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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cut, penetrate |
| Synonyms: | bore, break, break in, break through, cleave, crack, crack open, drill, enter, gash, incise, intrude, pass through, perforate, plow, prick, probe, puncture, run through, slash, slice, slit, spike, stab, stick into, transfix |
| Antonyms: | sew up |
| Main Entry: | bore |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | drill hole |
| Synonyms: | burrow, gouge out, mine, penetrate, perforate, pierce, pit, prick, punch, puncture, ream, riddle, sink, tunnel |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | burst |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | blow up, break out |
| Synonyms: | barge, blow, break, crack, detonate, discharge, disintegrate, erupt, explode, fly open, fracture, fragment, gush forth, perforate, pierce, pop, prick, puncture, rend asunder, run, rupture, rush, shatter, shiver, splinter, split, spout, tear apart |
| Main Entry: | cleave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | divide, split |
| Synonyms: | carve, chop, crack, cut, dissect, dissever, disunite, divorce, hack, hew, open, part, pierce, rend, rip, rive, separate, sever, slice, stab, sunder, tear asunder, whack |
| Antonyms: | join, meld, unite |
| Main Entry: | contemplate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gaze at |
| Synonyms: | audit, behold, consider, examine, eye, inspect, notice, observe, peer, penetrate, peruse, pierce, pore over, probe, pry, regard, scan, scrutinize, see, stare at, study, survey, view, witness |
| Antonyms: | disregard, look away, scorn |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | incision |
| Synonyms: | carving, chip, chop, cleavage, cleft, dissection, fissure, furrow, gash, graze, groove, intersection, kerf, laceration, mark, nick, nip, notch, opening, passage, penetration, pierce, prick, rabbet, rent, rip, scarification, sculpture, section, shave, slash, slit, slot, snip, stab, stroke, trench, trim, wound |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sever, chop with sharp instrument; incise |
| Synonyms: | amputate, behead, bisect, bite, carve, chine, chip, chisel, cleave, clip, crop, curtail, decussate, dice, dispatch, dissect, dissever, divide, facet, fell, flitch, gash, guillotine, hack, hash, hew, intersect, lacerate, lay open, level, lop, massacre, mince, mow, mow down, nick, notch, part, penetrate, perforate, pierce, prune, puncture, quarter, rabbet, raze, reap, rend, rip, rive, saber, saw, scarify, scissor, score, scythe, separate, shave, shear, sickle, skive, slash, slaughter, slay, slice, slit, sliver, snip |
| Main Entry: | dig |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | delve into; hollow out |
| Synonyms: | bore, break up, bulldoze, burrow, cat, channel, clean, concave, deepen, depress, dig down, discover, dredge, drill, drive, enter, excavate, exhume, fork out, go into, gouge, grub, harvest, hoe, investigate, mine, penetrate, pierce, pit, probe, produce, quarry, root, root out, rout, sap, scoop, scoop out, search, shovel, sift, spade, till, tunnel, turn over, uncover, undermine, unearth |
| Antonyms: | fill |
| Main Entry: | drill |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bore hole |
| Synonyms: | dig, penetrate, perforate, pierce, prick, punch, puncture, sink in |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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