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| Main Entry: |
dependence/dependency
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | addiction, need |
| Synonyms: | attachment, contingency, habit, helplessness, hook, inability, security blanket, servility, subjection, subordination, subservience, vulnerability, weakness, yoke |
| Antonyms: | independence, subtraction, want |
| Main Entry: | draw |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | move something by pulling |
| Synonyms: | attract, bring, carry, convey, cull, draft, drag, drain, educe, elicit, evoke, extract, fetch, gather, haul, hook, jerk, lug, magnetize, pick, pluck, pump, rake, siphon, tap, tow, trail, trawl, tug, wind in, wrench, yank |
| Antonyms: | exhale, propel, push, repel, repulse |
| Main Entry: | duty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | responsibility, assignment |
| Synonyms: | burden, business, calling, charge, chore, commission, commitment, committal, contract, devoir, dues, engagement, function, hook*, job, load, millstone, minding the store, mission, must, need, obligation, occupation, office, onus, ought, pains, part, province, role, service, station, string, taking care of business, task, trouble, trust, undertaking, weight, work |
| Antonyms: | disregard, irresponsibility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | edge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | border, outline |
| Synonyms: | bend, berm, bound, boundary, brim, brink, butt, circumference, contour, corner, crook, crust, curb, end, extremity, frame, fringe, frontier, hem, hook, ledge, limb, limit, line, lip, margin, molding, mouth, outskirt, peak, perimeter, periphery, point, portal, rim, ring, shore, side, skirt, split, strand, term, threshold, tip, trimming, turn, verge |
| Antonyms: | center, inside, interior, middle, surface |
| Main Entry: | elbow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | push aside |
| Synonyms: | bend, bulldoze, bump, crowd, hook, hustle, jostle, knock, nudge, press, rough and tumble, shoulder, shove |
| Main Entry: | engage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | promise to marry |
| Synonyms: | affiance, agree, betroth, bind, catch, commit, contract, covenant, give one's word, guarantee, hook, obligate, oblige, pass, pledge, tie, troth, turn on, undertake, vouch, vow |
| Antonyms: | break off, break up |
| Main Entry: | enmesh |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | involve in a situation |
| Synonyms: | box in, catch, drag into, draw in, embroil, ensnare, entangle, entrap, hook, implicate, incriminate, lay a trap for, lay for, make party to, net, snare, snarl, tangle, trammel, trap |
| Antonyms: | exclude, leave out |
| Main Entry: | ensnare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | trap |
| Synonyms: | bag*, bat eyes at, capture, catch, cheat, come on, deceive, decoy, embroil, enmesh, entangle, entice, entrap, hook, inveigle, lure, mislead, net, rope in, snag, snare, snarl, suck in, tangle, trick |
| Antonyms: | free, let go, liberate, release |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | entangle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | involve, mix up |
| Synonyms: | bewilder, burden, catch, clog, come on, complicate, compromise, confuse, corner, dishevel, duke in, embarrass, embrangle, embroil, enchain, enmesh, ensnare, entrap, fetter, hamper, hook, impede, implicate, intertangle, intertwine, interweave, jumble, knot, lead on, mat, muddle, perplex, puzzle, ravel, rope in, set up, snag, snare, snarl, swindle, tangle, trammel, trap, twist, unsettle |
| Antonyms: | disentangle, exclude, explain, untangle, untwist |
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