dict_dl/en_MWThesaurus/suc_MWT.json
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{
"succeeded":{
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"the advertising campaign that finally succeeded used humor to sell the product"
],
"synonyms":[
"came off",
"clicked",
"delivered",
"panned out",
"went",
"went over",
"worked out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caught on",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve",
"cooked",
"percolated"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languished",
"floundered",
"struggled",
"declined",
"sank",
"sunk",
"skidded",
"slipped",
"slumped",
"waned",
"crashed",
"cratered",
"crumbled",
"flamed out",
"choked",
"cracked up",
"miscarried",
"misfired",
"fell down",
"went under",
"imploded",
"self-destructed"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombed",
"collapsed",
"failed",
"flopped",
"flunked",
"folded",
"foundered",
"missed",
"struck out",
"washed out"
]
},
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"if you want to succeed in show business, you have to feel comfortable in front of an audience"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrived",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevailed",
"triumphed",
"won",
"excelled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floundered",
"struggled"
],
"antonyms":[
"failed"
]
},
"to come after in time":{
"examples":[
"only the results on election day will tell who will succeed the current president"
],
"synonyms":[
"followed",
"postdated",
"supervened"
],
"near synonyms":[
"displaced",
"replaced",
"superseded",
"supplanted",
"ensued"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"antedated",
"preceded",
"predated"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"succeeder":{
"as in representative , heir apparent":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"claimant",
"heir apparent",
"representative",
"successor",
"heir",
"heir at law",
"inheritor",
"legatee",
"coheir",
"coheiress",
"heiress",
"assignee",
"beneficiary",
"devisee",
"grantee",
"descendant",
"descendent",
"scion"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"succession":{
"a series of things, people, events, or actions arranged or happening one after another":{
"examples":[
"He experienced a succession of car repairs that set him back thousands of dollars."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"catena",
"catenation",
"chain",
"concatenation",
"consecution",
"nexus",
"progression",
"sequence",
"series",
"string",
"train",
"file",
"line",
"queue",
"range",
"row",
"echelon",
"rank",
"row",
"tier",
"chain reaction",
"belt",
"circle",
"cycle",
"vicious circle",
"vicious cycle",
"continuum",
"gamut",
"gauntlet",
"gantlet",
"scale",
"spectrum",
"flow",
"river",
"stream"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confusion",
"disorder",
"disorganization",
"disruption",
"upset",
"disconnection",
"disjointedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the order of people in a family":{
"examples":[
"The prince is third in the line of succession to the throne."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"heredity",
"ancestry",
"birth",
"blood",
"bloodline",
"breeding",
"descent",
"extraction",
"family tree",
"genealogy",
"line",
"lineage",
"origin",
"parentage",
"pedigree",
"stock",
"strain",
"family",
"house",
"kin",
"kindred",
"relations",
"relatives",
"race"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"successional":{
"following one after another without others coming in between":{
"examples":[
"the successional stages that an area goes through following a devastating forest fire"
],
"synonyms":[
"back-to-back",
"consecutive",
"sequent",
"sequential",
"straight",
"succeeding",
"successive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"serial",
"constant",
"continuous",
"uninterrupted",
"ensuing",
"following",
"later",
"next",
"posterior",
"subsequent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"inconsecutive",
"inconsequent",
"nonconsecutive",
"nonsequential"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"successive":{
"following one after another without others coming in between":{
"examples":[
"made the honor roll for three successive school terms"
],
"synonyms":[
"back-to-back",
"consecutive",
"sequent",
"sequential",
"straight",
"succeeding",
"successional"
],
"near synonyms":[
"serial",
"constant",
"continuous",
"uninterrupted",
"ensuing",
"following",
"later",
"next",
"posterior",
"subsequent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"inconsecutive",
"inconsequent",
"nonconsecutive",
"nonsequential"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"succinct":{
"marked by the use of few words to convey much information or meaning":{
"examples":[
"a pocket guide that provides succinct explanations for rules of grammar and punctuation"
],
"synonyms":[
"aphoristic",
"apothegmatic",
"brief",
"capsule",
"compact",
"compendious",
"concise",
"crisp",
"curt",
"elliptical",
"elliptic",
"epigrammatic",
"laconic",
"monosyllabic",
"pithy",
"sententious",
"summary",
"telegraphic",
"terse",
"thumbnail"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abrupt",
"blunt",
"brusque",
"brusk",
"short",
"snippety",
"snippy",
"abbreviated",
"abridged",
"condensed",
"curtailed",
"shortened",
"meaty",
"substantial",
"meaningful",
"significant",
"well-turned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pleonastic",
"redundant",
"repetitious",
"tautological",
"tautologous",
"enlarged",
"expanded",
"supplemented",
"embellished",
"embroidered",
"exaggerated",
"inflated"
],
"antonyms":[
"circuitous",
"circumlocutory",
"diffuse",
"long-winded",
"prolix",
"rambling",
"verbose",
"windy",
"wordy"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"succorers":{
"as in solaces , comforters":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comforters",
"solaces",
"soothers",
"peacemakers",
"reconcilers",
"uniters"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accusers",
"blamers",
"troublemakers",
"baiters",
"harassers",
"hecklers",
"mockers",
"needlers",
"persecutors",
"quizzers",
"quizzes",
"ridiculers",
"taunters",
"teasers",
"teases",
"tormentors",
"torturers",
"agitators",
"instigators"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"succumbing (to)":{
"as in dying (from)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dying (from)",
"breaking out (with)",
"failing",
"languishing",
"sinking",
"wasting (away)",
"weakening",
"wilting",
"withering",
"worsening",
"catching",
"coming down (with)",
"contracting",
"getting",
"going down (with)",
"sickening (with)",
"taking"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming back",
"gaining",
"healing",
"mending",
"recouping",
"recovering",
"recuperating",
"snapping back",
"rallying",
"rebounding",
"recovering (from)",
"shaking (off)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"succumbs (to)":{
"as in dies (from)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"dies (from)",
"breaks out (with)",
"fails",
"languishes",
"sinks",
"wastes (away)",
"weakens",
"wilts",
"withers",
"worsens",
"catches",
"comes down (with)",
"contracts",
"gets",
"goes down (with)",
"sickens (with)",
"takes"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comes back",
"gains",
"heals",
"mends",
"recoups",
"recovers",
"recuperates",
"snaps back",
"rallies",
"rebounds",
"recovers (from)",
"shakes (off)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sucked (up to)":{
"as in kowtowed , fawned":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fawned",
"kowtowed",
"toadied",
"blandished",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"sweet-talked",
"wheedled",
"idolized",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"adulated",
"belauded",
"blarneyed",
"buttered up",
"flattered",
"hero-worshipped",
"hero-worshiped",
"honeyed",
"honied",
"massaged",
"overpraised",
"puffed",
"soft-soaped",
"stroked",
"eulogized",
"extolled",
"lauded",
"praised",
"applauded",
"commended",
"complimented",
"congratulated",
"felicitated",
"drooled",
"gushed",
"slavered",
"slobbered",
"endeared",
"ingratiated",
"courted",
"romanced",
"wooed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad-mouthed",
"belittled",
"decried",
"depreciated",
"disparaged",
"put down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sucked in":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"she was sucked in by a scam that was run by a shady outfit selling time-shares"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozled",
"beguiled",
"bluffed",
"buffaloed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"caught",
"conned",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"faked out",
"fooled",
"gaffed",
"gammoned",
"gulled",
"had",
"had on",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"hornswoggled",
"humbugged",
"juggled",
"misguided",
"misinformed",
"misled",
"snookered",
"snowed",
"spoofed",
"strung along",
"suckered",
"took in",
"tricked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kidded",
"put on",
"teased",
"bled",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"defrauded",
"diddled",
"euchred",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"rooked",
"shortchanged",
"skinned",
"squeezed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"swindled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunked",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed up",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"told",
"unveiled",
"disabused",
"disenchanted",
"disillusioned"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceived"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sucker punch":{
"as in rabbit punch , right":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"body blow",
"hand",
"kick",
"knee",
"left",
"one-two",
"rabbit punch",
"right",
"right-hander",
"roundhouse",
"shiver",
"sidewinder",
"swing",
"uppercut",
"counter",
"counterblow",
"counterpunch",
"counterstroke",
"cruncher",
"kayo",
"knockdown",
"knockout",
"KO",
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"beat",
"belt",
"biff",
"blow",
"bop",
"box",
"buffet",
"bust",
"chop",
"clap",
"clip",
"clout",
"crack",
"cuff",
"dab",
"douse",
"fillip",
"hack",
"haymaker",
"hit",
"hook",
"knock",
"larrup",
"lash",
"lick",
"pelt",
"pick",
"plump",
"poke",
"pound",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slug",
"smack",
"smash",
"sock",
"spank",
"stinger",
"stripe",
"stroke",
"swat",
"swipe",
"switch",
"thud",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"welt",
"whack",
"wham",
"whop",
"whap",
"bastinado",
"bastinade",
"battering",
"beating",
"bludgeoning",
"clobbering",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"drubbing",
"hammering",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"thrashing",
"flogging",
"walloping",
"whip",
"whipping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in rabbit-punch":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rabbit-punch",
"bowl (down or over)",
"cream",
"deck",
"dump",
"fell",
"floor",
"knock down",
"level",
"cane",
"club",
"cudgel",
"flail",
"flog",
"lash",
"sap",
"slash",
"sledge",
"sledgehammer",
"spear",
"stab",
"switch",
"thrash",
"whip",
"bump",
"butt",
"jab",
"jostle",
"kick",
"knee",
"poke",
"prod",
"push",
"shove",
"stamp",
"bean",
"brain",
"conk",
"skull",
"bunt",
"flick",
"stroke",
"tap",
"scuff",
"batter",
"beat",
"buffet",
"bung",
"chop",
"cuff",
"drub",
"lace",
"lambaste",
"lambast",
"lick",
"mangle",
"maul",
"pelt",
"pepper",
"pommel",
"pummel",
"rough",
"bang",
"bash",
"bat",
"belt",
"biff",
"bludgeon",
"bob",
"bonk",
"bop",
"box",
"bust",
"clap",
"clip",
"clobber",
"clock",
"clout",
"crack",
"hammer",
"hit",
"knock",
"nail",
"paste",
"pound",
"punch",
"rap",
"slam",
"slap",
"slog",
"slug",
"smack",
"smite",
"sock",
"strike",
"swat",
"swipe",
"tag",
"thump",
"thwack",
"wallop",
"whack",
"whale",
"zap"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"suckering":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"a notorious imposter who at one time suckered a lot of people into believing that she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozling",
"beguiling",
"bluffing",
"buffaloing",
"burning",
"catching",
"conning",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"faking out",
"fooling",
"gaffing",
"gammoning",
"gulling",
"having",
"having on",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"hornswoggling",
"humbugging",
"juggling",
"misguiding",
"misinforming",
"misleading",
"snookering",
"snowing",
"spoofing",
"stringing along",
"sucking in",
"taking in",
"tricking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kidding",
"putting on",
"teasing",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"euchring",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"rooking",
"shortchanging",
"skinning",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stinging",
"swindling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunking",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing up",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"telling",
"unveiling",
"disabusing",
"disenchanting",
"disillusioning"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceiving"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"suckered millions of desperate dieters with their grossly inflated claims of successful weight loss"
],
"synonyms":[
"beating",
"bilking",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"chousing",
"conning",
"cozening",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"doing",
"doing in",
"euchring",
"fiddling",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"gaffing",
"hosing",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"nobbling",
"plucking",
"reaming",
"ripping off",
"rooking",
"screwing",
"shaking down",
"shortchanging",
"shorting",
"skinning",
"skunking",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stiffing",
"stinging",
"swindling",
"thimblerigging",
"victimizing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorting",
"wrenching",
"wresting",
"wringing",
"clipping",
"gouging",
"nicking",
"overcharging",
"soaking",
"exploiting",
"milking",
"deceiving",
"duping",
"fooling",
"gulling",
"tricking",
"roping (in)",
"betraying",
"bitching",
"double-crossing",
"bamboozling",
"fast-talking"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"suchlike":{
"having qualities in common":{
"examples":[
"kept asking me how long I'd lived here, and how I liked it, and suchlike questions"
],
"synonyms":[
"akin",
"alike",
"analogous",
"cognate",
"comparable",
"connate",
"correspondent",
"corresponding",
"ditto",
"like",
"matching",
"parallel",
"resemblant",
"resembling",
"similar",
"such"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commensurate",
"proportionate",
"tantamount",
"virtual",
"allied",
"congeneric",
"congenerous",
"congenial",
"connatural",
"kin",
"kindred",
"relatable",
"related",
"approaching",
"approximating",
"close",
"coextensive",
"coincident",
"conformable",
"conforming",
"consistent",
"consonant",
"duplicate",
"equal",
"equivalent",
"fungible",
"identical",
"indistinguishable",
"interchangeable",
"me-too",
"redundant",
"same",
"selfsame",
"substitutable",
"synonymous",
"twin",
"entire",
"homogeneous",
"homogenous",
"unchanging",
"uniform",
"unvaried",
"unvarying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disparate",
"distinct",
"distinguishable",
"nonequivalent",
"noninterchangeable",
"variable",
"varied",
"various",
"varying",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate",
"inexact",
"unconnected",
"unrelated"
],
"antonyms":[
"different",
"dissimilar",
"diverse",
"unakin",
"unlike"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"succumbed":{
"to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)":{
"examples":[
"he finally succumbed and let his wife get rid of his dilapidated easy chair"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinked",
"bowed",
"budged",
"capitulated",
"conceded",
"gave in",
"knuckled under",
"quit",
"quitted",
"relented",
"submitted",
"surrendered",
"yielded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiesced",
"deferred"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contended",
"fought",
"held off",
"battled",
"breasted",
"combated",
"combatted",
"confronted",
"countered",
"defied",
"faced",
"met",
"objected",
"opposed",
"repelled",
"thwarted",
"withstood"
],
"antonyms":[
"resisted"
]
},
"to give up and cease resistance (as to a liking, temptation, or habit)":{
"examples":[
"refused to succumb to her fears and defiantly walked through the dark cemetery"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowed",
"caved (in)",
"gave in",
"submitted",
"surrendered",
"yielded"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catered (to)",
"gratified",
"indulged",
"wallowed",
"acquiesced (to)",
"conceded (to)",
"buckled (under)",
"knuckled under",
"gave over (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"battled",
"breasted",
"combated",
"combatted",
"confronted",
"countered",
"defied",
"faced",
"fought",
"met",
"objected",
"opposed",
"repelled",
"thwarted",
"withstood",
"rejected",
"bridled",
"checked",
"constrained",
"curbed",
"inhibited",
"restrained",
"stifled"
],
"antonyms":[
"held off",
"resisted"
]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"the patient lay so still and pale that everyone thought he had succumbed , and then he opened his eyes"
],
"synonyms":[
"checked out",
"conked (out)",
"croaked",
"deceased",
"demised",
"departed",
"died",
"dropped",
"ended",
"exited",
"expired",
"fell",
"flatlined",
"kicked in",
"kicked off",
"parted",
"passed away",
"passed (on)",
"pegged out",
"perished",
"popped off",
"stepped out",
"went"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predeceased",
"consumed",
"disappeared",
"dried up",
"faded",
"failed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"came to",
"revived",
"lingered",
"existed",
"subsisted",
"was",
"flourished",
"prospered",
"thrived",
"throve"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathed",
"lived"
]
},
"to yield to the control or power of enemy forces":{
"examples":[
"the doctor worked tirelessly until finally he, too, succumbed to the fever"
],
"synonyms":[
"capitulated",
"fell",
"gave up",
"knuckled under",
"submitted",
"surrendered"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bowed",
"buckled",
"caved (in)",
"collapsed",
"gave (in)",
"handed over",
"relinquished",
"lost",
"conceded",
"failed",
"folded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bucked",
"defied",
"fought",
"opposed",
"repelled",
"resisted",
"withstood",
"beat",
"overcame",
"won",
"conquered",
"prevailed",
"triumphed"
],
"antonyms":[
"endured",
"stood"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"succoring":{
"as in attending , comforting":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attending",
"caring (for)",
"comforting",
"ministering (to)",
"championing",
"endorsing",
"indorsing",
"patronizing",
"promoting",
"sponsoring",
"sustaining",
"advancing",
"easing",
"facilitating",
"forwarding",
"fostering",
"furthering",
"launching",
"bolstering",
"boosting",
"buttressing",
"reinforcing",
"reenforcing",
"abetting",
"aiding",
"assisting",
"backing",
"backstopping",
"helping",
"propping (up)",
"supporting",
"advising",
"counseling",
"counselling",
"guiding",
"mentoring",
"nurturing",
"bailing out",
"delivering",
"rescuing",
"saving",
"emboldening",
"encouraging",
"heartening",
"benefiting",
"benefitting",
"favoring",
"obliging",
"profiting",
"serving"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hindering",
"balking",
"barring",
"blocking",
"constraining",
"hampering",
"handicapping",
"holding back",
"impeding",
"inhibiting",
"obstructing",
"restraining",
"strangling",
"baffling",
"foiling",
"frustrating",
"inconveniencing",
"interfering",
"opposing",
"sabotaging",
"thwarting",
"deserting",
"disappointing",
"failing",
"letting down",
"discouraging",
"disheartening",
"repressing",
"retarding",
"stifling",
"straitening",
"stunting",
"damaging",
"harming",
"hurting",
"injuring"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"successes":{
"a person or thing that is successful":{
"examples":[
"their homemade jellies have been such a success that they are now distributed nationwide"
],
"synonyms":[
"blockbusters",
"hits",
"megahits",
"smashes",
"supernovas",
"supernovae",
"winners"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blue chippers",
"blue chips",
"corkers",
"crackerjacks",
"crackajacks",
"dandies",
"jim-dandies",
"pips",
"prizewinners",
"gems",
"jewels",
"treasures",
"marvels",
"naturals",
"phenomena",
"phenomenons",
"sensations",
"wonders",
"coups",
"triumphs",
"victories"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disappointments",
"fizzles",
"lemons",
"losers"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombs",
"bummers",
"busts",
"catastrophes",
"clinkers",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"duds",
"failures",
"fiascoes",
"flops",
"misfires",
"turkeys",
"washouts"
]
},
"a successful result brought about by hard work":{
"examples":[
"a long list of successes that the retiring president of the college can point to with pride"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplishments",
"achievements",
"acquirements",
"attainments",
"babies",
"coups",
"triumphs"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blockbusters",
"hits",
"jackpots",
"megahits",
"miracles",
"smashes",
"winners",
"conquests",
"gains",
"victories",
"wins",
"skills",
"deeds",
"feats",
"performances",
"arrivals",
"completions",
"consummations",
"culminations",
"executions",
"fruitions",
"fulfillments",
"fulfilments",
"implementations",
"realizations"
],
"near antonyms":[
"botches",
"cock-ups",
"messes",
"muddles",
"shambles",
"bummers",
"busts",
"catastrophes",
"debacles",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cles",
"disasters",
"duds",
"failures",
"fiascoes",
"fizzles",
"flops",
"washouts",
"disappointments",
"letdowns",
"losses",
"setbacks"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonachievements"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"successful":{
"having attained a desired end or state of good fortune":{
"examples":[
"the play had a successful run on Broadway"
],
"synonyms":[
"flourishing",
"going",
"palmy",
"prosperous",
"thriving",
"triumphant"
],
"near synonyms":[
"coming",
"promising",
"booming",
"growing",
"roaring",
"robust",
"boffo",
"gangbusters",
"gangbuster",
"runaway",
"socko"
],
"near antonyms":[
"futureless",
"hopeless",
"inauspicious",
"no-good",
"unpromising",
"collapsing",
"failing",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"washing-out",
"declining",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"bankrupt",
"kaput",
"kaputt",
"kerflooey",
"destroyed",
"ruined",
"wrecked"
],
"antonyms":[
"failed",
"unsuccessful"
]
},
"marked by vigorous growth and well-being especially economically":{
"examples":[
"sold their successful dry-cleaning business and retired to Hawaii"
],
"synonyms":[
"booming",
"boomy",
"flourishing",
"golden",
"halcyon",
"healthy",
"lush",
"palmy",
"prospering",
"prosperous",
"roaring",
"thriving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"affluent",
"moneyed",
"monied",
"opulent",
"rich",
"substantial",
"wealthy",
"well-heeled",
"well-off",
"well-to-do",
"comfortable"
],
"near antonyms":[
"declining",
"dying",
"failing",
"floundering",
"languishing",
"struggling",
"bankrupt",
"bankrupted",
"insolvent"
],
"antonyms":[
"depressed",
"unprosperous",
"unsuccessful"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"succumb":{
"to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)":{
"examples":[
"he finally succumbed and let his wife get rid of his dilapidated easy chair"
],
"synonyms":[
"blink",
"bow",
"budge",
"capitulate",
"concede",
"give in",
"knuckle under",
"quit",
"relent",
"submit",
"surrender",
"yield"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiesce",
"defer"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contend",
"fight",
"hold off",
"battle",
"breast",
"combat",
"confront",
"counter",
"defy",
"face",
"meet",
"object",
"oppose",
"repel",
"thwart",
"withstand"
],
"antonyms":[
"resist"
]
},
"to give up and cease resistance (as to a liking, temptation, or habit)":{
"examples":[
"refused to succumb to her fears and defiantly walked through the dark cemetery"
],
"synonyms":[
"bow",
"cave (in)",
"give in",
"submit",
"surrender",
"yield"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cater (to)",
"gratify",
"indulge",
"wallow",
"acquiesce (to)",
"concede (to)",
"buckle (under)",
"knuckle under",
"give over (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"battle",
"breast",
"combat",
"confront",
"counter",
"defy",
"face",
"fight",
"meet",
"object",
"oppose",
"repel",
"thwart",
"withstand",
"reject",
"bridle",
"check",
"constrain",
"curb",
"inhibit",
"restrain",
"stifle"
],
"antonyms":[
"hold off",
"resist"
]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"the patient lay so still and pale that everyone thought he had succumbed , and then he opened his eyes"
],
"synonyms":[
"check out",
"conk (out)",
"croak",
"decease",
"demise",
"depart",
"die",
"drop",
"end",
"exit",
"expire",
"fall",
"flatline",
"go",
"kick in",
"kick off",
"part",
"pass (on)",
"pass away",
"peg out",
"perish",
"pop off",
"step out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predecease",
"consume",
"disappear",
"dry up",
"fade",
"fail"
],
"near antonyms":[
"come to",
"revive",
"linger",
"be",
"exist",
"subsist",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathe",
"live"
]
},
"to yield to the control or power of enemy forces":{
"examples":[
"the doctor worked tirelessly until finally he, too, succumbed to the fever"
],
"synonyms":[
"capitulate",
"fall",
"give up",
"knuckle under",
"submit",
"surrender"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bow",
"buckle",
"cave (in)",
"collapse",
"give (in)",
"hand over",
"relinquish",
"lose",
"concede",
"fail",
"fold"
],
"near antonyms":[
"buck",
"defy",
"fight",
"oppose",
"repel",
"resist",
"withstand",
"beat",
"overcome",
"win",
"conquer",
"prevail",
"triumph"
],
"antonyms":[
"endure",
"stand"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"suckled":{
"to give milk to from the breast":{
"examples":[
"the image of a mother suckling her babe is a standard artistic symbol of maternal love and nurturing"
],
"synonyms":[
"breast-fed",
"nursed",
"wet-nursed"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottle-fed"
],
"near antonyms":[
"weaned"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"succubi":{
"as in nightmares , incubi":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"incubi",
"incubuses",
"nightmares",
"hags",
"lamiae",
"lamias",
"vampires",
"afreets",
"afrits",
"genies",
"genii",
"jinn",
"jinns",
"djinn",
"djinns",
"cacodemons",
"demons",
"daemons",
"devils",
"fiends",
"ghosts",
"ghoulies",
"ghouls",
"imps",
"shaitans",
"apparitions",
"banshees",
"bogeys",
"bogies",
"bugbears",
"familiars",
"familiar spirits",
"geniuses",
"genii",
"phantasms",
"fantasms",
"phantoms",
"poltergeists",
"shades",
"shadows",
"specters",
"spectres",
"spirits",
"spooks",
"visions",
"wraiths",
"brownies",
"dwarfs",
"dwarves",
"elves",
"faeries",
"fairies",
"fays",
"gnomes",
"goblins",
"gremlins",
"hobgoblins",
"kobolds",
"leprechauns",
"pixies",
"pucks",
"sprites",
"trolls",
"monsters",
"ogres"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angels"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sucking (up)":{
"to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior":{
"examples":[
"a young lieutenant constantly sucking up to the commanding officer"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polishing",
"bootlicking",
"fawning",
"fussing",
"kowtowing",
"toadying",
"truckling"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drooling",
"gushing",
"slavering",
"slobbering",
"endearing",
"ingratiating",
"courting",
"wooing",
"adulating",
"idolizing",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"blandishing",
"cajoling",
"coaxing",
"flattering",
"overpraising",
"soft-soaping",
"cowering",
"cringing",
"groveling",
"grovelling",
"abasing",
"debasing",
"demeaning",
"deferring",
"submitting",
"yielding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despising",
"disdaining",
"scorning",
"gibing",
"jibing",
"jeering",
"scoffing",
"braving",
"challenging",
"defying"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take in (something liquid) through small openings":{
"examples":[
"these lilacs sucked up all the water I added to the vase yesterday"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbing",
"drinking",
"imbibing",
"soaking (up)",
"sponging",
"taking up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gulping",
"guzzling",
"quaffing",
"sipping",
"slurping",
"swallowing",
"swigging",
"swilling"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"suckles":{
"to give milk to from the breast":{
"examples":[
"the image of a mother suckling her babe is a standard artistic symbol of maternal love and nurturing"
],
"synonyms":[
"breast-feeds",
"nurses",
"wet-nurses"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottle-feeds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sucker punched":{
"as in rabbit-punched":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rabbit-punched",
"bowled (down or over)",
"creamed",
"decked",
"dumped",
"felled",
"floored",
"knocked down",
"leveled",
"levelled",
"caned",
"clubbed",
"cudgeled",
"cudgelled",
"flailed",
"flogged",
"lashed",
"sapped",
"slashed",
"sledged",
"sledgehammered",
"speared",
"stabbed",
"switched",
"thrashed",
"whipped",
"bumped",
"butted",
"jabbed",
"jostled",
"kicked",
"kneed",
"poked",
"prodded",
"pushed",
"shoved",
"stamped",
"beaned",
"brained",
"conked",
"skulled",
"bunted",
"flicked",
"stroked",
"tapped",
"scuffed",
"battered",
"beat",
"buffeted",
"bunged",
"chopped",
"cuffed",
"drubbed",
"laced",
"lambasted",
"licked",
"mangled",
"mauled",
"pelted",
"peppered",
"pommeled",
"pommelled",
"pummeled",
"pummelled",
"roughed",
"banged",
"bashed",
"batted",
"belted",
"biffed",
"bludgeoned",
"bobbed",
"bonked",
"bopped",
"boxed",
"busted",
"bust",
"clapped",
"clapt",
"clipped",
"clobbered",
"clocked",
"clouted",
"cracked",
"hammered",
"hit",
"knocked",
"nailed",
"pasted",
"pounded",
"punched",
"rapped",
"slammed",
"slapped",
"slogged",
"slugged",
"smacked",
"smote",
"socked",
"struck",
"swatted",
"swiped",
"tagged",
"thumped",
"thwacked",
"walloped",
"whacked",
"whaled",
"zapped"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"succeed":{
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"the advertising campaign that finally succeeded used humor to sell the product"
],
"synonyms":[
"click",
"come off",
"deliver",
"go",
"go over",
"pan out",
"work out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catch on",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive",
"cook",
"percolate"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languish",
"flounder",
"struggle",
"decline",
"sink",
"skid",
"slip",
"slump",
"wane",
"crash",
"crater",
"crumble",
"flame out",
"choke",
"crack up",
"miscarry",
"misfire",
"fall down",
"go under",
"implode",
"self-destruct"
],
"antonyms":[
"bomb",
"collapse",
"fail",
"flop",
"flunk",
"fold",
"founder",
"miss",
"strike out",
"wash out"
]
},
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"if you want to succeed in show business, you have to feel comfortable in front of an audience"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrive",
"flourish",
"prosper",
"thrive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevail",
"triumph",
"win",
"excel"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flounder",
"struggle"
],
"antonyms":[
"fail"
]
},
"to come after in time":{
"examples":[
"only the results on election day will tell who will succeed the current president"
],
"synonyms":[
"follow",
"postdate",
"supervene"
],
"near synonyms":[
"displace",
"replace",
"supersede",
"supplant",
"ensue"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"antedate",
"precede",
"predate"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"suckling":{
"as in foundling , nursling":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"foundling",
"nursling",
"cherub",
"preemie",
"premie",
"babe",
"baby",
"bambino",
"child",
"infant",
"neonate",
"newborn",
"bantling",
"kid",
"kiddie",
"kiddy",
"kiddo",
"moppet",
"toddler",
"tot",
"tyke",
"tike",
"boy",
"nipper",
"tad",
"juvenile",
"minor",
"youngling",
"youngster",
"youth",
"imp",
"squirt",
"urchin",
"whippersnapper",
"girl",
"hoyden",
"tomboy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adult",
"grown-up",
"elder",
"graybeard",
"oldster",
"old-timer",
"senior",
"senior citizen"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to give milk to from the breast":{
"examples":[
"the image of a mother suckling her babe is a standard artistic symbol of maternal love and nurturing"
],
"synonyms":[
"breast-feeding",
"nursing",
"wet-nursing"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottle-feeding"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"succumbed (to)":{
"as in died (from)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"died (from)",
"broke out (with)",
"failed",
"languished",
"sank",
"sunk",
"wasted (away)",
"weakened",
"wilted",
"withered",
"worsened",
"came down (with)",
"caught",
"contracted",
"got",
"sickened (with)",
"took",
"went down (with)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"came back",
"gained",
"healed",
"mended",
"recouped",
"recovered",
"recuperated",
"snapped back",
"rallied",
"rebounded",
"recovered (from)",
"shook (off)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"success":{
"a person or thing that is successful":{
"examples":[
"their homemade jellies have been such a success that they are now distributed nationwide"
],
"synonyms":[
"blockbuster",
"hit",
"megahit",
"smash",
"supernova",
"winner"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blue chip",
"blue chipper",
"corker",
"crackerjack",
"crackajack",
"dandy",
"jim-dandy",
"pip",
"prizewinner",
"gem",
"jewel",
"treasure",
"marvel",
"natural",
"phenomenon",
"sensation",
"wonder",
"coup",
"triumph",
"victory"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disappointment",
"fizzle",
"lemon",
"loser"
],
"antonyms":[
"bomb",
"bummer",
"bust",
"catastrophe",
"clinker",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"dud",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"flop",
"misfire",
"turkey",
"washout"
]
},
"a successful result brought about by hard work":{
"examples":[
"a long list of successes that the retiring president of the college can point to with pride"
],
"synonyms":[
"accomplishment",
"achievement",
"acquirement",
"attainment",
"baby",
"coup",
"triumph"
],
"near synonyms":[
"blockbuster",
"hit",
"jackpot",
"megahit",
"miracle",
"smash",
"winner",
"conquest",
"gain",
"victory",
"win",
"skill",
"deed",
"feat",
"performance",
"arrival",
"completion",
"consummation",
"culmination",
"execution",
"fruition",
"fulfillment",
"fulfilment",
"implementation",
"realization"
],
"near antonyms":[
"botch",
"cock-up",
"mess",
"muddle",
"shambles",
"bummer",
"bust",
"catastrophe",
"debacle",
"d\u00e9b\u00e2cle",
"disaster",
"dud",
"failure",
"fiasco",
"fizzle",
"flop",
"washout",
"disappointment",
"letdown",
"loss",
"setback"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonachievement"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"suckers":{
"one who is easily deceived or cheated":{
"examples":[
"I was a sucker and believed them when they said the only tickets they could get were double the price"
],
"synonyms":[
"chumps",
"dupes",
"gulls",
"mugs",
"patsies",
"pigeons",
"pushovers",
"saps",
"soft touches",
"tools"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cat's-paws",
"marks",
"targets",
"victims",
"schlemiels",
"shlemiels",
"butts",
"derisions",
"laughingstocks",
"mockeries",
"mocks",
"boobies",
"dodoes",
"dodos",
"fools",
"geese",
"half-wits",
"jackasses",
"lunatics",
"monkeys",
"nincompoops",
"ninnies",
"nitwits",
"simpletons",
"simps",
"turkeys",
"yo-yos",
"losers",
"blockheads",
"dolts",
"dopes",
"dumbbells",
"dummies",
"dunces",
"idiots",
"imbeciles",
"morons",
"schlubs",
"shlubs",
"schlumps",
"schnooks"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheaters",
"cheats",
"confidence men",
"cozeners",
"defrauders",
"dodgers",
"hoaxers",
"sharks",
"sharpers",
"slickers",
"swindlers",
"tricksters"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person with a strong and habitual liking for something":{
"examples":[
"I'm a sucker for cheesy horror movies"
],
"synonyms":[
"addicts",
"aficionados",
"afficionados",
"buffs",
"bugs",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fanatics",
"fanciers",
"fans",
"fiends",
"fools",
"freaks",
"habitu\u00e9s",
"habitues",
"heads",
"hounds",
"junkies",
"lovers",
"maniacs",
"mavens",
"mavins",
"nuts"
],
"near synonyms":[
"groupies",
"admirers",
"amateurs",
"collectors",
"connoisseurs",
"dilettantes",
"dilettanti",
"authorities",
"experts",
"adherents",
"converts",
"cultists",
"disciples",
"followers",
"hangers-on",
"votaries",
"advocates",
"apostles",
"backers",
"champions",
"evangelists",
"exponents",
"friends",
"patrons",
"promoters",
"proponents",
"supporters",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"zealots",
"boosters",
"rooters",
"well-wishers",
"faddists"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonadmirers",
"belittlers",
"carpers",
"critics",
"detractors"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonfans"
]
},
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"a notorious imposter who at one time suckered a lot of people into believing that she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozles",
"beguiles",
"bluffs",
"buffaloes",
"burns",
"catches",
"cons",
"cozens",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"dupes",
"fakes out",
"fools",
"gaffs",
"gammons",
"gulls",
"has",
"has on",
"hoaxes",
"hoodwinks",
"hornswoggles",
"humbugs",
"juggles",
"misguides",
"misinforms",
"misleads",
"snookers",
"snows",
"spoofs",
"strings along",
"sucks in",
"takes in",
"tricks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kids",
"puts on",
"teases",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"euchres",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"rooks",
"shortchanges",
"skins",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stings",
"swindles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunks",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"shows up",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"tells",
"unveils",
"disabuses",
"disenchants",
"disillusions"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceives"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"suckered millions of desperate dieters with their grossly inflated claims of successful weight loss"
],
"synonyms":[
"beats",
"bilks",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"chouses",
"cons",
"cozens",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"does",
"does in",
"euchres",
"fiddles",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"gaffs",
"hoses",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"nobbles",
"plucks",
"reams",
"rips off",
"rooks",
"screws",
"shakes down",
"shortchanges",
"shorts",
"skins",
"skunks",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stiffs",
"stings",
"swindles",
"thimblerigs",
"victimizes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorts",
"wrenches",
"wrests",
"wrings",
"clips",
"gouges",
"nicks",
"overcharges",
"soaks",
"exploits",
"milks",
"deceives",
"dupes",
"fools",
"gulls",
"tricks",
"ropes (in)",
"betrays",
"bitches",
"double-crosses",
"bamboozles",
"fast-talks"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sucks (up to)":{
"as in kowtows , fawns":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fawns",
"kowtows",
"toadies",
"blandishes",
"cajoles",
"coaxes",
"sweet-talks",
"wheedles",
"idolizes",
"worships",
"adulates",
"belauds",
"blarneys",
"butters up",
"flatters",
"hero-worships",
"honeys",
"massages",
"overpraises",
"puffs",
"soft-soaps",
"strokes",
"eulogizes",
"extols",
"extolls",
"lauds",
"praises",
"applauds",
"commends",
"compliments",
"congratulates",
"felicitates",
"drools",
"gushes",
"slavers",
"slobbers",
"endears",
"ingratiates",
"courts",
"romances",
"woos"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad-mouths",
"belittles",
"decries",
"depreciates",
"disparages",
"puts down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"suckle":{
"to give milk to from the breast":{
"examples":[
"the image of a mother suckling her babe is a standard artistic symbol of maternal love and nurturing"
],
"synonyms":[
"breast-feed",
"nurse",
"wet-nurse"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bottle-feed"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"suck":{
"to be objectionable or unsatisfactory":{
"examples":[
"it's amazing that a song that sucks so bad can be so popular"
],
"synonyms":[
"bite",
"smell",
"stink"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"rock",
"rule"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sucked":{
"to be objectionable or unsatisfactory":{
"examples":[
"it's amazing that a song that sucks so bad can be so popular"
],
"synonyms":[
"bit",
"smelled",
"smelt",
"stank",
"stunk"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"rocked",
"ruled"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sucked (up)":{
"to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior":{
"examples":[
"a young lieutenant constantly sucking up to the commanding officer"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polished",
"bootlicked",
"fawned",
"fussed",
"kowtowed",
"toadied",
"truckled"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drooled",
"gushed",
"slavered",
"slobbered",
"endeared",
"ingratiated",
"courted",
"wooed",
"adulated",
"idolized",
"worshipped",
"worshiped",
"blandished",
"cajoled",
"coaxed",
"flattered",
"overpraised",
"soft-soaped",
"cowered",
"cringed",
"groveled",
"grovelled",
"abased",
"debased",
"demeaned",
"deferred",
"submitted",
"yielded"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despised",
"disdained",
"scorned",
"gibed",
"jibed",
"jeered",
"scoffed",
"braved",
"challenged",
"defied"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take in (something liquid) through small openings":{
"examples":[
"these lilacs sucked up all the water I added to the vase yesterday"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbed",
"drank",
"imbibed",
"soaked (up)",
"sponged",
"took up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gulped",
"guzzled",
"quaffed",
"sipped",
"slurped",
"swallowed",
"swigged",
"swilled"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"succeeding":{
"being the one that comes immediately after another":{
"examples":[
"the couple purchased some land, and in the course of the succeeding year built a house on it"
],
"synonyms":[
"coming",
"ensuing",
"following",
"next"
],
"near synonyms":[
"consecutive",
"sequential",
"successive",
"posterior",
"subsequent",
"immediate",
"second"
],
"near antonyms":[
"anterior",
"former",
"past",
"last"
],
"antonyms":[
"antecedent",
"foregoing",
"precedent",
"preceding",
"previous",
"prior"
]
},
"following one after another without others coming in between":{
"examples":[
"that land remained in the family for five succeeding generations"
],
"synonyms":[
"back-to-back",
"consecutive",
"sequent",
"sequential",
"straight",
"successional",
"successive"
],
"near synonyms":[
"serial",
"constant",
"continuous",
"uninterrupted",
"ensuing",
"following",
"later",
"next",
"posterior",
"subsequent"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"inconsecutive",
"inconsequent",
"nonconsecutive",
"nonsequential"
]
},
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"the advertising campaign that finally succeeded used humor to sell the product"
],
"synonyms":[
"clicking",
"coming off",
"delivering",
"going",
"going over",
"panning out",
"working out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catching on",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving",
"cooking",
"percolating"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languishing",
"floundering",
"struggling",
"declining",
"sinking",
"skidding",
"slipping",
"slumping",
"waning",
"crashing",
"cratering",
"crumbling",
"flaming out",
"choking",
"cracking up",
"miscarrying",
"misfiring",
"falling down",
"going under",
"imploding",
"self-destructing"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombing",
"collapsing",
"failing",
"flopping",
"flunking",
"folding",
"foundering",
"missing",
"striking out",
"washing out"
]
},
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"if you want to succeed in show business, you have to feel comfortable in front of an audience"
],
"synonyms":[
"arriving",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevailing",
"triumphing",
"winning",
"excelling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"floundering",
"struggling"
],
"antonyms":[
"failing"
]
},
"to come after in time":{
"examples":[
"only the results on election day will tell who will succeed the current president"
],
"synonyms":[
"following",
"postdating",
"supervening"
],
"near synonyms":[
"displacing",
"replacing",
"superseding",
"supplanting",
"ensuing"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"antedating",
"preceding",
"predating"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"verb"
]
},
"successfulness":{
"as in success , prosperity":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fortune",
"prosperity",
"prosperousness",
"success",
"good",
"interest",
"weal",
"welfare",
"well-being",
"fitness",
"health",
"healthiness",
"robustness",
"soundness",
"wellness",
"wholeness",
"wholesomeness",
"bliss",
"felicity",
"happiness",
"joy",
"advantage",
"benefit",
"gain",
"sake",
"content",
"contentedness",
"gratification",
"satisfaction"
],
"near antonyms":[
"ill-being",
"unhealthiness",
"unsoundness",
"misery",
"sadness",
"suffering",
"unhappiness",
"wretchedness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"suck-ups":{
"a person who flatters another in order to get ahead":{
"examples":[
"I'd like to give my boss a birthday present, but I don't want to look like a shameless suck-up"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polishers",
"bootlickers",
"brownnosers",
"fawners",
"flunkies",
"flunkeys",
"lickspittles",
"sycophants",
"toadies"
],
"near synonyms":[
"yes-men",
"apparatchiks",
"apparatchiki",
"company men",
"hangers-on",
"leeches",
"parasites",
"spongers",
"sponges",
"henchmen",
"lackeys",
"lapdogs",
"minions",
"running dogs",
"satellites",
"slaves",
"stooges",
"admirers",
"cultists",
"devotees",
"enthusiasts",
"fans",
"grovelers",
"idolaters",
"idolators",
"worshippers",
"worshipers",
"zealots",
"adherents",
"camp followers",
"converts",
"disciples",
"followers",
"me-tooers",
"partisans",
"partizans",
"pupils",
"votaries"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"succor":{
"something that you do or give for someone who is suffering or in a difficult situation":{
"examples":[
"We see it as our duty to give succor to those in need."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assuagement",
"palliation",
"relief",
"abetment",
"aid",
"assist",
"assistance",
"backing",
"boost",
"hand",
"help",
"helping hand",
"leg up",
"lift",
"support",
"advancement",
"encouragement",
"facilitation",
"forwarding",
"furtherance",
"furthering",
"nurturance",
"benefaction",
"patronage",
"promotion",
"sponsorship",
"advice",
"care",
"counsel",
"guidance",
"mentoring",
"attendance",
"attention",
"hand-holding",
"service",
"beneficence",
"charity",
"favor",
"kindness",
"philanthropy"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constraint",
"frustration",
"inhibition",
"interference",
"obstruction",
"repression",
"restraint",
"deterrence",
"discouragement",
"hindrance"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in attend , comfort":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attend",
"care (for)",
"comfort",
"minister (to)",
"champion",
"endorse",
"indorse",
"patronize",
"promote",
"sponsor",
"sustain",
"advance",
"ease",
"facilitate",
"forward",
"foster",
"further",
"launch",
"bolster",
"boost",
"buttress",
"reinforce",
"reenforce",
"abet",
"aid",
"assist",
"back",
"backstop",
"help",
"prop (up)",
"support",
"advise",
"counsel",
"guide",
"mentor",
"nurture",
"bail out",
"deliver",
"rescue",
"save",
"embolden",
"encourage",
"hearten",
"benefit",
"favor",
"oblige",
"profit",
"serve"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hinder",
"balk",
"bar",
"block",
"constrain",
"hamper",
"handicap",
"hold back",
"impede",
"inhibit",
"obstruct",
"restrain",
"strangle",
"baffle",
"foil",
"frustrate",
"inconvenience",
"interfere",
"oppose",
"sabotage",
"thwart",
"desert",
"disappoint",
"fail",
"let down",
"discourage",
"dishearten",
"repress",
"retard",
"stifle",
"straiten",
"stunt",
"damage",
"harm",
"hurt",
"injure"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"suck (up to)":{
"as in kowtow , fawn":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fawn",
"kowtow",
"toady",
"blandish",
"cajole",
"coax",
"sweet-talk",
"wheedle",
"idolize",
"worship",
"adulate",
"belaud",
"blarney",
"butter up",
"flatter",
"hero-worship",
"honey",
"massage",
"overpraise",
"puff",
"soft-soap",
"stroke",
"eulogize",
"extol",
"extoll",
"laud",
"praise",
"applaud",
"commend",
"compliment",
"congratulate",
"felicitate",
"drool",
"gush",
"slaver",
"slobber",
"endear",
"ingratiate",
"court",
"romance",
"woo"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad-mouth",
"belittle",
"decry",
"depreciate",
"disparage",
"put down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"succumb (to)":{
"as in die (from)":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"die (from)",
"break out (with)",
"fail",
"languish",
"sink",
"waste (away)",
"weaken",
"wilt",
"wither",
"worsen",
"catch",
"come down (with)",
"contract",
"get",
"go down (with)",
"sicken (with)",
"take"
],
"near antonyms":[
"come back",
"gain",
"heal",
"mend",
"recoup",
"recover",
"recuperate",
"snap back",
"rally",
"rebound",
"recover (from)",
"shake (off)"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sucks in":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"she was sucked in by a scam that was run by a shady outfit selling time-shares"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozles",
"beguiles",
"bluffs",
"buffaloes",
"burns",
"catches",
"cons",
"cozens",
"deceives",
"deludes",
"dupes",
"fakes out",
"fools",
"gaffs",
"gammons",
"gulls",
"has",
"has on",
"hoaxes",
"hoodwinks",
"hornswoggles",
"humbugs",
"juggles",
"misguides",
"misinforms",
"misleads",
"snookers",
"snows",
"spoofs",
"strings along",
"suckers",
"takes in",
"tricks"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kids",
"puts on",
"teases",
"bleeds",
"cheats",
"chisels",
"defrauds",
"diddles",
"euchres",
"fleeces",
"flimflams",
"hustles",
"mulcts",
"rooks",
"shortchanges",
"skins",
"squeezes",
"sticks",
"stings",
"swindles"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunks",
"exposes",
"reveals",
"shows up",
"uncloaks",
"uncovers",
"unmasks",
"discloses",
"divulges",
"tells",
"unveils",
"disabuses",
"disenchants",
"disillusions"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceives"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"succorer":{
"as in solace , comforter":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"comforter",
"solace",
"soother",
"peacemaker",
"reconciler",
"uniter"
],
"near antonyms":[
"accuser",
"blamer",
"troublemaker",
"baiter",
"harasser",
"heckler",
"mocker",
"needler",
"persecutor",
"quiz",
"quizzer",
"ridiculer",
"taunter",
"tease",
"teaser",
"tormentor",
"torturer",
"agitator",
"instigator"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"successions":{
"a series of things, people, events, or actions arranged or happening one after another":{
"examples":[
"He experienced a succession of car repairs that set him back thousands of dollars."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"catenae",
"catenas",
"catenations",
"chains",
"concatenations",
"consecutions",
"nexuses",
"nexus",
"progressions",
"sequences",
"series",
"strings",
"trains",
"files",
"lines",
"queues",
"ranges",
"rows",
"echelons",
"ranks",
"rows",
"tiers",
"chain reactions",
"belts",
"circles",
"cycles",
"vicious circles",
"vicious cycles",
"continua",
"continuums",
"gamuts",
"gauntlets",
"gantlets",
"scales",
"spectra",
"spectrums",
"flows",
"rivers",
"streams"
],
"near antonyms":[
"confusions",
"disorders",
"disorganizations",
"disruptions",
"upsets",
"disconnections"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"the order of people in a family":{
"examples":[
"The prince is third in the line of succession to the throne."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"heredities",
"ancestries",
"births",
"blood",
"bloodlines",
"breedings",
"descents",
"extractions",
"family trees",
"genealogies",
"lineages",
"lines",
"origins",
"parentages",
"pedigrees",
"stocks",
"strains",
"families",
"houses",
"kindreds",
"kins",
"relations",
"relatives",
"races"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"succinctness":{
"the quality or state of being marked by or using only few words to convey much meaning":{
"examples":[
"Caesar's observation, \"I came, I saw, I conquered,\" is famous for its succinctness"
],
"synonyms":[
"brevity",
"briefness",
"compactness",
"conciseness",
"concision",
"crispness",
"pithiness",
"sententiousness",
"terseness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"abruptness",
"bluntness",
"brusqueness",
"curtness",
"shortness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"periphrasis",
"pleonasm",
"redundancy",
"repetitiousness",
"repetitiveness",
"tautology"
],
"antonyms":[
"diffuseness",
"long-windedness",
"prolixity",
"verbosity",
"wordiness"
]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"suckered":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"a notorious imposter who at one time suckered a lot of people into believing that she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozled",
"beguiled",
"bluffed",
"buffaloed",
"burned",
"burnt",
"caught",
"conned",
"cozened",
"deceived",
"deluded",
"duped",
"faked out",
"fooled",
"gaffed",
"gammoned",
"gulled",
"had",
"had on",
"hoaxed",
"hoodwinked",
"hornswoggled",
"humbugged",
"juggled",
"misguided",
"misinformed",
"misled",
"snookered",
"snowed",
"spoofed",
"strung along",
"sucked in",
"took in",
"tricked"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kidded",
"put on",
"teased",
"bled",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"defrauded",
"diddled",
"euchred",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"rooked",
"shortchanged",
"skinned",
"squeezed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"swindled"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunked",
"exposed",
"revealed",
"showed up",
"uncloaked",
"uncovered",
"unmasked",
"disclosed",
"divulged",
"told",
"unveiled",
"disabused",
"disenchanted",
"disillusioned"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceived"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"suckered millions of desperate dieters with their grossly inflated claims of successful weight loss"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilked",
"bled",
"cheated",
"chiseled",
"chiselled",
"choused",
"conned",
"cozened",
"defrauded",
"did",
"diddled",
"did in",
"euchred",
"fiddled",
"fleeced",
"flimflammed",
"gaffed",
"hosed",
"hustled",
"mulcted",
"nobbled",
"plucked",
"reamed",
"ripped off",
"rooked",
"screwed",
"shook down",
"shortchanged",
"shorted",
"skinned",
"skunked",
"squeezed",
"stiffed",
"stuck",
"stung",
"swindled",
"thimblerigged",
"victimized"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extorted",
"wrenched",
"wrested",
"wrung",
"clipped",
"gouged",
"nicked",
"overcharged",
"soaked",
"exploited",
"milked",
"deceived",
"duped",
"fooled",
"gulled",
"tricked",
"roped (in)",
"betrayed",
"bitched",
"double-crossed",
"bamboozled",
"fast-talked"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"suctions":{
"as in pumps , draws":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"decants",
"draws",
"pumps",
"siphons",
"syphons",
"slops",
"dishes",
"bleeds",
"draws (off)",
"depletes",
"drains",
"eliminates",
"empties",
"exhausts",
"bails",
"buckets",
"dips",
"lades",
"ladles",
"scoops",
"spoons"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pours",
"fills"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"successor":{
"a person who has a job, position, or title after someone else; someone who succeeds another person":{
"examples":[
"The CEO's successor used to be the vice president here.",
"the successor to the throne"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"superseder",
"backup",
"cover",
"designated hitter",
"fill-in",
"locum tenens",
"pinch hitter",
"relief",
"replacement",
"reserve",
"stand-in",
"sub",
"substitute",
"alternate",
"understudy",
"apology",
"makeshift",
"stopgap",
"agent",
"assignee",
"attorney",
"commissary",
"delegate",
"deputy",
"envoy",
"factor",
"procurator",
"proxy",
"rep",
"representative",
"surrogate",
"assistant",
"reliever",
"second"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"succeeds":{
"to turn out as planned or desired":{
"examples":[
"the advertising campaign that finally succeeded used humor to sell the product"
],
"synonyms":[
"clicks",
"comes off",
"delivers",
"goes",
"goes over",
"pans out",
"works out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catches on",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives",
"cooks",
"percolates"
],
"near antonyms":[
"languishes",
"flounders",
"struggles",
"declines",
"sinks",
"skids",
"slips",
"slumps",
"wanes",
"crashes",
"craters",
"crumbles",
"flames out",
"chokes",
"cracks up",
"miscarries",
"misfires",
"falls down",
"goes under",
"implodes",
"self-destructs"
],
"antonyms":[
"bombs",
"collapses",
"fails",
"flops",
"flunks",
"folds",
"founders",
"misses",
"strikes out",
"washes out"
]
},
"to reach a desired level of accomplishment":{
"examples":[
"if you want to succeed in show business, you have to feel comfortable in front of an audience"
],
"synonyms":[
"arrives",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives"
],
"near synonyms":[
"prevails",
"triumphs",
"wins",
"excels"
],
"near antonyms":[
"flounders",
"struggles"
],
"antonyms":[
"fails"
]
},
"to come after in time":{
"examples":[
"only the results on election day will tell who will succeed the current president"
],
"synonyms":[
"follows",
"postdates",
"supervenes"
],
"near synonyms":[
"displaces",
"replaces",
"supersedes",
"supplants",
"ensues"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"antedates",
"precedes",
"predates"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"succubus":{
"as in nightmare , incubus":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"incubus",
"nightmare",
"hag",
"lamia",
"vampire",
"afreet",
"afrit",
"genie",
"jinni",
"jinn",
"djinni",
"djinn",
"cacodemon",
"demon",
"daemon",
"devil",
"fiend",
"ghost",
"ghoul",
"ghoulie",
"imp",
"shaitan",
"apparition",
"banshee",
"bogey",
"bogie",
"bogy",
"bugbear",
"familiar",
"familiar spirit",
"genius",
"phantasm",
"fantasm",
"phantom",
"poltergeist",
"shade",
"shadow",
"specter",
"spectre",
"spirit",
"spook",
"vision",
"wraith",
"brownie",
"dwarf",
"elf",
"faerie",
"faery",
"fairy",
"fay",
"gnome",
"goblin",
"gremlin",
"hobgoblin",
"kobold",
"leprechaun",
"pixie",
"pixy",
"puck",
"sprite",
"troll",
"monster",
"ogre"
],
"near antonyms":[
"angel"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"succumbs":{
"to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)":{
"examples":[
"he finally succumbed and let his wife get rid of his dilapidated easy chair"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinks",
"bows",
"budges",
"capitulates",
"concedes",
"gives in",
"knuckles under",
"quits",
"relents",
"submits",
"surrenders",
"yields"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiesces",
"defers"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contends",
"fights",
"holds off",
"battles",
"breasts",
"combats",
"confronts",
"counters",
"defies",
"faces",
"meets",
"objects",
"opposes",
"repels",
"thwarts",
"withstands"
],
"antonyms":[
"resists"
]
},
"to give up and cease resistance (as to a liking, temptation, or habit)":{
"examples":[
"refused to succumb to her fears and defiantly walked through the dark cemetery"
],
"synonyms":[
"bows",
"caves (in)",
"gives in",
"submits",
"surrenders",
"yields"
],
"near synonyms":[
"caters (to)",
"gratifies",
"indulges",
"wallows",
"acquiesces (to)",
"concedes (to)",
"buckles (under)",
"knuckles under",
"gives over (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"battles",
"breasts",
"combats",
"confronts",
"counters",
"defies",
"faces",
"fights",
"meets",
"objects",
"opposes",
"repels",
"thwarts",
"withstands",
"rejects",
"bridles",
"checks",
"constrains",
"curbs",
"inhibits",
"restrains",
"stifles"
],
"antonyms":[
"holds off",
"resists"
]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"the patient lay so still and pale that everyone thought he had succumbed , and then he opened his eyes"
],
"synonyms":[
"checks out",
"conks (out)",
"croaks",
"deceases",
"demises",
"departs",
"dies",
"drops",
"ends",
"exits",
"expires",
"falls",
"flatlines",
"goes",
"kicks in",
"kicks off",
"parts",
"passes away",
"passes (on)",
"pegs out",
"perishes",
"pops off",
"steps out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predeceases",
"consumes",
"disappears",
"dries up",
"fades",
"fails"
],
"near antonyms":[
"comes to",
"revives",
"lingers",
"exists",
"is",
"subsists",
"flourishes",
"prospers",
"thrives"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathes",
"lives"
]
},
"to yield to the control or power of enemy forces":{
"examples":[
"the doctor worked tirelessly until finally he, too, succumbed to the fever"
],
"synonyms":[
"capitulates",
"falls",
"gives up",
"knuckles under",
"submits",
"surrenders"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bows",
"buckles",
"caves (in)",
"collapses",
"gives (in)",
"hands over",
"relinquishes",
"loses",
"concedes",
"fails",
"folds"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bucks",
"defies",
"fights",
"opposes",
"repels",
"resists",
"withstands",
"beats",
"overcomes",
"wins",
"conquers",
"prevails",
"triumphs"
],
"antonyms":[
"endures",
"stands"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sucking":{
"to be objectionable or unsatisfactory":{
"examples":[
"it's amazing that a song that sucks so bad can be so popular"
],
"synonyms":[
"biting",
"smelling",
"stinking"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"rocking",
"ruling"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"suck in":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"she was sucked in by a scam that was run by a shady outfit selling time-shares"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozle",
"beguile",
"bluff",
"buffalo",
"burn",
"catch",
"con",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fake out",
"fool",
"gaff",
"gammon",
"gull",
"have",
"have on",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"hornswoggle",
"humbug",
"juggle",
"misguide",
"misinform",
"mislead",
"snooker",
"snow",
"spoof",
"string along",
"sucker",
"take in",
"trick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kid",
"put on",
"tease",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"euchre",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"rook",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"sting",
"swindle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunk",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show up",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"tell",
"unveil",
"disabuse",
"disenchant",
"disillusion"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceive"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sucks":{
"to be objectionable or unsatisfactory":{
"examples":[
"it's amazing that a song that sucks so bad can be so popular"
],
"synonyms":[
"bites",
"smells",
"stinks"
],
"near synonyms":[],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[
"rocks",
"rules"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sucklings":{
"as in foundlings , nurslings":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"foundlings",
"nurslings",
"cherubs",
"cherubim",
"preemies",
"premies",
"babes",
"babies",
"bambinos",
"bambini",
"children",
"infants",
"neonates",
"newborn",
"newborns",
"bantlings",
"kiddies",
"kiddos",
"kids",
"moppets",
"toddlers",
"tots",
"tykes",
"tikes",
"boys",
"nippers",
"tads",
"juveniles",
"minors",
"younglings",
"youngsters",
"youths",
"imps",
"squirts",
"urchins",
"whippersnappers",
"girls",
"hoydens",
"tomboys"
],
"near antonyms":[
"adults",
"grown-ups",
"elders",
"graybeards",
"oldsters",
"old-timers",
"senior citizens",
"seniors"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sucker punching":{
"as in rabbit-punching":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rabbit-punching",
"bowling (down or over)",
"creaming",
"decking",
"dumping",
"felling",
"flooring",
"knocking down",
"leveling",
"levelling",
"caning",
"clubbing",
"cudgeling",
"cudgelling",
"flailing",
"flogging",
"lashing",
"sapping",
"slashing",
"sledgehammering",
"sledging",
"spearing",
"stabbing",
"switching",
"thrashing",
"whipping",
"bumping",
"butting",
"jabbing",
"jostling",
"kicking",
"kneeing",
"poking",
"prodding",
"pushing",
"shoving",
"stamping",
"beaning",
"braining",
"conking",
"skulling",
"bunting",
"flicking",
"stroking",
"tapping",
"scuffing",
"battering",
"beating",
"buffeting",
"bunging",
"chopping",
"cuffing",
"drubbing",
"lacing",
"lambasting",
"licking",
"mangling",
"mauling",
"pelting",
"peppering",
"pommeling",
"pommelling",
"pummeling",
"pummelling",
"roughing",
"banging",
"bashing",
"batting",
"belting",
"biffing",
"bludgeoning",
"bobbing",
"bonking",
"bopping",
"boxing",
"busting",
"clapping",
"clipping",
"clobbering",
"clocking",
"clouting",
"cracking",
"hammering",
"hitting",
"knocking",
"nailing",
"pasting",
"pounding",
"punching",
"rapping",
"slamming",
"slapping",
"slogging",
"slugging",
"smacking",
"smiting",
"socking",
"striking",
"swatting",
"swiping",
"tagging",
"thumping",
"thwacking",
"walloping",
"whacking",
"whaling",
"zapping"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"sucker punches":{
"as in rights , rabbit punches":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"body blows",
"hands",
"kicks",
"knees",
"lefts",
"one-twos",
"rabbit punches",
"right-handers",
"rights",
"roundhouses",
"shivers",
"sidewinders",
"swings",
"uppercuts",
"counterblows",
"counter-blows",
"counterpunches",
"counters",
"counterstrokes",
"counter-strokes",
"crunchers",
"kayos",
"knockdowns",
"knockouts",
"KOs",
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"beats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"blows",
"bops",
"boxes",
"buffets",
"busts",
"chops",
"claps",
"clips",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"cuffs",
"dabs",
"douses",
"fillips",
"hacks",
"haymakers",
"hits",
"hooks",
"knocks",
"larrups",
"lashes",
"licks",
"pelts",
"picks",
"plumps",
"pokes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smashes",
"socks",
"spanks",
"stingers",
"stripes",
"strokes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"switches",
"thuds",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"welts",
"whacks",
"whams",
"whops",
"whaps",
"bastinadoes",
"bastinades",
"batterings",
"beatings",
"drubbings",
"lickings",
"pastings",
"thrashings",
"wallopings",
"whippings",
"whips"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in rabbit-punches":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"rabbit-punches",
"bowls (down or over)",
"creams",
"decks",
"dumps",
"fells",
"floors",
"knocks down",
"levels",
"canes",
"clubs",
"cudgels",
"flails",
"flogs",
"lashes",
"saps",
"slashes",
"sledgehammers",
"sledges",
"spears",
"stabs",
"switches",
"thrashes",
"whips",
"bumps",
"butts",
"jabs",
"jostles",
"kicks",
"knees",
"pokes",
"prods",
"pushes",
"shoves",
"stamps",
"beans",
"brains",
"conks",
"skulls",
"bunts",
"flicks",
"strokes",
"taps",
"scuffs",
"batters",
"beats",
"buffets",
"bungs",
"chops",
"cuffs",
"drubs",
"laces",
"lambastes",
"lambasts",
"licks",
"mangles",
"mauls",
"pelts",
"peppers",
"pommels",
"pummels",
"roughs",
"bangs",
"bashes",
"bats",
"belts",
"biffs",
"bludgeons",
"bobs",
"bonks",
"bops",
"boxes",
"busts",
"claps",
"clips",
"clobbers",
"clocks",
"clouts",
"cracks",
"hammers",
"hits",
"knocks",
"nails",
"pastes",
"pounds",
"punches",
"raps",
"slams",
"slaps",
"slogs",
"slugs",
"smacks",
"smites",
"socks",
"strikes",
"swats",
"swipes",
"tags",
"thumps",
"thwacks",
"wallops",
"whacks",
"whales",
"zaps"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"sucky":{
"extremely unsatisfactory":{
"examples":[
"I'm tired of driving around in a sucky car that is always breaking down"
],
"synonyms":[
"atrocious",
"awful",
"dismal",
"execrable",
"horrible",
"lousy",
"punk",
"rotten",
"terrible",
"wretched"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bad",
"deficient",
"inferior",
"off",
"poor",
"substandard",
"wanting",
"contemptible",
"miserable",
"shameful",
"defective",
"faulty",
"flawed",
"low-grade",
"mediocre",
"reprehensible",
"second-rate",
"bum",
"useless",
"valueless",
"worthless",
"inadequate",
"insufficient",
"lacking",
"abominable",
"damnable",
"fiendish",
"odious",
"vile"
],
"near antonyms":[
"choice",
"excellent",
"exceptional",
"first-class",
"first-rate",
"premium",
"prime",
"superior",
"adequate",
"sufficient",
"acceptable",
"satisfactory"
],
"antonyms":[
"bitchin'",
"great",
"marvelous",
"marvellous",
"wonderful"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"sucking in":{
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"she was sucked in by a scam that was run by a shady outfit selling time-shares"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozling",
"beguiling",
"bluffing",
"buffaloing",
"burning",
"catching",
"conning",
"cozening",
"deceiving",
"deluding",
"duping",
"faking out",
"fooling",
"gaffing",
"gammoning",
"gulling",
"having",
"having on",
"hoaxing",
"hoodwinking",
"hornswoggling",
"humbugging",
"juggling",
"misguiding",
"misinforming",
"misleading",
"snookering",
"snowing",
"spoofing",
"stringing along",
"suckering",
"taking in",
"tricking"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kidding",
"putting on",
"teasing",
"bleeding",
"cheating",
"chiseling",
"chiselling",
"defrauding",
"diddling",
"euchring",
"fleecing",
"flimflamming",
"hustling",
"mulcting",
"rooking",
"shortchanging",
"skinning",
"squeezing",
"sticking",
"stinging",
"swindling"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunking",
"exposing",
"revealing",
"showing up",
"uncloaking",
"uncovering",
"unmasking",
"disclosing",
"divulging",
"telling",
"unveiling",
"disabusing",
"disenchanting",
"disillusioning"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceiving"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"succulent":{
"full of juice":{
"examples":[
"vines weighted down with plump, succulent grapes"
],
"synonyms":[
"fleshy",
"juicy",
"pulpy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sappy",
"watery"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dehydrated",
"desiccated",
"dry",
"sere",
"sear",
"shriveled",
"shrivelled",
"withered"
],
"antonyms":[
"juiceless",
"sapless"
]
},
"very pleasing to the sense of taste":{
"examples":[
"a buffet table set with an array of succulent roasts"
],
"synonyms":[
"ambrosial",
"appetizing",
"dainty",
"delectable",
"delicious",
"delish",
"flavorful",
"flavorsome",
"luscious",
"lush",
"mouthwatering",
"palatable",
"savory",
"savoury",
"scrumptious",
"tasteful",
"tasty",
"toothsome",
"toothy",
"yummy"
],
"near synonyms":[
"digestible",
"eatable",
"edible",
"delightful",
"heavenly",
"pleasing",
"agreeable",
"gratifying",
"pleasant",
"satisfying",
"choice",
"delicate",
"exquisite",
"rare"
],
"near antonyms":[
"banal",
"boring",
"commonplace",
"tedious",
"noisome",
"smelly",
"stinky",
"noxious",
"unwholesome",
"miserable",
"wretched",
"abhorrent",
"abominable",
"awful",
"detestable",
"disagreeable",
"disgusting",
"foul",
"horrid",
"nauseating",
"offensive",
"repellent",
"repellant",
"repugnant",
"repulsive",
"sickening",
"unpleasant"
],
"antonyms":[
"distasteful",
"flat",
"flavorless",
"insipid",
"stale",
"tasteless",
"unappetizing",
"unpalatable",
"unsavory",
"yucky",
"yukky"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"sucking (up to)":{
"as in kowtowing , fawning":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"fawning",
"kowtowing",
"toadying",
"blandishing",
"cajoling",
"coaxing",
"sweet-talking",
"wheedling",
"idolizing",
"worshipping",
"worshiping",
"adulating",
"belauding",
"blarneying",
"buttering up",
"flattering",
"hero-worshipping",
"hero-worshiping",
"honeying",
"massaging",
"overpraising",
"puffing",
"soft-soaping",
"stroking",
"eulogizing",
"extolling",
"lauding",
"praising",
"applauding",
"commending",
"complimenting",
"congratulating",
"felicitating",
"drooling",
"gushing",
"slavering",
"slobbering",
"endearing",
"ingratiating",
"courting",
"romancing",
"wooing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bad-mouthing",
"belittling",
"decrying",
"depreciating",
"disparaging",
"putting down"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"succeeders":{
"as in representatives , heirs apparent":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"claimants",
"heirs apparent",
"representatives",
"successors",
"heirs",
"heirs at law",
"inheritors",
"legatees",
"coheiresses",
"co-heiresses",
"coheirs",
"co-heirs",
"heiresses",
"assignees",
"beneficiaries",
"devisees",
"grantees",
"descendants",
"descendents",
"scions"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"succored":{
"as in attended , comforted":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attended",
"cared (for)",
"comforted",
"ministered (to)",
"championed",
"endorsed",
"indorsed",
"patronized",
"promoted",
"sponsored",
"sustained",
"advanced",
"eased",
"facilitated",
"forwarded",
"fostered",
"furthered",
"launched",
"bolstered",
"boosted",
"buttressed",
"reinforced",
"reenforced",
"abetted",
"aided",
"assisted",
"backed",
"backstopped",
"helped",
"propped (up)",
"supported",
"advised",
"counseled",
"counselled",
"guided",
"mentored",
"nurtured",
"bailed out",
"delivered",
"rescued",
"saved",
"emboldened",
"encouraged",
"heartened",
"benefited",
"benefitted",
"favored",
"obliged",
"profited",
"served"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hindered",
"balked",
"barred",
"blocked",
"constrained",
"hampered",
"handicapped",
"held back",
"impeded",
"inhibited",
"obstructed",
"restrained",
"strangled",
"baffled",
"foiled",
"frustrated",
"inconvenienced",
"interfered",
"opposed",
"sabotaged",
"thwarted",
"deserted",
"disappointed",
"failed",
"let down",
"discouraged",
"disheartened",
"repressed",
"retarded",
"stifled",
"straitened",
"stunted",
"damaged",
"harmed",
"hurt",
"injured"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"succinctly":{
"in a few words":{
"examples":[
"found it difficult to explain succinctly to the technician the nature of the problems she was having with her computer"
],
"synonyms":[
"briefly",
"compactly",
"concisely",
"crisply",
"curtly",
"elliptically",
"laconically",
"pithily",
"shortly",
"summarily",
"tersely"
],
"near synonyms":[
"aphoristically",
"sententiously",
"exactly",
"precisely",
"abruptly",
"bluffly",
"bluntly",
"brusquely",
"monosyllabically"
],
"near antonyms":[
"redundantly",
"repetitiously"
],
"antonyms":[
"diffusely",
"long-windedly",
"verbosely",
"wordily"
]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"suck (up)":{
"to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior":{
"examples":[
"a young lieutenant constantly sucking up to the commanding officer"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polish",
"bootlick",
"fawn",
"fuss",
"kowtow",
"toady",
"truckle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drool",
"gush",
"slaver",
"slobber",
"endear",
"ingratiate",
"court",
"woo",
"adulate",
"idolize",
"worship",
"blandish",
"cajole",
"coax",
"flatter",
"overpraise",
"soft-soap",
"cower",
"cringe",
"grovel",
"abase",
"debase",
"demean",
"defer",
"submit",
"yield"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despise",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"jeer",
"scoff",
"brave",
"challenge",
"defy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take in (something liquid) through small openings":{
"examples":[
"these lilacs sucked up all the water I added to the vase yesterday"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorb",
"drink",
"imbibe",
"soak (up)",
"sponge",
"take up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gulp",
"guzzle",
"quaff",
"sip",
"slurp",
"swallow",
"swig",
"swill"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who flatters another in order to get ahead":{
"examples":[
"I'd like to give my boss a birthday present, but I don't want to look like a shameless suck-up"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polisher",
"bootlicker",
"brownnoser",
"fawner",
"flunky",
"flunkey",
"flunkie",
"lickspittle",
"sycophant",
"toady"
],
"near synonyms":[
"yes-man",
"apparatchik",
"company man",
"hanger-on",
"leech",
"parasite",
"sponge",
"sponger",
"henchman",
"lackey",
"lapdog",
"minion",
"running dog",
"satellite",
"slave",
"stooge",
"admirer",
"cultist",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"groveler",
"idolater",
"idolator",
"worshipper",
"worshiper",
"zealot",
"adherent",
"camp follower",
"convert",
"disciple",
"follower",
"me-tooer",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"pupil",
"votary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"suck-up":{
"to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior":{
"examples":[
"a young lieutenant constantly sucking up to the commanding officer"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polish",
"bootlick",
"fawn",
"fuss",
"kowtow",
"toady",
"truckle"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drool",
"gush",
"slaver",
"slobber",
"endear",
"ingratiate",
"court",
"woo",
"adulate",
"idolize",
"worship",
"blandish",
"cajole",
"coax",
"flatter",
"overpraise",
"soft-soap",
"cower",
"cringe",
"grovel",
"abase",
"debase",
"demean",
"defer",
"submit",
"yield"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despise",
"disdain",
"scorn",
"gibe",
"jibe",
"jeer",
"scoff",
"brave",
"challenge",
"defy"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take in (something liquid) through small openings":{
"examples":[
"these lilacs sucked up all the water I added to the vase yesterday"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorb",
"drink",
"imbibe",
"soak (up)",
"sponge",
"take up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gulp",
"guzzle",
"quaff",
"sip",
"slurp",
"swallow",
"swig",
"swill"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person who flatters another in order to get ahead":{
"examples":[
"I'd like to give my boss a birthday present, but I don't want to look like a shameless suck-up"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polisher",
"bootlicker",
"brownnoser",
"fawner",
"flunky",
"flunkey",
"flunkie",
"lickspittle",
"sycophant",
"toady"
],
"near synonyms":[
"yes-man",
"apparatchik",
"company man",
"hanger-on",
"leech",
"parasite",
"sponge",
"sponger",
"henchman",
"lackey",
"lapdog",
"minion",
"running dog",
"satellite",
"slave",
"stooge",
"admirer",
"cultist",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"groveler",
"idolater",
"idolator",
"worshipper",
"worshiper",
"zealot",
"adherent",
"camp follower",
"convert",
"disciple",
"follower",
"me-tooer",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"pupil",
"votary"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"succulence":{
"the quality or state of being full of juice":{
"examples":[
"the succulence of the apple was such that the first bite sent juice running down my chin"
],
"synonyms":[
"fleshiness",
"juiciness",
"pulpiness"
],
"near synonyms":[
"sap",
"sappiness"
],
"near antonyms":[
"dryness",
"waterlessness"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"sucks (up)":{
"to use flattery or the doing of favors in order to win approval especially from a superior":{
"examples":[
"a young lieutenant constantly sucking up to the commanding officer"
],
"synonyms":[
"apple-polishes",
"bootlicks",
"fawns",
"fusses",
"kowtows",
"toadies",
"truckles"
],
"near synonyms":[
"drools",
"gushes",
"slavers",
"slobbers",
"endears",
"ingratiates",
"courts",
"woos",
"adulates",
"idolizes",
"worships",
"blandishes",
"cajoles",
"coaxes",
"flatters",
"overpraises",
"soft-soaps",
"cowers",
"cringes",
"grovels",
"abases",
"debases",
"demeans",
"defers",
"submits",
"yields"
],
"near antonyms":[
"despises",
"disdains",
"scorns",
"gibes",
"jibes",
"jeers",
"scoffs",
"braves",
"challenges",
"defies"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"to take in (something liquid) through small openings":{
"examples":[
"these lilacs sucked up all the water I added to the vase yesterday"
],
"synonyms":[
"absorbs",
"drinks",
"imbibes",
"soaks (up)",
"sponges",
"takes up"
],
"near synonyms":[
"gulps",
"guzzles",
"quaffs",
"sips",
"slurps",
"swallows",
"swigs",
"swills"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"suctioning":{
"as in pumping , drawing":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"decanting",
"drawing",
"pumping",
"siphoning",
"syphoning",
"slopping",
"dishing",
"bleeding",
"drawing (off)",
"depleting",
"draining",
"eliminating",
"emptying",
"exhausting",
"bailing",
"bucketing",
"dipping",
"lading",
"ladling",
"scooping",
"spooning"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pouring",
"filling"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"suction":{
"as in pump , draw":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"decant",
"draw",
"pump",
"siphon",
"syphon",
"slop",
"dish",
"bleed",
"draw (off)",
"deplete",
"drain",
"eliminate",
"empty",
"exhaust",
"bail",
"bucket",
"dip",
"lade",
"ladle",
"scoop",
"spoon"
],
"near antonyms":[
"pour",
"fill"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"successionally":{
"in succession without others coming in between":{
"examples":[
"the bumptious reporter asked three questions successionally before anyone else could get a word in"
],
"synonyms":[
"back-to-back",
"consecutively",
"hand running",
"running",
"sequentially",
"seriatim",
"successively",
"together"
],
"near synonyms":[
"serially",
"constantly",
"continually",
"continuingly",
"continuously",
"night and day",
"repeatedly",
"unceasingly",
"uninterruptedly",
"subsequently"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discontinuously",
"intermittently",
"interruptedly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"sucker":{
"one who is easily deceived or cheated":{
"examples":[
"I was a sucker and believed them when they said the only tickets they could get were double the price"
],
"synonyms":[
"chump",
"dupe",
"gull",
"mug",
"patsy",
"pigeon",
"pushover",
"sap",
"soft touch",
"tool"
],
"near synonyms":[
"cat's-paw",
"mark",
"target",
"victim",
"schlemiel",
"shlemiel",
"butt",
"derision",
"laughingstock",
"mock",
"mockery",
"booby",
"dodo",
"fool",
"goose",
"half-wit",
"jackass",
"lunatic",
"monkey",
"nincompoop",
"ninny",
"nitwit",
"simp",
"simpleton",
"turkey",
"yo-yo",
"loser",
"blockhead",
"dolt",
"dope",
"dumbbell",
"dummy",
"dunce",
"idiot",
"imbecile",
"moron",
"schlub",
"shlub",
"schlump",
"schnook"
],
"near antonyms":[
"cheat",
"cheater",
"confidence man",
"cozener",
"defrauder",
"dodger",
"hoaxer",
"shark",
"sharper",
"slicker",
"swindler",
"trickster"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"a person with a strong and habitual liking for something":{
"examples":[
"I'm a sucker for cheesy horror movies"
],
"synonyms":[
"addict",
"aficionado",
"afficionado",
"buff",
"bug",
"devotee",
"enthusiast",
"fan",
"fanatic",
"fancier",
"fiend",
"fool",
"freak",
"habitu\u00e9",
"habitue",
"head",
"hound",
"junkie",
"junky",
"lover",
"maniac",
"maven",
"mavin",
"nut"
],
"near synonyms":[
"groupie",
"admirer",
"amateur",
"collector",
"connoisseur",
"dilettante",
"authority",
"expert",
"adherent",
"convert",
"cultist",
"disciple",
"follower",
"hanger-on",
"votary",
"advocate",
"apostle",
"backer",
"champion",
"evangelist",
"exponent",
"friend",
"patron",
"promoter",
"proponent",
"supporter",
"partisan",
"partizan",
"zealot",
"booster",
"rooter",
"well-wisher",
"faddist"
],
"near antonyms":[
"nonadmirer",
"belittler",
"carper",
"critic",
"detractor"
],
"antonyms":[
"nonfan"
]
},
"to cause to believe what is untrue":{
"examples":[
"a notorious imposter who at one time suckered a lot of people into believing that she was the Grand Duchess Anastasia"
],
"synonyms":[
"bamboozle",
"beguile",
"bluff",
"buffalo",
"burn",
"catch",
"con",
"cozen",
"deceive",
"delude",
"dupe",
"fake out",
"fool",
"gaff",
"gammon",
"gull",
"have",
"have on",
"hoax",
"hoodwink",
"hornswoggle",
"humbug",
"juggle",
"misguide",
"misinform",
"mislead",
"snooker",
"snow",
"spoof",
"string along",
"suck in",
"take in",
"trick"
],
"near synonyms":[
"kid",
"put on",
"tease",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"euchre",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"rook",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"sting",
"swindle"
],
"near antonyms":[
"debunk",
"expose",
"reveal",
"show up",
"uncloak",
"uncover",
"unmask",
"disclose",
"divulge",
"tell",
"unveil",
"disabuse",
"disenchant",
"disillusion"
],
"antonyms":[
"undeceive"
]
},
"to rob by the use of trickery or threats":{
"examples":[
"suckered millions of desperate dieters with their grossly inflated claims of successful weight loss"
],
"synonyms":[
"beat",
"bilk",
"bleed",
"cheat",
"chisel",
"chouse",
"con",
"cozen",
"defraud",
"diddle",
"do",
"do in",
"euchre",
"fiddle",
"fleece",
"flimflam",
"gaff",
"hose",
"hustle",
"mulct",
"nobble",
"pluck",
"ream",
"rip off",
"rook",
"screw",
"shake down",
"short",
"shortchange",
"skin",
"skunk",
"squeeze",
"stick",
"stiff",
"sting",
"swindle",
"thimblerig",
"victimize"
],
"near synonyms":[
"extort",
"wrench",
"wrest",
"wring",
"clip",
"gouge",
"nick",
"overcharge",
"soak",
"exploit",
"milk",
"deceive",
"dupe",
"fool",
"gull",
"trick",
"rope (in)",
"betray",
"bitch",
"double-cross",
"bamboozle",
"fast-talk"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"succumbing":{
"to cease resistance (as to another's arguments, demands, or control)":{
"examples":[
"he finally succumbed and let his wife get rid of his dilapidated easy chair"
],
"synonyms":[
"blinking",
"bowing",
"budging",
"capitulating",
"conceding",
"giving in",
"knuckling under",
"quitting",
"relenting",
"submitting",
"surrendering",
"yielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"acquiescing",
"deferring"
],
"near antonyms":[
"contending",
"fighting",
"holding off",
"battling",
"breasting",
"combating",
"combatting",
"confronting",
"countering",
"defying",
"facing",
"meeting",
"objecting",
"opposing",
"repelling",
"thwarting",
"withstanding"
],
"antonyms":[
"resisting"
]
},
"to give up and cease resistance (as to a liking, temptation, or habit)":{
"examples":[
"refused to succumb to her fears and defiantly walked through the dark cemetery"
],
"synonyms":[
"bowing",
"caving (in)",
"giving in",
"submitting",
"surrendering",
"yielding"
],
"near synonyms":[
"catering (to)",
"gratifying",
"indulging",
"wallowing",
"acquiescing (to)",
"conceding (to)",
"buckling (under)",
"knuckling under",
"giving over (to)"
],
"near antonyms":[
"battling",
"breasting",
"combating",
"combatting",
"confronting",
"countering",
"defying",
"facing",
"fighting",
"meeting",
"objecting",
"opposing",
"repelling",
"thwarting",
"withstanding",
"rejecting",
"bridling",
"checking",
"constraining",
"curbing",
"inhibiting",
"restraining",
"stifling"
],
"antonyms":[
"holding off",
"resisting"
]
},
"to stop living":{
"examples":[
"the patient lay so still and pale that everyone thought he had succumbed , and then he opened his eyes"
],
"synonyms":[
"checking out",
"conking (out)",
"croaking",
"deceasing",
"demising",
"departing",
"dropping",
"dying",
"ending",
"exiting",
"expiring",
"falling",
"flatlining",
"going",
"kicking in",
"kicking off",
"parting",
"passing away",
"passing (on)",
"pegging out",
"perishing",
"popping off",
"stepping out"
],
"near synonyms":[
"predeceasing",
"consuming",
"disappearing",
"drying up",
"fading",
"failing"
],
"near antonyms":[
"coming to",
"reviving",
"lingering",
"being",
"existing",
"subsisting",
"flourishing",
"prospering",
"thriving"
],
"antonyms":[
"breathing",
"living"
]
},
"to yield to the control or power of enemy forces":{
"examples":[
"the doctor worked tirelessly until finally he, too, succumbed to the fever"
],
"synonyms":[
"capitulating",
"falling",
"giving up",
"knuckling under",
"submitting",
"surrendering"
],
"near synonyms":[
"bowing",
"buckling",
"caving (in)",
"collapsing",
"giving (in)",
"handing over",
"relinquishing",
"losing",
"conceding",
"failing",
"folding"
],
"near antonyms":[
"bucking",
"defying",
"fighting",
"opposing",
"repelling",
"resisting",
"withstanding",
"beating",
"overcoming",
"winning",
"conquering",
"prevailing",
"triumphing"
],
"antonyms":[
"enduring",
"standing"
]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
},
"succors":{
"something that you do or give for someone who is suffering or in a difficult situation":{
"examples":[
"We see it as our duty to give succor to those in need."
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"assuagements",
"palliations",
"reliefs",
"abetments",
"aids",
"assistances",
"assists",
"backings",
"boosts",
"hands",
"help",
"helping hands",
"legs up",
"lifts",
"supports",
"advancements",
"encouragements",
"facilitations",
"furtherances",
"nurturances",
"benefactions",
"patronages",
"promotions",
"sponsorships",
"advice",
"care",
"counsels",
"guidance",
"attendances",
"attentions",
"hand-holdings",
"services",
"beneficences",
"charities",
"favors",
"philanthropies"
],
"near antonyms":[
"constraints",
"frustrations",
"inhibitions",
"interferences",
"obstructions",
"repressions",
"restraints",
"deterrences",
"discouragements",
"hindrances"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"as in attends , comforts":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"attends",
"cares (for)",
"comforts",
"ministers (to)",
"champions",
"endorses",
"indorses",
"patronizes",
"promotes",
"sponsors",
"sustains",
"advances",
"eases",
"facilitates",
"forwards",
"fosters",
"furthers",
"launches",
"bolsters",
"boosts",
"buttresses",
"reinforces",
"reenforces",
"abets",
"aids",
"assists",
"backs",
"backstops",
"helps",
"props (up)",
"supports",
"advises",
"counsels",
"guides",
"mentors",
"nurtures",
"bails out",
"delivers",
"rescues",
"saves",
"emboldens",
"encourages",
"heartens",
"benefits",
"favors",
"obliges",
"profits",
"serves"
],
"near antonyms":[
"hinders",
"balks",
"bars",
"blocks",
"constrains",
"hampers",
"handicaps",
"holds back",
"impedes",
"inhibits",
"obstructs",
"restrains",
"strangles",
"baffles",
"foils",
"frustrates",
"inconveniences",
"interferes",
"opposes",
"sabotages",
"thwarts",
"deserts",
"disappoints",
"fails",
"lets down",
"discourages",
"disheartens",
"represses",
"retards",
"stifles",
"straitens",
"stunts",
"damages",
"harms",
"hurts",
"injures"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun",
"verb"
]
},
"successively":{
"in succession without others coming in between":{
"examples":[
"as he moved up the corporate ladder, he ensconced his family in successively larger homes"
],
"synonyms":[
"back-to-back",
"consecutively",
"hand running",
"running",
"sequentially",
"seriatim",
"successionally",
"together"
],
"near synonyms":[
"serially",
"constantly",
"continually",
"continuingly",
"continuously",
"night and day",
"repeatedly",
"unceasingly",
"uninterruptedly",
"subsequently"
],
"near antonyms":[
"discontinuously",
"intermittently",
"interruptedly"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"adverb"
]
},
"such":{
"having qualities in common":{
"examples":[
"all such questions should be saved until the end of the class"
],
"synonyms":[
"akin",
"alike",
"analogous",
"cognate",
"comparable",
"connate",
"correspondent",
"corresponding",
"ditto",
"like",
"matching",
"parallel",
"resemblant",
"resembling",
"similar",
"suchlike"
],
"near synonyms":[
"commensurate",
"proportionate",
"tantamount",
"virtual",
"allied",
"congeneric",
"congenerous",
"congenial",
"connatural",
"kin",
"kindred",
"relatable",
"related",
"approaching",
"approximating",
"close",
"coextensive",
"coincident",
"conformable",
"conforming",
"consistent",
"consonant",
"duplicate",
"equal",
"equivalent",
"fungible",
"identical",
"indistinguishable",
"interchangeable",
"me-too",
"redundant",
"same",
"selfsame",
"substitutable",
"synonymous",
"twin",
"entire",
"homogeneous",
"homogenous",
"unchanging",
"uniform",
"unvaried",
"unvarying"
],
"near antonyms":[
"disparate",
"distinct",
"distinguishable",
"nonequivalent",
"noninterchangeable",
"variable",
"varied",
"various",
"varying",
"imprecise",
"inaccurate",
"inexact",
"unconnected",
"unrelated"
],
"antonyms":[
"different",
"dissimilar",
"diverse",
"unakin",
"unlike"
]
},
"to a great degree":{
"examples":[
"she wears such stylish clothes"
],
"synonyms":[
"achingly",
"almighty",
"archly",
"awful",
"awfully",
"badly",
"beastly",
"blisteringly",
"bone",
"colossally",
"corking",
"cracking",
"damn",
"damned",
"dang",
"deadly",
"desperately",
"eminently",
"enormously",
"especially",
"ever",
"exceedingly",
"exceeding",
"extra",
"extremely",
"fabulously",
"fantastically",
"far",
"fiercely",
"filthy",
"frightfully",
"full",
"greatly",
"heavily",
"highly",
"hugely",
"immensely",
"incredibly",
"intensely",
"jolly",
"majorly",
"mightily",
"mighty",
"monstrous",
"mortally",
"most",
"much",
"particularly",
"passing",
"rattling",
"real",
"really",
"right",
"roaring",
"roaringly",
"seriously",
"severely",
"so",
"sore",
"sorely",
"spanking",
"specially",
"stinking",
"super",
"supremely",
"surpassingly",
"terribly",
"that",
"thumping",
"too",
"unco",
"uncommonly",
"vastly",
"very",
"vitally",
"way",
"whacking",
"wicked",
"wildly"
],
"near synonyms":[
"absolutely",
"altogether",
"completely",
"downright",
"entirely",
"flat-out",
"fully",
"positively",
"purely",
"radically",
"thoroughly",
"totally",
"utterly",
"wholly",
"deeply",
"profoundly",
"exceptionally",
"notably",
"remarkably",
"considerably",
"extensively",
"significantly",
"substantially",
"appreciably",
"discernibly",
"markedly",
"noticeably",
"obviously",
"palpably",
"plainly",
"visibly",
"abundantly",
"plentifully",
"astronomically",
"grandly",
"monstrously",
"monumentally",
"excessively",
"obscenely",
"overmuch",
"amazingly",
"astonishingly",
"staggeringly"
],
"near antonyms":[
"meagerly",
"scantily",
"barely",
"hardly",
"just",
"marginally",
"minimally",
"scarcely"
],
"antonyms":[
"little",
"negligibly",
"nominally",
"slightly",
"somewhat"
]
},
"type":[
"adjective",
"adverb"
]
},
"successors":{
"a person who has a job, position, or title after someone else; someone who succeeds another person":{
"examples":[
"The CEO's successor used to be the vice president here.",
"the successor to the throne"
],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"superseders",
"backups",
"covers",
"designated hitters",
"fill-ins",
"locum tenentes",
"pinch hitters",
"reliefs",
"replacements",
"reserves",
"stand-ins",
"subs",
"substitutes",
"alternates",
"understudies",
"apologies",
"makeshifts",
"stopgaps",
"agents",
"assignees",
"attorneys",
"commissaries",
"delegates",
"deputies",
"envoys",
"factors",
"procurators",
"proxies",
"representatives",
"reps",
"surrogates",
"assistants",
"relievers",
"seconds"
],
"near antonyms":[],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"suctioned":{
"as in pumped , drew":{
"examples":[],
"synonyms":[],
"near synonyms":[
"decanted",
"drew",
"pumped",
"siphoned",
"syphoned",
"slopped",
"dished",
"bled",
"drew (off)",
"depleted",
"drained",
"eliminated",
"emptied",
"exhausted",
"bailed",
"bucketed",
"dipped",
"laded",
"ladled",
"scooped",
"spooned"
],
"near antonyms":[
"poured",
"filled"
],
"antonyms":[]
},
"type":[
"verb"
]
}
}