Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disposal |
| Synonyms: | burial, burial at sea, bury, dumping, jettison, throw away |
| Main Entry: | decease |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass away; expire |
| Synonyms: | buy a one-way ticket, call off all bets, cease, check out*, cool off, croak, deep six, depart, die, drop, go, pass, pass away, pass on, pass over, perish, succumb |
| Notes: | decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning |
| Antonyms: | be born, bear |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dispose of |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw away |
| Synonyms: | adios, bestow, chuck, deep six, destroy, discard, dump, eighty-six, eliminate, file in circular file, get rid of, give, jettison, junk*, kiss off, kiss*, make over, part with, relinquish, scrap, sell, transfer, unload |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep, retain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sabotage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | incapacitate, damage |
| Synonyms: | attack, block, bollix, break up, cripple, deep six, destroy, disable, disrupt, do in, do*, foul up, frustrate, hamper, hinder, louse up, mess up*, obstruct, put out of action, put out of commission, screw up, subvert, take out*, throw a monkey wrench into, torpedo, undermine, vandalize, wreck |
| Antonyms: | abet, aid, fix, help |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inhumation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | burial |
| Synonyms: | burying, deep six, deposition, entombment, exequies, funeral, interment, last rites, obsequies, sepulture |
| Main Entry: | discard |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get rid of |
| Synonyms: | abandon, abdicate, abjure, adios, banish, can*, cancel, cashier, cast aside, chuck, deep-six, desert, dispatch, dispense with, dispose of, dispossess, ditch, divorce, do away with, drop, dump, eject, eliminate, expel, forsake, free of, give up, have done with, jettison, junk*, oust, part with, protest, put by, reject, relinquish, remove, renounce, repeal, repudiate, scrap, shake off, shed, sweep away, throw away, throw out, throw overboard, toss aside, write off |
| Antonyms: | embrace, keep, retain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dump |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drop, throw away |
| Synonyms: | cast, chuck, clear out, deep-six, deposit, discard, discharge, dispose of, ditch, drain, eject, empty, evacuate, expel, exude, fling, fling down, get rid of, jettison, junk, leave, let fall, scrap, throw down, throw out, throw overboard, tip, unload, unpack |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep, maintain, save |
| Main Entry: | jettison |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | eject; throw overboard |
| Synonyms: | abandon, abdicate, cashier, cast, cast off, deep-six, discard, dump, expel, heave, hurl, junk*, maroon, reject, scrap*, shed, slough, throw away, unload |
| Antonyms: | take in, take on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bump off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | intentionally murder someone |
| Synonyms: | blot out, blow away, chill, deep-six, dispatch, dispose of, do away with, do in, dust, grease, hit, ice, kill, knock off, murder, off, polish off, rub out, snuff, snuff out, stretch out, waste, wax, whack, wipe out, zap |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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