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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give birth |
| Synonyms: | be delivered of, beget, breed, bring forth, create, develop, engender, form, fructify, generate, invent, make, parturitate, produce, propagate, provide, reproduce, yield |
| Notes: | bare is to uncover or reveal or to expose; bear is to hold up, support, transport - or an animal |
| Antonyms: | be unproductive |
| Main Entry: | bloom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flower; flourish |
| Synonyms: | be in flower, bear fruit, blossom, blow, bud, burgeon, burst, develop, effloresce, fare well, fructify, germinate, grow, open, prosper, sprout, succeed, tassel out, thrive, wax |
| Antonyms: | shrink, shrivel, wither |
| Main Entry: | blossom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flourish |
| Synonyms: | batten, bloom, develop, grow, mature, progress, prosper, succeed, thrive |
| Antonyms: | deteriorate, die, fade, shrink |
| Main Entry: | boom |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prosper |
| Synonyms: | appreciate, bloom, develop, enhance, expand, flourish, flower, gain, grow, increase, intensify, rise in value, spurt, strengthen, succeed, swell, thrive |
| Antonyms: | collapse, fail, falter, lose |
| Main Entry: | boost |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase |
| Synonyms: | add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, beef up, develop, enlarge, expand, extend, heighten, hike, jack up, jump, magnify, multiply, put up, raise, up |
| Antonyms: | blow, decrease, hinder, set back |
| Main Entry: | branch off/branch out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | extend beyond main part |
| Synonyms: | add to, develop, diverge, diversify, divide, enlarge, expand, extend, fork, grow, increase, multiply, part, proliferate, ramify, separate, spread out |
| Antonyms: | lessen, shrink |
| Main Entry: | break |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | emerge, happen |
| Synonyms: | appear, befall, betide, burst out, chance, come forth, come off, come to pass, develop, erupt, go, occur, transpire |
| Notes: | to brake is to slow or stop while break is to cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently, smash or crack |
| Main Entry: | breed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | raise, nurture |
| Synonyms: | bring up, cultivate, develop, discipline, educate, foster, instruct, nourish, rear |
| Main Entry: | brew |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plan, devise |
| Synonyms: | breed, compound, concoct, contrive, develop, excite, foment, form, gather, hatch, impend, loom, mull, plot, project, scheme, start, stir up, weave |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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