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| Main Entry: |
issue
 [ish-oo or, especially Brit., is-yoo] 
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | point in question |
| Synonyms: | affair, argument, concern, contention, controversy, matter, matter of contention, point, point of departure, problem, puzzle, question, subject, topic |
| Main Entry: | issue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | edition of publication |
| Synonyms: | copy, impression, installment, number, printing |
| Main Entry: | issue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distribution |
| Synonyms: | circulation, delivery, dispersion, dissemination, granting, issuance, issuing, publication, sending out, supply, supplying |
Example Sentences
- Also, fatty tissue could be soaking up some of the inflammation compounds that exacerbate the breathing issues.
- The politicians and public at large will never be able to understand the issues.
- Plus as she found out they can have different disease issues.
| Main Entry: | issue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | children |
| Synonyms: | brood, descendants, get, heirs, offspring, posterity, progeniture, progeny, scions, seed |
| Antonyms: | parent |
| Main Entry: | issue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | distribute |
| Synonyms: | air, allot, announce, assign, bring out, broadcast, circulate, consign, declare, deliver, dispatch, dispense, emit, get out, give out, promulgate, publish, put in circulation, put out, release, send, send out, transmit |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep |
| Main Entry: | issue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | emit, emerge; come from |
| Synonyms: | appear, arise, be a consequence, birth, come forth, derive from, emanate, exude, flow, give off, give out, ooze, originate, proceed, release, rise, send forth, spring, spurt, stem, throw off, vent, well |
| Antonyms: | hold, keep, repress, retain, suppress |
| Main Entry: | administer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dispense something needed |
| Synonyms: | apply, apportion, authorize, bring, contribute, deal, deliver, disburse, distribute, dole out, execute, extend, furnish, give, impose, inflict, issue, measure out, mete out, offer, perform, portion, proffer, provide, regulate, serve, supply, tender |
| Antonyms: | deny, frustrate, refuse, withhold |
| Main Entry: | aftermath |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | situation following an event, occurrence |
| Synonyms: | after-effects, causatum, chain reaction, consequences, end, eventuality, flak, impact, issue, outcome, payoff, remainder, residual, residuum, results, upshot, waves |
| Main Entry: | announce |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make a proclamation |
| Synonyms: | advertise, annunciate, blast, blazon, broadcast, call, communicate, declare, disclose, disseminate, divulge, drum, give out, impart, intimate, issue, make known, make public, pass the word, proclaim, promulgate, propound, publicize, publish, release, report, reveal, run off at mouth, sound off, spread around, state, tell, trumpet |
| Notes: | to announce is to make known publicly; to pronounce is to declare officially or formally |
| Antonyms: | bottle up, conceal, keep secret, refrain, repress, suppress, withhold |
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