"invaluable",
"priceless",
"luxurious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in diminished , compressed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"contracted",
"diminished",
"dimpled",
"pockmarked",
"alveolar",
"cavernous",
"crescentic",
"cuplike",
"cupped",
"cuppy",
"recurved",
"concave",
"dented",
"depressed",
"dished",
"hollow",
"indented",
"recessed",
"sunken"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bulging",
"cambered",
"convex",
"protruding",
"protrusive",
"protuberant",
"ballooning",
"bloated",
"blown up",
"bulbous",
"distended",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"extended",
"inflated",
"jutting",
"projecting",
"puffed",
"puffy",
"risen",
"swollen",
"domed",
"global",
"globular",
"round",
"rounded",
"spherical"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to bring to a lower grade or rank":{
"examples":[
"was reduced from team captain to team member as punishment for his misbehavior on the court"
],
"synonyms":[
"broke",
"busted",
"bust",
"degraded",
"demoted",
"disrated",
"downgraded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"canned",
"cashiered",
"dismissed",
"downsized",
"fired",
"laid off",
"sacked",
"abased",
"debased",
"demeaned",
"humbled",
"humiliated",
"lowered"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hired"
],
"antonyms":[
"advanced",
"elevated",
"promoted",
"raised"
]
},
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
"examples":[
"you'll have to reduce the amount of money you spend on unnecessary purchases if you want to have any money left for retirement"
],
"synonyms":[
"abated",
"decreased",
"de-escalated",
"dented",
"depleted",
"diminished",
"downscaled",
"downsized",
"dropped",
"dwindled",
"eased",
"knocked down",
"lessened",
"lowered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compressed",
"condensed",
"constricted",
"contracted",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"clipped",
"cropped",
"curtailed",
"cut",
"cut back",
"cut down",
"docked",
"nicked",
"pared",
"pruned",
"retrenched",
"shortened",
"slashed",
"trimmed",
"truncated",
"whittled",
"deflated",
"shrank",
"shrunk",
"minimized",
"moderated",
"modified",
"modulated",
"qualified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blew up",
"dilated",
"distended",
"inflated",
"swelled",
"elongated",
"extended",
"lengthened",
"prolonged",
"protracted",
"added (to)",
"complemented",
"supplemented",
"enhanced",
"heightened",
"intensified",
"redoubled"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"boosted",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"increased",
"raised"
]
},
"to diminish the price or value of":{
"examples":[
"a mortgage crisis that reduced homes to their lowest level in a decade"
],
"synonyms":[
"attenuated",
"broke",
"cheapened",
"depreciated",
"depressed",
"devaluated",
"devalued",
"downgraded",
"lowered",
"marked down",
"sank",
"sunk",
"wrote down",
"wrote off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debased",
"demonetized",
"underestimated",
"underpriced",
"underrated",
"undervalued",
"abridged",
"compressed",
"contracted",
"de-escalated",
"deflated",
"downsized",
"dwindled",
"lessened",
"moderated",
"shrank",
"shrunk"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blew up",
"bloated",
"inflated",
"overestimated",
"overpriced",
"overrated",
"overvalued",
"added",
"aggrandized",
"amplified",
"augmented",
"ballooned",
"boosted",
"compounded",
"dilated",
"enlarged",
"escalated",
"expanded",
"extended",
"heightened",
"increased",
"maximized",
"multiplied",
"raised",
"swelled",
"upped"
],
"antonyms":[
"appreciated",
"enhanced",
"marked up",
"upgraded"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
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"to do what is required by the terms of":{
"examples":[
"the Little League coach redeemed his promise to take the players out for ice cream if they improved their fielding over the season"
],
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"answer",
"complete",
"comply (with)",
"fill",
"fulfill",
"fulfil",
"keep",
"meet",
"satisfy"
],
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"conclude",
"consummate",
"finalize",
"finish",
"perfect",
"accomplish",
"achieve",
"bring about",
"bring off",
"carry out",
"effect",
"commit",
"compass",
"discharge",
"execute",
"follow through (with)",
"make",
"perform"
],
"near antonyms":[
"default (on)",
"disregard",
"forget",
"ignore",
"neglect",
"overlook",
"overpass",
"pass over",
"slight"
],
"antonyms":[
"breach",
"break",
"transgress",
"violate"
]
},
"to free from captivity or punishment by paying a price":{
"examples":[
"the government has consistently refused to redeem hostages captured by terrorists"
],
"synonyms":[
"ransom"
],
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"bail",
"deliver",
"rescue",
"save",
"emancipate",
"liberate",
"get back",
"recover",
"regain",
"retrieve",
"release",
"buy",
"salvage"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to free from the penalties or consequences of sin":{
"examples":[
"the belief that sinners are redeemed by their faith in God"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliver",
"save"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reclaim",
"reform",
"forgive",
"pardon",
"remit",
"shrive",
"bless",
"hallow",
"consecrate",
"purify",
"sanctify"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make better in behavior or character":{
"examples":[
"the unfaithful husband made a determined effort to redeem himself in the eyes of his wife and children"
],
"synonyms":[
"habilitate",
"reclaim",
"reform",
"regenerate",
"rehabilitate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reeducate",
"amend",
"improve",
"refine",
"cleanse",
"purify",
"restore"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abase",
"canker",
"corrupt",
"debauch",
"degrade",
"demean",
"demoralize",
"deprave",
"lower",
"pervert",
"poison",
"profane",
"prostitute",
"subvert",
"warp"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make up for (an offense)":{
"examples":[
"quickly redeemed the offending remark with a sincere and unconditional apology"
],
"synonyms":[
"atone (for)",
"expiate",
"mend"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compensate",
"recompense",
"reimburse",
"remunerate",
"repay",
"amend",
"correct",
"rectify",
"redress",
"propitiate"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redounds":{
"to have a particular result \u2014 used especially to describe how something affects someone or something or affects the opinion that people have about someone or something \u2014 + to":{
"examples":[
"It redounds to his credit that he worked so hard to prevent this crisis."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"pans out",
"results",
"acts",
"operates",
"performs",
"takes",
"works",
"behaves",
"reacts",
"responds",
"affects",
"influences",
"sways"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backfires",
"fizzles"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redding (up or out)":{
"to make neat":{
"examples":[
"it's time to redd up the garage and get rid of a lot of the junk we've accumulated"
],
"synonyms":[
"neatening",
"picking up",
"sprucing (up)",
"straightening (up or out)",
"tidying (up)",
"trimming"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arranging",
"arraying",
"classifying",
"codifying",
"disposing",
"drawing up",
"marshaling",
"marshalling",
"ordering",
"organizing",
"ranging",
"systematizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disarranging",
"disarraying",
"discomposing",
"disheveling",
"dishevelling",
"disordering",
"disorganizing",
"disrupting",
"disturbing",
"jumbling",
"messing (up)",
"mixing (up)",
"muddling",
"mussing",
"rumpling",
"scrambling",
"shuffling",
"tousling",
"tumbling",
"upsetting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redelivered":{
"as in recommitted , retransmitted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"recommitted",
"retransferred",
"retransmitted",
"furnished",
"supplied",
"advanced",
"lent",
"loaned",
"bequeathed",
"handed down",
"handed on",
"willed",
"handed in",
"released",
"relinquished",
"submitted",
"surrendered",
"turned in",
"yielded",
"assigned",
"dealt (out)",
"dispensed",
"dispersed",
"distributed",
"divided",
"conferred",
"granted",
"commended",
"committed",
"confided",
"consigned",
"delegated",
"delivered",
"entrusted",
"intrusted",
"gave",
"gave over",
"handed",
"handed over",
"left",
"passed",
"recommended",
"reposed",
"transferred",
"transmitted",
"trusted",
"turned over",
"vested"
],
"near antonyms":[
"held",
"kept",
"retained",
"detained",
"held back",
"reserved",
"withheld",
"owned",
"possessed",
"accepted",
"received",
"took in",
"occupied",
"took",
"took over"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redoubling":{
"to make markedly greater in measure or degree":{
"examples":[
"rescuers redoubled their efforts to reach the people buried in the rubble after unexpectedly hearing someone call for help"
],
"synonyms":[
"accentuating",
"amping (up)",
"amplifying",
"beefing (up)",
"boosting",
"consolidating",
"deepening",
"enhancing",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"magnifying",
"stepping up",
"strengthening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broadening",
"enlarging",
"expanding",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"accelerating",
"hastening",
"quickening",
"emphasizing",
"pointing (up)",
"sharpening",
"stressing",
"augmenting",
"enforcing",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"restrengthening",
"supplementing",
"maximizing",
"enlivening",
"jazzing (up)",
"aggravating",
"exacerbating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"lessening",
"letting up (on)",
"reducing",
"subduing",
"toning (down)",
"weakening",
"dwindling",
"receding",
"subsiding",
"tapering (off)",
"waning",
"alleviating",
"easing",
"lightening"
],
"antonyms":[
"abating",
"moderating"
]
},
"to make twice as great or as many":{
"examples":[
"if we redouble the recipe, we'll have enough cookies for everyone"
],
"synonyms":[
"doubling",
"duplicating"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compounding",
"multiplying",
"accumulating",
"ballooning",
"building (up)",
"burgeoning",
"bourgeoning",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"increasing",
"mounting",
"mushrooming",
"proliferating",
"rising",
"snowballing",
"swelling",
"waxing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redundancies":{
"the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed":{
"examples":[
"there's a redundancy of high-priced restaurants in the area"
],
"synonyms":[
"bellyfuls",
"excesses",
"fat",
"overabundances",
"overages",
"overflows",
"overkills",
"overmuch",
"overpluses",
"oversupplies",
"plethoras",
"pluses",
"plusses",
"superabundances",
"superfluities",
"surfeits",
"surplusages",
"surpluses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abundances",
"bounties",
"plenties",
"plentitudes",
"profusions",
"sufficiencies",
"overproductions",
"overstocks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dearths",
"lacks",
"scarcities",
"wants"
],
"antonyms":[
"deficiencies",
"deficits",
"insufficiencies",
"undersupplies"
]
},
"the termination of the employment of an employee or a work force often temporarily":{
"examples":[
"several dozen employees at the London office were lost to redundancy"
],
"synonyms":[
"axes",
"discharges",
"dismissals",
"furloughs",
"layoffs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pink slips",
"birds",
"boots",
"bum's rushes",
"firings",
"heave-hos",
"sacks",
"closings",
"shutdowns",
"shakeouts",
"shake-ups"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callbacks",
"recalls",
"reemployments",
"re-employments",
"rehires"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"red dwarf":{
"as in neutron star , white dwarf":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"binary star",
"brown dwarf",
"dwarf",
"fixed star",
"gasser",
"giant star",
"lodestar",
"loadstar",
"neutron star",
"nova",
"pulsar",
"quasar",
"red giant",
"red star",
"subdwarf",
"supercluster",
"supergiant",
"supernova",
"variable",
"variable star",
"white dwarf",
"luminary",
"sphere",
"sun",
"cluster",
"constellation",
"galaxy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redwares":{
"as in porcelains , chinas":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"chinas",
"ironstone chinas",
"porcelains",
"ceramics",
"crockeries",
"earthenwares",
"potteries",
"stonewares"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reduces":{
"to bring to a lower grade or rank":{
"examples":[
"was reduced from team captain to team member as punishment for his misbehavior on the court"
],
"synonyms":[
"breaks",
"busts",
"degrades",
"demotes",
"disrates",
"downgrades"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cans",
"cashiers",
"dismisses",
"downsizes",
"fires",
"lays off",
"sacks",
"abases",
"debases",
"demeans",
"humbles",
"humiliates",
"lowers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hires"
],
"antonyms":[
"advances",
"elevates",
"promotes",
"raises"
]
},
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
"examples":[
"you'll have to reduce the amount of money you spend on unnecessary purchases if you want to have any money left for retirement"
],
"synonyms":[
"abates",
"decreases",
"de-escalates",
"dents",
"depletes",
"diminishes",
"downscales",
"downsizes",
"drops",
"dwindles",
"eases",
"knocks down",
"lessens",
"lowers"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compresses",
"condenses",
"constricts",
"contracts",
"abbreviates",
"abridges",
"clips",
"crops",
"curtails",
"cuts",
"cuts back",
"cuts down",
"docks",
"nicks",
"pares",
"prunes",
"retrenches",
"shortens",
"slashes",
"trims",
"truncates",
"whittles",
"deflates",
"shrinks",
"minimizes",
"moderates",
"modifies",
"modulates",
"qualifies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blows up",
"dilates",
"distends",
"inflates",
"swells",
"elongates",
"extends",
"lengthens",
"prolongs",
"protracts",
"adds (to)",
"complements",
"supplements",
"enhances",
"heightens",
"intensifies",
"redoubles"
],
"antonyms":[
"aggrandizes",
"amplifies",
"augments",
"boosts",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"increases",
"raises"
]
},
"to diminish the price or value of":{
"examples":[
"a mortgage crisis that reduced homes to their lowest level in a decade"
],
"synonyms":[
"attenuates",
"breaks",
"cheapens",
"depreciates",
"depresses",
"devaluates",
"devalues",
"downgrades",
"lowers",
"marks down",
"sinks",
"writes down",
"writes off"
],
"near synonyms":[
"debases",
"demonetizes",
"underestimates",
"underprices",
"underrates",
"undervalues",
"abridges",
"compresses",
"contracts",
"de-escalates",
"deflates",
"downsizes",
"dwindles",
"lessens",
"moderates",
"shrinks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bloats",
"blows up",
"inflates",
"overestimates",
"overprices",
"overrates",
"overvalues",
"adds",
"aggrandizes",
"amplifies",
"augments",
"balloons",
"boosts",
"compounds",
"dilates",
"enlarges",
"escalates",
"expands",
"extends",
"heightens",
"increases",
"maximizes",
"multiplies",
"raises",
"swells",
"ups"
],
"antonyms":[
"appreciates",
"enhances",
"marks up",
"upgrades"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redescribes":{
"as in reimages":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reimages",
"summarizes",
"sums up",
"touches off",
"drafts",
"outlines",
"silhouettes",
"traces",
"vignettes",
"hints",
"suggests",
"displays",
"exhibits",
"shows",
"narrates",
"recites",
"recounts",
"rehearses",
"relates",
"reports",
"tells",
"demonstrates",
"illustrates",
"characterizes",
"defines",
"labels",
"qualifies",
"represents",
"delineates",
"depicts",
"describes",
"draws",
"images",
"limns",
"paints",
"pictures",
"portrays",
"renders",
"sets out",
"sketches"
],
"near antonyms":[
"colors",
"distorts",
"falsifies",
"garbles",
"misdescribes",
"misrepresents",
"misstates",
"perverts",
"twists",
"warps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redeemable":{
"capable of being corrected":{
"examples":[
"you made several mistakes in your report, but they're all redeemable"
],
"synonyms":[
"correctable",
"corrigible",
"fixable",
"remediable",
"repairable",
"reparable"
],
"near synonyms":[
"amendable",
"emendable",
"improvable",
"resolvable",
"reversible",
"undoable",
"reconstructible",
"reformable",
"regenerable",
"corrected",
"fixed",
"remedied",
"repaired"
],
"near antonyms":[
"irretrievable",
"unrecoverable",
"irreplaceable",
"irreversible",
"irrevocable"
],
"antonyms":[
"incorrigible",
"irrecoverable",
"irredeemable",
"irremediable",
"irreparable",
"unredeemable"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"redds (up or out)":{
"to make neat":{
"examples":[
"it's time to redd up the garage and get rid of a lot of the junk we've accumulated"
],
"synonyms":[
"neatens",
"picks up",
"spruces (up)",
"straightens (up or out)",
"tidies (up)",
"trims"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arranges",
"arrays",
"classifies",
"codifies",
"disposes",
"draws up",
"marshals",
"marshalls",
"orders",
"organizes",
"ranges",
"systematizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disarranges",
"disarrays",
"discomposes",
"dishevels",
"disorders",
"disorganizes",
"disrupts",
"disturbs",
"jumbles",
"messes (up)",
"mixes (up)",
"muddles",
"musses",
"rumples",
"scrambles",
"shuffles",
"tousles",
"tumbles",
"upsets"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redundant":{
"being over what is needed":{
"examples":[
"this area is already chockablock with shopping malls; another one would be redundant"
],
"synonyms":[
"excess",
"extra",
"spare",
"supererogatory",
"superfluous",
"supernumerary",
"surplus"
],
"near synonyms":[
"accessory",
"additional",
"supplemental",
"supplementary",
"de trop",
"dispensable",
"extraneous",
"gratuitous",
"needless",
"nonessential",
"uncalled-for",
"unessential",
"unnecessary",
"unneeded",
"unwanted",
"abundant",
"ample",
"bountiful",
"copious",
"plenteous",
"plentiful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"deficient",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"meager",
"meagre",
"niggardly",
"poor",
"scant",
"scanty",
"scarce",
"short",
"shortish",
"skimpy",
"sparse"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"red-eye":{
"as in rotgut , bathtub gin":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bathtub gin",
"rotgut",
"bootleg",
"moonshine",
"mountain dew",
"white lightning",
"alcohol",
"ardent spirits",
"booze",
"drink",
"firewater",
"grog",
"hooch",
"John Barleycorn",
"juice",
"potable",
"rum",
"spirits",
"strong drink",
"tipple"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redirecting":{
"to change the course or direction of (something)":{
"examples":[
"upon hearing the noise, he redirected his gaze to the window"
],
"synonyms":[
"deflecting",
"diverting",
"swinging",
"turning",
"veering",
"wheeling",
"whipping"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averting",
"deviating",
"moving",
"rechanneling",
"shifting",
"shunting",
"sidetracking",
"swerving",
"switching",
"transferring",
"swiveling",
"swivelling",
"twisting",
"whirling",
"zigzagging",
"bending",
"curving",
"swaying",
"reversing",
"turning back"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redound":{
"to have a particular result \u2014 used especially to describe how something affects someone or something or affects the opinion that people have about someone or something \u2014 + to":{
"examples":[
"It redounds to his credit that he worked so hard to prevent this crisis."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pan out",
"result",
"act",
"operate",
"perform",
"take",
"work",
"behave",
"react",
"respond",
"affect",
"influence",
"sway"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backfire",
"fizzle"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"red-eyes":{
"as in rotguts , bathtub gins":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bathtub gins",
"rotguts",
"bootlegs",
"moonshines",
"mountain dews",
"white lightnings",
"alcohols",
"ardent spirits",
"boozes",
"drinks",
"firewaters",
"grogs",
"hooches",
"John Barleycorns",
"juices",
"potables",
"rums",
"spirits",
"strong drinks",
"tipples"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"red star":{
"as in neutron star , white dwarf":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"binary star",
"brown dwarf",
"dwarf",
"fixed star",
"gasser",
"giant star",
"lodestar",
"loadstar",
"neutron star",
"nova",
"pulsar",
"quasar",
"red dwarf",
"red giant",
"subdwarf",
"supercluster",
"supergiant",
"supernova",
"variable",
"variable star",
"white dwarf",
"luminary",
"sphere",
"sun",
"cluster",
"constellation",
"galaxy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reddishness":{
"as in redness , sanguineness":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"pinkness",
"redness",
"rosiness",
"ruddiness",
"sanguineness",
"brightness",
"brilliance",
"glow",
"bloom",
"blush",
"color",
"flush"
],
"near antonyms":[
"paleness",
"pallidness",
"pallor",
"pastiness",
"wanness",
"whiteness",
"greenishness",
"greenness",
"sallowness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redevelop":{
"as in revamp , revise":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"recast",
"redesign",
"redo",
"reengineer",
"refashion",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"contemporize",
"modernize",
"streamline",
"update"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in rebuild , reconstruct":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reassemble",
"rebuild",
"reconstruct",
"reedify",
"retrofit",
"assemble",
"build",
"confect",
"construct",
"erect",
"fabricate",
"make",
"make up",
"piece",
"put up",
"raise",
"rear",
"set up"
],
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"demount",
"disassemble",
"dismantle",
"dismember",
"knock down",
"strike",
"take down",
"tear down"
],
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},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reducing":{
"as in shrinking , lessening":{
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"decreasing",
"diminishing",
"lessening",
"shortening",
"shrinking",
"abbreviation",
"abridgment",
"abridgement",
"compression",
"condensation",
"contraction",
"curtailment",
"abruptness",
"brusqueness",
"curtness",
"brevity",
"briefness",
"conciseness",
"shortness",
"compendiousness",
"crispness",
"laconism",
"pithiness",
"succinctness",
"tautness",
"terseness",
"littleness",
"minuteness",
"smallness",
"tininess"
],
"near antonyms":[
"lengthiness",
"extensiveness",
"elongating",
"elongation",
"extending",
"extension",
"prolongation",
"prolonging",
"protraction",
"stretching",
"expansion",
"growth",
"spread",
"diffuseness",
"garrulousness",
"long-windedness",
"prolixity",
"talkativeness",
"talkiness",
"verboseness",
"volubility",
"wordiness",
"bigness",
"bulkiness",
"greatness",
"heftiness",
"largeness"
],
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"was reduced from team captain to team member as punishment for his misbehavior on the court"
],
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"busting",
"degrading",
"demoting",
"disrating",
"downgrading"
],
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"canning",
"cashiering",
"dismissing",
"downsizing",
"firing",
"laying off",
"sacking",
"abasing",
"debasing",
"demeaning",
"humbling",
"humiliating",
"lowering"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hiring"
],
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"advancing",
"elevating",
"promoting",
"raising"
]
},
"to make smaller in amount, volume, or extent":{
"examples":[
"you'll have to reduce the amount of money you spend on unnecessary purchases if you want to have any money left for retirement"
],
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"decreasing",
"de-escalating",
"denting",
"depleting",
"diminishing",
"downscaling",
"downsizing",
"dropping",
"dwindling",
"easing",
"knocking down",
"lessening",
"lowering"
],
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"compressing",
"condensing",
"constricting",
"contracting",
"abbreviating",
"abridging",
"clipping",
"cropping",
"curtailing",
"cutting",
"cutting back",
"cutting down",
"docking",
"nicking",
"paring",
"pruning",
"retrenching",
"shortening",
"slashing",
"trimming",
"truncating",
"whittling",
"deflating",
"shrinking",
"minimizing",
"moderating",
"modifying",
"modulating",
"qualifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blowing up",
"dilating",
"distending",
"inflating",
"swelling",
"elongating",
"extending",
"lengthening",
"prolonging",
"protracting",
"adding (to)",
"complementing",
"supplementing",
"enhancing",
"heightening",
"intensifying",
"redoubling"
],
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"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"boosting",
"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"increasing",
"raising"
]
},
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"examples":[
"a mortgage crisis that reduced homes to their lowest level in a decade"
],
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"attenuating",
"breaking",
"cheapening",
"depreciating",
"depressing",
"devaluating",
"devaluing",
"downgrading",
"lowering",
"marking down",
"sinking",
"writing down",
"writing off"
],
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"debasing",
"demonetizing",
"underestimating",
"underpricing",
"underrating",
"undervaluing",
"abridging",
"compressing",
"contracting",
"de-escalating",
"deflating",
"downsizing",
"dwindling",
"lessening",
"moderating",
"shrinking"
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"bloating",
"blowing up",
"inflating",
"overestimating",
"overpricing",
"overrating",
"overvaluing",
"adding",
"aggrandizing",
"amplifying",
"augmenting",
"ballooning",
"boosting",
"compounding",
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"enlarging",
"escalating",
"expanding",
"extending",
"heightening",
"increasing",
"maximizing",
"multiplying",
"raising",
"swelling",
"upping"
],
"antonyms":[
"appreciating",
"enhancing",
"marking up",
"upgrading"
]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"Red":{
"having a healthy reddish skin tone":{
"examples":[
"the merry, red , smiling face of Santa Claus"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooming",
"florid",
"flush",
"full-blooded",
"glowing",
"rosy",
"rubicund",
"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"
]
},
"having a notably high temperature":{
"examples":[
"the streams of red lava were especially spectacular at night"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardent",
"boiling",
"broiling",
"burning",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"fiery",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red-hot",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sultry",
"superheated",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"ultrahot",
"white-hot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazing",
"glowing",
"igneous",
"molten",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"heated",
"overheated",
"reheated",
"warmed",
"snug",
"toasty",
"warm",
"warmish",
"feverish",
"flushed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"canicular",
"muggy",
"steamy",
"summerlike",
"summery",
"tropical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chill",
"chilly",
"coldish",
"cool",
"coolish",
"nippy",
"snappy",
"blizzardly",
"frosty",
"snowy",
"subfreezing",
"subzero",
"wintry",
"wintery",
"chilled",
"cooled",
"refrigerated",
"unheated",
"benumbed",
"numb",
"shivering"
],
"antonyms":[
"algid",
"arctic",
"bitter",
"bone-chilling",
"cold",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frozen",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"iced",
"icy"
]
},
"a person who rises up against authority":{
"examples":[
"the reds demanded a violent overthrow of the government"
],
"synonyms":[
"insurgent",
"insurrectionary",
"insurrectionist",
"mutineer",
"rebel",
"revolter",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challenger",
"defier",
"insubordinate",
"oppositionist",
"recusant",
"refuser",
"resistant",
"resister",
"anarch",
"anarchist",
"discontent",
"extremist",
"malcontent",
"radical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loyalist",
"patriot",
"supporter",
"counterinsurgent",
"counterrevolutionary",
"counterrevolutionist"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an adherent or advocate of an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state":{
"examples":[
"the story of John Reed, the only American Red buried within the Kremlin"
],
"synonyms":[
"commie",
"communist",
"comrade",
"socialist"
],
"near synonyms":[
"leftist",
"lefty",
"pink",
"pinko",
"social democrat",
"Bolshevik",
"Leninist",
"Leninite",
"Maoist",
"Marxist",
"Stalinist",
"Trotskyist",
"Trotskyite",
"extremist",
"radical",
"revolutionary",
"revolutionist"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"capitalist"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"red dwarfs":{
"as in neutron stars , white dwarfs":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"binary stars",
"brown dwarfs",
"brown dwarves",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"fixed stars",
"gassers",
"giant stars",
"lodestars",
"loadstars",
"neutron stars",
"novas",
"novae",
"pulsars",
"quasars",
"red giants",
"red stars",
"subdwarfs",
"superclusters",
"supergiants",
"supernovas",
"supernovae",
"variables",
"variable stars",
"white dwarfs",
"luminaries",
"spheres",
"suns",
"clusters",
"constellations",
"galaxies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redressers":{
"as in righters":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"righters",
"revengers",
"requiters",
"avengers",
"castigators",
"chastisers",
"nemeses",
"punishers",
"scourges",
"vigilantes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ransomers",
"redeemers",
"vindicators"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redid":{
"to make different in some way":{
"examples":[
"desperately wanted to redo the red living room in soothing shades of green"
],
"synonyms":[
"altered",
"changed",
"made over",
"modified",
"recast",
"refashioned",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"varied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deformed",
"metamorphosed",
"mutated",
"regenerated",
"revolutionized",
"transfigured",
"transformed",
"transmuted",
"commuted",
"converted",
"exchanged",
"rejiggered",
"retooled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fixed",
"froze",
"set",
"stabilized"
]
},
"to make or do again":{
"examples":[
"the conductor kept asking the violinist to redo that passage until he was completely satisfied"
],
"synonyms":[
"duplicated",
"reduplicated",
"reiterated",
"remade",
"renewed",
"repeated",
"replicated",
"reprised"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recreated",
"reenacted",
"reinvented"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"rediscoveries":{
"as in discoveries , explorations":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"detections",
"discoveries",
"findings",
"disclosures",
"exposures",
"revelations",
"creations",
"inventions",
"explorations",
"espials",
"notices"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disappearances",
"losses",
"concealments"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"red hot":{
"being or involving the latest methods, concepts, information, or styles":{
"examples":[
"this red-hot sports car uses the latest technology for its engine design"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemporary",
"current",
"designer",
"hot",
"mod",
"modern",
"modernistic",
"new",
"new age",
"new-fashioned",
"newfangled",
"present-day",
"space-age",
"state-of-the-art",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"up-to-the-minute"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fashionable",
"happening",
"in",
"modish",
"nouvelle",
"now",
"stylish",
"last",
"latest",
"modernized",
"updated",
"futuristic",
"high-tech",
"hi-tech",
"latter-day",
"recent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anachronistic",
"aged",
"age-old",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"hoary",
"old",
"venerable",
"bygone",
"former",
"late",
"olden",
"past",
"antique",
"historic",
"historical",
"retro",
"retrograde",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"obsolete",
"outmoded",
"outworn",
"unmodernized",
"old-world",
"discarded",
"disused",
"moth-eaten",
"forgotten",
"remote",
"ageless",
"dateless",
"timeless"
],
"antonyms":[
"antiquated",
"archaic",
"dated",
"fusty",
"musty",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"out-of-date",
"pass\u00e9"
]
},
"having a notably high temperature":{
"examples":[
"don't touch the stove\u2014it's red-hot"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardent",
"boiling",
"broiling",
"burning",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"fiery",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sultry",
"superheated",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"ultrahot",
"white-hot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazing",
"glowing",
"igneous",
"molten",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"heated",
"overheated",
"reheated",
"warmed",
"snug",
"toasty",
"warm",
"warmish",
"feverish",
"flushed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"canicular",
"muggy",
"steamy",
"summerlike",
"summery",
"tropical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chill",
"chilly",
"coldish",
"cool",
"coolish",
"nippy",
"snappy",
"blizzardly",
"frosty",
"snowy",
"subfreezing",
"subzero",
"wintry",
"wintery",
"chilled",
"cooled",
"refrigerated",
"unheated",
"benumbed",
"numb",
"shivering"
],
"antonyms":[
"algid",
"arctic",
"bitter",
"bone-chilling",
"cold",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frozen",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"iced",
"icy"
]
},
"having or expressing great depth of feeling":{
"examples":[
"red-hot calls to action from both supporters and opponents of the war"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardent",
"blazing",
"burning",
"charged",
"demonstrative",
"emotional",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"feverish",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"glowing",
"hot-blooded",
"impassioned",
"incandescent",
"intense",
"passional",
"passionate",
"perfervid",
"religious",
"superheated",
"torrid",
"vehement",
"warm",
"warm-blooded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gushing",
"gushy",
"maudlin",
"mawkish",
"mushy",
"saccharine",
"sappy",
"schmaltzy",
"sentimental",
"sloppy",
"sugary",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"enthusiastic",
"gung ho",
"keen",
"zealous",
"enamored",
"infatuated",
"obsessed",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved",
"unrestrained",
"frenzied",
"orgiastic",
"overemotional",
"overexcited",
"overheated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"dry",
"impersonal",
"objective",
"reserved",
"undemonstrative"
],
"antonyms":[
"cold",
"cool",
"dispassionate",
"emotionless",
"impassive",
"unemotional"
]
},
"enjoying widespread favor or approval":{
"examples":[
"a show that is this year's red-hot sitcom"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"crowd-pleasing",
"du jour",
"faddish",
"faddy",
"fashionable",
"favorite",
"happening",
"hot",
"in",
"large",
"modish",
"pop",
"popular",
"popularized",
"vogue",
"voguish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"semipopular",
"preferred",
"selected",
"desirable",
"liked",
"wanted",
"celebrated",
"famed",
"famous",
"noted",
"notorious",
"prominent",
"renowned",
"well-known",
"fabled",
"fabulous",
"legendary",
"leading",
"notable",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"important",
"significant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"washed-up",
"despised",
"detested",
"disliked",
"hated",
"rejected",
"insignificant",
"unimportant",
"indistinguished",
"unexceptional",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"unknown",
"inconspicuous"
],
"antonyms":[
"out",
"unfashionable",
"unpopular"
]
},
"one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause":{
"examples":[
"the inflammatory language favored by the red hots is simply polarizing voters and stifling all dialogue"
],
"synonyms":[
"crusader",
"fanatic",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"militant",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"true believer",
"zealot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"activist",
"dreamer",
"idealist",
"visionary",
"cultist",
"disciple",
"follower",
"hanger-on",
"idolizer",
"votary",
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"bug",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"fancier",
"fiend",
"fool",
"freak",
"habitu\u00e9",
"habitue",
"head",
"hound",
"junkie",
"junky",
"lover",
"maniac",
"maven",
"mavin",
"nut",
"sucker",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"champion",
"evangelist",
"patron",
"promoter",
"stalwart",
"supporter",
"booster",
"rooter",
"well-wisher",
"faddist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dabbler",
"dilettante"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonmilitant"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"redistributions":{
"as in reallocations , reapportionments":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reallocations",
"reapportionments",
"redivisions",
"repartitions",
"admeasurements",
"allocations",
"allotments",
"apportionments",
"disbursements",
"dispensations",
"distributions",
"divisions",
"issuances",
"partitions",
"separations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redresser":{
"as in righter":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"righter",
"revenger",
"requiter",
"avenger",
"castigator",
"chastiser",
"nemesis",
"punisher",
"scourge",
"vigilante"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ransomer",
"redeemer",
"vindicator"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"red lights":{
"something that tells of approaching danger or risk":{
"examples":[
"the reporter took her glower as a red light and stopped asking questions"
],
"synonyms":[
"cautions",
"red flags",
"tip-offs",
"tocsins",
"wake-up calls",
"warnings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"omens",
"portents",
"premonitions",
"presages",
"notices",
"notifications",
"buoys",
"indicators",
"knells",
"signals",
"signs",
"foretastes",
"foretokens",
"announcements",
"declarations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reduction":{
"something that is or may be subtracted":{
"examples":[
"there was a sizable reduction in her weekly pay when she decided to buy health insurance"
],
"synonyms":[
"abatement",
"deduction",
"discount"
],
"near synonyms":[
"giveback",
"kickback",
"rebate",
"dent",
"depreciation",
"decline",
"decrement",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"drop",
"fall",
"loss",
"forfeit",
"forfeiture",
"penalty"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accretion",
"accrual",
"augmentation",
"boost",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"raise",
"rise",
"appreciation"
],
"antonyms":[
"accession",
"addition"
]
},
"the amount by which something is lessened":{
"examples":[
"saw an 11% reduction in the number of students applying to the school"
],
"synonyms":[
"abatement",
"decline",
"decrease",
"decrement",
"dent",
"depletion",
"depression",
"diminishment",
"diminution",
"drop",
"drop-off",
"fall",
"falloff",
"loss",
"shrinkage",
"step-down"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deduction",
"subtraction",
"downturn",
"slip",
"slump",
"curtailment",
"cut",
"cutback",
"retrenchment",
"shortening"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accretion",
"accrual",
"accumulation",
"addition",
"supplement",
"continuation",
"extension",
"upswing",
"uptrend",
"upturn"
],
"antonyms":[
"boost",
"enlargement",
"gain",
"increase",
"increment",
"raise",
"rise",
"step-up",
"uptick"
]
},
"the act or an instance of bringing to a lower grade or rank":{
"examples":[
"the captain was punished with a reduction to lieutenant"
],
"synonyms":[
"bump",
"demotion"
],
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"disrating",
"downgrade",
"dismissal",
"firing",
"layoff",
"sacking",
"abasement",
"debasement",
"humiliation"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"Reds":{
"a person who rises up against authority":{
"examples":[
"the reds demanded a violent overthrow of the government"
],
"synonyms":[
"insurgents",
"insurrectionaries",
"insurrectionists",
"mutineers",
"rebels",
"revolters",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists"
],
"near synonyms":[
"challengers",
"defiers",
"insubordinates",
"oppositionists",
"recusants",
"refusers",
"resistants",
"resisters",
"anarchists",
"anarchs",
"discontents",
"extremists",
"malcontents",
"radicals"
],
"near antonyms":[
"loyalists",
"patriots",
"supporters",
"counterinsurgents",
"counterrevolutionaries",
"counterrevolutionists"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"an adherent or advocate of an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state":{
"examples":[
"the story of John Reed, the only American Red buried within the Kremlin"
],
"synonyms":[
"commies",
"communists",
"comrades",
"socialists"
],
"near synonyms":[
"lefties",
"leftists",
"pinkos",
"pinkoes",
"pinks",
"social democrats",
"Bolsheviks",
"Bolsheviki",
"Leninists",
"Leninites",
"Maoists",
"Marxists",
"Stalinists",
"Trotskyists",
"Trotskyites",
"extremists",
"radicals",
"revolutionaries",
"revolutionists"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"capitalists"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redounded":{
"to have a particular result \u2014 used especially to describe how something affects someone or something or affects the opinion that people have about someone or something \u2014 + to":{
"examples":[
"It redounds to his credit that he worked so hard to prevent this crisis."
],
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"near synonyms":[
"panned out",
"resulted",
"acted",
"operated",
"performed",
"took",
"worked",
"wrought",
"behaved",
"reacted",
"responded",
"affected",
"influenced",
"swayed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backfired",
"fizzled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redeemers":{
"one that saves from danger or destruction":{
"examples":[
"the rescued hostages profusely thanked their camouflage-clad redeemers"
],
"synonyms":[
"deliverers",
"rescuers",
"savers",
"saviors",
"saviours"
],
"near synonyms":[
"custodians",
"defenders",
"guardians",
"guards",
"keepers",
"lookouts",
"protectors",
"sentinels",
"sentries",
"wardens",
"warders",
"watchers",
"watches",
"watchmen",
"ransomers",
"salvagers",
"salvors"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"red-carpet":{
"as in ceremonial , ceremonious":{
"examples":[],
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"near synonyms":[
"ceremonial",
"ceremonious",
"chivalrous",
"civilized",
"courtly",
"gallant",
"gentlemanlike",
"gentlemanly",
"ladylike",
"couth",
"formal",
"smooth",
"suave",
"unctuous",
"urbane",
"attentive",
"careful",
"considerate",
"nice",
"solicitous",
"thoughtful",
"elegant",
"refined",
"civil",
"courteous",
"genteel",
"gracious",
"mannerly",
"polite",
"well-bred",
"deferential",
"dutiful",
"respectful",
"submissive",
"yielding",
"acceptable",
"appropriate",
"becoming",
"befitting",
"comme il faut",
"correct",
"decent",
"decorous",
"fit",
"fitting",
"good",
"meet",
"proper",
"respectable",
"right",
"seemly",
"suitable",
"affable",
"cordial",
"friendly",
"genial",
"hospitable",
"pleasant",
"sociable",
"felicitous",
"graceful"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discourteous",
"ill-bred",
"ill-mannered",
"impolite",
"inconsiderate",
"mannerless",
"rude",
"thoughtless",
"uncivil",
"ungenteel",
"ungracious",
"unmannered",
"unmannerly",
"heedless",
"inconsiderate",
"thoughtless",
"audacious",
"bold",
"bold-faced",
"brash",
"brassy",
"disrespectful",
"impertinent",
"impudent",
"insolent",
"lippy",
"saucy",
"shameless",
"boorish",
"churlish",
"clodhopping",
"clownish",
"loutish",
"uncouth",
"vulgar",
"casual",
"informal",
"unceremonious",
"improper",
"inappropriate",
"incorrect",
"indecent",
"indecorous",
"uncalled-for",
"unrespectable",
"unseemly",
"arrogant",
"conceited",
"presuming",
"presumptuous",
"pretentious"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"reduplicating":{
"to make an exact likeness of":{
"examples":[
"reduplicate a recording of the concert for my friend"
],
"synonyms":[
"cloning",
"copycatting",
"copying",
"duplicating",
"imitating",
"rendering",
"replicating",
"reproducing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterfeiting",
"faking",
"forging",
"knocking off",
"ripping off",
"mimicking",
"simulating",
"reconstructing",
"re-creating",
"recreating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"creating",
"imagining",
"initiating",
"inventing"
],
"antonyms":[
"originating"
]
},
"to make or do again":{
"examples":[
"found out halfway through the project that I was reduplicating another team member's efforts, so we had to figure out who was going to do what"
],
"synonyms":[
"duplicating",
"redoing",
"reiterating",
"remaking",
"renewing",
"repeating",
"replicating",
"reprising"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recreating",
"reenacting",
"reinventing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reddens":{
"to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)":{
"examples":[
"his face reddened when she flashed him a dazzling smile"
],
"synonyms":[
"blooms",
"blushes",
"colors",
"crimsons",
"flushes",
"glows"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incarnadines",
"rouges",
"ruddles",
"abashes",
"chagrins",
"discomfits",
"disconcerts",
"embarrasses",
"fazes",
"humiliates",
"mortifies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redden":{
"to develop a rosy facial color (as from excitement or embarrassment)":{
"examples":[
"his face reddened when she flashed him a dazzling smile"
],
"synonyms":[
"bloom",
"blush",
"color",
"crimson",
"flush",
"glow"
],
"near synonyms":[
"incarnadine",
"rouge",
"ruddle",
"abash",
"chagrin",
"discomfit",
"disconcert",
"embarrass",
"faze",
"humiliate",
"mortify"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reddish":{
"as in red , crimson":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bloodred",
"carmine",
"crimson",
"incarnadine",
"red",
"ruby",
"sanguine",
"sanguineous",
"bloodstained",
"bloody",
"gory",
"sanguinary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"red alert":{
"the state of being constantly attentive and responsive to signs of opportunity, activity, or danger":{
"examples":[
"the paparazzi were on red alert for sightings of the hot new Hollywood couple"
],
"synonyms":[
"alert",
"alertness",
"attentiveness",
"qui vive",
"vigilance",
"watch",
"watchfulness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aliveness",
"awareness",
"consciousness",
"mindfulness",
"receptiveness",
"receptivity",
"sensitivity",
"care",
"carefulness",
"cautiousness",
"chariness",
"heedfulness",
"wariness",
"preparation",
"readiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absentmindedness",
"abstraction",
"daydreaming",
"daze",
"distraction",
"absorption",
"engrossment",
"obliviousness",
"preoccupation",
"unawareness",
"unconsciousness",
"carelessness",
"heedlessness",
"inattention",
"inattentiveness",
"inobservance",
"unwariness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"red-pencils":{
"to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from":{
"examples":[
"the magazine claims that every article is red-penciled by a team of fact checkers before it ever sees the light of print"
],
"synonyms":[
"amends",
"corrects",
"debugs",
"emends",
"rectifies",
"reforms",
"remedies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"redrafts",
"redraws",
"restyles",
"revises",
"reworks",
"rewrites",
"blue-pencils",
"cuts",
"shortens",
"redresses",
"rights",
"ameliorates",
"betters",
"improves",
"perfects",
"polishes",
"touches up",
"fixes",
"mends",
"repairs",
"adjusts",
"modulates",
"regulates",
"alters",
"changes",
"modifies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damages",
"harms",
"hurts",
"impairs",
"injures",
"mars",
"spoils",
"aggravates",
"worsens"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove objectionable parts from":{
"examples":[
"a television script that had been heavily red-penciled in abject surrender to political correctness"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowdlerizes",
"censors",
"cleans (up)",
"expurgates",
"launders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleanses",
"purges",
"purifies",
"abbreviates",
"blue-pencils",
"edits",
"shortens",
"bleeps",
"blips",
"cuts (out)",
"deletes",
"excises",
"expunges",
"guts",
"x's (out)",
"blacks out",
"represses",
"silences",
"suppresses",
"censures",
"condemns",
"denounces",
"examines",
"reviews",
"screens",
"scrutinizes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approves",
"authorizes",
"sanctions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redeveloped":{
"as in revamped , revised":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"recast",
"redesigned",
"redid",
"reengineered",
"refashioned",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"contemporized",
"modernized",
"streamlined",
"updated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in rebuilt , reconstructed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reassembled",
"rebuilt",
"reconstructed",
"reedified",
"retrofitted",
"retrofit",
"assembled",
"built",
"confected",
"constructed",
"erected",
"fabricated",
"made",
"made up",
"pieced",
"put up",
"raised",
"reared",
"set up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"demounted",
"disassembled",
"dismantled",
"dismembered",
"knocked down",
"struck",
"took down",
"tore down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redirected":{
"to change the course or direction of (something)":{
"examples":[
"upon hearing the noise, he redirected his gaze to the window"
],
"synonyms":[
"deflected",
"diverted",
"swung",
"turned",
"veered",
"wheeled",
"whipped"
],
"near synonyms":[
"averted",
"deviated",
"moved",
"rechanneled",
"rechannelled",
"shifted",
"shunted",
"sidetracked",
"swerved",
"switched",
"transferred",
"swiveled",
"swivelled",
"twisted",
"whirled",
"zigzagged",
"bent",
"curved",
"swayed",
"reversed",
"turned back"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redded (up or out)":{
"to make neat":{
"examples":[
"it's time to redd up the garage and get rid of a lot of the junk we've accumulated"
],
"synonyms":[
"neatened",
"picked up",
"spruced (up)",
"straightened (up or out)",
"tidied (up)",
"trimmed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"arranged",
"arrayed",
"classified",
"codified",
"disposed",
"drew up",
"marshaled",
"marshalled",
"ordered",
"organized",
"ranged",
"systematized"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disarranged",
"disarrayed",
"discomposed",
"disheveled",
"dishevelled",
"disordered",
"disorganized",
"disrupted",
"disturbed",
"jumbled",
"messed (up)",
"mixed (up)",
"muddled",
"mussed",
"rumpled",
"scrambled",
"shuffled",
"tousled",
"tumbled",
"upset"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redress":{
"payment to another for a loss or injury":{
"examples":[
"the new skis were certainly an adequate redress for the lost snowboard"
],
"synonyms":[
"compensation",
"damages",
"indemnification",
"indemnity",
"quittance",
"recompense",
"recoupment",
"remuneration",
"reparation",
"reprisal(s)",
"requital",
"restitution",
"satisfaction"
],
"near synonyms":[
"punitive damages",
"solatium",
"amends",
"atonement",
"expiation",
"refund",
"reimbursement",
"repayment",
"adjustment",
"settlement",
"punishment",
"retaliation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to punish in kind the wrongdoer responsible for":{
"examples":[
"the belief that redressing a murder with another murder, even if carried out by the state, is not morally justified"
],
"synonyms":[
"avenge",
"requite",
"retaliate",
"revenge",
"venge"
],
"near synonyms":[
"castigate",
"fix",
"get",
"penalize",
"punish",
"scourge",
"chasten",
"chastise",
"correct",
"discipline",
"right",
"compensate",
"pay (back)",
"recompense",
"repay"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absolve",
"condone",
"excuse",
"forgive",
"pardon",
"remit"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"redefines":{
"to consider again especially with the possibility of change or reversal":{
"examples":[
"learning that he had been adopted forced him to completely redefine his identity"
],
"synonyms":[
"readdresses",
"reanalyzes",
"reconceives",
"reconsiders",
"reevaluates",
"reexamines",
"reexplores",
"rethinks",
"reviews",
"revisits",
"reweighs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rehears",
"reconceptualizes",
"reenvisions",
"reimagines",
"reappraises",
"reassesses",
"reinvestigates",
"restudies",
"amends",
"corrects",
"emends",
"rectifies",
"reforms",
"remedies",
"revises"
],
"near antonyms":[
"asserts",
"defends",
"maintains",
"upholds"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redistributing":{
"to divide (something) among a group in a different way":{
"examples":[
"Unused federal funds will be redistributed to other states.",
"We need to redistribute the duties among ourselves; some of us are working too hard, and others are hardly working at all."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"admeasuring",
"allotting",
"allowing",
"appropriating",
"assigning",
"dishing out",
"dividing",
"divvying (up)",
"dolloping (out)",
"lotting",
"measuring (out)",
"parting",
"proportioning",
"rationing",
"setting",
"sharing (out)",
"splitting",
"administering",
"allocating",
"apportioning",
"dealing (out)",
"dispensing",
"distributing",
"doling out",
"handing out",
"meting (out)",
"parceling (out)",
"parcelling (out)",
"portioning",
"prorating",
"bestowing",
"disbursing",
"furnishing",
"issuing",
"providing",
"sharing",
"supplying",
"circulating",
"dispersing",
"disseminating",
"scattering",
"spreading",
"chipping in",
"contributing",
"donating",
"pledging",
"reallocating",
"reapportioning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrudging",
"declining",
"denying",
"depriving (of)",
"disallowing",
"refusing",
"rejecting",
"withholding",
"niggling (out)",
"pinching",
"skimping",
"stinting",
"misallocating"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redware":{
"as in porcelain , china":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"china",
"ironstone china",
"porcelain",
"ceramics",
"crockery",
"earthenware",
"pottery",
"stoneware"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redistribution":{
"as in reallocation , reapportionment":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reallocation",
"reapportionment",
"redivision",
"repartition",
"admeasurement",
"allocation",
"allotment",
"apportionment",
"disbursement",
"dispensation",
"distribution",
"division",
"issuance",
"partition",
"separation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redirect":{
"to change the course or direction of (something)":{
"examples":[
"upon hearing the noise, he redirected his gaze to the window"
],
"synonyms":[
"deflect",
"divert",
"swing",
"turn",
"veer",
"wheel",
"whip"
],
"near synonyms":[
"avert",
"deviate",
"move",
"rechannel",
"shift",
"shunt",
"sidetrack",
"swerve",
"switch",
"transfer",
"swivel",
"twist",
"whirl",
"zigzag",
"bend",
"curve",
"sway",
"reverse",
"turn back"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redetermining":{
"as in rejudging":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rejudging",
"concluding",
"resolving",
"finding (for or against)",
"prosecuting",
"trying",
"mediating",
"moderating",
"negotiating",
"sizing up",
"considering",
"deeming",
"deliberating",
"hearing",
"pondering",
"weighing",
"adjudging",
"adjudicating",
"arbitrating",
"deciding",
"determining",
"judging",
"refereeing",
"ruling (on)",
"settling",
"umpiring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"equivocating",
"hedging",
"pussyfooting",
"skirting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"red flags":{
"something that tells of approaching danger or risk":{
"examples":[
"the r\u00e9sum\u00e9 she accidentally left on the office printer was a red flag that she was planning to quit"
],
"synonyms":[
"cautions",
"red lights",
"tip-offs",
"tocsins",
"wake-up calls",
"warnings"
],
"near synonyms":[
"omens",
"portents",
"premonitions",
"presages",
"notices",
"notifications",
"buoys",
"indicators",
"knells",
"signals",
"signs",
"foretastes",
"foretokens",
"announcements",
"declarations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redivision":{
"as in redistribution , reallocation":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reallocation",
"reapportionment",
"redistribution",
"repartition",
"admeasurement",
"allocation",
"allotment",
"apportionment",
"disbursement",
"dispensation",
"distribution",
"division",
"issuance",
"partition",
"separation"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redundancy":{
"the use of too many words to express an idea":{
"examples":[
"even though the phrase \"free gift\" is a redundancy , many retailers still use it to assure customers that an item is really free"
],
"synonyms":[
"circumlocution",
"diffuseness",
"diffusion",
"garrulity",
"garrulousness",
"logorrhea",
"long-windedness",
"periphrasis",
"prolixity",
"verbalism",
"verbiage",
"verboseness",
"verbosity",
"windiness",
"wordage",
"wordiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"circuitousness",
"circularity",
"digressiveness",
"pleonasm",
"tautology",
"reiteration",
"repetition",
"repetitiousness",
"repetitiveness",
"embellishment",
"embroidering",
"exaggeration",
"hyperbole",
"overstatement"
],
"near antonyms":[
"brevity",
"briefness",
"compactness",
"conciseness",
"concision",
"crispness",
"pithiness",
"succinctness",
"terseness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed":{
"examples":[
"there's a redundancy of high-priced restaurants in the area"
],
"synonyms":[
"bellyful",
"excess",
"fat",
"overabundance",
"overage",
"overflow",
"overkill",
"overmuch",
"overplus",
"oversupply",
"plethora",
"plus",
"superabundance",
"superfluity",
"surfeit",
"surplus",
"surplusage"
],
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"abundance",
"bounty",
"plentitude",
"plenty",
"profusion",
"sufficiency",
"overproduction",
"overstock"
],
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"dearth",
"lack",
"scarcity",
"want"
],
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"deficiency",
"deficit",
"insufficiency",
"undersupply"
]
},
"the termination of the employment of an employee or a work force often temporarily":{
"examples":[
"several dozen employees at the London office were lost to redundancy"
],
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"ax",
"axe",
"discharge",
"dismissal",
"furlough",
"layoff"
],
"near synonyms":[
"pink slip",
"bird",
"boot",
"bum's rush",
"downsizing",
"firing",
"heave-ho",
"sack",
"closing",
"shutdown",
"shakeout",
"shake-up"
],
"near antonyms":[
"callback",
"recall",
"reemployment",
"rehire",
"rehiring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"red flag":{
"something that tells of approaching danger or risk":{
"examples":[
"the r\u00e9sum\u00e9 she accidentally left on the office printer was a red flag that she was planning to quit"
],
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"caution",
"red light",
"tip-off",
"tocsin",
"wake-up call",
"warning"
],
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"omen",
"portent",
"premonition",
"presage",
"notice",
"notification",
"buoy",
"indicator",
"knell",
"sign",
"signal",
"foretaste",
"foretoken",
"announcement",
"declaration"
],
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},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redone":{
"to make different in some way":{
"examples":[
"desperately wanted to redo the red living room in soothing shades of green"
],
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"altered",
"changed",
"made over",
"modified",
"recast",
"refashioned",
"remade",
"remodeled",
"revamped",
"revised",
"reworked",
"varied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deformed",
"metamorphosed",
"mutated",
"regenerated",
"revolutionized",
"transfigured",
"transformed",
"transmuted",
"commuted",
"converted",
"exchanged",
"rejiggered",
"retooled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fixed",
"frozen",
"set",
"stabilized"
]
},
"to make or do again":{
"examples":[
"the conductor kept asking the violinist to redo that passage until he was completely satisfied"
],
"synonyms":[
"duplicated",
"reduplicated",
"reiterated",
"remade",
"renewed",
"repeated",
"replicated",
"reprised"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recreated",
"reenacted",
"reinvented"
],
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"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redolence":{
"a sweet or pleasant smell":{
"examples":[
"breathed in the redolence of the apple orchard"
],
"synonyms":[
"aroma",
"attar",
"otto",
"balm",
"bouquet",
"fragrance",
"fragrancy",
"incense",
"perfume",
"scent",
"spice"
],
"near synonyms":[
"essence",
"odor"
],
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"antonyms":[
"fetor",
"malodor",
"reek",
"stench",
"stink"
]
},
"the quality of a thing that makes it perceptible to the sense organs in the nose":{
"examples":[
"the redolence of fir trees always reminds me of Christmas"
],
"synonyms":[
"aroma",
"odor",
"scent",
"smell",
"sniff"
],
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"whiff",
"attar",
"otto",
"bouquet",
"fragrance",
"fragrancy",
"perfume",
"ambrosia",
"lusciousness",
"savor",
"savour",
"savoriness",
"spice",
"tang",
"acridness",
"fetidness",
"fetor",
"foulness",
"funk",
"gaminess",
"malodor",
"noisomeness",
"rancidity",
"rankness",
"reek",
"stench",
"stink",
"aromaticity",
"odoriferousness",
"odorousness",
"incense",
"musk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redrew":{
"as in revised , rewrote":{
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"redrafted",
"restyled",
"revised",
"reworked",
"rewrote",
"amended",
"corrected",
"debugged",
"emended",
"rectified",
"red-penciled",
"reformed",
"remedied",
"blue-penciled",
"cut",
"shortened",
"redressed",
"righted",
"ameliorated",
"bettered",
"improved",
"perfected",
"polished",
"touched up",
"fixed",
"mended",
"repaired",
"adjusted",
"modulated",
"regulated",
"altered",
"changed",
"modified"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damaged",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"impaired",
"injured",
"marred",
"spoiled",
"spoilt",
"aggravated",
"worsened"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"red-hot":{
"being or involving the latest methods, concepts, information, or styles":{
"examples":[
"this red-hot sports car uses the latest technology for its engine design"
],
"synonyms":[
"contemporary",
"current",
"designer",
"hot",
"mod",
"modern",
"modernistic",
"new",
"new age",
"new-fashioned",
"newfangled",
"present-day",
"space-age",
"state-of-the-art",
"ultramodern",
"up-to-date",
"up-to-the-minute"
],
"near synonyms":[
"fashionable",
"happening",
"in",
"modish",
"nouvelle",
"now",
"stylish",
"last",
"latest",
"modernized",
"updated",
"futuristic",
"high-tech",
"hi-tech",
"latter-day",
"recent"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anachronistic",
"aged",
"age-old",
"ancient",
"antediluvian",
"hoary",
"old",
"venerable",
"bygone",
"former",
"late",
"olden",
"past",
"antique",
"historic",
"historical",
"retro",
"retrograde",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"obsolete",
"outmoded",
"outworn",
"unmodernized",
"old-world",
"discarded",
"disused",
"moth-eaten",
"forgotten",
"remote",
"ageless",
"dateless",
"timeless"
],
"antonyms":[
"antiquated",
"archaic",
"dated",
"fusty",
"musty",
"oldfangled",
"old-fashioned",
"old-time",
"out-of-date",
"pass\u00e9"
]
},
"having a notably high temperature":{
"examples":[
"don't touch the stove\u2014it's red-hot"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardent",
"boiling",
"broiling",
"burning",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"fiery",
"hot",
"piping hot",
"red",
"roasting",
"scalding",
"scorching",
"searing",
"sultry",
"superheated",
"sweltering",
"torrid",
"ultrahot",
"white-hot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blazing",
"glowing",
"igneous",
"molten",
"seething",
"sizzling",
"heated",
"overheated",
"reheated",
"warmed",
"snug",
"toasty",
"warm",
"warmish",
"feverish",
"flushed",
"inflamed",
"enflamed",
"canicular",
"muggy",
"steamy",
"summerlike",
"summery",
"tropical"
],
"near antonyms":[
"chill",
"chilly",
"coldish",
"cool",
"coolish",
"nippy",
"snappy",
"blizzardly",
"frosty",
"snowy",
"subfreezing",
"subzero",
"wintry",
"wintery",
"chilled",
"cooled",
"refrigerated",
"unheated",
"benumbed",
"numb",
"shivering"
],
"antonyms":[
"algid",
"arctic",
"bitter",
"bone-chilling",
"cold",
"freezing",
"frigid",
"frozen",
"glacial",
"ice-cold",
"iced",
"icy"
]
},
"having or expressing great depth of feeling":{
"examples":[
"red-hot calls to action from both supporters and opponents of the war"
],
"synonyms":[
"ardent",
"blazing",
"burning",
"charged",
"demonstrative",
"emotional",
"fervent",
"fervid",
"feverish",
"fiery",
"flaming",
"glowing",
"hot-blooded",
"impassioned",
"incandescent",
"intense",
"passional",
"passionate",
"perfervid",
"religious",
"superheated",
"torrid",
"vehement",
"warm",
"warm-blooded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gushing",
"gushy",
"maudlin",
"mawkish",
"mushy",
"saccharine",
"sappy",
"schmaltzy",
"sentimental",
"sloppy",
"sugary",
"histrionic",
"melodramatic",
"enthusiastic",
"gung ho",
"keen",
"zealous",
"enamored",
"infatuated",
"obsessed",
"uninhibited",
"unreserved",
"unrestrained",
"frenzied",
"orgiastic",
"overemotional",
"overexcited",
"overheated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"detached",
"dry",
"impersonal",
"objective",
"reserved",
"undemonstrative"
],
"antonyms":[
"cold",
"cool",
"dispassionate",
"emotionless",
"impassive",
"unemotional"
]
},
"enjoying widespread favor or approval":{
"examples":[
"a show that is this year's red-hot sitcom"
],
"synonyms":[
"big",
"crowd-pleasing",
"du jour",
"faddish",
"faddy",
"fashionable",
"favorite",
"happening",
"hot",
"in",
"large",
"modish",
"pop",
"popular",
"popularized",
"vogue",
"voguish"
],
"near synonyms":[
"semipopular",
"preferred",
"selected",
"desirable",
"liked",
"wanted",
"celebrated",
"famed",
"famous",
"noted",
"notorious",
"prominent",
"renowned",
"well-known",
"fabled",
"fabulous",
"legendary",
"leading",
"notable",
"outstanding",
"prominent",
"remarkable",
"important",
"significant"
],
"near antonyms":[
"washed-up",
"despised",
"detested",
"disliked",
"hated",
"rejected",
"insignificant",
"unimportant",
"indistinguished",
"unexceptional",
"anonymous",
"nameless",
"obscure",
"unknown",
"inconspicuous"
],
"antonyms":[
"out",
"unfashionable",
"unpopular"
]
},
"one who is intensely or excessively devoted to a cause":{
"examples":[
"the inflammatory language favored by the red hots is simply polarizing voters and stifling all dialogue"
],
"synonyms":[
"crusader",
"fanatic",
"ideologue",
"idealogue",
"militant",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"true believer",
"zealot"
],
"near synonyms":[
"activist",
"dreamer",
"idealist",
"visionary",
"cultist",
"disciple",
"follower",
"hanger-on",
"idolizer",
"votary",
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"bug",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"fancier",
"fiend",
"fool",
"freak",
"habitu\u00e9",
"habitue",
"head",
"hound",
"junkie",
"junky",
"lover",
"maniac",
"maven",
"mavin",
"nut",
"sucker",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"champion",
"evangelist",
"patron",
"promoter",
"stalwart",
"supporter",
"booster",
"rooter",
"well-wisher",
"faddist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dabbler",
"dilettante"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonmilitant"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"redrafting":{
"to prepare for publication by correcting, rewriting, or updating":{
"examples":[
"if you redraft that paper and include more recent data, I think we could publish it"
],
"synonyms":[
"editing",
"revamping",
"revising",
"reworking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"perfecting",
"polishing",
"touching up",
"copyediting",
"reading",
"subbing",
"subediting",
"reediting",
"amending",
"annotating",
"correcting",
"emending",
"rectifying",
"fact-checking",
"anthologizing",
"collecting",
"compiling",
"getting out",
"issuing",
"printing",
"publishing",
"abridging",
"blue-penciling",
"redacting",
"red-penciling",
"engrossing",
"recopying"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reduplicates":{
"to make an exact likeness of":{
"examples":[
"reduplicate a recording of the concert for my friend"
],
"synonyms":[
"clones",
"copies",
"copycats",
"duplicates",
"imitates",
"renders",
"replicates",
"reproduces"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"forges",
"knocks off",
"rips off",
"mimics",
"simulates",
"reconstructs",
"re-creates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"creates",
"imagines",
"initiates",
"invents"
],
"antonyms":[
"originates"
]
},
"to make or do again":{
"examples":[
"found out halfway through the project that I was reduplicating another team member's efforts, so we had to figure out who was going to do what"
],
"synonyms":[
"duplicates",
"redoes",
"reiterates",
"remakes",
"renews",
"repeats",
"replicates",
"reprises"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recreates",
"reenacts",
"reinvents"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redivisions":{
"as in redistributions , reallocations":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"reallocations",
"reapportionments",
"redistributions",
"repartitions",
"admeasurements",
"allocations",
"allotments",
"apportionments",
"disbursements",
"dispensations",
"distributions",
"divisions",
"issuances",
"partitions",
"separations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"reductions":{
"something that is or may be subtracted":{
"examples":[
"there was a sizable reduction in her weekly pay when she decided to buy health insurance"
],
"synonyms":[
"abatements",
"deductions",
"discounts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"givebacks",
"kickbacks",
"rebates",
"dents",
"depreciations",
"declines",
"decrements",
"diminishments",
"diminutions",
"drops",
"falls",
"losses",
"forfeits",
"forfeitures",
"penalties"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accretions",
"accruals",
"augmentations",
"boosts",
"gains",
"increases",
"increments",
"raises",
"rises",
"appreciations"
],
"antonyms":[
"accessions",
"additions"
]
},
"the amount by which something is lessened":{
"examples":[
"saw an 11% reduction in the number of students applying to the school"
],
"synonyms":[
"abatements",
"declines",
"decreases",
"decrements",
"dents",
"depletions",
"depressions",
"diminishments",
"diminutions",
"drop-offs",
"drops",
"falloffs",
"falls",
"losses",
"shrinkages",
"step-downs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deductions",
"subtractions",
"downturns",
"slips",
"slumps",
"curtailments",
"cutbacks",
"cuts",
"retrenchments",
"shortenings"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accretions",
"accruals",
"accumulations",
"additions",
"supplements",
"continuations",
"extensions",
"upswings",
"uptrends",
"upturns"
],
"antonyms":[
"boosts",
"enlargements",
"gains",
"increases",
"increments",
"raises",
"rises",
"step-ups",
"upticks"
]
},
"the act or an instance of bringing to a lower grade or rank":{
"examples":[
"the captain was punished with a reduction to lieutenant"
],
"synonyms":[
"bumps",
"demotions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"downgrades",
"dismissals",
"firings",
"layoffs",
"sackings",
"abasements",
"debasements",
"humiliations"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"red-penciling":{
"to remove errors, defects, deficiencies, or deviations from":{
"examples":[
"the magazine claims that every article is red-penciled by a team of fact checkers before it ever sees the light of print"
],
"synonyms":[
"amending",
"correcting",
"debugging",
"emending",
"rectifying",
"reforming",
"remedying"
],
"near synonyms":[
"redrafting",
"redrawing",
"restyling",
"revising",
"reworking",
"rewriting",
"blue-penciling",
"cutting",
"shortening",
"redressing",
"righting",
"ameliorating",
"bettering",
"improving",
"perfecting",
"polishing",
"touching up",
"fixing",
"mending",
"repairing",
"adjusting",
"modulating",
"regulating",
"altering",
"changing",
"modifying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"damaging",
"harming",
"hurting",
"impairing",
"injuring",
"marring",
"spoiling",
"aggravating",
"worsening"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to remove objectionable parts from":{
"examples":[
"a television script that had been heavily red-penciled in abject surrender to political correctness"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowdlerizing",
"censoring",
"cleaning (up)",
"expurgating",
"laundering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cleansing",
"purging",
"purifying",
"abbreviating",
"blue-penciling",
"editing",
"shortening",
"bleeping",
"blipping",
"cutting (out)",
"deleting",
"excising",
"expunging",
"gutting",
"x-ing (out)",
"x'ing (out)",
"blacking out",
"repressing",
"silencing",
"suppressing",
"censuring",
"condemning",
"denouncing",
"examining",
"reviewing",
"screening",
"scrutinizing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"approving",
"authorizing",
"sanctioning"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redemptions":{
"freedom from guilt or blame for having done something wrong":{
"examples":[
"Redemption for your actions will only come after a lot of apologizing."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"graces",
"salvations",
"rebirths",
"regenerations",
"restorations",
"absolutions",
"remissions",
"acquittals",
"clearances",
"clearings",
"exonerations",
"vindications",
"atonements",
"expiations",
"purifications",
"sanctifications"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blasphemies",
"defilements",
"desecrations",
"profanations",
"violations",
"corruptions",
"debasements",
"perversions",
"contaminations",
"pollutions"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the act of releasing (someone) from servitude to another":{
"examples":[
"The redemption of slaves was a major issue in the Civil War."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"deliverances",
"salvations",
"autonomies",
"freedoms",
"independences",
"independencies",
"liberties",
"sovereignties",
"sovranties",
"emancipations",
"enfranchisements",
"liberations",
"manumissions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bondages",
"serfdoms",
"servitudes",
"thralldoms",
"thraldoms",
"yokes",
"captivities",
"enchainments",
"imprisonments",
"incarcerations",
"internments",
"conquests",
"subjugations",
"enslavements"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redeemed":{
"as in liberated , freed":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"delivered",
"emancipated",
"freed",
"liberated",
"manumitted",
"released",
"freeborn",
"unconquered",
"unruled",
"unsupervised",
"autonomous",
"free",
"freestanding",
"independent",
"self-governed",
"self-governing",
"self-ruling",
"separate",
"sovereign",
"sovran",
"empowered",
"enfranchised",
"democratic",
"republican"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dependent",
"nonautonomous",
"non-self-governing",
"subject",
"unfree",
"bound",
"captive",
"conquered",
"enslaved",
"fettered",
"subdued",
"subjugated",
"inferior",
"subordinate",
"subservient"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
"examples":[
"the Little League coach redeemed his promise to take the players out for ice cream if they improved their fielding over the season"
],
"synonyms":[
"answered",
"completed",
"complied (with)",
"filled",
"fulfilled",
"kept",
"met",
"satisfied"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concluded",
"consummated",
"finalized",
"finished",
"perfected",
"accomplished",
"achieved",
"brought about",
"brought off",
"carried out",
"effected",
"committed",
"compassed",
"discharged",
"executed",
"followed through (with)",
"made",
"performed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defaulted (on)",
"disregarded",
"forgot",
"ignored",
"neglected",
"overlooked",
"overpassed",
"passed over",
"slighted"
],
"antonyms":[
"breached",
"broke",
"transgressed",
"violated"
]
},
"to free from captivity or punishment by paying a price":{
"examples":[
"the government has consistently refused to redeem hostages captured by terrorists"
],
"synonyms":[
"ransomed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bailed",
"delivered",
"rescued",
"saved",
"emancipated",
"liberated",
"got back",
"recovered",
"regained",
"retrieved",
"released",
"bought",
"salvaged"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to free from the penalties or consequences of sin":{
"examples":[
"the belief that sinners are redeemed by their faith in God"
],
"synonyms":[
"delivered",
"saved"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reclaimed",
"reformed",
"forgave",
"pardoned",
"remitted",
"shrived",
"shrove",
"blessed",
"blest",
"hallowed",
"consecrated",
"purified",
"sanctified"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make better in behavior or character":{
"examples":[
"the unfaithful husband made a determined effort to redeem himself in the eyes of his wife and children"
],
"synonyms":[
"habilitated",
"reclaimed",
"reformed",
"regenerated",
"rehabilitated"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reeducated",
"amended",
"improved",
"refined",
"cleansed",
"purified",
"restored"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abased",
"cankered",
"corrupted",
"debauched",
"degraded",
"demeaned",
"demoralized",
"depraved",
"lowered",
"perverted",
"poisoned",
"profaned",
"prostituted",
"subverted",
"warped"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make up for (an offense)":{
"examples":[
"quickly redeemed the offending remark with a sincere and unconditional apology"
],
"synonyms":[
"atoned (for)",
"expiated",
"mended"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compensated",
"recompensed",
"reimbursed",
"remunerated",
"repaid",
"amended",
"corrected",
"rectified",
"redressed",
"propitiated"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"redesigns":{
"to change the design of (something)":{
"examples":[
"The book's cover has been redesigned for the new edition.",
"We're redesigning our kitchen.",
"a newly redesigned website"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"alters",
"converts",
"makes over",
"modifies",
"recasts",
"reclaims",
"recycles",
"redevelops",
"redoes",
"reengineers",
"refashions",
"refigures",
"refits",
"refocuses",
"reinvents",
"rejiggers",
"remakes",
"remodels",
"revamps",
"revises",
"reworks",
"transforms",
"acclimates",
"acclimatizes",
"accommodates",
"adapts",
"adjusts",
"conditions",
"conforms",
"doctors",
"edits",
"fashions",
"fits",
"puts",
"shapes",
"suits",
"tailors",
"readapts",
"readjusts",
"customizes",
"gears",
"matches",
"models",
"patterns",
"attunes",
"corrects",
"harmonizes",
"squares",
"tunes",
"establishes",
"roots",
"settles",
"acquaints",
"familiarizes",
"orientates",
"orients",
"equips",
"prepares",
"primes",
"rehearses",
"hardens",
"inures",
"seasons",
"toughens",
"accustoms",
"conditions",
"habilitates",
"habituates",
"naturalizes",
"readies",
"seasons",
"bends",
"fiddles (with)",
"fine-tunes",
"phases",
"registers",
"regulates",
"rigs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"misadjusts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in overhauls , revisions":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"overhauls",
"reconstructions",
"reconversions",
"redos",
"reformations",
"revisions",
"variations",
"shifts",
"transitions",
"adjustments",
"alterations",
"changes",
"differences",
"modifications",
"tweaks",
"deformations",
"disfigurements",
"distortions",
"mutations",
"transmutations",
"displacements",
"replacements",
"substitutions",
"supplantations",
"changeovers",
"conversions",
"metamorphoses",
"transfigurations",
"transformations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"fixations",
"stabilizations"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"redressing":{
"to punish in kind the wrongdoer responsible for":{
"examples":[
"the belief that redressing a murder with another murder, even if carried out by the state, is not morally justified"
],
"synonyms":[
"avenging",
"requiting",
"retaliating",
"revenging",
"venging"
],
"near synonyms":[
"castigating",
"fixing",
"getting",
"penalizing",
"punishing",
"scourging",
"chastening",
"chastising",
"correcting",
"disciplining",
"righting",
"compensating",
"paying (back)",
"recompensing",
"repaying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"absolving",
"condoning",
"excusing",
"forgiving",
"pardoning",
"remitting"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redecorating":{
"as in redoing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"redoing",
"diamonding",
"gemming",
"impearling",
"jeweling",
"jewelling",
"pearling",
"appliqu\u00e9ing",
"gilding",
"painting",
"braiding",
"embroidering",
"feathering",
"figuring",
"filigreeing",
"filleting",
"flouncing",
"frilling",
"fringing",
"furbelowing",
"garlanding",
"hanging",
"lacing",
"ribboning",
"swagging",
"wreathing",
"bossing",
"chasing",
"brightening",
"freshening",
"smartening",
"sprucing (up)",
"accessorizing",
"dressing up",
"trapping",
"tricking (out)",
"adorning",
"arraying",
"beautifying",
"bedecking",
"bedizening",
"blazoning",
"caparisoning",
"decking",
"decorating",
"doing",
"doing up",
"dolling up",
"draping",
"dressing",
"embellishing",
"emblazing",
"embossing",
"enriching",
"fancifying",
"fancying up",
"festooning",
"garnishing",
"glitzing (up)",
"gracing",
"gussying up",
"ornamenting",
"prettying (up)",
"trimming"
],
"near antonyms":[
"blemishing",
"defacing",
"disfiguring",
"marring",
"scarring",
"spoiling",
"simplifying",
"streamlining",
"baring",
"denuding",
"dismantling",
"displaying",
"divesting",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"stripping",
"uncovering",
"uglifying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redundantly":{
"as in repetitiously":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"repetitiously",
"diffusely",
"long-windedly",
"verbosely",
"wordily"
],
"near antonyms":[
"briefly",
"compactly",
"concisely",
"crisply",
"curtly",
"elliptically",
"laconically",
"pithily",
"shortly",
"succinctly",
"summarily",
"tersely",
"aphoristically",
"sententiously",
"exactly",
"precisely"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"redouble":{
"to make markedly greater in measure or degree":{
"examples":[
"rescuers redoubled their efforts to reach the people buried in the rubble after unexpectedly hearing someone call for help"
],
"synonyms":[
"accentuate",
"amp (up)",
"amplify",
"beef (up)",
"boost",
"consolidate",
"deepen",
"enhance",
"heighten",
"intensify",
"magnify",
"step up",
"strengthen"
],
"near synonyms":[
"broaden",
"enlarge",
"expand",
"extend",
"lengthen",
"accelerate",
"hasten",
"quicken",
"emphasize",
"point (up)",
"sharpen",
"stress",
"augment",
"enforce",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"restrengthen",
"supplement",
"maximize",
"enliven",
"jazz (up)",
"aggravate",
"exacerbate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"decrease",
"diminish",
"lessen",
"let up (on)",
"reduce",
"subdue",
"tone (down)",
"weaken",
"dwindle",
"recede",
"subside",
"taper (off)",
"wane",
"alleviate",
"ease",
"lighten"
],
"antonyms":[
"abate",
"moderate"
]
},
"to make twice as great or as many":{
"examples":[
"if we redouble the recipe, we'll have enough cookies for everyone"
],
"synonyms":[
"double",
"duplicate"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compound",
"multiply",
"accumulate",
"balloon",
"build (up)",
"burgeon",
"bourgeon",
"enlarge",
"escalate",
"expand",
"increase",
"mount",
"mushroom",
"proliferate",
"rise",
"snowball",
"swell",
"wax"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redetermines":{
"as in rejudges":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rejudges",
"concludes",
"resolves",
"finds (for or against)",
"prosecutes",
"tries",
"mediates",
"moderates",
"negotiates",
"sizes up",
"considers",
"deems",
"deliberates",
"hears",
"ponders",
"weighs",
"adjudges",
"adjudicates",
"arbitrates",
"decides",
"determines",
"judges",
"referees",
"rules (on)",
"settles",
"umpires"
],
"near antonyms":[
"equivocates",
"hedges",
"pussyfoots",
"skirts"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redo":{
"the act of saying or doing over again":{
"examples":[
"as a way of celebrating our silver wedding anniversary, we're planning a redo of the trip we took on our honeymoon"
],
"synonyms":[
"duplication",
"iteration",
"reduplication",
"reiteration",
"renewal",
"repeat",
"repetition",
"replay",
"replication",
"reprise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rebroadcast",
"rerun",
"recitation",
"rehearsal"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make different in some way":{
"examples":[
"desperately wanted to redo the red living room in soothing shades of green"
],
"synonyms":[
"alter",
"change",
"make over",
"modify",
"recast",
"refashion",
"remake",
"remodel",
"revamp",
"revise",
"rework",
"vary"
],
"near synonyms":[
"deform",
"metamorphose",
"mutate",
"regenerate",
"revolutionize",
"transfigure",
"transform",
"transmute",
"commute",
"convert",
"exchange",
"rejigger",
"retool"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"fix",
"freeze",
"set",
"stabilize"
]
},
"to make or do again":{
"examples":[
"the conductor kept asking the violinist to redo that passage until he was completely satisfied"
],
"synonyms":[
"duplicate",
"reduplicate",
"reiterate",
"remake",
"renew",
"repeat",
"replicate",
"reprise"
],
"near synonyms":[
"recreate",
"reenact",
"reinvent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"redacting":{
"to make changes to (something written) so as to remove or obscure information":{
"examples":[
"Because the victims were minors, their full names were redacted from public court records.",
"The declassified documents were heavily redacted before they were released."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"bowdlerizing",
"censoring",
"cleaning (up)",
"expurgating",
"laundering",
"red-penciling",
"blue-penciling",
"canceling",
"cancelling",
"crossing (out)",
"deleing",
"deleting",
"editing (out)",
"eliding",
"killing",
"scratching (out)",
"striking (out)",
"stroking (out)",
"x-ing (out)",
"x'ing (out)",
"blotting out",
"effacing",
"eradicating",
"erasing",
"expunging",
"obliterating",
"rooting (out)",
"rubbing out",
"wiping out",
"bleeping",
"blipping",
"clipping",
"cutting",
"excising",
"removing",
"abbreviating",
"cropping",
"shortening",
"blacking out",
"repressing",
"silencing",
"suppressing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redeems":{
"to do what is required by the terms of":{
"examples":[
"the Little League coach redeemed his promise to take the players out for ice cream if they improved their fielding over the season"
],
"synonyms":[
"answers",
"completes",
"complies (with)",
"fills",
"fulfills",
"fulfils",
"keeps",
"meets",
"satisfies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"concludes",
"consummates",
"finalizes",
"finishes",
"perfects",
"accomplishes",
"achieves",
"brings about",
"brings off",
"carries out",
"effects",
"commits",
"compasses",
"discharges",
"executes",
"follows through (with)",
"makes",
"performs"
],
"near antonyms":[
"defaults (on)",
"disregards",
"forgets",
"ignores",
"neglects",
"overlooks",
"overpasses",
"passes over",
"slights"
],
"antonyms":[
"breaches",
"breaks",
"transgresses",
"violates"
]
},
"to free from captivity or punishment by paying a price":{
"examples":[
"the government has consistently refused to redeem hostages captured by terrorists"
],
"synonyms":[
"ransoms"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bails",
"delivers",
"rescues",
"saves",
"emancipates",
"liberates",
"gets back",
"recovers",
"regains",
"retrieves",
"releases",
"buys",
"salvages"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to free from the penalties or consequences of sin":{
"examples":[
"the belief that sinners are redeemed by their faith in God"
],
"synonyms":[
"delivers",
"saves"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reclaims",
"reforms",
"forgives",
"pardons",
"remits",
"shrives",
"blesses",
"hallows",
"consecrates",
"purifies",
"sanctifies"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make better in behavior or character":{
"examples":[
"the unfaithful husband made a determined effort to redeem himself in the eyes of his wife and children"
],
"synonyms":[
"habilitates",
"reclaims",
"reforms",
"regenerates",
"rehabilitates"
],
"near synonyms":[
"reeducates",
"amends",
"improves",
"refines",
"cleanses",
"purifies",
"restores"
],
"near antonyms":[
"abases",
"cankers",
"corrupts",
"debauches",
"degrades",
"demeans",
"demoralizes",
"depraves",
"lowers",
"perverts",
"poisons",
"profanes",
"prostitutes",
"subverts",
"warps"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to make up for (an offense)":{
"examples":[
"quickly redeemed the offending remark with a sincere and unconditional apology"
],
"synonyms":[
"atones (for)",
"expiates",
"mends"
],
"near synonyms":[
"compensates",
"recompenses",
"reimburses",
"remunerates",
"repays",
"amends",
"corrects",
"rectifies",
"redresses",
"propitiates"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"reduplications":{
"something that is made to look exactly like something else":{
"examples":[
"that old-looking colonial mansion is actually a 20th-century reduplication of the original, which was destroyed many years ago"
],
"synonyms":[
"carbon copies",
"carbons",
"clones",
"copies",
"dummies",
"dupes",
"duplicates",
"duplications",
"facsimiles",
"imitations",
"mocks",
"replicas",
"replications",
"reproductions"
],
"near synonyms":[
"counterfeits",
"fakes",
"forgeries",
"knockoffs",
"phonies",
"phoneys",
"rip-offs",
"rubber stamps",
"shams",
"miniatures",
"mock-ups",
"simulations",
"reconstructions",
"re-creations",
"images",
"likenesses",
"semblances",
"shadows",
"impressions",
"imprints",
"prints",
"approximations",
"reincarnations",
"versions",
"extras",
"reserves",
"spares"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"archetypes",
"originals",
"prototypes"
]
},
"the act of saying or doing over again":{
"examples":[
"ever since I was forced to do a reduplication of a day's work, I've been more conscientious about hitting my computer's \"save\" button"
],
"synonyms":[
"duplications",
"iterations",
"redos",
"reiterations",
"renewals",
"repeats",
"repetitions",
"replays",
"replications",
"reprises"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rebroadcasts",
"reruns",
"recitations",
"rehearsals"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redounding":{
"to have a particular result \u2014 used especially to describe how something affects someone or something or affects the opinion that people have about someone or something \u2014 + to":{
"examples":[
"It redounds to his credit that he worked so hard to prevent this crisis."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"panning out",
"resulting",
"acting",
"operating",
"performing",
"taking",
"working",
"behaving",
"reacting",
"responding",
"affecting",
"influencing",
"swaying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"backfiring",
"fizzling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"red giant":{
"as in neutron star , white dwarf":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"binary star",
"brown dwarf",
"dwarf",
"fixed star",
"gasser",
"giant star",
"lodestar",
"loadstar",
"neutron star",
"nova",
"pulsar",
"quasar",
"red dwarf",
"red star",
"subdwarf",
"supercluster",
"supergiant",
"supernova",
"variable",
"variable star",
"white dwarf",
"luminary",
"sphere",
"sun",
"cluster",
"constellation",
"galaxy"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redetermine":{
"as in rejudge":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rejudge",
"conclude",
"resolve",
"find (for or against)",
"prosecute",
"try",
"mediate",
"moderate",
"negotiate",
"size up",
"consider",
"deem",
"deliberate",
"hear",
"ponder",
"weigh",
"adjudge",
"adjudicate",
"arbitrate",
"decide",
"determine",
"judge",
"referee",
"rule (on)",
"settle",
"umpire"
],
"near antonyms":[
"equivocate",
"hedge",
"pussyfoot",
"skirt"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"red light":{
"something that tells of approaching danger or risk":{
"examples":[
"the reporter took her glower as a red light and stopped asking questions"
],
"synonyms":[
"caution",
"red flag",
"tip-off",
"tocsin",
"wake-up call",
"warning"
],
"near synonyms":[
"omen",
"portent",
"premonition",
"presage",
"notice",
"notification",
"buoy",
"indicator",
"knell",
"sign",
"signal",
"foretaste",
"foretoken",
"announcement",
"declaration"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redoubt":{
"a structure or place from which one can resist attack":{
"examples":[
"a massive stone redoubt at the entrance of the bay guarded the city"
],
"synonyms":[
"bastion",
"castle",
"citadel",
"fastness",
"fort",
"fortification",
"fortress",
"hold",
"stronghold"
],
"near synonyms":[
"battlement",
"breastwork",
"bulwark",
"earthwork",
"embattlement",
"parapet",
"rampart",
"bunker",
"dugout",
"blockhouse",
"garrison house",
"alcazar",
"casbah",
"kasbah"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"redistributes":{
"to divide (something) among a group in a different way":{
"examples":[
"Unused federal funds will be redistributed to other states.",
"We need to redistribute the duties among ourselves; some of us are working too hard, and others are hardly working at all."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"admeasures",
"allots",
"allows",
"appropriates",
"assigns",
"dishes out",
"divides",
"divvies (up)",
"dollops (out)",
"lots",
"measures (out)",
"parts",
"proportions",
"rations",
"sets",
"shares (out)",
"splits",
"administers",
"allocates",
"apportions",
"deals (out)",
"dispenses",
"distributes",
"doles out",
"hands out",
"metes (out)",
"parcels (out)",
"portions",
"prorates",
"bestows",
"disburses",
"furnishes",
"issues",
"provides",
"shares",
"supplies",
"circulates",
"disperses",
"disseminates",
"scatters",
"spreads",
"chips in",
"contributes",
"donates",
"pledges",
"reallocates",
"reapportions"
],
"near antonyms":[
"begrudges",
"declines",
"denies",
"deprives (of)",
"disallows",
"refuses",
"rejects",
"withholds",
"niggles (out)",
"pinches",
"skimps",
"stints",
"misallocates"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"redefining":{
"to consider again especially with the possibility of change or reversal":{
"examples":[
"learning that he had been adopted forced him to completely redefine his identity"
],
"synonyms":[
"readdressing",
"reanalyzing",
"reconceiving",
"reconsidering",
"reevaluating",
"re-evaluating",
"reexamining",
"re-examining",
"reexploring",
"re-exploring",
"rethinking",
"reviewing",
"revisiting",
"reweighing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"rehearing",
"reconceptualizing",
"reenvisioning",
"re-envisioning",
"reimagining",
"reappraising",
"reassessing",
"reinvestigating",
"restudying",
"amending",
"correcting",
"emending",
"rectifying",
"reforming",
"remedying",
"revising"
],
"near antonyms":[
"asserting",
"defending",
"maintaining",
"upholding"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}