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| Main Entry: |
blank
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | empty space |
| Synonyms: | abyss, cavity, chasm, emptiness, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, hollowness, interstice, interval, lacuna, nihility, nothingness, nullity, omission, opening, preterition, pretermission, skip, tabula rasa, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, void, womb |
| Main Entry: | best |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defeat; gain advantage |
| Synonyms: | KO, beat, beat up, better, blank*, blast*, bulldoze, clobber, conquer, cream*, deck, drub, exceed, excel, flax, floor*, get the better of, knock off, lambaste, let have it, lick*, master, outclass, outdo, outshine, outstrip, overcome, prevail, put away, shoot down, shut down, surpass, take care of, take down, tan*, thrash*, top, total, transcend, trash*, triumph, triumph over, trounce, wallop, waste*, wax, whip*, whomp, whop, wipe out, wipe the floor with, wipe, zap |
| Antonyms: | give up, lose, relent, surrender |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chasm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap, abyss |
| Synonyms: | abysm, alienation, arroyo, blank, breach, cavity, cleavage, cleft, clough, clove, crater, crevasse, fissure, flume, gorge, gulch, gulf, hiatus, hole, hollow, omission, opening, oversight, preterition, ravine, rent, rift, schism, skip, split, void, yawn |
| Antonyms: | closure, junction, juncture |
| Main Entry: | cipher |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | zero; nothingness |
| Synonyms: | blank, diddly squat, goose egg, insignificancy, nada, naught, nil, nobody, nonentity, nothing, nought, nullity, squat, zilch, zip, zippo, zot |
| Main Entry: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | frustrate |
| Synonyms: | baffle, balk, beat down, beat the system, blank, block, bury, cast down, cause setback, checkmate, circumvent, confound, contravene, cook*, counterplot, cross, disappoint, discomfit, disconcert, disprove, edge out, foil, invalidate, neutralize, nonplus, nose out, nullify, outwit, overturn, put end to, puzzle, quell, reduce, refute, ruin, scuttle, shave, shellac, skunk, spoil, squash, stump, subdue, subjugate, surmount, take wind out of sails, throw for loop, thwart, undo, victimize |
| Notes: | decimate means to kill or destroy in large numbers; defeat means to win a victory over or to beat |
| Antonyms: | abet, aid, encourage, help, inspirit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emptiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | void, bareness |
| Synonyms: | blank, blankness, chasm, depletedness, desertedness, desolation, destitution, exhaustion, gap, hollowness, inanition, vacancy, vacuity, vacuum, waste |
| Antonyms: | capacity, fill, fullness |
| Main Entry: | erase |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove; rub out |
| Synonyms: | X-out, abolish, annul, black out, blank, blot, blue pencil, cancel, cross out, cut, cut out, delete, disannul, dispatch, efface, eliminate, excise, expunge, extirpate, gut, kill, launder, negate, nullify, obliterate, scratch out, stamp out, strike, strike out, take out, trim, wipe out, withdraw |
| Antonyms: | add, insert, put in |
| Main Entry: | forgetfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consistent inability to remember |
| Synonyms: | absentmindedness, abstraction, amnesia, blackout, blank, blockout, carelessness, dreaminess, fugue, heedlessness, hypomnesia, inattention, lapse of memory, laxness, lethe, limbo, loss of memory, negligence, nirvana, oblivion, obliviousness, paramnesia, repression, short memory, suppression |
| Antonyms: | attentiveness, heed, mindfulness, remembering |
| Main Entry: | form |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | document that requires answers or information |
| Synonyms: | application, blank, chart, data sheet, letter, paper, questionnaire, sheet |
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