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fills up
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flow over the top |
| Synonyms: | fill, fill up, hold no more, overflow, run over, spill, swell, teem, well over |
| Main Entry: | heap |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | amass, collect in pile |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, add, arrange, augment, bank, bunch, concentrate, deposit, dump, fill, fill up, gather, group, hoard, increase, load, lump, mass, mound, pack, stack, stockpile, store, swell |
| Main Entry: | recruit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gather resources |
| Synonyms: | augment, better, build up, call to arms, call up, deliver, draft, engage, enlist, enroll, fill up, find human resources, gain, impress, improve, induct, levy, mobilize, muster, obtain, procure, proselytize, raise, reanimate, recoup, recover, recuperate, refresh, regain, reinforce, renew, repair, replenish, repossess, restore, retrieve, revive, round up, select, sign on, sign up, store up, strengthen, supply, take in, take on, win over |
| Main Entry: | supplement |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | add to |
| Synonyms: | add fuel to fire, augment, beef up, build up, buttress, complement, complete, enhance, enrich, extend, fill out, fill up, fortify, heat up, improve, increase, jazz up, pad, punch up, reinforce, step up, strengthen, subsidize, supply, top |
| Notes: | augment means to add more of the same thing; supplement means to add something, usually to make up for a deficiency complement means an addition will serve to complete something or form with it to make a whole while a supplement is an addition to something already regarded as complete or whole; complement can also mean 'the full quantity, number, or amount' |
| Antonyms: | subtract |
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| Concept: | Fuel. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; heat |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
fuel, firing, combustible., [solid fuels] coal, wallsend, anthracite, culm, coke, carbon, charcoal; turf, peat, firewood, bobbing, faggot, log; cinder (products of combustion); ingle, tinder, touchwood; sulphur, brimstone; incense; port-fire; fire-barrel, fireball, brand; amadou, bavin; blind coal, glance coal; German tinder, pyrotechnic sponge, punk, smudge [U. S.]., brand, torch, fuse; wick; spill, match, light, lucifer, congreve, vesuvian, vesta, fusee, locofoco; linstock., candle (luminary); oil (grease).
-adjectives
carbonaceous; combustible, inflammable.
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