exploit

Main Entry:
victimize [vik-tuh-mahyz]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: cheat, fool
Synonyms: bamboozle*, burn*, chisel, clip, con, cozen, deceive, defraud, discriminate against, dupe, exploit, fleece, flimflam, gull, have it in for, hoax, hoodwink, immolate, persecute, pick on, pigeon, prey on, rope in, screw*, set up*, snow*, stack the deck, stiff*, sting*, sucker, swindle, take advantage of, trick, use
Antonyms: aid, assist, help, protect
Main Entry: masterstroke
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: feat
Synonyms: accomplishment, achievement, act, action, adventure, attainment, conquest, consummation, coup, deed, effort, enterprise, execution, exploit, gest, performance, stunt, tour de force, triumph, venture, victory
Main Entry: one-up
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: trump
Synonyms: angle, beguile, bluff, exploit, finagle, finesse, jockey, maneuver, manipulate, operate, play, play games, pull strings, pull wires, rig, wangle
Related Words
Main Entry: performance
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
CC, OC, OS, X, black, cinematic, closed, featured, hard, live, off, off book, prerecorded, quadraphonic, recurring, rolling, soft, stand, strawhat, taped, wide
Main Entry: rescue
Part of Speech: noun, verb
Related
Adjectives:
bailed out, expendible, extricable, reclaimed, redeemable, rescuable, retrieved, salvaged, saved, soterial
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Action.
Category: 1. Simple voluntary action
Synonyms:
-nouns
action, performance; doing; perpetration; exercise, excitation; movement, operation, evolution, work; labor (exertion); praxis, execution; procedure (conduct); handicraft; business; agency (power at work)., deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force (display); feat, exploit; achievement (completion); handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy (plan)., actor (doer).
-verbs
do, perform, execute; achieve (complete); transact, enact; commit, perpetrate, inflict; exercise, prosecute, carry on, work, practice, play., employ oneself, ply one's task; officiate, have in hand (business) [more]; labor; be at work; pursue a course; shape one's course (conduct) [more]., act, operate; take action, take steps; strike a blow, lift a finger, stretch forth one's hand; take in hand (undertake); put oneself in motion; put in practice; carry into execution (complete); act upon., be an actor; take a part in, act a part in, play a part in, perform a part in; participate in; have a hand in, have a finger in the pie; have to do with; be a party to, be a participator in; bear a hand, lend a hand; pull an oar, run in a race; mix oneself up with (meddle)., be in action; come into operation (power at work).
-adjectives
doing; acting; in action; in harness; on duty; in operation.
-adverbs
in the act, in the midst of, in the thick of; red-handed, in flagrante delicto; while one's hand is in.
-phrases
"action is eloquence" [Coriolanus]; actions speak louder than words; actum aiunt ne agas [Terence]; "awake, arise, or be forever fall'n" [Paradise Lost); dii pia facta vident [Ovid]; faire sams dire; fare fac; fronte capillata post est occasio calva; " our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts" [Bailey]; "the great end of life is not knowledge but action [Huxley]; "thought is the soul of act" [R. Browning]; vivre-ce
Antonyms: inaction
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Misuse.
Category: 2. Subservience to ends; precursory measures
Synonyms:
-nouns
misuse, misusage, misemployment, misapplication, misappropriation., abuse, profanation, prostitution, desecration; waste.
-verbs
misuse, misemploy, misapply, misappropriate., desecrate, abuse, profane, prostitute: waste [more]; overtask, overtax, overwork: squander [more]., cut blocks with a razor, employ a steam engine to crack a nut; catch at a straw.
-adjectives
misused.
-phrases
ludere cum sacris.
Antonyms: use
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Concept: Use.
Category: 2. Subservience to ends; precursory measures
Synonyms:
-nouns
use; employ, employment; exercise, exercitation; application, appliance; adhibition, disposal; consumption; agency (physical); usufruct; usefulness; benefit; recourse, resort, avail., [Conversion to use] utilization, service, wear., [Way of using] usage.
-verbs
use, make use of, employ, put to use; put in action, put in operation, put in practice; set in motion, set to work., ply, work, wield, handle, manipulate; play, play off; exert, exercise, practice, avail oneself of, profit by, resort to, have recourse to, recur to, take betake oneself to; take up with, take advantage of; lay one's hands on, try., render useful; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit, dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of., fall back upon, make a shift with; make the most of, make the best of., use up, swallow up; consume, absorb, expend; tax, task, wear, put to task.
-adjectives
in use; used; well-worn, well-trodden., useful; subservient (instrumental).
Antonyms: disuse, misuse
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