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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slut |
| Synonyms: | baggage, floozy, harlot, hooker, hussy, prostitute, slattern, tart*, tramp, vamp, wanton, wench, whore |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bore |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause weariness, disinterest |
| Synonyms: | afflict, annoy, be tedious, bend one's ear, bother, burn out, cloy, discomfort, drag, exhaust, fatigue, irk, irritate, jade, pall, pester, put to sleep, send to sleep, talk one's ear off, tire, trouble, turn one off, vex, wear, wear out, weary, worry |
| Notes: | a boar is a male pig; a boor is a person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement; a bore is one that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious |
| Antonyms: | amuse, charm, excite, interest, please |
| Main Entry: | cloy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overfill |
| Synonyms: | disgust, fill, glut, gorge, jade, nauseate, pall, sate, satiate, satisfy, sicken, stall, stodge, suffice, surfeit, weary |
Example Sentences
- He studded pens with rubies, made pencils of jade and carved letter-opener handles from coral.
- But it was the white jade that sparked the day's real excitement.
- Jade disks combine with carnelian beads to form luminous accents.
| Main Entry: | enervate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire, wear out |
| Synonyms: | debilitate, devitalize, disable, enfeeble, exhaust, fatigue, incapacitate, jade, paralyze, sap, unnerve, vitiate, weaken, weary |
| Antonyms: | activate, animate, empower, energize, invigorate, liven, strengthen |
| Main Entry: | fatigue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | tire, wear out |
| Synonyms: | bedraggle, burn out, bush, conk out, debilitate, deplete, disable, drain, droop, drop, enervate, exhaust, fag, fizzle, flag, jade, knock out, languish, overtire, peter out, poop, poop out, prostrate, sag, sink, succumb, take, tucker, weaken, wear down, weary |
| Antonyms: | energize, envigorate, refresh |
| Main Entry: | glut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choke; oversupply |
| Synonyms: | burden, clog, cloy, congest, cram, deluge, devour, feast, fill, flood, gorge, hog, inundate, jade, load, make a pig of, overfeed, overload, overstock, overwhelm, pack*, pall, raven, sate, satiate, saturate, stuff, surfeit, wolf* |
| Antonyms: | abstain, diet, fast, moderate, reduce, repress, suppress |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gorge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | eat voraciously |
| Synonyms: | blimp out, bolt*, cloy, congest, cram, devour, eat like a horse, feed, fill, glut, gobble, gormandize, gulp, guzzle, hoover, jade, jam, make a pig of, overeat, overindulge, pack, sate, satiate, stuff*, surfeit, swallow, wolf* |
| Antonyms: | abstain, diet, fast |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | green |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emerald in color |
| Synonyms: | apple, aquamarine, beryl, bice, blue-green, chartreuse, fir, forest, grass, greenish-blue, jade, kelly, lime, malachite, moss, olive, pea, peacock, pine, sage, sap, sea, spinach, verdigris, vert, viridian, willow |
| Main Entry: | hussy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | loose woman |
| Synonyms: | Jezebel, broad, floozy, jade, minx, slut, strumpet, tart*, tramp, trollop, vamp, wench, whore |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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