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| Main Entry: |
lay up/lay by
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set aside, store |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, amass, build up, bury, conserve, cumulate, garner, hide, hoard, keep, lay in, preserve, put away, roll up, salt away, save, spare, store up, treasure |
| Antonyms: | squander, use, waste |
| Main Entry: | lay off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stop doing |
| Synonyms: | cease, desist, end, give a rest, give up, halt, leave alone, leave off, let up, lie by, quit, rest, spell |
| Antonyms: | begin, start |
| Main Entry: | rest |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | be calm; sleep |
| Synonyms: | be at ease, be comfortable, breathe, compose oneself, doze, dream, drowse, ease off, ease up, idle, laze, lean, let down, let up, lie by, lie down, lie still, loaf, loll, lounge, nap, nod, put feet up, recline, refresh oneself, relax, repose, sit down, slack, slack off, slacken, slumber, snooze, spell, stretch out, take a break, take a nap, take five, take it easy, take life easy, take ten, take time out, unbend, unlax, unwind, wind down |
| Antonyms: | activate, be active, carry out, do, energize |
| Main Entry: | spell |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give rest, relief |
| Synonyms: | allow, breathe, free, lay off, lie by, release, relieve, stand in for, take over, take the place of |
| Antonyms: | abuse, run ragged, use |
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| Main Entry: | rest |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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at a loose ends, at a stand, at a standstill, at anchor, at leisure, at one's ease, at rest, becalmed, calm, cataleptic, cubatory, deliberate, fixed, hypnagogic, immovable, leisurely, lodged, mawmsey, motionless, moveless, picktooth, quiescent, quiet, recumbent, reposing, restful, semisomnous, silent, sleeping, slow, somnifugous, stagnant, standing still, stationary, still, still as a mouse, still as a post, still as a statue, still as death, stock still, undisturbed, unmoved, unruffled, unstrained, untraveled
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| Concept: | Spell. |
| Category: | 4. Acts of religion |
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-nouns
spell, charm, incantation, exorcism, weird, cabala, exsufflation, cantrap, runes, abracadabra, open sesame, countercharm, Ephesian letters, bell book and candle, Mumbo Jumbo, evil eye, fee-faw-fum., talisman, amulet, periapt, telesm, phylactery, philter; fetich, fetish; agnus Dei; furcula, madstone; mascot, mascotte; merrythought; Om, Aum; scarab, scarabaeus; sudarium, triskelion, veronica, wishbone; swastika, fylfot, gammadion., wand, caduceus, rod, divining rod, lamp of Aladdin; wishing-cap, Fortunatus's cap.
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