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| Main Entry: |
shenanigans
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mischief |
| Synonyms: | antics, capers, dirty trick, fooling around, frolicsomeness, funny business, gag, hanky-panky, high jinks, horseplay, horsing around, misbehavior, mischievousness, monkey business, naughtiness, nonsense, prank, trouble, vandalism |
| Main Entry: | silence |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or be quiet |
| Synonyms: | choke off, clam, clam up, close up, cool it, cut off, cut short, dampen, deaden, decrease the volume, dry up, dull, dumb, dummy up, extinguish, gag, hold one's tongue, hush, hush one's mouth, hush-hush, keep it down, lull, muffle, mute, muzzle, overawe, pipe down, quash, quell, quiet, quiet down, quieten, say nothing, shush, shut up, sit on, soft-pedal, squelch, stifle, still, strike dumb, subdue, suppress, tongue-tie |
| Antonyms: | be noisy, communicate, talk |
| Main Entry: | stifle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prevent, restrain |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, black out, bring to screeching halt, burke, check, choke, choke back, clam up, clamp down, constipate, cork, cover up, crack down, curb, dry up, extinguish, gag, hold it down, hush, hush up, kill*, muffle, muzzle, put the lid on, repress, shut up, silence, sit on, smother, spike, squash, squelch, stagnate, stop, strangle, stultify, suffocate, suppress, torpedo, trammel |
| Antonyms: | encourage, help, persuade |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | still |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make quiet, motionless, calm |
| Synonyms: | allay, alleviate, appease, arrest, balm, becalm, calm, choke, compose, decrease volume, fix, gag, hush, lull, muffle, muzzle, pacify, quiet, quieten, settle, shush, shut down, shut up, silence, slack, smooth, smooth over, soothe, squash, squelch, stall, stop, subdue, tranquilize |
| Antonyms: | agitate, disturb, irritate, move |
| Main Entry: | stop |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | prevent, hold back |
| Synonyms: | arrest, avoid, bar, block, bottle, break, check, choke, choke off, clog, close, congest, cut off, disrupt, fill, fix, forestall, frustrate, gag, hinder, hush, impede, intercept, interrupt, muzzle, obstruct, occlude, plug, put a stop to, rein in, repress, restrain, seal, shut down, shut off, shut out, silence, stall, staunch, stay, stem, still, stopper, suspend, throw over, turn off, ward off |
| Antonyms: | allow, continue, encourage |
| Main Entry: | story |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | account, news |
| Synonyms: | adventure, allegory, anecdote, apologue, article, autobiography, beat, biography, book, chronicle, cliffhanger, comedy, conte, description, drama, epic, fable, fairy tale, fantasy, feature, fiction, folktale, gag, history, information, legend, long and short of it, memoir, myth, narration, narrative, news item, nonfiction, novel, old saw, parable, potboiler, recital, record, relation, report, romance, saga, scoop*, sequel, serial, spiel*, tale, tragedy, version, yarn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | strangle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choke, stifle |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, gag, garrote/garrotte, inhibit, kill, muffle, quelch, repress, restrain, shush, smother, squelch, strangulate, subdue, suffocate, suppress, throttle |
| Notes: | strangle implies a focus on the result of this process, whereas strangulate focuses on the process itself |
| Antonyms: | free, let go, loose |
| Main Entry: | throttle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choke |
| Synonyms: | burke, control, gag, inhibit, silence, smother, stifle, strangle, strangulate, suppress |
| Antonyms: | free, release |
| Main Entry: | throw up |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | regurgitate |
| Synonyms: | barf, be nauseous, be sick, blow grits, blow lunch, bring up, disgorge, drive a truck, gag, heave, hurl, pray to the porcelain god, puke, puke, ralph, regurgitate, retch, spew, spit up, toss one's cookies, upchuck, upchuck, urp, vomit, vomit |
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