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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | create writing, artwork, or music |
| Synonyms: | author, bang out, cast, clef, coin a phrase, comp, conceive, contrive, cook up, design, devise, discover, draw up, dream up, fabricate, forge, form, formulate, frame*, fudge together, ghost*, ghostwrite, imagine, indite, invent, knock off, knock out, make up, note down, orchestrate, originate, pen, poetize, produce, push pencil, put down, put pen to paper, score, scribble, script, set type, set up, time, turn out, whip up, write |
| Notes: | compose is preferred when the parts of the whole being assembled are regarded as nonconcrete and more general; when the parts are concrete and specific, then constitute is more appropriate, and then there is comprise, which can mean 'comprehending or encompassing certain parts' |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | construct |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | assemble, build |
| Synonyms: | build up, cobble up, compose, compound, constitute, cook up, create, design, dream up, elevate, engineer, envision, erect, establish, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, formulate, found, frame, fudge together, hammer out, hoke up, imagine, invent, make, manufacture, organize, prefab, produce, put out, put together, put up, raise, rear, set up, shape, throw together, throw up, trump up, uprear, whip up |
| Antonyms: | annihilate, break, demolish, destroy, dismantle, raze, ruin |
| Main Entry: | erect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | build; establish |
| Synonyms: | assemble, bring about, cobble up, cock, compose, construct, create, effect, elevate, fabricate, fashion, fit together, forge, form, found, frame, fudge together, heighten, hoist, initiate, institute, join, knock together, lift, make, make up, manufacture, mount, organize, pitch, plant, prefabricate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, run up, set up, shape, stand, stand up, throw together, throw up, upraise, uprear |
| Antonyms: | raze, topple |
| Main Entry: | manufacture |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | build, produce |
| Synonyms: | accomplish, assemble, carve, cast, cobble, complete, compose, construct, create, execute, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, fudge together, machine, make, make up, mass-produce, mill, mold, prefab, process, put together, shape, synthesize, throw together, tool, turn out |
| Antonyms: | destroy, ruin |
| Main Entry: | upraise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | erect |
| Synonyms: | assemble, bring about, cobble up, cock, compose, construct, create, effect, elevate, fabricate, fashion, fit together, forge, form, found, frame*, fudge together, heighten, hoist, initiate, institute, join, knock together, lift, make up, make*, manufacture, mount, organize, pitch, plant*, prefabricate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, run up, set up, shape, stand, stand up, throw together, throw up, uprear |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uprear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | erect |
| Synonyms: | assemble, bring about, cobble up, cock, compose, construct, create, effect, elevate, fabricate, fashion, fit together, forge, form, found, frame*, fudge together, heighten, hoist, initiate, institute, join, knock together, lift, make up, make*, manufacture, mount, organize, pitch, plant*, prefabricate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, run up, set up, shape, stand, stand up, throw together, throw up, upraise |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | erect |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, verb |
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