| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nappy floor covering |
| Synonyms: | carpeting, matting, rug, runner, tapestry, throw rug, wall-to-wall |
| Notes: | a carpet originally denoted a thick fabric that covered a table or bed; a rug is generally smaller than a carpet |
| Main Entry: | chew out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | scold |
| Synonyms: | bawl out, carpet, criticize, dress down, jaw, revile, tell off, tongue-lash, vituperate, wig, yell at |
| Antonyms: | compliment, laud, praise |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wrap, hide |
| Synonyms: | blanket, board up, bury, bush up, cache, camouflage, canopy, cap, carpet, cloak, clothe, coat, conceal, cover up, crown, curtain, daub, disguise, do on the sly, dress, eclipse, encase, enclose, enfold, ensconce, enshroud, envelop, hood, house, invest, layer, mantle, mask, obscure, overcast, overlay, overspread, protect, put on, screen, secrete, set on, shade, shield, shroud, stash, superimpose, superpose, surface, veil |
| Antonyms: | lay bare, lay out, reveal, uncover, unwrap |
| Main Entry: | dress down |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | scold |
| Synonyms: | bawl out, berate, carpet, castigate, censure, chew out, lash, rail, rake over coals, ream, rebuke, reprimand, reprove, tear into, tell off, tongue-lash, upbraid |
| Antonyms: | compliment, flatter, praise |
| Main Entry: | floor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bottom of a room; level of a multistory building |
| Synonyms: | basement, boards, canvas, carpet, cellar, deck, downstairs, flat, flooring, ground, landing, lowest point, mat, mezzanine, nadir, rug, stage, story, tier, upstairs |
| Antonyms: | ceiling |
| Main Entry: | meadow |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | grassy field |
| Synonyms: | bottoms, carpet, grassland, heath, lea, mead, pasturage, pasture, plain, prairie, rug, steppe, veldt |
| Main Entry: | flooring |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | floor covering |
| Synonyms: | boards, carpet, carpeting, floors, linoleum, parquet, planks, tile, tiling, woodwork |
| Main Entry: | cover |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
antipudic, apatetic, armor, conchiferous, conchitic, conchological, cortical, covered, covering, cutaneous, cuticular, cyanotic, decorticated, deric, dermal, desquamate, doughfaced, echinulate, enameled, encrusted, encuirassed, flue, furfuraceous, galericulate, imbricate, imbricated, incanous, ironclad, lanuginous, lepidote, lined, loricated, lutose, overlaid, pastose, plumulaceous, procryptic, rorulent, scaled, scaly, scurfy, skinny, squamaceous, squamate, squamous, stegocephalic, stimulose, strigillose, stupulose, superincumbent, superjacent, tegumentary, tomentose, under cover
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