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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exist in abundance |
| Synonyms: | be alive with, be all over the place, be knee deep in, be no end to, be plentiful, be thick with, be up to one's ears in, crawl with, crowd, flourish, flow, have a full plate, infest, overflow, proliferate, swarm, swell, teem, thrive |
| Antonyms: | deficient, fail, lack, need, short, want |
| Main Entry: | frequent |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be a regular customer of |
| Synonyms: | affect, attend, attend regularly, be at home in, be found at, be often in, drop in, go to, hang about, hang around, hang out at, haunt*, hit*, infest, overrun, patronize, play*, resort, revisit, visit often |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | haunt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | visit as a spirit |
| Synonyms: | agitate, agonize, annoy, appall, appear, be ever present, bedevil, beset, besiege, come back, disquiet, dwell, float, frighten, harass, harrow, hound, hover, infest, inhabit, intrude, madden, manifest, materialize, molest, nettle, obsess, overrun, permeate, pervade, pester, plague, possess, prey on, rack, reappear, recur, return, rise, spook, stay with, tease, terrify, terrorize, torment, trouble, vex, voodoo, walk, weigh on, worry |
| Main Entry: | haunt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | spend a lot of time at |
| Synonyms: | affect, frequent, habituate, hang about, hang around, hang out*, infest, repair, resort, tarry at, visit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | invade |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | attack and encroach |
| Synonyms: | access, assail, assault, breach, burglarize, burst in, crash, descend upon, entrench, fall on, foray, go in, infect, infest, infringe, inroad, interfere, loot, make inroads, maraud, meddle, muscle in, occupy, overrun, overspread, overswarm, penetrate, permeate, pervade, pillage, plunder, raid, ravage, storm, swarm over, trespass, violate |
| Antonyms: | leave alone, surrender, yield |
| Main Entry: | plague |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | annoy, disturb |
| Synonyms: | afflict, badger, bedevil, beleaguer, bother, chafe, fret, gall, gnaw, harass, harry, hassle, haunt, hector, hound, infest, irk, molest, pain, persecute, pester, pursue, ride, tease, torment, torture, trouble, vex, worry |
| Antonyms: | aid, assist, help, please |
| Main Entry: | riddle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perforate, permeate |
| Synonyms: | bore, corrupt, damage, honeycomb, impair, infest, mar, pepper, pervade, pierce, pit, puncture, spoil |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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