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extrication
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liberation |
| Synonyms: | acquittal, delivery, emancipation, extrication, freeing, redemption, release, rescue, salvation, saving |
| Main Entry: | extraction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | removal from whole; distillation |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, derivation, drawing, elicitation, eradication, evocation, evulsion, expression, extirpation, extrication, pulling, separation, taking out, uprooting, withdrawal, wrenching, wresting |
| Antonyms: | addition, insertion, introduction |
| Main Entry: | relief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | remedy, aid; relaxation |
| Synonyms: | abatement, allayment, alleviation, amelioration, appeasement, assistance, assuagement, balm, break, breather, cheer, comfort, comforting, consolation, contentment, cure, deliverance, diversion, ease, easement, extrication, fix, hand, happiness, help, letup, lift, lightening, load off one's mind, maintenance, mitigation, mollification, palliative, quick fix, refreshment, release, remission, reprieve, respite, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, softening, solace, succor, support, sustenance |
| Notes: | relief (standing out) and intaglio (sunken) are opposites in art |
| Antonyms: | damage, hurt, injury, pain |
| Main Entry: | rescue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | saving from danger |
| Synonyms: | deliverance, delivery, disembarrassment, disentanglement, emancipation, exploit, extrication, feat, heroics, heroism, liberation, performance, ransom, reclaiming, reclamation, recovering, recovery, redemption, release, relief, salvage, salvation, saving |
| Antonyms: | danger, peril |
| Main Entry: | salvation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rescue, saving |
| Synonyms: | conservancy, conservation, deliverance, emancipation, escape, exemption, extrication, keeping, liberation, lifeline, pardon, preserval, preservation, redemption, release, reprieve, restoration, safekeeping, sustentation |
| Antonyms: | endangerment, harm, hurt, injury, loss, waste |
| Main Entry: | freeing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emancipation |
| Synonyms: | clearing, deliverance, delivery, discharging, disentangling, extrication, granting freedom, liberation, loosening, loosing, manumission, pardoning, releasing, reprieve, rescuing, restoration, salvation, saving, setting free, unbinding, unchaining, unfettering, unlocking, untying |
| Main Entry: | lam |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | escape |
| Synonyms: | AWOL, abdication, avoidance, beat*, bolt*, break, breakout, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, deliverance, departure, desertion, disappearance, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, escapement, eschewal, evasion, evasiveness, extrication, fadeout, flight, freedom, getaway, hegira, leave, liberation, out, outbreak, powder, release, rescue, retreat, runaround, shunning, sidestepping, slip*, spring, withdrawal |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | palliation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relief |
| Synonyms: | abatement, allayment, alleviation, amelioration, appeasement, assistance, assuagement, balm, break*, breather, cheer, comfort, comforting, consolation, contentment, cure, deliverance, diversion, ease, easement, extrication, fix*, hand, happiness, help, letup, lift, lightening, load off one's mind, maintenance, mitigation, mollification, palliative, quick fix, refreshment, release, remission, reprieve, respite, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, softening, solace, succor, support, sustenance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | rescue |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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Adjectives: |
bailed out, expendible, extricable, reclaimed, redeemable, rescuable, retrieved, salvaged, saved, soterial
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