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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | please |
| Synonyms: | appease, bewitch, captivate, charm, delight, enrapture, gladden, gratify, humor, indulge, make happy, mollify, placate, reconcile, satisfy, suffice, thrill, tickle |
| Antonyms: | anger, displease, disturb, upset |
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| Concept: | [Things contained] Contents. |
| Category: | 3. EXISTENCE IN SPACE |
| Synonyms: |
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load, lade, ship, charge, fill, stuff.
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| Main Entry: | appease |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | satisfy, pacify |
| Synonyms: | allay, alleviate, assuage, be enough, blunt, calm, compose, conciliate, content, diminish, do*, ease, gratify, lessen, lull, make matters up, meet halfway, mitigate, mollify, patch things up, placate, propitiate, quell, quench, quiet, serve, soften, soothe, subdue, sweeten, tranquilize |
| Antonyms: | aggravate, annoy, incite, irritate, provoke, tease |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | climax |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come to top; culminate |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, break the record, cap, come, come to a head, conclude, content, crown, end, finish, fulfill, hit high spot, orgasm, peak, please, reach a peak, reach the zenith, rise to crescendo, satisfy, succeed, terminate, top, tower |
| Antonyms: | delve, dip, drop, fall off |
| Main Entry: | delight |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make happy; experience happiness |
| Synonyms: | allure, amuse, arride, attract, be the ticket, charm, cheer, content, delectate, divert, enchant, enrapture, entertain, exult, fascinate, freak out, gladden, glory, go over big, gratify, groove*, hit the spot, jubilate, knock dead, knock out, please, pleasure, ravish, rejoice, satisfy, score, send, slay, thrill, tickle pink, tickle to death, turn on, wow |
| Antonyms: | depress, disappoint, dismay, distress, pain, trouble |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gratify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give pleasure; satisfy |
| Synonyms: | appease, arride, baby*, cater to, coddle, content, delectate, delight, do one proud, do the trick, enchant, favor, fill the bill, fulfill*, get one's kicks, gladden, hit the spot, humor, indulge, make a hit, make happy, oblige, pamper, please, recompense, requite, thrill |
| Antonyms: | annoy, disappoint, disturb, frustrate, offend, pain, upset |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | please |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | delight, make happy |
| Synonyms: | amuse, charm, cheer, content, enchant, entertain, fill the bill, gladden, go over big, grab, gratify, hit the spot, humor, indulge, kill*, make the grade, overjoy, satisfy, score, suit, sweep off feet, tickle pink, tickle*, titillate, turn on, wow* |
| Antonyms: | anger, annoy, depress, displease, disturb, upset, worry |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | quench |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | satisfy, especially thirst |
| Synonyms: | allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, content, cool*, glut, gorge, gratify, lighten, mitigate, moisten, relieve, sate, satiate, slake |
| Antonyms: | dissatisfy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | satiate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stuff, satisfy completely or excessively |
| Synonyms: | cloy, content, feed to gills, fill, glut, gorge, gratify, indulge, jade, nauseate, overdose, overfill, pall, sate, saturate, slake, surfeit |
| Antonyms: | deprive, dissatisfy, leave wanting |
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