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| Main Entry: |
lay off
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| 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: | 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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Adjectives: |
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 |
| Synonyms: |
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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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