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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen on |
| Synonyms: | accost, affront, brush against, bump into, chance on, clash, collide, come across, come up against, confront, contact, cross, dig up, encounter, engage, experience, face, fall in with, find, front, get together, grapple, greet, hit, light, luck*, make a meet, meet face to face, rendezvous with, rub eyeballs, run across, run into, run up against, salute, see, strike, stumble, touch shoulders, tumble, tussle, wrestle |
| Antonyms: | miss |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | perform, carry out |
| Synonyms: | answer, approach, come up to, comply, cope with, discharge, equal, execute, fit, fulfill, gratify, handle, match, measure up, rival, satisfy, suffice, tie, touch |
| Antonyms: | avoid, dodge |
| Main Entry: | meet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come together, convene |
| Synonyms: | appear, assemble, be introduced, be present, be presented, collect, congregate, converge, enter in, flock, foregather, gather, get to know, get together, join, make acquaintance, muster, open, rally, rendezvous, show, sit |
| Antonyms: | cancel |
| Main Entry: | assembled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | put together |
| Synonyms: | amassed, massed, met |
| Antonyms: | dismantled |
| Main Entry: | gathered |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | assembled |
| Synonyms: | accumulated, aggregated, amassed, associated, brought together, collected, collocated, combined, compiled, concentrated, congregated, convened, convoked, crowded together, culled, forgathered, garnered, gleaned, grouped, harvested, hoarded, huddled, joined, lumped together, marshaled, massed, met, mobilized, picked, piled, rallied, reunited, rounded up, stacked, stored, summoned, swarmed, thronged, united |
| Antonyms: | dispersed, scattered, separated |
| Main Entry: | affront |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | insult or involve in entanglement |
| Synonyms: | abuse, anger, annoy, confront, criticize, displease, dispraise, dump on, encounter, face, give a zinger, give the cold shoulder, hit where one lives, meet, offend, outrage, pique, provoke, put down*, slander, slight, taunt, vex |
| Notes: | effrontery means shameless boldness or insulting presumptuousness while an affront is a deliberately offensive act or open insult |
| Antonyms: | appease, assuage, compliment, gratify, mollify, placate, please, satisfy, soothe |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | answer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | solve; fulfill |
| Synonyms: | clarify, conform, correlate, correspond, crack*, deal with*, do*, dope, dope out, elucidate, fill, fit*, lick*, measure up, meet, pass, qualify, satisfy, serve, suffice, suit, unzip, work, work through |
| Notes: | an answer is something said, written, or done in return; a reply is an answer that satisfies a detail in a question |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | approach |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come nearer |
| Synonyms: | advance, approximate, be comparable to, be like, bear, belly up to, border, buzz*, catch up, close in, come, come at, come close, compare with, contact, converge, correspond to, creep up, draw near, equal, gain on, go toward, impend, loom up, match, meet, move in on, move toward, near, progress, reach, resemble, surround, take after, threaten, verge upon |
| Antonyms: | depart, distance, go away, leave |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | assemble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | congregate |
| Synonyms: | accumulate, agglomerate, amass, bring together, bunch, bunch up, call, call together, capture*, collect, come together, convene, convoke, corral*, flock, gang up, gather, group, hang around, hang out*, huddle, lump, make the scene, meet, meet up, mobilize, muster, rally, reunite, round up, scare up, summon, unite |
| Antonyms: | disperse, scatter |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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