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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall |
| Synonyms: | bite the dust, bump, collapse, collide, crash-land, ditch, dive, drive into, drop, fall flat, fall headlong, fall prostrate, give way, go in, hurtle, lurch, meet, overbalance, overturn, pancake, pitch, plough into, plunge, prang, slip, smash, splash down, sprawl, topple, tumble, upset, washout |
| Main Entry: | immigrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enter a foreign area intending to live there |
| Synonyms: | arrive, colonize, come in, go in, migrate, settle |
| Notes: | to emigrate or immigrate is to enter a new country to take up residency; the only real difference between these words is you emigrate from your country to another country and you immigrate into (or to) another country |
| Antonyms: | emigrate, stay |
| Main Entry: | invade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attack and encroach |
| Synonyms: | access, assail, assault, breach, burglarize, burst in, crash, descend upon, entrench, fall on, foray, go in, infect, infest, infringe, inroad, interfere, loot, make inroads, maraud, meddle, muscle in, occupy, overrun, overspread, overswarm, penetrate, permeate, pervade, pillage, plunder, raid, ravage, storm, swarm over, trespass, violate |
| Antonyms: | leave alone, surrender, yield |
| Main Entry: | volunteer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | offer to do something |
| Synonyms: | advance, bring forward, chip in, come forward, do on one's own volition, enlist, go in, let oneself in for, offer services, present, proffer, propose, put at one's disposal, put forward, sign up, speak up, stand up, step forward, submit oneself, suggest, take bull by the horns, take initiative, take the plunge, take upon oneself, tender |
| Antonyms: | compel, force, obligate |
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