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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move something forward, often quickly |
| Synonyms: | accelerate, achieve, bring forward, come forward, conquer, continue ahead, continue on, dispatch, drive, elevate, forge ahead, gain ground, get ahead, get green light, get there, get with it, go ahead, go forth, go forward, go great guns, go places, go to town, hasten, launch, make headway, make the scene, march, move on, move onward, move up, press on, proceed, progress, promote, propel, push ahead, push on, quicken, send forward, skyrocket, speed, step forward, storm |
| Notes: | advance means 'steady progress' and stresses effective assisting in hastening a process or bringing about a desired end, while advancement suggests progression that is bigger, more, or beyond normal |
| Antonyms: | back down, halt, hesitate, recede, retreat, retrogress, stop, turn, withdraw, yield |
| Main Entry: | prevail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dominate, control |
| Synonyms: | abound, be common, be current, be prevalent, be usual, be victorious, be widespread, beat, best, carry, come out on top, command, conquer, domineer, exist generally, gain, get there, go great guns, go places, hit pay dirt, luck out, make it, make out, master, move out, obtain, overcome, overrule, predominate, preponderate, prove, reign, succeed, take off, triumph, win |
| Antonyms: | lose, surrender |
| Main Entry: | prosper |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be fortunate; succeed |
| Synonyms: | advance, arrive, augment, batten, be enriched, bear, bear fruit, become rich, become wealthy, benefit, bloom, blossom, catch on, do well, do wonders, fare well, fatten, feather nest, flourish, flower, gain, get on, get there, go places, go to town, grow rich, hit it big, hit the jackpot, increase, make a killing, make good, make it, make mark, make money, make out, multiply, produce, progress, rise, score*, strike it rich, thrive, turn out well, yield |
| Antonyms: | fail, lose |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | progress in business |
| Synonyms: | advance, be elevated, be promoted, better oneself, climb the ladder, flourish, get on, get somewhere, go places, progress, prosper, succeed, thrive, work one's way up |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' |
| Antonyms: | decline, drop, fall, slump |
| Main Entry: | peregrinate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | journey |
| Synonyms: | circuit, cruise, fare, fly*, globe trot, go places, go*, hie, hit the road, hop, jaunt, jet, junket, knock about, pass, proceed, process, push on, ramble, range, repair, roam, rove, safari, take a trip, tour, travel, traverse, trek, trip*, voyage, wander, wend |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | [Locomotion by land] Journey. |
| Category: | 1. Motion in General |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
travel; traveling wayfaring, campaigning., journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, constitutional, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog, trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation, noctambulism; somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt., equitation, horsemanship, riding, manege, ride and tie; basophobia., roving, vagrancy, pererration; marching and countermarching; nomadism; vagabondism, vagabondage; hoboism [U.S.]; gadding; flit, flitting, migration; emigration, immigration, demigration, intermigration; wanderlust., plan, itinerary, guide; handbook, roadbook; Baedeker, Bradshaw, Murray., procession, cavalcade, caravan, file, cortege, column., [Organs and instruments of locomotion] vehicle [more]; automobile, train, bus, airplane, plane, autobus, omnibus, subway, motorbike, dirt bike, off-road vehicle, van, minivan, motor scooter, trolley, locomotive; legs, feet, pegs, pins, trotters., traveler., depot [U.S.], railway station, station.
-verbs
travel, journey, course; take a journey, go a journey; take a walk, go out for walk; have a run; take the air; racewalk., flit, take wing; migrate, emigrate; trek; rove, prowl, roam, range, patrol, pace up and down, traverse; scour the country, traverse the country; peragrate; circumambulate, perambulate; nomadize, wander, ramble, stroll, saunter, hover, go one's rounds, straggle; gad, gad about; expatiate., walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare; promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path., take horse, ride, drive, trot, amble, canter, prance, fisk, frisk, caracoler, caracole; gallop (move quickly)., peg on, jog on, wag on, shuffle on; stir one's stumps; bend one's steps, bend one's course; make one's way, find one's way, wend one's way, pick one's way, pick one's way, thread one's way, plow one's way; slide, glide, coast, skim, skate; march in procession, file on, defile., go to, repair to, resort to, hie to, betake oneself to.
-adjectives
traveling; ambulatory, intinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, nomadic; circumforanean, circumforaneous; noctivagrant, mundivagrant; locomotive., wayfaring, wayworn; travel-stained.
-adverbs
on foot, on horseback, on Shanks's mare; by the Marrowbone stage:, in transitu; en route.
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