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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | propel something through the air |
| Synonyms: | bandy, barrage, bombard, buck, bunt, butt, cant, cast, catapult, chuck, dash, deliver, discharge, dislodge, drive, fell, fire, flick, fling, fling off, flip, floor, force, heave, hurl, impel, lapidate, launch, let fly, let go, lift, lob, overturn, overwhelm, peg, pellet, pelt, pepper, pitch, precipitate, project, push, put, scatter, send, shove, shower, shy, sling, splatter, spray, sprinkle, start, stone, strew, thrust, toss, tumble, unhorse, unseat, upset, volley, waft |
| Antonyms: | catch, receive |
| Main Entry: | topple |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall or knock over; overthrow |
| Synonyms: | bring down, capsize, collapse, do a pratfall, fall, falter, founder, go belly up, go down, hit the dirt, keel over, knock down, land, lose it, lurch, nose-dive, oust, overbalance, overturn, pitch, plunge, slump, stagger, stumble, take a header, teeter, tip over, totter, tumble, turn over, unhorse, unseat, upset |
| Antonyms: | place, put, straighten |
| Main Entry: | undo |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | nullify, invalidate |
| Synonyms: | abate, abolish, abrogate, annihilate, annul, break, bring down, bring to naught, cancel, cramp, craze, crimp, decimate, defeat, demolish, destroy, have*, impoverish, injure, make waves, mar, negate, neutralize, offset, outfox, outmaneuver, outsmart, overreach, overthrow, overturn, quash, queer*, raze, reverse, ruin, screw up, shatter, skin*, smash, spoil, stymie*, subvert, unbuild, undermine, unsettle, upset, vitiate, wipe out, wrack, wreck |
| Notes: | undo means to reverse an action or thing; undue means 'inappropriate' or 'excessive' |
| Antonyms: | approve, permit, validate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | undoing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | destruction, misfortune |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, affliction, bad luck, bad omen, bane, blight, blow, blunder, calamity, casualty, catastrophe, collapse, curse, defeat, destroyer, difficulty, disgrace, doom, downfall, error, failure, fault, faux pas, flaw, fumble, grief, humiliation, last straw, misadventure, miscalculation, mischance, mishap, misstep, omission, overthrow, overturn, reversal, reverse, ruin, ruination, shame, slip, smash, stumble, subversion, trial, trip, trouble, visitation, weakness, wreck |
| Antonyms: | building, creation, doing, good fortune |
| Main Entry: | uproot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy; rip out of a place |
| Synonyms: | abate, abolish, annihilate, blot out, demolish, deracinate, dig up, displace, do away with, eliminate, eradicate, excavate, exile, exterminate, extirpate, extract, move, overthrow, overturn, pull up, remove, root out, tear up, weed, weed out, wipe out |
| Antonyms: | plant, settle, sow |
| Main Entry: | upset |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disorder; knock over |
| Synonyms: | capsize, change, derange, disarray, disorganize, disturb, invert, jumble, keel over, mess up*, mix up, muddle, overset, overturn, pitch, put out of order, reverse, rummage, spill, spoil, subvert, tilt, tip over, topple, tumble, turn, turn inside-out, turn topsy-turvy, turn upside-down, unsettle, upend, upturn |
| Antonyms: | hold, order, place, straighten |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | upset |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defeat |
| Synonyms: | be victorious, beat, conquer, get the better of, outplay, overcome, overpower, overthrow, overturn, topple, triumph over, win |
| Antonyms: | fail, lose |
| Main Entry: | vanquish |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | defeat soundly |
| Synonyms: | bear down, beat, conquer, crush, humble, overcome, overpower, overturn, overwhelm, put down, quell, reduce, repress, rout, subdue, subjugate, subvert, surmount, trample, triumph over |
| Antonyms: | fail, lose, surrender |
| Main Entry: | keel |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fall |
| Synonyms: | black out, capsize, collapse, drop, faint, founder, go down, overturn, pass out, pitch, plunge, slump, swoon, topple, tumble, upset |
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