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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | cloud, gloom |
| Synonyms: | cloak, cloth, covering, damp, damper, dismay, mantle, melancholy, shadow, shroud, veil |
| Antonyms: | brightness, excitement, happiness |
| Main Entry: | bore |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause weariness, disinterest |
| Synonyms: | afflict, annoy, be tedious, bend one's ear, bother, burn out, cloy, discomfort, drag, exhaust, fatigue, irk, irritate, jade, pall, pester, put to sleep, send to sleep, talk one's ear off, tire, trouble, turn one off, vex, wear, wear out, weary, worry |
| Notes: | a boar is a male pig; a boor is a person with rude, clumsy manners and little refinement; a bore is one that is wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious |
| Antonyms: | amuse, charm, excite, interest, please |
| Main Entry: | cloy |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | overfill |
| Synonyms: | disgust, fill, glut, gorge, jade, nauseate, pall, sate, satiate, satisfy, sicken, stall, stodge, suffice, surfeit, weary |
| Main Entry: | coffin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | box for dead person |
| Synonyms: | casket, catafalque, crate, funerary box, pall, pine box, pine drape, sarcophagus |
| Main Entry: | disgust |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause aversion; repel |
| Synonyms: | abominate, be repulsive, bother, cloy on, disenchant, displease, disturb, fill with loathing, gross out, insult, irk, make one sick, nauseate, offend, offend morals of, outrage, pall, pique, put off, reluct, repulse, revolt, scandalize, shock, sicken, surfeit, turn off, turn one's stomach, upset |
| Antonyms: | admire, appeal, desire, esteem, like, love, respect, revere |
| Main Entry: | enshroud |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cover |
| Synonyms: | cloak, conceal, hide, mask, pall, shroud |
| Main Entry: | glut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | choke; oversupply |
| Synonyms: | burden, clog, cloy, congest, cram, deluge, devour, feast, fill, flood, gorge, hog, inundate, jade, load, make a pig of, overfeed, overload, overstock, overwhelm, pack*, pall, raven, sate, satiate, saturate, stuff, surfeit, wolf* |
| Antonyms: | abstain, diet, fast, moderate, reduce, repress, suppress |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | peter out |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | dwindle, decrease |
| Synonyms: | abate, come to nothing, die out, diminish, drain, ebb, evaporate, fade, fail, give out, lessen, pall, rebate, recede, run dry, run out, stop, taper off, wane |
| Antonyms: | develop, grow, increase |
| Main Entry: | satiate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stuff, satisfy completely or excessively |
| Synonyms: | cloy, content, feed to gills, fill, glut, gorge, gratify, indulge, jade, nauseate, overdose, overfill, pall, sate, saturate, slake, surfeit |
| Antonyms: | deprive, dissatisfy, leave wanting |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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