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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme cold |
| Synonyms: | Jack Frost, blight, dip, drop, freeze, hoarfrost, ice, rime |
| Antonyms: | heat |
| Main Entry: | cloud |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mass of water particles in air |
| Synonyms: | billow, brume, darkness, dimness, film, fog, fogginess, frost, gloom, haze, haziness, mare's tail, mist, murk, nebula, nebulosity, obscurity, ol' buttermilk sky, overcast, pea soup, pother, puff, rack, scud, sheep, smog, smoke, smother, steam, thunderhead, vapor, veil, woolpack |
| Main Entry: | cold |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | frigid conditions |
| Synonyms: | ague, algidity, algor, chill, chilliness, coldness, congelation, draft, freeze, frigidity, frost, frostbite, frostiness, frozenness, gelidity, gelidness, glaciation, goose flesh, iciness, inclemency, rawness, refrigeration, shivering, shivers, snow, wintertime, wintriness |
| Antonyms: | heat, warmth |
| Main Entry: | cool |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | chill |
| Synonyms: | abate, air-condition, air-cool, ally, calm, freeze, frost, infrigidate, lessen, lose heat, mitigate, moderate, reduce, refrigerate, temper |
| Antonyms: | heat, warm |
| Main Entry: | freeze |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make cold enough to become solid |
| Synonyms: | benumb, bite, chill, chill to the bone, congeal, frost, glaciate, harden, ice over, ice up, nip, pierce, refrigerate, solidify, stiffen |
| Antonyms: | boil, heat |
| Main Entry: | hate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extreme dislike |
| Synonyms: | abhorrence, abomination, anathema, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, black beast, bother, bugbear, bête noire, detestation, disgust, enmity, execration, frost*, grievance, gripe, hatred, horror, hostility, ill will, irritant, loathing, malevolence, malignity, mislike, nasty look, no love lost, nuisance, objection, odium, pain, rancor, rankling, repugnance, repulsion, resentment, revenge, revulsion, scorn, spite, trouble, venom |
| Notes: | hate means to 'dislike intensely, loathe' and despise means 'look down on contemptuously' |
| Antonyms: | liking, love, loving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | numb |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deaden |
| Synonyms: | anesthetize, benumb, blunt, chill, desensitize, dull, freeze, frost, immobilize, obtund, paralyze, stun, stupefy |
| Antonyms: | enliven |
| Main Entry: | whiten |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or become extremely pale |
| Synonyms: | blanch, bleach, blench, chalk, decolor, decolorize, dull, etiolate, fade, frost, grizzle, lighten, pale, silver, turn pale, white, whitewash |
| Antonyms: | blacken, darken, dirty |
| Main Entry: | winter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cold season of the year |
| Synonyms: | Jack Frost, chill, cold, frost, wintertide, wintertime |
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