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pickled
[pik-uhld] 
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pickle
[pik-uhl]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | preserve fruit or vegetable |
| Synonyms: | can, cure, keep, marinade, salt, souse, steep |
| Main Entry: | cure |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cook, age food |
| Synonyms: | dry, fire, harden, keep, kipper, pickle, preserve, salt, smoke, steel, temper |
| Main Entry: | marinate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | soak |
| Synonyms: | bathe, brine, immerse, marinade, pickle, season, souse, steep |
| Main Entry: | preserve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | care for, maintain; continue |
| Synonyms: | bottle, can, conserve, cure, defend, evaporate, freeze, guard, keep, keep up, mothball, mummify, perpetuate, pickle, process, protect, put up, refrigerate, retain, safeguard, save, season, secure, shelter, shield, store, sustain, uphold |
| Antonyms: | destroy, hurt, ruin |
| Main Entry: | souse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make very wet |
| Synonyms: | brine, deluge, dip, douse, drench, drown, duck, dunk, immerse, impregnate, marinate, pickle, preserve, seethe, soak, sop, steep, submerge, submerse, waterlog, wet |
| Antonyms: | dehydrate, dry |
| Main Entry: | tight |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intoxicated |
| Synonyms: | boozy, buzzed, drunk, drunken, high*, inebriated, loaded, pickled, plastered, smashed, stewed, stoned, tipsy, under the influence |
| Notes: | the choice of 'tight' or 'tightly' depends on whether it is the result or the application that is emphasized; if it is an enduring state, you would use 'tight' |
| Antonyms: | sober |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | under the influence |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | drunk or less than drunk |
| Synonyms: | bashed, buzzed, crocked, drunk, inebriated, intoxicated, loaded, pickled, plastered, stewed, stoned, tanked, tipsy, totaled, under the influence of intoxicating liquor, under the table, under the table, wasted |
| Antonyms: | sober, straight |
| Main Entry: | bombed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | drunk |
| Synonyms: | besotted, buzzed, drunk as a skunk, drunken, faced*, half-seas over, in one's cups, inebriated, intoxicated, loaded, pickled, plastered, polluted, shit-faced, sloshed, smashed, soused, tanked, three sheets to the wind, tipsy, trashed, wasted* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boozed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | drunk |
| Synonyms: | besotted, buzzed, drunk as a skunk, drunken, faced*, half-seas over, in one's cups, inebriated, intoxicated, loaded, pickled, plastered, polluted, shit-faced, sloshed, smashed, soused, tanked, three sheets to the wind, tipsy, trashed, wasted* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2012 by the Philip Lief Group.
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