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| Main Entry: |
bring off
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | accomplish |
| Synonyms: | achieve, bring home the bacon, bring to pass, carry off, carry out, discharge, effect, effectuate, execute, perform, pull off, realize, succeed |
| Antonyms: | fail, lose |
| Main Entry: | commit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perform an action |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, complete, contravene, do, effectuate, enact, execute, go for broke, go in for, go out for, offend, perpetrate, pull, pull off, scandalize, sin, transgress, trespass, violate, wreak |
| Antonyms: | cease, desist, end, idle, loaf, rest, stop, wait |
| Main Entry: | compass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | achieve, get |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, annex, attain, bring about, effect, execute, fulfill, gain, have, land, obtain, perform, procure, realize, secure, win |
| Antonyms: | fail, lose |
| Main Entry: | complete |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | carry out action |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, actualize, bring to fruition, bring to maturity, call it a day, cap, carry off, close, conclude, consummate, crown, determine, develop, discharge, do, do thoroughly, effect, effectuate, elaborate, end, equip, execute, fill, finalize, finish, fulfill, furnish, get through, go the limit, go through with, go whole hog, halt, make good, make up, perfect, perform, put to bed, realize, refine, round off, round out, settle, sew up, supplement, terminate, ultimate, wind up, wrap up |
| Antonyms: | forget, give up, halt, ignore, neglect, stop |
| Main Entry: | contrive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bring about, succeed with difficulty |
| Synonyms: | achieve, angle, arrange, carry out, cogitate, collude, compass, concoct, connive, develop, devise, effect, elaborate, engineer, execute, finagle, hatch, hit upon, intrigue, jockey, machinate, manage, maneuver, manipulate, mastermind, negotiate, pass, plan, play games, plot, project, scheme, shift, swing, work out, wrangle |
| Antonyms: | demolish, destroy, ruin, stop, waste, wreck |
| Main Entry: | decapitate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | behead |
| Synonyms: | ax, bring to the block, chop off one's head, decollate, execute, guillotine |
| Main Entry: | decimate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, butcher, commit genocide, execute, exterminate, kill off, massacre, obliterate, slaughter, stamp out, wipe out |
| Notes: | decimate means to kill or destroy in large numbers; defeat means to win a victory over or to beat |
| Main Entry: | design |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plan, outline |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, arrange, block out, blueprint, cast, chart, construct, contrive, create, delineate, describe, devise, diagram, dope out, draft, draw, effect, execute, fashion, form, frame, fulfill, invent, lay out, perform, produce, project, set out, sketch, sketch out, trace, work out |
| Antonyms: | disorder, disorganize |
| Main Entry: | discharge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | carry out responsibility |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, achieve, do, execute, fulfill, meet, observe, perform |
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