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Mincing
[min-sing] 
| Main Entry: |
mince
[mins]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | chop up |
| Synonyms: | chip, crumble, cut, dice, divide, grind, hack, hash, whack |
| Main Entry: | mince |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | euphemize, hold back in communication |
| Synonyms: | alleviate, decrease, diminish, extenuate, lessen, minimize, moderate, palliate, soften, spare, tone down, weaken |
| Antonyms: | reveal, tell all |
| Main Entry: | mincing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | affected, pretentious |
| Synonyms: | artificial, dainty, delicate, effeminate, fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy, genteel, insincere, la-di-da, nice, particular, persnickety, precious, sissy, squeamish, stilted, too-too, unnatural |
| Antonyms: | extroverted, unaffected, unpretentious |
| Main Entry: | chop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut up with tool |
| Synonyms: | axe, cleave, clip, cube, dice, divide, fell, fragment, hack, hackle, hash, hew, lop, mangle, mince, sever, shear, slash, truncate, whack |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sever, chop with sharp instrument; incise |
| Synonyms: | amputate, behead, bisect, bite, carve, chine, chip, chisel, cleave, clip, crop, curtail, decussate, dice, dispatch, dissect, dissever, divide, facet, fell, flitch, gash, guillotine, hack, hash, hew, intersect, lacerate, lay open, level, lop, massacre, mince, mow, mow down, nick, notch, part, penetrate, perforate, pierce, prune, puncture, quarter, rabbet, raze, reap, rend, rip, rive, saber, saw, scarify, scissor, score, scythe, separate, shave, shear, sickle, skive, slash, slaughter, slay, slice, slit, sliver, snip |
| Main Entry: | dainty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | finicky, particular |
| Synonyms: | acute, choosy, delicate, fastidious, finical, finicking, fussy, mincing, nice, perceptive, persnickety*, refined, scrupulous, tasteful |
| Antonyms: | accepting, easy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | flounce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bounce; intermittently move |
| Synonyms: | fling, jerk, mince, nancy, prance, sashay, spring, stamp, storm, strut, swish, throw, toss |
| Main Entry: | grate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | shred, grind down |
| Synonyms: | abrade, bark, bray, file, fray, gall, mince, pound, pulverize, rasp, raze, rub, scrape, scratch, scuff, skin, triturate |
| Main Entry: | prance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cavort; show off |
| Synonyms: | bound, caper, dance, flounce, foot it, frisk, gambol, hoof it, jump, leap, mince, parade, romp, sashay, skip, spring, stalk, step, strut, swagger, sweep, tread |
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