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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the chase |
| Synonyms: | angling, big-game hunting, coursing, falconry, fishery, fishing, fowling, halieutics, hawking, shooting, sporting, stalking, the hunt, trapping, venatics, venery |
| Main Entry: | cry |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | advertise |
| Synonyms: | announce, bark*, broadcast, build up, hawk, hype*, press-agent, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, puff, trumpet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hunt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | chase for killing |
| Synonyms: | beat the bushes, bird-dog, capture, course, dog, drag, drive, fish, follow, give chase, grouse, gun for, gun*, hawk, heel, hound, kill, look for, poach, press, pursue, ride, run, scent, scratch, scratch around, seek, shadow, shoot, snare, stalk, start, track, trail |
| Antonyms: | let go |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | peddle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sell door to door |
| Synonyms: | canvas*, hawk, huckster, market, monger, push, shove, solicit, trade, vend |
| Antonyms: | buy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exchange an object for money |
| Synonyms: | advertise, auction, bargain, barter, be in business, boost, clinch the deal, close, close the deal, contract, deal in, dispose, drum, dump, exchange, handle, hawk, hustle, market, merchandise, move, peddle, persuade, pitch, plug, puff, push, put across, put up for sale, retail, retain, snow, soft sell, soft soap, spiel*, stock, sweet talk, trade, traffic, unload, vend, wholesale |
| Notes: | a cell is a small compartment or the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms, while sell means to exchange or deliver for money or its equivalent |
| Antonyms: | buy |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | solicit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | plead for; try to sell |
| Synonyms: | accost, apply, approach, ask, beg, beseech, bespeak, bum, cadge, call, canvass, challenge, claim, come on to, crave, demand, desire, drum up, drum, entreat, exact, go, hawk, hit on, hit up, hustle, implore, importune, inquire, mooch, panhandle, pass the hat, peddle, petition, postulate, pray, promote, proposition, query, question, refer, request, require, requisition, resort, seduce, seek, sponge, steer, sue for, supplicate, touch, tout, turn, whistle for |
| Antonyms: | disapprove, refuse, reject |
| Main Entry: | spit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | eject saliva or substance |
| Synonyms: | discharge, drool, expectorate, hawk, hiss, sibilate, sizz, slobber, spatter, spew, splutter, spritz, sputter, throw out |
| Notes: | to spit (imitative of its sound) means to expel saliva; expectorate means to dredge up and expel phlegm |
| Antonyms: | swallow |
| Main Entry: | cadge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | beg |
| Synonyms: | bum, hawk, huckster, mooch, panhandle, peddle, scrounge, sponge |
| Main Entry: | expectorate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cough up |
| Synonyms: | hawk, spew, spit, spit out |
| Notes: | to spit (imitative of its sound) means to expel saliva; expectorate means to dredge up and expel phlegm |
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