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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flood, beat physically |
| Synonyms: | bury, conquer, crush, defeat, deluge, destroy, drown, drub, engulf, inundate, massacre, overcome, overflow, overpower, overrun, overthrow, rout, smother, submerge, swamp, thrash, total*, whip*, win* |
| Antonyms: | underwhelm |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prostrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overwhelm; wear out |
| Synonyms: | bring low, cripple, debilitate, defeat, destroy, disable, disarm, drain, drown, exhaust, fatigue, fell, floor, frazzle, immobilize, impair, incapacitate, knock over, level, mow, overcome, overpower, overthrow, overtire, overturn, paralyze, reduce, ruin, sap, tire, tucker out, weary, whelm, wreck |
| Notes: | prone is lying on your face (facing downwards) - which is also true for prostrate, but only in expressing adoration or begging for protection; supine is lying on your back prostate is the gland; prostrate means 'lying face down' supine is lying face upward, prone and prostrate are lying face downward - and prostrate suggests throwing oneself down, while recumbent is lying flat in any position |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, assuage, help, please, soothe |
| Main Entry: | sink |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall in, go under |
| Synonyms: | bore, bring down, capsize, cast down, cave in, couch, decline, demit, depress, descend, dig, dip, disappear, drill, drive, droop, drop, drown, ebb, engulf, excavate, fall, flounder, force down, founder, go down, go to the bottom, immerse, lay, let down, lower, overturn, overwhelm, plummet, plunge, put down, ram, regress, run, sag, scuttle, set, settle, shipwreck, slope, slump, stab, stick, stoop, submerge, subside, swamp, thrust, tip over, touch bottom, wreck |
| Antonyms: | float, rise |
| Main Entry: | soak |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drench, wet |
| Synonyms: | absorb, assimilate, bathe, damp, dip, drink, drown, dunk, flood, imbrue, immerge, immerse, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, macerate, marinate, merge, moisten, penetrate, percolate, permeate, pour into, pour on, saturate, seethe, soften, sop, souse, steep, submerge, take in, wash, water, waterlog |
| Antonyms: | dehydrate, dry |
| Main Entry: | souse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make very wet |
| Synonyms: | brine, deluge, dip, douse, drench, drown, duck, dunk, immerse, impregnate, marinate, pickle, preserve, seethe, soak, sop, steep, submerge, submerse, waterlog, wet |
| Antonyms: | dehydrate, dry |
| Main Entry: | splash |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | throw liquid |
| Synonyms: | bathe, bespatter, broadcast, dabble, dash, douse, drench, drown, get wet, moisten, paddle, plash, plunge, shower, slop, slosh, soak, sop, spatter, splatter, spray, spread, sprinkle, squirt, strew, throw, wade, wallow, wet |
| Main Entry: | splatter |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | splash |
| Synonyms: | bespatter, douse, drench, drown, get wet, moisten, plunge, shower, slosh, soak, sop, spatter, spray, sprinkle, squirt, wet |
| Main Entry: | submerge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dunk in liquid |
| Synonyms: | deluge, descend, dip, douse, drench, drown, duck, engulf, flood, go down, go under, immerse, impregnate, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, plunge, sink, sound, souse, submerse, subside, swamp, whelm |
| Notes: | immerse means to thrust into or engross fully; submerge means sink below the surface or put under water |
| Antonyms: | dry, surface |
| Main Entry: | suffocate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choke |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, drown, smother, stifle, strangle |
| Antonyms: | free, let go, loose |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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