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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | work very hard |
| Synonyms: | bear down, cultivate, drive, drudge, endeavor, exert oneself, grind, plod, plug away, pour it on, slave, strain, strive, struggle, sweat, tend, toil, travail, work oneself to the bone |
| Antonyms: | idle, laze, relax |
| Main Entry: | nourish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feed, care for |
| Synonyms: | attend, cherish, comfort, cultivate, encourage, foster, furnish, maintain, nurse, nurture, promote, provide, supply, support, sustain, tend |
| Antonyms: | abandon, deprive, neglect, starve |
| Main Entry: | nurse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | care for, tend |
| Synonyms: | advance, aid, attend, baby-sit, cherish, cradle, cultivate, encourage, father, feed, forward, foster, further, harbor, humor, immunize, indulge, inoculate, irradiate, keep alive, keep an eye on, keep tabs on, look after, medicate, minister to, mother, nourish, nurture, pamper, preserve, promote, see to, serve, sit, succor, support, take care of, take charge of, treat, vaccinate, wait on, watch out for, watch over |
| Antonyms: | ignore, neglect |
| Main Entry: | nurture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feed, care for |
| Synonyms: | back, bolster, bring up, cherish, cultivate, develop, discipline, educate, foster, instruct, nourish, nurse, nursle, provide, raise, rear, school, support, sustain, tend, train, uphold |
| Notes: | cherish means to be fond of, be attached to, while nurture means to bring up, help develop, help grow, or provide with nourishment |
| Antonyms: | deprive, ignore, neglect, starve |
| Main Entry: | perfect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | polish; achieve |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, ameliorate, carry out, complete, consummate, crown, cultivate, develop, effect, elaborate, finish, fulfill, hone, idealize, improve, perform, put finishing touch on, realize, refine, round, slick, smooth |
| Antonyms: | destroy, ruin |
| Main Entry: | plow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dig up ground for cultivation |
| Synonyms: | break, break ground, bulldoze, cultivate, farm, furrow, harrow, harvest, list, push, rake, reap, ridge, rush, shove, smash, till, trench, turn, turn over |
| Antonyms: | fill |
| Main Entry: | polish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | improve performance, look |
| Synonyms: | amend, better, brush up, correct, cultivate, emend, enhance, finish, furbish, make improvement, mature, mend, perfect, refine, round, sleek, slick, smooth, touch up |
| Antonyms: | deface, ruin, spoil |
| Main Entry: | predispose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | influence to believe something |
| Synonyms: | activate, affect, animate, bend*, bias, cultivate, dispose, govern, impress, incline, indoctrinate, induce, inspire, lead, make expectant, make of a mind to, prejudice, prepare, prime, prompt, stimulate, strike, sway, teach, urge |
| Notes: | predispose differs from dispose by implying that the frame of mind is created some time before it becomes obvious |
| Antonyms: | discourage, dissuade |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | produce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | generate, create |
| Synonyms: | afford, assemble, author, bear, beget, blossom, breed, bring forth, bring out, build, come through, compose, conceive, construct, contribute, cultivate, deliver, design, develop, devise, effectuate, engender, erect, fabricate, fetch, flower, form, frame, furnish, give, give birth, give forth, imagine, invent, make, manufacture, multiply, offer, originate, parent, present, procreate, propagate, provide, put together, render, reproduce, return, show fruit, supply, turn out, write, yield |
| Antonyms: | consume, destroy, ruin |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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