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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | consume, use up |
| Synonyms: | bankrupt, bleed dry, deplete, devour, dispel, disperse, dissipate, drain, draw, dry, eat, eat up, empty, expend, finish, impoverish, run out, run through, spend, squander, strain, suck dry, take last of, void, wash up, waste |
| Antonyms: | refresh, replenish |
| Main Entry: | lift |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move upwards; ascend |
| Synonyms: | arise, aspire, bear aloft, boost, bring up, build up, buoy up, climb, come up, disappear, disperse, dissipate, draw up, elevate, erect, goose, heft, hike, hike up, hoist, jack up, jump up, mount, move up, pick up, put up, raise, raise high, rear, rise, soar, take up, up, upheave, uphold, uplift, upraise, uprear, vanish |
| Antonyms: | descend, drop, lower |
| 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: | partition |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | divide, separate |
| Synonyms: | apportion, cut, cut in, cut into, cut up, deal, disburse, dispense, disperse, distribute, divvy up, dole out, fence off, measure out, parcel out, portion, screen, section, segment, separate, share, size into, slice, split, split up, subdivide, wall off |
| Antonyms: | attach, combine, join, unite |
| 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: | spatter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | splash, sprinkle |
| Synonyms: | bespatter, bestrew, broadcast, dash, daub, dirty, discharge, disperse, dot, douse, dribble, mottle, polka-dot, scatter, shower, slop, smudge, soil, spangle, speck, speckle, splutter, spot, spray, sputter, stipple, strew, swash, wet |
| Main Entry: | spread |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | open or fan out |
| Synonyms: | arrange, array, be displayed, be distributed, bloat, branch off, broaden, cast, circulate, coat, cover, daub, develop, diffuse, dilate, disperse, diverge, enlarge, escalate, even out, expand, extend, flatten, flow, gloss, increase, lay, lengthen, level, lie, multiply, mushroom, open, outstretch, overlay, paint, pervade, prepare, proliferate, radiate, reach, roll out, set, settle, smear, sprawl, spray, stretch, strew, suffuse, swell, uncoil, unfold, unfurl, unroll, untwist, unwind, widen |
| Antonyms: | close, collect, compress, gather |
| Main Entry: | thin |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make diluted or less dense |
| Synonyms: | attenuate, cook, cut, cut back, decrease, delete, diminish, disperse, doctor, edit, emaciate, expand, extenuate, irrigate, lace, needle, prune, rarefy, reduce, refine, shave, spike, trim, water, water down, weaken, weed out |
| Antonyms: | beef up, thicken |
| Main Entry: | demobilize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deactivate |
| Synonyms: | disarm, disband, disperse, retire, withdraw |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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