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jump gun
| Main Entry: |
jump the gun
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get a head start |
| Synonyms: | beat someone to the punch, beat the gun, preempt |
| Main Entry: | precipitous/precipitate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fast, sudden; impulsive; initial |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, breakneck, brief, frantic, gone off half-cocked, harum-scarum, hasty, headlong, heedless, hurried, ill-advised, impatient, impetuous, indiscreet, jump the gun, madcap, off the hip, off the top of head, plunging, precipitant, quick, rapid, rash, reckless, refractory, rushing, subitaneous, swift, unanticipated, uncontrolled, unexpected, unforeseen, violent, willful, without warning |
| Antonyms: | careful, cautious, slow |
| Main Entry: | presume |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make assumption; believe |
| Synonyms: | assume, bank on, be afraid, conclude, conjecture, consider, count on, depend, figure, gather, guess, infer, jump the gun, posit, postulate, predicate, premise, presuppose, pretend, rely, speculate, suppose, surmise, take for granted, take it, think, trust |
| Notes: | assume means 'suppose to be the case, without proof; take for granted'; presume means 'suppose that something is the case on the basis of probability; take for granted that something exists or is the case' |
| Antonyms: | disbelieve |
| Main Entry: | start |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | flinch |
| Synonyms: | blanch, blench, bolt, bounce, bound, buck, dart, draw back, jerk, jump, jump the gun, leap, quail, recoil, shrink, shy, spring, squinch, startle, twitch, wince |
| Antonyms: | ignore |
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