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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extended |
| Synonyms: | diffuse, dragging, drawn-out, elongate, elongated, interminable, lengthened, long, long-winded, longish, overlong, padded, prolix, prolonged, protracted, tedious, tiresome, verbose, very long, wearisome, windy, wordy |
| Antonyms: | abbreviated, curtailed, shortened |
| Main Entry: | loose |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | indefinite, vague |
| Synonyms: | detached, diffuse, disconnected, disordered, ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, indistinct, negligent, obscure, rambling, random, remiss |
| Notes: | loose means not restrained, fastened, confined or attached, while lose means fail to keep or to maintain or fail to win |
| Antonyms: | clear, definite, precise, strict |
| Main Entry: | melt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | liquefy; dissolve |
| Synonyms: | cook, deliquesce, diffuse, disappear, disintegrate, disperse, evanesce, evaporate, fade, flow, flux, fuse, go, heat, merge, pass away, render, run, smelt, soften, thaw, vanish, warm, waste away |
| Antonyms: | coagulate, condense, solidify |
| Main Entry: | penetrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pierce; get through physically |
| Synonyms: | access, barge in, bayonet, blow in, bore, break in, breeze in, bust in, charge, come, crack, diffuse, drill, drive, eat through, encroach, enter, filter in, force, get in, go through, gore, impale, infiltrate, ingress, insert, insinuate, introduce, invade, jab, knife, make a hole, make an entrance, pass through, percolate, perforate, permeate, pervade, pop in, prick, probe, puncture, ream, run into, saturate, seep, sink into, spear, stab, stick into, suffuse, thrust, trespass |
| Notes: | the difference between permeate and pervade is that the former is affecting a surface, the latter an area; a characteristic of penetrate is that it is effected upon a solid substance |
| Antonyms: | exit, take out, withdraw |
| Main Entry: | permeate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | filter, spread throughout |
| Synonyms: | charge, diffuse, drench, fill, go through, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, ingrain, interfuse, invade, pass through, penetrate, percolate, pervade, pierce, saturate, seep, soak, stab, stalk, steep, suffuse, transfuse |
| Notes: | the difference between permeate and pervade is that the former is affecting a surface, the latter an area; a characteristic of penetrate is that it is effected upon a solid substance |
| Main Entry: | pervade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | affect strongly; spread through |
| Synonyms: | charge, diffuse, extend, fill, imbue, impregnate, infuse, overspread, penetrate, percolate, permeate, suffuse, transfuse |
| Notes: | the difference between permeate and pervade is that the former is affecting a surface, the latter an area; a characteristic of penetrate is that it is effected upon a solid substance |
| Main Entry: | propagate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | spread, make known |
| Synonyms: | broadcast, circulate, develop, diffuse, disperse, disseminate, distribute, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, radiate, scatter, strew, transmit |
| Antonyms: | conceal, hide |
| Main Entry: | radiate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give off; scatter |
| Synonyms: | afford, beam, branch out, broadcast, circulate, diffuse, disseminate, distribute, diverge, emanate, emit, expand, give out, gleam, glitter, illumine, irradiate, issue, light up, pour, proliferate, propagate, ramble, ramify, send out, shed, shine, shoot out, spread, spread out, sprinkle, strew, throw out, transmit, yield |
| Antonyms: | collect, gather |
| Main Entry: | rambling |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disconnected, wordy |
| Synonyms: | circuitous, confused, desultory, diffuse, digressive, discursive, disjointed, incoherent, incongruous, irregular, long-winded, periphrastic, prolix |
| Antonyms: | connected, direct, straightforward |
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