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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | groove, hole |
| Synonyms: | channel, cut, excavation, furrow, gash, hollow, notch, scoop, score, scratch, trench |
| Main Entry: | channel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pathway, usually containing water |
| Synonyms: | approach, aqueduct, arroyo, artery, avenue, canal, canyon, carrier, chamber, chase, conduit, course, dig, ditch, duct, fluting, furrow, gouge, groove, gully, gutter, main, means, medium, pass, passage, pipe, raceway, route, runway, sewer, slit, sound, strait, tideway, trough, tube, tunnel, vein, watercourse, way |
| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defraud, fool |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle*, beat, beguile, bilk, bleed, bunco, burn, caboodle, chisel, con, cozen, crib, cross, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, do a number on, do*, double-cross, double-deal, dupe, fast talk, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fudge, give bum steer, gouge, gyp, hoodwink, hose, jerk around, milk, mislead, pull one's leg, ream, rip off, rook, rope in, sandbag, scam, screw, shaft, short, shuck, skin, snow, stiff, sucker, swindle, take, take for a ride, take in, take out, trick, trim, two-time, victimize |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chisel |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shaping tool |
| Synonyms: | adze, blade, edge, gouge, knife |
| Main Entry: | deceive |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | mislead; be dishonest |
| Synonyms: | bamboozle*, beat, beat out of, beguile, betray, bilk, buffalo, burn, cheat, circumvent, clip, con, cozen, cross up, defraud, delude, disappoint, double-cross, dupe, ensnare, entrap, fake, falsify, fleece, fool, gouge, gull, hoax, hoodwink, hook*, humbug, impose upon, lead on, outwit, play joke on, pull fast one, put on, rob, scam, screw, sell, skin, suck in, swindle, take advantage of, take for, take for ride, take in, take to cleaners, trick, victimize |
| Antonyms: | be honest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | chip, scrape, depress |
| Synonyms: | dig, dimple, dint, furrow, gouge, hollow, imprint, indent, make concave, mark, nick, notch, perforate, pit, press in, push in, ridge, scratch |
| Antonyms: | bulge |
| Main Entry: | dig |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | delve into; hollow out |
| Synonyms: | bore, break up, bulldoze, burrow, cat, channel, clean, concave, deepen, depress, dig down, discover, dredge, drill, drive, enter, excavate, exhume, fork out, go into, gouge, grub, harvest, hoe, investigate, mine, penetrate, pierce, pit, probe, produce, quarry, root, root out, rout, sap, scoop, scoop out, search, shovel, sift, spade, till, tunnel, turn over, uncover, undermine, unearth |
| Antonyms: | fill |
| Main Entry: | dig |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | thrust object into |
| Synonyms: | drive, gouge, jab, jog, nudge, plunge, poke, prod, punch, ram, sink, stab, stick |
| Main Entry: | exact |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demand, call for |
| Synonyms: | assess, bleed, call, challenge, claim, coerce, command, compel, constrain, extort, extract, force, gouge, impose, insist upon, lean on, levy, oblige, pinch, postulate, put on, require, requisition, shake down, solicit, squeeze, wrench, wrest, wring |
| Antonyms: | give |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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