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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wash off, out |
| Synonyms: | bathe, clean, cleanse, dip, flush, soak, splash, wash, water, wet |
| Main Entry: | scour |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | clean, polish thoroughly |
| Synonyms: | abrade, brush, buff, burnish, cleanse, flush, furbish, mop, pumice, purge, rub, sand, scrub, wash, whiten |
| Antonyms: | dirty, rust |
| Main Entry: | scrub |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | clean with force |
| Synonyms: | abrade, brush, buff, cleanse, mop, polish, rub, scour, wash |
| Antonyms: | dirty |
| Main Entry: | soak |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drench, wet |
| Synonyms: | absorb, assimilate, bathe, damp, dip, drink, drown, dunk, flood, imbrue, immerge, immerse, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, macerate, marinate, merge, moisten, penetrate, percolate, permeate, pour into, pour on, saturate, seethe, soften, sop, souse, steep, submerge, take in, wash, water, waterlog |
| Antonyms: | dehydrate, dry |
| Main Entry: | spruce up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make neat, well-groomed |
| Synonyms: | brush, deck out, dress up, fix up, groom, prim, primp, sleek, slick, smarten, tidy, titivate, wash |
| Antonyms: | dirty, mess up |
| Main Entry: | standoff |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | draw, tie |
| Synonyms: | Mexican standoff, dead heat, deadlock, drawn battle, even game, impasse, level, stalemate, toss-up, wash |
| Notes: | stalemate does not end - it is the outcome (stale in stalemate is from Anglo-Norman meaning 'be placed'); a standoff or deadlock can end |
| Main Entry: | swamp |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overwhelm, flood |
| Synonyms: | beset, besiege, crowd, drench, drown, engulf, inundate, overcrowd, overflow, overload, satiate, saturate, sink, snow*, submerge, submerse, surfeit, swallow up, upset, wash, waterlog, whelm |
| Antonyms: | pass up, underwhelm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tinge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | color |
| Synonyms: | cast, colorant, coloration, coloring, dye, dyestuff, hue, nib, pigment, shade, stain, tincture, tint, tone, wash |
| Antonyms: | white |
| Main Entry: | tint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shade of color |
| Synonyms: | cast, chroma, color, coloration, complexion, dash, dye, flush, glow, hint, hue, luminosity, pigmentation, rinse, stain, suggestion, taint, tinct, tincture, tinge, tone, touch, trace, wash |
| Notes: | color refers to the wavelength composition of light, shade is a gradation of color referring to its degree of darkness, tint is a gradation referring to its degree of lightness, and hue indicates a modification of a basic color hue is the quality of a color that makes it possible to call it bluish green, etc. (the color of a color); shade is a color variation having to do with the value of a hue (lightness or darkness), and tint is a pale variation of a color |
| Antonyms: | white |
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