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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beg, push for, encourage |
| Synonyms: | adjure, advance, advise, advocate, appeal to, ask, attract, beseech, champion, charge, commend, compel, conjure, counsel, countenance, drive, egg on, endorse, entreat, exhort, favor, fire up, force, further, goad, hasten, impel, implore, incite, induce, influence, insist on, inspire, instigate, maneuver, move, plead, press, promote, prompt, propel, propose, push, put up to, rationalize, recommend, request, sanction, solicit, speak for, spur, stimulate, support, tempt, wheedle |
| Antonyms: | discourage, dissuade |
| Main Entry: | scuttle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hurry |
| Synonyms: | bustle, dash, hasten, race, run, scamper, scramble, scurry, sprint |
| Main Entry: | festinate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | rush |
| Synonyms: | barrel, bolt*, bustle, dart, dash, flash, fly, get a move on, get cracking, go like lightning, go like the wind, haste, hasten, hurry, hustle, make haste, make time, quicken, race, run, run like the wind, sail, scoot, scramble, scurry, shake a leg, shoot, speed, sprint, tear, whisk, whiz, zip, zoom |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hightail |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | run |
| Synonyms: | abscond, amble, barrel, beat it, bolt*, bound, bustle, canter, career, clear out, course, cut and run, dart, dash, decamp, depart, dog it, escape, flee, flit, fly, gallop, get out, go like lightning, hasten, hie, hightail it, hotfoot, hurry, hustle, j |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | vitalize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | quicken |
| Synonyms: | accelerate, activate, actuate, animate, arouse, awaken, dispatch, energize, excite, expedite, galvanize, goad, grow, hasten, hurry, impel, incite, increase, innervate, innerve, inspire, kindle, liven, make haste, motivate, move, pique*, precipitate, promote, refresh, revitalize, revive, rouse, shake up, speed, spring*, spur, step up, stimulate, stir*, strengthen, urge, vivificate, vivify |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | hurry |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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boisterous, booming, breathless, brusque, cursory, festinate, feverish, furious, fussy, hard, headlong, hot, impelled, impelling, impetuous, impulsive, in a hurry, in all haste, in haste, in hot haste, partito in quarta, precipitate, precipitous, preproperous, pressed for time, pushing, rudderish, saccadic, scrambling, spoffish, umbeer, urgent
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| Concept: | [Indefinite duration] Course. |
| Category: | 1. ABSOLUTE TIME |
| Synonyms: |
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elapse, lapse, flow, run, proceed, advance, pass; roll on, wear on, press on; flit, fly, slip, slide, glide; run its course., expire; go by, pass by; be past.
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